South Africa’s global business services sector added 26 346 jobs serving international clients in 2025, its best result since 2018. (Image source: iStock) With South Africa’s labour market still under pressure, global business services (GBS) remain resilient, creating 26 346 offshore jobs during the 2025/26 financial year. This is according to industry body Business Process…
Africa produces cotton, inspires global fashion and boasts a vibrant creative industry. Yet much of the economic value generated from these resources is captured beyond the continent. Launched during CANEX WKND 2026 in Lagos, Nigeria, the Africa Made It campaign seeks to change that narrative by promoting local manufacturing, strengthening Africa’s textile value chain and…
Africa’s 18 million organised workers have sounded a strong warning ahead of the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), demanding climate justice, decent jobs, affordable energy and billions of dollars in climate financing to ensure that the continent does not bear the burden of the global energy transition. The Africa Regional Organisation of the…
Over 90,000 people are expected to be working at the Dangote group’s petroleum refinery and petrochemicals and fertiliser operations in Lagos next year, President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has said. Dangote, who disclosed this in an interview, explained that the figure reflects the group’s accelerating investments to create jobs, strengthen industrial…
Moscow — ON Wednesday and yesterday, Moscow hosted the Third Russia-Africa Summit and the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum, focusing on trade, investment, energy, agriculture, infrastructure, research and technology. For African countries, the central question is how diplomatic relations can translate into investments that improve living standards, expand productive capacity and create jobs. For Tanzania,…
Barclays is the latest company to cut jobs due to tech efficiencies. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson | Pexels) London Stock Exchange-listed Barclays has become the latest company to announce job cuts as it expands its use of artificial intelligence (AI). It joins the likes of Standard Chartered, Goldman Sachs, British American Tobacco and several technology companies….
President Museveni has urged European countries to support Africa in processing its raw materials into finished products, saying value addition would create jobs, increase export earnings and strengthen trade between the two continents. Museveni made the remarks on Wednesday after hosting European Union ambassadors led by the bloc’s ambassador to Uganda, Jan Sadek, at State…
Approximately 800 million young people entering the labour market in developing economies over the coming years will not find jobs unless countries act, the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) warned on Tuesday, as the agency launched two initiatives to boost investment and employment. “If you look at the next 15 years, there will…
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could affect about 40 per cent of jobs globally, urging governments to prepare workers for changes in the labour market. Georgieva spoke during a panel session titled “Small Scale AI: More and Better Jobs” at the ongoing 2026…
The local AI conversation has moved from job displacement panic towards autonomous AI agents, unmanaged ‘Shadow AI’, and emerging cybersecurity vulnerabilities that threaten corporate governance, data sovereignty and Popia compliance. There’s something happening here, and what it is may not be exactly clear. You know the stat that gets fired off often well: out of…
