EXCERPT: Experience of challenges of holding senior managerial post as female

>At the end of the course in 1981, I came away with a report, which said that I was an exceptional and impressive student and had established very good results in areas requiring considerable knowledge of British institutions, the knowledge, which for a British student is mostly assumed.

Dar es Salaam. It would be erroneous to give the impression that I was the only personnel manager to lose job during the cost-reduction exercise. Indeed, when I went for interview at Tanzania Audit Corporation (I was rejected for the post of personnel and training officer), I met fellow personnel managers with whom I had struck up acquaintance during the annual personnel managers’ symposium, who were also looking for jobs. Some of them had reached positions as directors, some like me...

Former Cameroon captain Samuel Eto'o is appointed interim player-manager at Turkish side Antalyaspor.

Post-colonial writing is literature which addresses the experience of growing up in newly independent former colonial nations.

>Thirty years ago, Laeticia Mukurasi was among the 15,000 workers, who were made redundant during the implementation of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s sponsored structural adjustment policies. She was by then the human resources development manager and the only woman at the managerial position in the state-owned company that she worked for.

Dar es Salaam. This answer obviously displeased the general manager of Twico, who said I was not fit to be personnel manager.

>The secretary general of Juwata wrote to the Labour Commissioner in the Ministry of Labour and Manpower Development asking him to declare a trade dispute. He attached all  relevant documents relating to my case.  A copy of this letter was sent to me.  The relevant section of the Permanent Labour Tribunal Act was section 9A(1), which provides that:

>Five days after receiving the notice to vacate the company house, I managed to secure a temporary court injunction, subject to the condition that the matter would be further deliberated after the hearing of the main suit.

>Rights are not given, they are claimed. This needs firm stand for we live in a world in which the powerful think they are better than others. Laeticia Mukurasi (pictured) shares with readers what she went through, while she was working with FAL as a senior manager, who fell victim to unfair dismissal. Read on...