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NBI launches pragmatic Just Energy Transition Skilling for Employment Programme
By: Marleny Arnoldi 30th April 2024 With skills having been identified as a key cross-cutting requirement for the Just Energy Transition Implementation Plan (JET-IP), the National... →
Nedlac urges employers to allow workers to vote on May 29
By: Thabi Shomolekae 30th April 2024 The leadership of organised business, labour, community and government at the National Development and Labour Council has urged all employers to... →
Labour Party’s court application to postpone election will be heard on May 8
By: Thabi Shomolekae 30th April 2024 The Labour Party of South Africa has welcomed the directive from the Constitutional Court that its urgent application, focussing on the... →
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Empowering Youth Voices: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
23rd April 2024 The South African Youth Gender Action Plan is a youth-driven policy framework that provides a roadmap for addressing gender-based violence and... →
South Africa’s security forces once brutally entrenched apartheid. It’s been a rocky road to reform
22nd April 2024 One of the important tasks that faced South Africa’s democratic government after 1994 was to reform the apartheid-era security apparatus. The... →
Will Senegal’s new president shake up external relations? 
22nd April 2024 Despite pre-election rhetoric, long-standing principles and regional realities will likely guide international relations. Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s... →
Zimbabwe’s new ZiG doomed by overall lack of transparency
22nd April 2024 Economic mismanagement has stripped citizens’ trust in the government and threatens the new currency’s viability. The struggle to stabilise... →
Recommendations
Financing the fight against poverty and hunger - mobilising resources for a sustainable development goal reset
19th April 2024 The world’s governments are falling far short of the pledges they made in 2015 to eradicate extreme poverty and create a world with “zero hunger”... →
Making finance flow to adaptation in small-scale agrifood systems: The role of the third long-term goal of the Paris Agreement (Article 2.1 (c))
19th April 2024 Article 2.1(c) of the Paris Agreement aims to make finance flows consistent with climate-resilient development. For small-scale agrifood systems,... →
Terrorist financing risk assessment for the NPO sector in South Africa
18th April 2024 South African government and private sector partners published a report on the terrorist financing risk assessment on the non-profit organisation... →
MENA Economic Update, April 2024: Conflict and Debt in the Middle East and North Africa
17th April 2024 The global economy is in its third year of deceleration amidst declining inflation and oil prices. The MENA region grew at 1.9 percent in 2023 and... →
Statements
Government is not doing right by SA postal workers as retrenchments appear inevitable
2nd May 2024 The United Democratic Movement (UDM) has noted, with concern, the potential retrenchment of nearly 5,000 Post Office employees. This follows a... →
ActionSA Welcomes the Upholding of the Press Council Ruling
2nd May 2024 ActionSA welcomes the ruling by the Chairperson of the Press Council Appeals Committee, retired Judge President, Bernard Ngoepe, in the matter... →
Rebuilding SA’s Railway Lines a Top Priority for ActionSA in Government
2nd May 2024 A well-functioning rail infrastructure that safely delivers people and goods efficiently and affordably is vital to the success of any country.... →
DA calls on the Public Protector to set up an ‘own initiative investigation’ to probe abuse of state funds for electioneering purposes
2nd May 2024 Using the Covid-19 model of ‘own initiative investigation’ by the office of the Public Protector as a precedent, the DA is calling on Advocate... →
Press Offices
Remote working and the South African ‘digital nomad visa’
18th April 2024 In the third article in our employee mobility series, we highlighted the opportunity for South Africa to become a jurisdiction of choice for... →
Exploring the connection between the South African immigration system and job creation
17th April 2024 In recent years, South Africa has seen a significant influx of immigrants from various African countries, as well as other parts of the world. This... →
Sexism in the workplace
16th April 2024 Sexism in the workplace, although a serious issue, is not automatically a cause for dismissal. Context is everything when determining how to... →
TikTok? Rather not – Social media and the workplace
16th April 2024 It is a new age, and Generation Z, aptly known as Zoomers, are beginning to make up a large part of the workplace. With that comes employees who... →
