Staff shortages | Bizcommunity

Staff shortages | Bizcommunity

News

Image credit: Maria Beatriz Tavares Figueiredo on

Education & Training

How training and recruitment can transform patient safety in South Africa

18 Sep 2025

Image credit: Pavel Danilyuk on Pexels

Medtech

SA's health leaders are adopting AI at a rapid pace

Dean Wolson 11 Jul 2025

Source: Wikimedia/Lschefa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lesotho’s capital.

HIV/AIDS

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 Jun 2025

Daily Maverick launches a groundbreaking local bureau in Nelson Mandela Bay

Online Media

Daily Maverick launches a groundbreaking local bureau in Nelson Mandela Bay

Issued by Daily Maverick 21 May 2025

Northern Cape learners can’t go to class because schools have no money

Primary & Secondary Education

Northern Cape learners can’t go to class because schools have no money

11 Feb 2025

Patients' lives at risk as doctors refuse to work extra overtime without pay

Healthcare

Patients' lives at risk as doctors refuse to work extra overtime without pay

Yoliswa Sobuwa 28 Jan 2025

Medtech

AI revolutionises South African healthcare, setting a global benchmark

13 Sep 2024

Eastern Cape schools battle low learner numbers and teacher shortages

Primary & Secondary Education

Eastern Cape schools battle low learner numbers and teacher shortages

8 Aug 2024

Efficiency is the key to surviving tough economic times as a small business – here’s what to consider

SMEs

Efficiency is the key to surviving tough economic times as a small business – here’s what to consider

Issued by Business Partners Limited 3 Jun 2024

Fixing lengthy delays on deceased estates

Family Law

Fixing lengthy delays on deceased estates

Issued by Capital Legacy 27 May 2024

Healthcare

Worst of hiring freeze over, Western Cape health department assures health workers

19 Feb 2024

Transforming operations: The impact of TES in driving excellence from e-commerce to warehousing

Logistics & Transport

Transforming operations: The impact of TES in driving excellence from e-commerce to warehousing

Quintus Sliep 7 Dec 2023

Boost warehousing competitiveness this festive season with temporary employment services

Supply Chain

Boost warehousing competitiveness this festive season with temporary employment services

Donné Nieman 31 Oct 2023

Tackling the Black Friday frenzy - a TES provider is an indispensable ally in retail

Retailers

Tackling the Black Friday frenzy - a TES provider is an indispensable ally in retail

Lucinda Alfonica 11 Sep 2023

Solving SA's hospitality skills shortage: Service is the key to resolution

Hospitality

Solving SA's hospitality skills shortage: Service is the key to resolution

Guy Stehlik 17 Aug 2023

Growing the African aviation industry increasingly relies on technology

Technology

Growing the African aviation industry increasingly relies on technology

Brett Preston 23 Jun 2023

Source: Bidcorp

Food & bev. services

Bidcorp profit surges on resurgent demand

Nqobile Dludla 22 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied. Health minister Nomafrench Mbombo and Tendani Mabuda, director of the Western Cape Nursing College.

Healthcare

Western Cape College of Nursing welcomes 300 new students

30 Jan 2023

#BizTrends2023: Bridging the skills shortage gap is key to the travel and tourism industry's post-pandemic recovery

Trends

#BizTrends2023: Bridging the skills shortage gap is key to the travel and tourism industry's post-pandemic recovery

Enver Duminy 9 Jan 2023

SA needs to recognise the key role that technology will play in revitalising the hospitality industry

Hospitality

SA needs to recognise the key role that technology will play in revitalising the hospitality industry

Reginald Sibeko 24 Nov 2022

Durban port hobbled by Transnet strike

Shipping

Durban port hobbled by Transnet strike

Nelson Banya 12 Oct 2022

Image source: Kirill Ryzhov –

Remuneration & Payroll

How are current global events impacting executive pay globally?

Chris Blair 11 Oct 2022

Harnessing tech to stay ahead of the game

Tourism & Travel

Harnessing tech to stay ahead of the game

Guy Stehlik 11 Oct 2022

Source: Brian Jackson via

Aviation

Technology will help restore efficiency and confidence in aviation's baggage processes

Peter Drummond 22 Jul 2022

Is healthcare accreditation worth it?

Hospital Groups

Is healthcare accreditation worth it?

Issued by COHSASA 19 Jul 2022

Image source: welcomia –

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Visa application delays as new system gets running

Nivaani Moodley, Bianca Rutherfoord-Jones and Diyajal Ramrajh 7 Jul 2022

Source: ©Andriy Popov -

Hospitality

#ATMDubai: Humans vs tech in the age of hospitality labour shortages

Lauren Hartzenberg 24 May 2022

Healthcare

Medical skills are in short supply; we cannot omit them from the critical skills list

4 Apr 2022

The big challenges for supply chains in 2022

Supply Chain

The big challenges for supply chains in 2022

Edward Sweeney 14 Jan 2022

#Fasa21: Bringing life back to the restaurant industry - talking challenges and changes

Hospitality

#Fasa21: Bringing life back to the restaurant industry - talking challenges and changes

Robin Fredericks 14 Sep 2021

Food & bev. services

Nando's temporarily shuts over 40 UK outlets

Kanishka Singh 18 Aug 2021

Gauteng premier, David Makhura. Source:

Covid-19

Gauteng "on fire" as Covid-19 infections skyrocket

22 Jun 2021

Nurses Maxine MacNamara (left), Clare Wepener, and Nicky Krynauw, who work at Life Healthcare’s Vincent Pallotti Hospital in Pinelands. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks

Covid-19

What it's like being a nurse during a pandemic

James Stent & Mary-Anne Gontsana 2 Jun 2021

Holistic schools development mitigates Covid-19 impacts

Primary & Secondary Education

Holistic schools development mitigates Covid-19 impacts

Steven Lebere, Issued by Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation 16 Apr 2021

Yushanta Rungasammy, director and co-head, corporate & commercial, CMS South Africa

Mining

Covid could have a positive impact on mining in the long run

Yushanta Rungasammy 28 Jan 2021

Dr Justus Apffelstaedt

Oncology

Covid-19: the cost to cancer patients

Justus Apffelstaedt 25 Jan 2021

Vaccine delays reveal unexpected weak link in supply chains: A shortage of workers

Supply Chain

Vaccine delays reveal unexpected weak link in supply chains: A shortage of workers

Anna Nagurney 11 Jan 2021

Pandemic delivers mixed fortunes for laboratory, analytics industry

Covid-19

Pandemic delivers mixed fortunes for laboratory, analytics industry

26 Oct 2020

Nomalungelo Gina, deputy trade minister

Economy

The economic impact of fronting

21 Oct 2020

Children’s health and nutrition is severely affected by the pandemic. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

South Africa needs a plan to protect children's health beyond Covid-19

Ute Feucht 28 Aug 2020

How agile data infrastructures can save the retail sector

Data & Analytics

How agile data infrastructures can save the retail sector

Eran Brown 31 Jul 2020

A nurse demonstrates how to perform a swab test in Johannesburg, South Africa. Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

10 ways South Africa can step up care for its healthcare workers

Kaymarlin Govender, Gavin George, Sean Beckett & Tim Quinlan 23 Jul 2020

Some of the beneficiaries of Umthombo Youth Development Foundation

Education & Training

#BizUnity: NPO addresses healthcare staff shortages in rural hospitals

20 Jul 2020

Nomzamo Mngupane has been a nurse for six years. She said there have been staff shortages since 2018 and it has got worse since the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Covid-19

Nurses picket over staff shortages at False Bay Hospital

Ashraf Hendricks 22 Jun 2020

Could virtual learning environments hold the key to addressing teacher shortages?

Primary & Secondary Education

Could virtual learning environments hold the key to addressing teacher shortages?

Derek Devine 23 Apr 2020

Dr Stephanie Allen, Deloitte global healthcare leader

Trends

#BizTrends2020: Global health challenges and how to change them

Stephanie Allen 8 Jan 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa

NHI

Ramaphosa signs Presidential Health Compact

26 Jul 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

NHI

DoH to tackle staff shortages

12 Jul 2019