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  • Shoprite Group: Database Administrator (x3 Posts)

    Shoprite Group is looking for an experienced SQL SERVER database administrator who will be responsible for ensuring the performance, availability, and security of SQL SERVER instances. Closing date: 18 July 2024 Location: Western Cape Job Objectives To manage all SQL SERVER installations and upgrades: Ensure a standard is applied to all installations. Keep track of…

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  • Watch: Somizi’s heart-warming moment at Barcelona airport with South African boys’ choir

    Kearsney College Choir performed in the famous Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg, where tickets were sold out months ahead.

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  • Tracker South Africa is recruiting for Technicians: Installations (Grade 10 Advantageous)

    Tracker requires the services of Installation Technicians in the Installations Department based at the Head Office in Johannesburg. Closing date: 15 July 2024 Location: Randburg Job description· Perform installations of sophisticated electronic units into various vehicle types including motorbikes, trucks, buses and plant machinery.· Perform the installations as per the set standard of quality.· Perform…

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  • Extreme weather in South Africa is disrupting tourism

    South Africa has experienced some extreme weather events in recent months. These have included floods and an uncommon tornado in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, floods in the Eastern Cape and mid-latitude cyclones in the Western Cape. Kaitano Dube, a human geographer who has researched tourism, extreme weather and resilience to climatic threats, says these severe…

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  • Nkazimulo ‘King Shaka’ Zulu: The fighter with the golden fists

    The current flyweight and bantamweight titleholder in the Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC), Nkazimulo Simanga Zulu, aka King Shaka Zulu, is going for gold. He’s preparing to fight in an international tournament and is hoping to add another title to his name. “My fighting nickname comes from my last name, Zulu. “My first names were too…

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  • How VBS Mutal Bank ‘bankrolled’ the EFF

    In the ongoing fallout from the VBS Mutual Bank scandal, an affidavit by former VBS chair Tshifhiwa Matodzi has directly implicated Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu of the EFF. But EFF spokesperson LeighAnn Mathys dismissed the allegations as old news and redirected attention to others allegedly involved. ‘Old news’ – EFF “Of national importance, we…

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  • Daily news update: Ex-VBS boss affidavit leak | Springboks v Ireland | De Lille unaware of R300m theft

    News today includes the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has instructed the director of public prosecutions in Pretoria to investigate the source of the leak of former Venda Building Society (VBS) Mutual Bank chairperson Tshifhiwa Matodzi’s affidavit. Meanwhile, the Springboks and Ireland clash in a monstrous second Test of the Incoming Series at Kings Park in…

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  • Petco empowers youth to tackle waste and unemployment

    Against a background of South Africa’s 45.5% youth unemployment rate, not-for-profit (NPO) waste management organisation Petco – working with many stakeholders in the collection and recycling value chain – has gone on a major drive to upskill thousands of youths to start their own businesses in the industry. In its announcement ahead of next week’s…

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  • Tshwane to open criminal cases over illegal reconnections

    The City of Tshwane will open two criminal cases against two properties in Laudium after discovering illegal reconnections during its Tshwane Ya Tima revenue collection operation. The city’s MMC for finance Jacqui Uys led the City’s finance and electricity teams during the revenue collection operation in Laudium, where various properties were disconnected for owing large…

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  • It’s time to step aside, Joe Biden

    If Hollywood were to recommend some relaxing movie viewing for US President Joe Biden, they’d have plenty of appropriate classics to choose from. Relax On Golden Pond with your wife and family as you consider a life well lived. Get someone to chauffeur you around, physically and metaphorically, just as happened in Driving Miss Daisy.…

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