There is a significant number of women participating in all spheres of economic activity, while also caring for their families and elderly parents, furthering their own academic studies and maintaining social and spiritual balance. Mothers are spending more time in the labour force than in the past but also more time dealing with child care.…
Continue ReadingThe COVID-19 pandemic wave that spread like wildfire was similar to a personal wave of anxiety with tension heightened by media images and reports of increasing daily infections and deaths, leading to a desire to keep one’s family safe. There was a sense of panic at home, with people physically distant and locked-up… in a…
Continue ReadingThe global pandemic COVID-19 has created major disruption across the world. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been affected significantly, with students and staff vacating campuses as lockdowns approached. With this came the drastic decision at UKZN – a face-to-face higher education institution – to move to online teaching. As a result of the sudden onset…
Continue ReadingThe trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa has not followed the expected path predicted by experts such as the World Health Organisation (WHO). It was thought that our population would be decimated on a scale never seen before, health systems would collapse completely, and the mortality rate would rival that of those in…
Continue ReadingIn times of crisis, who are you going to trust to lead you into a more positive and stable future? Historical evidence suggests that women have proved themselves to be better leaders than their male counterparts during crises, names like Simira Bandaranaike, Isabel Martinez de Peron and Indira Gandhi come to mind. In the latest…
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 has radically changed the shape of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide. ‘Diminished high-level research funding and fewer face-to-face conferences and collaboration – these are some of the potential consequences from the coronavirus pandemic as it affects higher education in Africa’ (Naidu, 2020). An international webinar hosted by Allenhouse Colleges, Kanpur, India, on the Impact…
Continue ReadingCovid-19 Impact on Higher Education Institutions The Covid-19 pandemic has tested and challenged Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans of many organizations. Whilst some argued that the pandemic is not a direct disaster to the organization, the lockdown is a direct business continuity problem. The organization’s Business Continuity Plan (BCP) include provision on how business…
Continue ReadingThe 1998 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis, United States, made a resolution to give ITU greater participation in the evolution of the Internet as a means of global communication. Consequently, the Conference called on ITU to plan for a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to among other things find mechanisms…
Continue ReadingThe largest single experiment in remote working is currently taking place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Never in the history of modern work have so many workers in the formal labour market worked off site. So what are we learning about this practice that is new? Over the past two decades human resource management as…
Continue ReadingSmall and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) account for the majority of businesses worldwide and contribute immensely to job creation and economic development. SMEs in this country are diverse, heterogeneous and exist in all sectors of the economy. They are defined in terms of the number of people employed or the rand annual turnover. In this regard,…
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