Wanted: more girls in the tech sector

South Africa needs to encourage young girls to consider technology as a career option if the country is going to address key issues like the current skills shortage in the IT sector and spiralling levels of youth unemployment.  That’s the word from Thuli Sibeko, the...
Innovation Index fosters jobs

Innovation Index fosters jobs

Accenture has launched South Africa’s first Innovation Index, to promote business growth and development of new, sustainable enterprises that would in turn spur job creation. The global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company aims to use the...

Artisan training under the spotlight

Artisan training institutes and South African corporates in general need to seize the opportunity presented by the government’s large capital infrastructure investments, worth more than R1-trillion in the next decade, by ensuring that enough artisans are trained to...