by Dianne Bayley | Nov 25, 2020 | Workplace 2020
The reality of an increasingly digital world is shaping the future of our youth and our country, whether we’re ready for it or not, notes Byron Clatterbuck, CEO, SEACOM. There is no doubt that the future of work will look different; so much so that the World Economic...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 16, 2020 | Innovation
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital worldwide have an urgent need for doctors and nurses. Huge numbers of retired doctors and nurses have been called up – 20,000 in the UK’s NHS alone. Medical and nursing students are also being called up to the front...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 19, 2020 | Innovation
While South Africa navigates its way through lockdown measures and confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases now head towards 600,000, this is a time to take stock and act, notes Hamilton Ratshefola, Country General Manager, IBM, South Africa. Many industries can use this...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 17, 2019 | Innovation
Entrepreneurship has long been considered part of the solution to high youth unemployment. However, the predicament of South Africa’s unemployed youth is a very precise one. They are hungry for help to learn to start and grow small businesses, but they have difficulty...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 28, 2019 | Workplace 2020
There is a tragic irrationality in the fact that South Africa has a youth unemployment rate of more than 50%, but at the same time has a skills shortage in many areas of commerce, writes Michael Shapiro, CEO at Synthesis. One of these areas is the technology space,...
