Namibia: Project Uplifts Rural Fish Vendors
Namsov Fishing Enterprises has engaged emerging SMEs from rural areas to promote fish consumption through a fish distribution project.
Namsov Fishing Enterprises is a consortium of four fishing companies, namely Twafika Fishing Enterprises, [...]
Zambia: Govt Recruits 100 New Lunga District Workers
GOVERNMENT has approved the recruitment of more than 100 permanent and pensionable public service workers for the newly-created Lunga District in Luapula Province, District Commissioner (DC) Raphael Kauseni has said.
Meanwhile, Luapula Member [...]
South Africa: Microsoft Partners With SA’s Jobs Fund
Microsoft South Africa has partnered with the government’s Jobs Fund to train more than 3 000 unemployed graduates to enable them to get permanent jobs in the country’s technology sector over the next three years.
The students will [...]
Angola: Importance of Legal, Labour Norms Highlighted.
Huambo — The deputy governor of central Huambo province for Political and Social Affairs, Guilherme Tuluca, Friday here highlighted the importance of the creation of juridical and labour norms that govern the relation between workers and employers.
Speaking [...]
Nigeria: ‘High Unemployment Due to Dependence On Govt’
Youth dependence on acquiring white collar jobs instead of becoming employers of labour is partly responsible for the high level of unemployment bedeviling the country.
Mrs. Regina Iyabo Obasa, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Energy and Mineral [...]
Ghana: Lecturers With First Degree At Colleges of Education to Lose Jobs If
A Council Member of the Amedzofe College of Education and a former Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Francis Amedahe, has observed that quality education in the country could be achieved only when quality teachers were recruited [...]
Kenya: Kinuthia Backs Firms Over Jobs
Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua has asked students to pursue scientific courses so they can get jobs in the geothermal sector. Kinuthia said the county’s economic prospects are high because 97 per cent of geothermal reserves are untapped.
“We [...]
South Africa: ANC Labour Broking U-Turn Will Kill a Million Jobs
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In a statement yesterday about the Labour Relations Amendment Bill, the ANC Chief Whip in Parliament, Mathole Motshekga, said: “… the ANC will avoid any push for a vote on any of the clauses but will seek consensus [...]
Nigeria: FG, Unido Partner to Tackle Youth Unemployment
To tackle youth unemployment, the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment (FMITI) and the UNIDO are partnering to organise entrepreneurship and career fairs to train over 1,000 university and secondary school graduates.
The programme [...]
Rwanda: Employment Service Centre Should Not Kill Innovation
The City of Kigali last week inaugurated an employment service centre expected to help connect job seekers with prospective employers.
This is a commendable gesture considering that thousands of Rwandan youth join the labour market every year [...]
