South Africa's Impala Platinum mining group will shed 13,000 jobs in the next two years - with its management saying that it is "fully committed" to minimising the potential impact ... Read more »
The official unemployment rate increased by 0.5% to 27.2% in the second quarter of 2018, up from 26.7% in the first three months of the year, bleeding 105,000 jobs in the ... Read more »
The Centre for People's Resistance in Namibia has called for a boycott of Shoprite and a mass demonstration on August 5, in support of the 93 workers who are being sued by the ... Read more »
Gautrain workers demanding a 10% wage increase have embarked on strike action after talks between the United National Transport Union and the Bombela Operating Company deadlocked. Read more »
The government is reportedly downplaying reports that more than 500 container freight stations workers and drivers in Mombasa have been rendered jobless due to increase in the ... Read more »
South African energy giant Eskom may face a new crisis after its announcement to labour unions that it will not be paying staff bonuses. The National Union of Mineworkers has said ... Read more »
The approval of a comprehensive reform of Nigeria's tertiary education system will see higher national diplomas limited to students currently admitted for the programmes in various ... Read more »
President John Magufuli has criticised the country's prisons service for allowing inmates to "sleep" while the department has huge tracts of land across the country on which they ... Read more »
Teachers have reacted angrily to government's decision to selectively award "special allowances" to soldiers and police officers while leaving out the rest of the government ... Read more »
Terminal operators at Nigeria's seaports are battling massive backlogs after approximately seven days of industrial action by truck drivers. The strike which has since been ... Read more »
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