Youth Employment & Skills: South Africa’s Presidential Youth Employment Intervention (PYEI) Q4 progress report highlights continued push to move young people from “learning to earning,” while guidance on job-hunting urges youth to use learnerships, contracts, agencies and wider channels beyond permanent vacancies. Migration & Jobs Pressure: South Africa braces for June 30 anti-foreigner protests as communities cite jobs, housing and safety fears; Nigeria’s returnees from South Africa say the same economic problems they left behind are waiting. Workplace Accountability: South Africa’s Usaasa plans to hire external experts to revisit long-stalled “cold cases” after officials left without consequences, aiming to fix a culture of noncompliance. Tax & Digital HR: SARS seeks AI-driven automation to speed up customer and employee feedback processing and improve compliance, signalling a shift toward tech-led operations. Energy Costs & Industrial Jobs: Eskom and energy-intensive firms push for tariff relief to protect competitiveness and jobs amid soaring electricity costs. Labour Standards for Platforms: Namibia welcomes a new ILO convention setting global decent-work rules for platform economy workers. Business & Local Content: Ghana weighs taking local control of Gold Fields’ Tarkwa mine at lease expiry, with bids assessed on jobs and local development. Security & Reintegration: Nigeria’s counter-terror operations in Borno report heavy ISWAP losses, while Borno also continues reintegrating repentant fighters and families under its non-kinetic “Borno Model.” Agriculture & Trade: South Africa rejects a wheat DBRP increase request from local producers, keeping the current tariff support level.