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  • A third test against Ireland would’ve thrilled fans

    As we light the fire and ready ourselves for the Springboks’ first rugby Test against Portugal in Bloemfontein today, you still have to wonder why there wasn’t a third Test against Ireland this weekend. With the series evenly-poised at 1-1, a third encounter between the two nations would surely have been a cracker. The Boks…

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  • Action needed: Ramaphosa’s promises require follow-through

    Why did President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech at the opening of parliament on Thursday evening sound like we’ve heard this before? There was mostly excitement when he launched a new government of national unity (GNU) after the ANC flopped at the polls. But these promises of improving people’s lives have been made before and very little…

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  • Why investigations into EFF corruption took seven years

    Social media this week has been full of posts by EFF and uMkhonto weSizwe party supporters declaring “we don’t trust the justice system!” What has brought the issue of politicised justice to the fore is the kerfuffle following last Friday’s leaking of an explosive affidavit by former Venda Building Society (VBS) chair Tshifhiwa Matodzi. On…

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  • Getting away with murder

    There’s some spirit up there protecting people from bullets this week. Between Donald Trump and local Sars advocate Coreth Naudé, bullets fired turned out not to be lethal. The same fortune has not embraced many others. Most assassinations, you rarely even hear about; from political ones in rural KwaZulu-Natal to business squabbles turned deadly in…

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  • Court fines Italian reporter for mocking Prime Minister’s height

    An Italian journalist who ridiculed the small stature of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni online has been ordered by a court to pay 5,000 euros ($5,440)in damages, she told AFP Friday. Giulia Cortese, who is freelance, had called the far-right leader “a little woman” in an October 2021 social media post, adding: “You don’t scare me.…

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  • Investec – Technology

    To apply, click on the link at the end of the posts and all the best with your applications. Head of Project Management We are […] The post Investec – Technology appeared first on Vacancies with Collen.

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  • Drone hits Tel Aviv with the roar of a fighter jet: witnesses

    It was 3.00 am and Jonathan Karten had just arrived with friends at his apartment from a party when they heard what sounded like a fighter jet swooping in over the sea towards Tel Aviv. The jet turned out to be a drone that crashed into an apartment block nearby Friday, killing one man and…

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  • Investec Vacancies

    To apply, click on the link at the end of the posts and all the best with your applications. Data Reporting Analyst Description Investec Sandton […] The post Investec Vacancies appeared first on Vacancies with Collen.

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  • Russia jails US reporter Gershkovich for 16 years

    US reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a Russian penal colony on Friday for “espionage”, a verdict reached after three weeks of secretive hearings condemned by Washington as a sham. Russia has a policy of not exchanging prisoners internationally unless they have already been convicted, potentially paving the way for Gershkovich to…

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  • MTN Vacancies

    To apply, click on the link at the end of the posts and all the best with your applications. Manager – MFS Third-Party Settlements. Fintech […] The post MTN Vacancies appeared first on Vacancies with Collen.

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