Africa is fast becoming a key market for the building sector and forecast to present massive opportunities over the next few years. The Big 5 Hub looks at ten of the biggest construction and infrastructure projects being carried out in the continent.
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Kenya, an East African nation with a population of about 45 million people, has one of the highest rates of unemployment in Africa. While the country’s economy has grown in tandem with the rest of the continent, increasing number of youth entering the job market have kept the level of unemployment very high and difficult to close.
According to the national statistics office, the Kenyan economy created 106,300 formal-sector jobs in 2014, a 20.8 percent dip compared to the previous year when 134,300 new formal jobs came online.
There are however some companies in the East Africa’s largest economy that are considered the best to work for. These companies offer good entry level salaries, clear growth prospects and offer career development trainings that keeps their employees happy and focused on delivering on the job.
Here are some of the best companies to work for in Kenya:
South Africa’s private healthcare sector could come under increased regulation from government to make them accessible to the country’s majority poor blacks, the country’s Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.
Motsoaledi however clarified that there was no plan to abolish private hospitals, but the government was only seeing to make the cost of accessing care affordable to those who need it most.
“We are running a healthcare system where the poor do not get what they need, while the rich get much more than they need. Which means there is over servicing of the rich and a gross under servicing of the poor,” the minister was quoted by News24 telling the Competition Commissions during a market inquiry session on private healthcare in the country.
Motsoaledi said the trend all over developed nation was to governments moving to regulates health care costs, adding that the South Africa was considering creating “a single fund” that will used to make quality health care in the country affordable for the entire population.
“Such a system should be dictated to by the health needs of the population, not by uncontrolled commercialization,” Business Tech quoted him saying.
“We need to move towards a fairer, more efficient health system for all South Africans, not sections of South Africa, based on the values of justice, fairness and social solidarity.”
NIGERIA road sign
On 14 March 2016 the Nigeria Immigration Service (”NIS”) issued a public notice to the effect that a nationwide verification exercise will be conducted immediately.
This verification exercise affects employers of CERPAC holders.
Representatives of companies employing foreign nationals should take the following documents to their local NIS CERPAC Production Centre: