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Mass layoffs loom for Samancor as Eskom's price cut fails to save jobs

Mining

Mass layoffs loom for Samancor as Eskom's price cut fails to save jobs

4 hours

#BizTrends2026 | Modus Operandi's Simon Säll: Predictions and contradictions - The future of work

Marketing

#BizTrends2026 | Modus Operandi's Simon Säll: Predictions and contradictions - The future of work

Simon Säll 4 Mar 2026

SA’s auto industry enters defining moment amid EV pressure

Manufacturing & Parts

SA’s auto industry enters defining moment amid EV pressure

Maureen Phiri 12 Feb 2026

Celeste Sirin, employer branding specialist and CEO of Employer Branding Africa

Trends

#BizTrends2026 | Employer Branding Africa's Celeste Sirin: Employer brand credibility and the human differentiator

Celeste Sirin 10 Feb 2026

Navigating the storm: How to manage and move on after retrenchment

Career Advice

Navigating the storm: How to manage and move on after retrenchment

Issued by Waterfall School of Business 21 Jan 2026

Image credit: Reuters

Energy

Govt eases energy anti-trust laws to give companies fighting chance

8 Jan 2026

Tech jobs rebound: Signs of recovery in 2025

Talent Acquisition

Tech jobs rebound: Signs of recovery in 2025

Anja Bates, Issued by Pnet 5 Jan 2026

Skills Development & Training

AI-proof your career with these 10 skills

17 Dec 2025

Navigating the storm: How to manage and move on after retrenchment

Higher Education

Navigating the storm: How to manage and move on after retrenchment

Issued by Waterfall School of Business 9 Dec 2025

Image credit: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Mining

Eskom enters agreement with Samancor and Glencore-Merafe

9 Dec 2025

The gaming industry is facing significant challenges and opportunities as it adapts to a changing landscape (Image source: © 123rf )

Digital

AI drives gaming industry as growth slows

Danette Breitenbach 4 Dec 2025

Omnicom's restructure: Who's in and who's out

Marketing & Media

Omnicom's restructure: Who's in and who's out

3 Dec 2025

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Energy

Electricity woes push Glencore, Merafe to begin layoffs

2 Dec 2025

Image source: rawpixel –

Trends

12 macro trends altering the employment landscape in 2026

11 Nov 2025

Source: Reuters.

Finance

African exports face immediate damage from lapse of US trade initiative

1 Oct 2025

Image credit: Reuters

Coal, Oil & Gas

Nationwide strike in Nigeria threatens oil supply after mass layoffs at Dangote refinery

Isaac Anyaogu 30 Sep 2025

African manufacturers in last-ditch bid to extend US trade programme

Design & Manufacturing

African manufacturers in last-ditch bid to extend US trade programme

Aaron Ross 18 Sep 2025

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4th Industrial Revolution

Preparing your workforce for the AI revolution

Juanita Vorster 8 Sep 2025

Manufacturing & Parts

Ford SA to lay off over 470 workers in car and engine plants

Nqobile Dludla 29 Aug 2025

Trump tariffs, Sarb shift to test SA startups in August

SMEs

Trump tariffs, Sarb shift to test SA startups in August

5 Aug 2025

Source: Food for Mzansi.

Pharmaceuticals

Bayer to close historic German factory in 2028 amidst sweeping restructuring

19 May 2025

Source: Reuters.

Finance

PwC shuts operations in 9 African countries

Bipasha Dey, Kanjyik Ghosh and Harshita Meenaktshi 16 Apr 2025

Source: © 123rf Mark Baldwin, CEO of , a web design and digital marketing agency, weighs in on the biggest social media platform rebrands of all time

Branding

Social media rebrands: The failure - X, the insipid - Meta and the success - Instagram

Mark Baldwin 15 Apr 2025

Source: CBER. ?Dr Peter Marks, the director of the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).

Covid-19

FDA's top vaccine chief resigns amid growing concerns over new HHS leadership

3 Apr 2025

Source: Supplied. Dr Chris Blair, CEO: 21st Century.

Budget Speech

#Budget2025: Pragmatism or missed opportunity?

Dr. Chris Blair 13 Mar 2025

Miniatures of oil barrels and a rising stock graph are seen in this illustration. Source: Reuters/Dado Ruvic

Coal, Oil & Gas

Oil price spikes after Trump cancels Chevron Venezuela licence

Stephanie Kelly 28 Feb 2025

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Why employer branding will matter more than ever in 2025

Celeste Sirin 20 Jan 2025

5 key focuses global CMOs have prioritised for 2025 relevant for local CMOs

Marketing

5 key focuses global CMOs have prioritised for 2025 relevant for local CMOs

Jessica Jacobs 14 Jan 2025

Feryal Domingo, acting executive director, Inyathelo

Trends

#BizTrends2025: New challenges, new opportunities for nonprofits

Feryal Domingo 13 Jan 2025

Source: © Goods Fox Tomorrow, Friday, 10 January, representatives of TikTok's parent company ByteDance will plead to the US Supreme Court to halt the decision of a looming ban later this month

Social Media

Implications of the banning of TikTok in the US

Danette Breitenbach 9 Jan 2025

Source: © the Workers Union John Botha, joint-CEO of Global Business Solutions, emphasises the importance of collaboration to mitigate the effects of retrenchments

Management & Leadership

Rethinking retrenchments though collaboration and a combination approach

John Botha 27 Dec 2024

Image: Supplied

Talent Acquisition

Bizmod talent report reveals in-demand talent, hard-to-fill jobs

12 Dec 2024

Pernod Ricard introduces SIP, a support system for SA's hospitality industry

Food & bev. services

Pernod Ricard introduces SIP, a support system for SA's hospitality industry

27 Nov 2024

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NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

Final warning: NPOs that don't comply with regulations will be deregistered

25 Oct 2024

Source: © IMASA A coalition of African editor guilds and media owner organisations has partnered with Code for Africa’s (CfA) media research unit, CivicSignal, to build a database tracking title closures, staff losses and other market impacts

Media

Calling on African media to map the media meltdown

14 Oct 2024

Image source: Vitaliy Vodolazskyy –

Remuneration & Payroll

Massive budget increase for Ters

8 Oct 2024

Media

CNN announces retrenchments and paywall

11 Jul 2024

Banking

SA Post Office: Union deal halts layoffs at the 11th hour

Katja Hamilton 24 Apr 2024

Source: © Jacobin McKinsey headquarters in New York. McKinsey is restructuring and 3% of workforce will be let go

Research

McKinsey restructures, 3% of workforce to go

Danette Breitenbach 15 Apr 2024

Mining

Sibanye-Stillwater to cut 4,000 jobs in underperforming gold business

Nelson Banya 12 Apr 2024

Beyond buzzwords: 5 tips to building genuine employee advocacy

Employer Branding

Beyond buzzwords: 5 tips to building genuine employee advocacy

Celeste Sirin 4 Mar 2024

Nike cuts costs by laying off 2% of its total workforce

Fashion & Homeware

Nike cuts costs by laying off 2% of its total workforce

19 Feb 2024

Magazines

Condé Nast strike gains celebrity support as Anne Hathaway leaves photoshoot

24 Jan 2024

PR & Communications

Report: Journalists respond to 3.15% of pitches, podcast pitch volume surges by 22%

22 Jan 2024

Magazines

Magazines were supposed to die in the digital age. Why haven’t they?

Julian Novitz 15 Jan 2024

Caché McClay has filled the coveted position. Source: USA Today.

Publishing

Caché McClay is the official Beyoncé reporter for Gannet

Karabo Ledwaba 16 Nov 2023

More than 80% of CFO's view hybrid work as a cost saver, according to new data from IWG

Management & Leadership

More than 80% of CFO's view hybrid work as a cost saver, according to new data from IWG

Issued by GO Content Lab 30 Oct 2023