SA’s labour market struggles to fill jobs requiring deep technical expertise. (Image created via ChatGPT). South Africa’s ICT hiring market is showing signs of recovery, with recruitment activity for IT professionals ticking upward in the final quarter of 2025. According to the Q4 2025 Employment Insights Report by online recruitment marketplace CareerJunction, year-on-year hiring activity…
With the 39th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, fast approaching, prominent civil society leaders in Malawi are urging African heads of state to issue a unified condemnation of deceptive recruitment practices and the exploitation of Africans in foreign proxy wars. These calls follow a surge in reports regarding deceptive job recruitment by…
Videos shared on Ukrainian social media since the weekend claim to show African nationals fighting in the ranks of the Russian army – raising fresh questions about Moscow’s overseas recruitment practices. The footage, widely circulated online, shows black men in Russian military uniforms being humiliated, threatened or described as expendable. The language used has drawn…
Adéle Esterhuysen, Talent Acquisitions Lead of SRS. In my work across the recruitment and talent landscape, one thing has become increasingly clear: recruitment is evolving faster than ever. Artificial intelligence (AI) can now screen thousands of CVs in minutes. Automation can schedule interviews, run assessments and even predict retention. Yet despite all this progress, one…
In the past six months, a team from ZAM and NAIRE, in seven African countries, including PREMIUM TIMES in Nigeria, investigated the Russian recruitment exercise–asking why so many young Africans take the chance to go, sometimes even after being warned. Late last year, the world was alerted to the disturbing news that Russia was recruiting…
