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 | Many people lack the ability to promote themselves in their organisation. If individuals do not make their achievements visible, they risk hindering their career both externally and internally as their organisation will not be aware of the exceptional resource it has in-house. Read more >>
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 | Patrick Barker In most countries, the concept of retirement is relatively recent, having been introduced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Until then, short life expectancy and the lack of financial provisions (pensions) meant that most workers continued to work until death. Germany was the first country to introduce an old-age social insurance program, in 1889, and thus the notion of retirement. Read more >>
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 | CAPE TOWN: The average time to fill vacancies in the public service improved to five months as of December 2013, compared to nine months three years ago, it was announced on Tuesday, 25 February 2014. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Careers24 Careers24, one of South Africa's leading online recruitment portals recently hit record highs in terms of user engagement reaching over 1.2 million monthly visitors to the site in January 2014 - a year on year growth of 113%, which puts it squarely at the top of the job portal pile. Read more >>
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 | Jacques van Wyk, Andre van Heerden and Unesu Moyo Is it lawful for employees to challenge health and safety measures set in place by the employer, and are health and safety measures taken by an employer "matters of mutual interest" over which employees can collectively bargain and have the right to strike? Read more >>
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 | Analysts want more clarity from Naspers on the reasons for the departure of CEO Koos Bekker on April 1 amid rumours the company is set to be restructured. Read more >>
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 | eNCA business journalist Arabile Gumede has been forced to apologise for contravening his employer's social media policy after he tweeted "it's fine to be homophobic". Read more >>
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 | Issued by Corporate Games On Thursday 27 February 2014, Corporate Games South Africa hosted the official launch of the third annual Cape Town Corporate Games. In attendance was a number of high profile, regional based corporates and governmental leaders. Read more >>
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 | Corporate South Africa has joined hands to tackle one of South Africa's greatest social ills - the lack of direction for young men, which is leading them to commit acts of violent crime, driven by unemployment, drugs, and alcohol. Read more >>
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 | Yolandi Nortje JOHANNESBURG: Over the past decade, social media has metamorphosed from being a college student pastime to a fully-fledged corporate phenomenon, resulting in a surge of interpersonal communication, the exchange of information and ideas, and virtual community building. The use of enterprise social networks (ESNs) is also on the rise. They work just like traditional social networks, but are designed with the business in mind. Read more >>
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 | National carrier South African Airways (SAA) is investigating the possibility of using the in-flight relief pilot programme as a meaningful way of developing future pilots. Read more >>
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 | The launch of the National Integrated Human Resource Development Plan is an important step forward in driving and increasing the human resource and skills development base of the country, says Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande. Read more >>
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 | The Solomon Mahlangu Scholarship Fund (SMSF) with initial capital of R10m will be launched on 14 March, says President Jacob Zuma. Read more >>
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 | Samona Naidu In just two years, the Granfield Chicken Farm Abattoir has increased its capacity from 9,000 chickens a day in 2012 to its current level of 130,000 chickens being slaughtered daily. Read more >>
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 | The Minister for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency, Collins Chabane, says finding solutions to youth unemployment are important to South Africa. Read more >>
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 | Remuneration in foreign countries, that the government cannot match, is frustrating efforts to retain doctors and nurses in SA, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said. Read more >>
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 | President Jacob Zuma says amendments to the Employment Equity Act and the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act should pave the way for transformation in the print media in the country. Read more >>
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 | Despite the sluggish local economic growth brought about by the 2008 global recession, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has not gone back on his 2013 growth projections. Read more >>
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 | Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has announced a large expenditure plan that will be anchored around the National Development Plan (NDP). Read more >>
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