SHRM Collaboration Across Africa on Membership Engagement & Promotion of HR Certification Reveals More Shared HR Challenges Than Differences!
I had the privilege recently of visiting three African countries – Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa – to support the efforts of SHRM’s member engagement groups and licensed delivery partners. While SHRM doesn’t have full chapters outside the US, our experiment with informal ‘SHRM Forums’ has proven quite successful, creating local opportunities to engage and network with other SHRM members in the same country and boosting membership. And our delivery partners are promoting an awareness of the SHRM HR Competency Model, SHRM Certification, and the formation of group international delegations to the SHRM Annual Conference.
A partial view of attendees at the SHRM Forum/Ghana – CITAM event
at the Best Western Hotel, Accra, Ghana.
The most vibrant expression of this was at an event organized by the SHRM Forum/Ghana and CITAM, an HR training company, that together attracted 167 HR professionals, CEOs and other managers from MNCs and Ghanaian companies to an half-day session at the Best Western Hotel in Accra. Focused on the theme, “Global HR Trends and Competencies Required for Organizational Success”, I shared the podium as a speaker with HR leaders from Sandvik and Tullow Oil who shared perspectives about their HR operations, which was followed by a panel discussion of nine CHROs, CEOs, and the Deputy Chief of Mission from the US Embassy who commented on all three presentations, sharing insights into what they expected from HR.
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South Africa: Immigrant-Owned Shops Looted in St Francis Bay, Closed in Humansdorp
Violence said to be sparked by murder and mob justice
Immigrant-owned businesses have been ransacked and looted in St Francis Bay, Eastern Cape, and the shopkeepers have fled.
This comes after a week of violence, apparently sparked by two murders and an assault.
First, Eyob Madamo, a 27-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, was murdered in his shop in KwaNomzamo, Humansdorp, on 5 May.
A community member said on condition of anonymity, “When Madamo was murdered, the suspects went to rob another Ethiopian shop owner. Fortunately, they did not manage to overpower him. The shopkeeper informed his colleagues, who then called members of the [local] community.”
Working together, they hunted the suspect down and caught up with him on the Sunday.
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UBC regulations create confusion
Last week, Tourism Update readers complained that there was confusion around whether original unabridged birth certificates are required by travelling minors, or whether copies will suffice. While some airline check-in staff are accepting copies, passengers have also been denied boarding because they did not have original UBCs.
Shepstone & Wylie immigration lawyer Niki Gerneke says the confusion stems from the fact that the current regulations don’t clearly state whether copies or original birth certificates are required. “It is dependent on one’s interpretation and this is why there is so much confusion around the matter.”
Immigration Regulation 6 (12) (a) states that where parents are travelling with a child such parents must produce an unabridged birth certificate, while Immigration Regulation 6 (12) (b) states in the case of one parent travelling with a child, he or she must produce an unabridged birth certificate and consent in the form of an affidavit from the other parent.
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SHRM COLLABORATION ACROSS AFRICA REVEALS MORE SHARED HR CHALLENGES THAN DIFFERENCES!
SHRM Collaboration Across Africa on Membership Engagement & Promotion of HR Certification Reveals More Shared HR Challenges Than Differences!
I had the privilege recently of visiting three African countries – Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa – to support the efforts of SHRM’s member engagement groups and licensed delivery partners. While SHRM doesn’t have full chapters outside the US, our experiment with informal ‘SHRM Forums’ has proven quite successful, creating local opportunities to engage and network with other SHRM members in the same country and boosting membership. And our delivery partners are promoting an awareness of the SHRM HR Competency Model, SHRM Certification, and the formation of group international delegations to the SHRM Annual Conference.
A partial view of attendees at the SHRM Forum/Ghana – CITAM event
at the Best Western Hotel, Accra, Ghana.
The most vibrant expression of this was at an event organized by the SHRM Forum/Ghana and CITAM, an HR training company, that together attracted 167 HR professionals, CEOs and other managers from MNCs and Ghanaian companies to an half-day session at the Best Western Hotel in Accra. Focused on the theme, “Global HR Trends and Competencies Required for Organizational Success”, I shared the podium as a speaker with HR leaders from Sandvik and Tullow Oil who shared perspectives about their HR operations, which was followed by a panel discussion of nine CHROs, CEOs, and the Deputy Chief of Mission from the US Embassy who commented on all three presentations, sharing insights into what they expected from HR.
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Ghana: Government increases fees for rotator permits, resident permits
What does the change mean? The fee for rotator permits for oil and gas workers will double from US$500 to $1,000. Resident permits will increase from $300 to $500. A resident permit fee of $300 will be introduced for nationals of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and $150 for Ghanaians holding foreign passports. The monthly penalty for expiration of a resident permit will increase from $50 to $180 (and from $30 to $60 for ECOWAS nationals and $20 to $30 for Ghanaians holding foreign passports).
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