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Africa: African Blog Review - 05/15/2008
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Fahamu (Oxford)
COLUMN
14 May 2008
Posted to the web 16 May 2008
Dibussi Tande
Breaking News Kenya provides a link to an article in Business Daily about the increasing use of the Internet by Kenyan employers to screen job applicants:
"Local figures are hard to trace, but in a recent survey of executive recruiters by execunet.com, 77 per cent of respondents said they used the Internet to uncover additional information about candidates...
Job seekers who have more "presence" online are generally expected to be more believable as the employer can often verify content on an applicant's CV, such as where they went to school or if they really worked for companies they lay claim to...
A third of the managers polled by execunet.com said they would eliminate applicants based on what they found out about them online, saying scandalous photos, political commentary or inappropriate videos found on websites such as Flikr, in blogs or on YouTube would have a negative impact on the candidacy of an applicant."
Mother City Living comments on proposed solutions to the burgeoning world food crisis:
"For the past week I've heard people debating the food crisis until they're blue in the face. Increase the number of VAT-exempt food items, they said, issue food stamps, put a cap on food prices.
Not once did I hear anyone saying what I thought would be the most obvious option: get people growing their own food.
But, happily, today I read an article on Iafrica that gives me hope. In short, according to the report, Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool has proposed the launch of a "food security campaign" with "concrete initiatives" that would include:
'...making state land at hospitals and schools available for community food garden schemes, setting up food co-operatives , distributing seed packs to vulnerable households, and increasing the school nutrition budget by R5-million.'
Hallelujah! Now, here's hoping this gets off the drawing board, and out into the community. It's about time."
Magharebia reports on a campaign by nearly 1000 civil society groups in Morocco to get more women to run for office during the 2009 local elections:
"Moroccan women hold only a half-percent of the country's local political positions, run just 127 of 1,497 communes and serve as mayor of only one town. In the run-up to Morocco's 2009 communal elections, civil society is now rallying to change this situation.
The effort to increase women's political representation at the municipal level is finding support from an alliance of nearly 1,000 associations across Morocco. Under the banner, "The One-Third Movement", the new federation has launched a large-scale campaign aimed at convincing politicians to amend the electoral code. Activists want the law to require that women comprise at least a third of listed candidates in the upcoming municipal elections.
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The new federation's plan to raise awareness within parliament, political parties and the government is already beginning to see results. Some political parties now promise to give women greater participation during next year's elections.
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Voters disagree as to women's ability to run public affairs. While many young people say they will make their choice based on clearly-defined criteria, irrespective of the candidate's gender, older people make no secret of their preference for male candidates.
Think Ghana comments on the state of correctional facilities in Ghana and plans to change the name of the Ghana Prisons Service:
"The Prisons Service, like many other public institutions, has over the years suffered under the proverbial 'No funds' syndrome and those who know the system very well, will admit that there is very little correction in our prison system.
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Overcrowding, poor sanitation and lack of learning and training facilities have made the prisons more of concentration camps than centres of reformation...
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