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This follows on from the Outcome-based careers for OBE graduates cartoon about the best place to put affirmative action candidates in South African organisations. Really, the sad truth is that the focus of South African corporates seems to be on meeting racially-based quotas rather than developing black skills in core, economincally productive areas. This is […]

Wonkie wonders why HR managers necessarily have to be affirmative action appointments in South Africa. Seriously, a glance at any South African newspaper’s employment pages in the Human Resources section will validate this statement. Why do we never see Mechanical Engineer – Affirmative Action only or Metallurgist – Must speak Zulu adverts? Surely something is […]

After the commentary on the incompetent blacks cartoon which was certainly very apt and heated, it is still interesting to note the number of idiotic race-based HR appointments that are made, further perpetuating the bad taste in the mouths of all race groups in South Africa about the implementation of employment equity programmes. The only […]

One area where HR has been particularly useless is in the effective implementation of employment equity programmes in South Africa. When you put people you can’t place anywhere else in the organisation in HR, you also put morons unable to distinguish between form and substance in a position of power. We have seen a number […]

There is an interesting lesson to be learnt from the corporate world – one that the mobile telecommunications industry in particular learnt the hard way. The cost of acquiring a new customer is usually substantially more than retaining one you currently have. Successful mobile companies having learnt this lesson, focus on reducing churn as a […]