Employment
Labour: Time for SA’s Government to Start Listening
The FMF published an article more than a year ago saying that it was crisis time in South Africa. The country’s greatest crisis lies...
Africa’s ‘Growth is not accompanied by employment’?
Africa’s labour movement is on the move from Cape to Cairo – demanding democracy, devising policy and building a new African economy that creates...
Ugandan Sex workers attack religious leaders
Sex workers in Uganda have lashed out at religious leaders who have condemned their trade but failed to encourage programs and projects to help...
Botswana diamond sector wage disparity favours South Africans?
World over, particularly in Africa, diamond deposits have often been a source of bloody conflicts. However, Bostwana, a largely desert southern African nation endowed...
Ethiopia: No hope for Ethio Telecom employees?
French telecommunications giant, France Telecom, and the Ethiopian government are involved in a dispute following a decision to cut 8,000 jobs at Ethio Telecom...
Egypt and Tunisia: Economic turmoil after revolution?
Shortly after revolting against their autocratic leaders, Tunisians and Egyptians are droning in the aftermath of their uprisings. The political uncertainty in Tunisia after...
Zimbabwe workers set to cripple fragile economy
Zimbabwean civil servants who number more than 200 000 have issued a seven day ultimatum to the crisis ridden inclusive administration over salaries.
Zimbabwean civil...
Tunisia’s unemployment suicides and protests
Police forces dispersed hundreds of students demonstrating Tuesday in the streets of Thala, a town located in west central Tunisia, with tear gas. The...
NAPEO: A new North African and U.S. partnership
After meeting with government officials and entrepreneurs throughout North Africa, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez, says...
Ethiopia gets a US $27m Chinese leather factory
China-Africa Overseas Leather Products S.C. and China Africa Development Fund (CADFund) on Wednesday inaugurated a 27 million dollar factory in Ethiopia. The company has...
South Africa’s cabinet wage bill at all time high
An Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers is awaiting Jacob Zuma’s approval after recommending that South African Vice president Kgalema Motlanthe’s...
Nigeria: Unions fight to raise minimum wage
Nigeria’s labor and trade union are demanding a monthly minimum wage of $120 because prices of commodities have risen abruptly in the country. The...
South African incomes not reflecting economic growth
An income level study done in South Africa has shown that a majority of adults earn below R50 000 a...
South Africa: ANC in panic mode?
Ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa has been unsettled by a massive civil society conference, where plans to set up a new...
Gabon deports several Whites for racism
Authorities in Gabon recently expelled several European nationals for racism. Those expelled are mainly expatriates who worked in the oil sector. According to the...
Malawi: French style retirement reform causes chaos
What age should one retire? This seems to be a current contentious topic both in Africa and Europe and dominating media space. In Malawi,...
‘Funny money’ from China a cause of Zambian mineworkers’ shootings?
Mineworkers unions in Zambia have condemned the shooting of 11 Collum Coal Mine workers in Sinazongwe by Chinese managers after they allegedly protested over...
Mugabe gets pay rise as Zimbabwe struggles with salary related strikes
Zimbabwe's all time ruler, Robert Mugabe has been granted a pay rise of almost 400 per cent at a time when civil servants are...
Crisis hits Air Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's struggling airline, Air Zimbabwe operations have grounded to a halt after 60 pilots embarked on an indefinite work stoppage Wednesday demanding payment of...
South African President Jacob Zuma faces ultimatum
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has is left with only three weeks to mend fences with powerful labour movement Cosatu and the ANC...
South Africa: ANC to split?
Former South African president in the aparthied era- FW De Klerk has claimed that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is heading for a...
South Africa: Zuma warned of doom as strike continues
Thousands of striking civil servants in South Africa have issued their strongest warning to President Jacob Zuma over the strike saying they would not...
South Africa: The fat paycheck that caused national uproar
South Africa is in a season of industrial action and workers have been incensed by revelations of their ruler, President Jacob Zuma’s paycheck.
Zwelinzima Vavi,...
Algeria’s collective suicides over joblessness
At 9 am last Thursday, July 29, the southern regional office of the National Employment Agency (ANEM) in Ouargla province, located 500km south of...
South Africa braces for massive strike action
South Africa is this week bracing itself for a first major industrial action after the World Cup over pay as representatives of public-sector unions...
Sierra Leone suffers stagnant growth despite British ‘take-over’
Recent evaluation of Sierra Leone has revealed that the anger and frustration that fuelled the civil war there a decade ago are still substantial...
Zimbabwean asylum seekers top UN chart ahead of Somalia, Afghanistan
A report released by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Tuesday reveal that Zimbabwe topped the charts by having more of its people...
Algeria-Morocco: French car maker Renault moves to north Africa
Renault will open a new manufacturing unit in the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers-Méditerranée, where the French group plans to manufacture up to 400,000...
The Fate of the Watchman in Ghana
The watchman’s job may be among the hardest hit in this era of technology, but for one 32 year old father of five, going...
Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF forcing civil servants to strike?
More than 1000 disgruntled Zimbabwe’s state workers took to the streets today in Harare declaring that they are scaling their strike.
State workers are demanding...