A Viva Palestina organizer writes: we took a guided bus tour and witnessed Gaza'sdevastation. It was clear the Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza were adeliberate campaign to inflict punishment on the civilian population.Apartment buildings had been shelled, leaving huge

On July 27, 1953, U.S. imperialism and the Democratic People's Republicof Korea (DPRK or north Korea) signed an armistice agreement that halted theKorean War. Fifty-six years later, not only does the U.S. still refuse to signa peace treaty, but it

A spirited celebration of Fidel Castro's legendary July 26 attack on theMoncada Barracks, which launched Cuba's revolutionary movement, tookplace July 25 at Service Employees Local 1199 headquarters. A broadcross-section of New York's Cuba solidarity movement took part in thecelebration.

In a visit to four African states, Cuban President Raul Castro continued thedecades-long legacy of international solidarity with the peoples of thecontinent. Castro, who recently stepped down as chairman of the Non-AlignedMovement at its summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, was

A NEW study has found that "soft skills" rank higher than technical competence on employers' list of preferred skills among prospective employees.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Services will soon table a motion for the creation of an Elderly People's Bill that is expected to address the plight of the country's senior citizens.

THE Police in Katwe, a Kampala suburb, are holding a pastor attached to the Deliverance Church in Busaabala, Wakiso district for allegedly battering two orphans and subjecting them to hard labour.

This is the continuation of an article by Zimbabwean political writer Reason Wafawarova in which he explores portraits of Africans as failures as they were painted by their erstwhile colonisers.

There is no doubt that at this period of global economic meltdown, declining national revenue arising from the Niger Delta crisis and the campaign to rebrand Nigeria in terms of national reorientation, awareness and consciousness about values that should uplift

Alex Tocqueville (1805-1859) writes extensively on the democratic tyranny that was the outcome of domination of the majority and of the unlimited power and subjugation of democratic ideals in America. However, my own thesis is based on the domination of

PRINTING and packaging giant Hunyani Holdings Limited has temporarily shut down its Norton plant, redeploying more than 300 employees to other operations in Harare and Marondera.

ABOUT 418 workers of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) may be sacked soon by the Commission in a bid to trim down its over-bloated workforce.

The current wage bill of a total of 108,336 academic and non-academic staff of federal tertiary institutions in the country is N105,759,117,709 per annum.

BUILDING contractors should to always supervise their workers to avoid disasters at sites.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and the Broadcasting, Electronic Media and Allied Workers Union (BEMAWU) have announced that they have reached an agreement for the wage negotiations for the 2009/10 financial year.

THE service delivery protests and wave of wage strikes have inspired me to compose a few songs that will provide the ambience for the current political situation.

SA SEEMS to be undergoing a collective nervous breakdown at the moment: our economy is tanking; unemployment is rising; the race warriors appear to be in the ascendant in the crucial judicial selection process; and increasingly violent protests mushroom across

Edo State Government has given the newly created Rapid Response Agency (RRA) a free hand to intervene in employment processes in the state from time to time, even as it is processing the immediate recruitment of 1,300 jobless graduates in

DESPITE the economic downturn and the toughest job market in decades, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Cima) students remain confident of their job security.

Police were monitoring the situation in Masiphumelele near Fish Hoek this morning after a service delivery protest there yesterday turned violent.