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South Africa’s Global Business Services Sector boomed in 2024, creating thousands of jobs for local youth. Global Business Services refers to a business model where a company centralises and delivers shared services like finance, accounting, human resources, IT, customer service, and legal support to its various business units.  In South Africa, the majority (71% ) of hires

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Tavern Transformation is vital and here!

Domestos is committed to ensuring that all school children have access to clean and safe toilets through its Cleaner Toilets, Brighter Futures (CTBF) programme, which was launched in 2017. The goal is to improve access to proper and safe sanitation for ​school learners, prevent toilet loss, and empower school cleaners, teachers, and​ the greater school communities. More than 2,000 schools​

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Cape Town’s Solar Youth Project celebrates new graduates – and calls on industry to step up

Second cohort completes training, first cohort returns for final module, and host companies are urgently needed to turn training into a long-term opportunity. Collaboration and confidence: trainees work side-by-side with expert facilitators to master safe and correct solar installations. Cape Town, South Africa — A new generation of solar professionals is rising in Cape Town.

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Commemorating World Book and Copyright Day Event – By Thabo Motlhabi

By Thabo Motlhabi “Copyright is the engine of free expression” was the theme of a day organised by Unisa Libraries in partnership with Mogale City Libraries as a World Book and Copyright Day event. The aim of the campaign was to create a platform for both well established and emerging black writers to work together.

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Statement on the meeting between the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the Afrikaner Leadership Network

On 7 May the African National Congress (ANC) met with the Afrikaner Leadership Network which includes the Solidariteit Movement, Solidariteit, AfriForum, the Afrikanerbond and SAAI, to discuss matters of common interest to our country. The meeting was facilitated by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) which had held prior meetings with the ANC and the Afrikaner Leadership Network.

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IRR: Will SA’s universities sacrifice excellence, and the futures of students, at the altar of apartheid-era racial quotas?

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be writing to the vice-chancellors and principals of all 26 South African universities this week to ask if they intend forcibly classifying their staff by race, should individuals decline to self-classify, in line with the newly gazetted Employment Equity Sectoral Numerical Targets. These new quotas, dishonestly labelled “targets”

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