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The skills and jobs that can’t be filled in South Africa Subscribe The Department of Home Affairs’ new draft critical skills list will help in addressing skills shortages in South Africa, and there are some notable additions, and omissions. This is the view of Marisa Jacobs, director at specialised expatriation company Xpatweb, who said businesses are eagerly awaiting a new list as the previous list was last published in 2014. She said that this proposed draft list has been in the pipeline since the release of the White Paper of International Migration for South Africa in 2017. “The li...

Brian Chansa, 27, of Mongu, was charged with theft. Allegations were that on January 24 this year, Chansa stole Jameson Whiskey worth K578.99 from Pick N’ Pay at Levy Mall. Chansa pleaded guilty when he appeared for plea before magistrate Nsunge Chanda. Asked why he stole the alcohol, Chansa explained that he was under pressure and intoxicated. He also explained that he was under pressure as he had no money to pay for registration. And facts presented in court were that on the material day, James Phiri, a complainant on behalf of Pick N’ Pay received a report of theft. A security gu...

Back to the land MASERU-SINCE time immemorial, Basotho have been a farming people, but few focused on agriculture as a business as many grew crops or reared animals for their own family subsistence. Others would simply leave their family plots to travel to neighbouring South Africa to look for jobs in the mines and farms there. The culture has been changing in recent years, as young Basotho take to farming as a way of creating wealth, especially as jobs in South Africa’s mines become scarce due to retrenchments that started in the 1990s. With formal employment also hard to get in Lesotho, l...

Will new Pick n Pay CEO Boone prove his worth? SA retailers might be gung-ho about local goods — not so much CEOs. But Pick n Pay reckons it got the right guy BL PREMIUM 21 January 2021 - 05:00 Katharine Child Retailers may be under pressure from the government to buy local, but Pick n Pay has again gone offshore to find its head honcho, Netherlands-born Pieter Boone. Boone takes over from British national Richard Brasher, who had planned to leave after seven years in 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic hit... BL Premium This article is reserved for our subscribers. A sub...

Retail group Pick n Pay has announced that its chief executive officer Richard Brasher will retire, and will be succeeded by Pieter Boone.