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News24.com | ‘Too good to be true’ – DA red-flags R21bn private loan offer to SAA

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The DA reckons that the R21bn SAA loan may be too good to be true.

On Sunday, City Press reported that a consortium of local and international investors had made an unsolicited loan offer to SAA of R21bn to save the financially crippled parastatal.

On Monday, the DA said it would be writing to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni to urge him to put pressure on his Cabinet colleagues to carefully consider the proposed private loan.

READ: SAA needs R3.5 billion by March, says interim CFO

The party’s Alf Lees said that he had noted reports suggesting that the loan is conditional on the consortium being given a 51% equity share in the national carrier.

“The reported offer of the R21bn loan looks attractive on the surface. The condition of the consortium taking a 51% equity share is particularly attractive as it would ensure that the ANC government loses all influence over SAA which would be free to conduct business without political interference that has dogged the airline in the past,” Lees added.

READ MORE: Embattled SAA gets unsolicited R21bn offer for 51% stake – report

He said if the loan offer was to be considered, the agreement should not be backed by any government or taxpayer guarantees, and it should be used primarily to extinguish all existing loans to SAA that are backed by guarantees.

“All existing government taxpayer guarantees of R19.1bn must be withdrawn from SAA and no further guarantees must be issued,” said Lees.

“The R21bn offer may be too good to be true and, in the end, the only solution will be to put SAA into business rescue.”

ALSO READ: South Africans can’t keep bailing out a broken airline

The cash-strapped national carrier is reported to have had recent injection of just over R3bn from lenders providing short-term loans, bringing the airline’s loans, repayable by the end of March 2019, to a R13bn.

“Unless robust action is taken to put SAA into business rescue or an equity partner with deep pockets is found, the massive taxpayer bailouts of SAA will continue unabated,” Lees said.

News24.com | Cope calls on police to ‘hunt down’ driver in accident that killed Joseph Mabuza

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The police must do everything in their power to hunt down and arrest the driver who fled from the accident scene where Mpumalanga safety and security MEC spokesperson Joseph Mabuza died on Sunday, said Cope.

Mabuza was travelling from a work assignment on his motorbike when he died.

READ: Mpumalanga safety and security MEC’s spokesperson killed in crash

“It is quite clear to us that Mabuza was one of the dedicated and committed servants of the people in South Africa,” said Cope spokesperson Dennis Bloem.

“We once again call upon all road users to respect and obey the rules of the road, especially now during the festive season, we urge all road users to drive in consideration of themselves, families, and other road users,” Bloem added.

Provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said that a manhunt had been launched for the driver of a vehicle who left the crime scene before authorities arrived.

At the same time, The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) labeled Mabuza as an excellent communicator, whose death has been painful to many, and should remind South Africans of their responsibility on the roads and the growing number of motorists who lost their lives during the holiday season.

“We will miss his constant reminder that the road belongs to all road users. I do hope that law enforcement officers in Mpumalanga and across the country will be inspired by the energy and commitment of Mabuza to road safety and to be more vigilant, and harsh on those who break the laws of the road,” Mabaya concluded.

Sport24.co.za | Steyn set to rocket up all-time Test wicket-taker list

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Cape Town – Proteas speedster Dale Steyn could be mere hours away from writing his name into the South African cricketing history books.

READ: Dale Steyn on the cusp of South African history

As of Christmas eve 2018, the 35-year-old Steyn is tied with fellow Proteas legend Shaun Pollock on 421 Test wickets.

That could all change come Boxing Day and the first Test against the visiting Pakistan team in Centurion.

It would take a brave man to bet against Steyn picking up at least one wicket at SuperSport Park to break out of that tie with Pollock.

It’s taken Steyn 88 Tests to reach that mark. It took Pollock 108.

But where do Steyn – and Pollock for that matter – rank in the list of all-time leading Test wicket-takers?

The answer?

In a tie for 11th.

There’s a log-jam immediately above Steyn in the list and “only” 14 more scalps will see him jump all the way to seventh in the rankings.

That’s an entirely feasible prospect one would think in the upcoming three Tests against Pakistan and the two that will follow thereafter against Sri Lanka in February – also on SA soil.

The first ball at SuperSport Park on Wednesday, December 26 is due to be bowled at 10:00.

All-time leading Test wicket-takers:

1. Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) – 800

2. Shane Warne (Australia) – 708

3. Anil Kumble (India) – 619

4. James Anderson (England) – 565

5. Glenn McGrath (Australia) – 563

6. Courtney Walsh (West Indies) – 519

7. Kapil Dev (India) – 434

T8. Rangana Herath (Sri Lanka) – 433

T8. Stuart Broad (England) – 433

10. Sir Richard Hadlee (New Zealand) – 431

T11. Shaun Pollock (South Africa) – 421

T11. Dale Steyn (South Africa) – 421

Health24.com | Beware of stressful events in the evening

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Stress in the evening may take more of a toll on your body than stress at other times of day, a new study suggests.

The reason? Later in the day, the human body releases lower levels of the hormone that helps ease stress, according to researchers from Japan.

Acute stress response

“Our study suggests a possible vulnerability to stress in the evening,” said study leader Yujiro Yamanaka, a medical physiologist at Hokkaido University in Sapporo.

“However, it is important to take into account each individual’s unique biological clock and the time of day when assessing the response to stressors and preventing them,” Yamanaka said in a university news release.

The researchers measured levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the saliva of 27 young, healthy volunteers.

They also exposed them to a stressful situation to see if the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responds differently to acute stress at different times of day.

The HPA axis connects the body’s central nervous and endocrine systems. When a stressful event activates the axis, the body releases cortisol.

Cortisol levels are also controlled by the circadian clock in the brain.

Saliva samples

The volunteers were divided into two groups. One group was exposed to a stress test in the morning, two hours after waking up. The other group was exposed to a stress test in the evening, after being awake for 10 hours.

The 15-minute test involved preparing and giving a presentation to three interviewers and a camera. Participants also had to do mental arithmetic.

The researchers took saliva samples half an hour before the test, immediately after, and at 10-minute intervals for another half hour.

Cortisol levels increased significantly in the morning, but not in the evening, the results showed. However, participants’ heart rates – an indicator of the sympathetic nervous system’s response to stress – did not differ.

“The body can respond to the morning stress event by activating the HPA axis and sympathetic nervous system, but it needs to respond to evening stress event by activating the sympathetic nervous system only,” Yamanaka said.

The report was published recently in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology Reports.

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Sales Executive (Sandton)

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Remuneration: R18000 – R22000 per month negotiable Basic salary 
Benefits: Retirement Annuity
Location: Sandton
Education level: Matric
Job level: Mid/Senior
Type: Permanent
Company: Moving Tactics Digital Impact

Job description

Company Profile Moving Tactics Digital Impact is the the activation division of the Moving Tactics stable which specialises in short-term, rental and campaign-based advertising solutions. The Impact division typically focuses on experiential marketing engagements by combining digital, traditional and alternative media elements. The company’s primary market offering includes concept development and activation solutions using interactive, touch technology, projection, holographic media and LED solutions. The company also designs and manufactures custom screen housings, brackets and products such as touch tables and touch kiosks.

Sales executive role

We are looking for a sales executive with a minimum of 3 years experience, who possess the following skills and competencies:

  • Exploring sales opportunities from media agencies and direct clients 
  • Presenting the company’s market offering to prospective clients and winning new business 
  • Taking detailed briefs from prospective clients 
  • Liaising with the two Business Heads of the Digital Impact Division on suitable conceptual outcomes for follow-up presentations 
  • Overseeing the implementation and delivery of products and projects sold 6. Providing clients with constant feedback from brief to project completion 
  • Updating the two Business Heads on NB matters pertaining to projects sold 
  • Preparation of Project Reports and Feedback Documents 
  • The candidate must have a valid SA driver’s license and their own vehicle 

Should you not hear back within one month, kindly consider your job application unsuccessful.

Requirements

  • Honest
  • Reliable
  • Team player
  • Motivated
  • Extrovert
  • Must have a flare for sales

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FMG Sales Representative (Johannesburg)

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Content Specialist (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: R15000 – R25000 per month Cost to company 
Location: Cape Town
Job level: Junior/Mid
Type: Permanent
Company: Career Custodians

Job description

TCA is a young, dynamic agency that specialises in the exciting tourism industry. We are on the hunt for a content specialist to help us look after our brands online reputation on the product and third party websites. If attention to detail and organising is your passion and writing your talent, get in touch today to apply for what might just be your dream job.

Minimum requirements

  • Two to three years of content writing experience
  • Experience working in a marketing environment
  • work in the hospitality industry advantageous
  • drivers license
  • Excellent command of the English language

Key competencies

  • Attention to detail
  • Work under pressure
  • Organised
  • Hard working
  • Deadline driven

Job outline:

  • Review and enhance all content on product and third party websites
  • Research, write and edit engaging, factually correct content for third party and product website
  • With with SEO, Sales, Web Development, Copy Writers and Property Managers to manage expectations and deliverables
  • Ensure each brand is well represented on the product and third party websites through crafting detailed, specified and well written content
  • Establish a word bible and ensure it is applied throughout
  • Adapt a test and learn culture to establish best practice when it comes to B2B and B2C websites (written and tick box content)
  • Use Google analytics as a tool to evaluate the quality of content and distribution
  • Stay up to date with industry trends and changes
  • Develop a strong understanding of how the third party websites work
  • Maintain relationship with third party website account executives
  • Work with ur in-house photographer to ensure the writing and photography correspond on the product and third party websites.

Ultimately, your responsibility will be to ensure all the awesome brands we represent are portrayed in an equally awesome and correct light on their own other listing websites.

To apply for the position, please forward a motivational letter, an updated CV with a picture of yourself to

moc.snaidotsucreerac@2tnatlusnoc

**Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us within five days – please consider your application unsuccessful**

To browse all our vacancies, please log on to our website – www.careercustodians.com

Requirements

  • Copywriting
  • Creative
  • Editing
  • Media
  • Writing

Posted on 24 Dec 10:54

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Career Custodians is a recruitment and talent management agency, specializing in the wellness, hospitality and tourism industry.

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Medium Weight Designer (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: R12000 – R16000 per month Cost to company 
Location: Cape Town
Job level: Mid
Type: Permanent
Company: Career Custodians

Job description

A boutique creative agency specialisng in the hospitality industry is looking to employ a designer who passionate, fresh, creative and deadline driven. A strong passion for luxury, lifestyle and travel is essential. Our ideal candidate will have a broad portfolio and will have a wide range of experience from designing flyers, to social media posts to full-page international adverts. We require our team members to make things pretty and appreciate aesthetics, engage and get excited about each and every brief and be hardworking, knowledgeable, professional, proactive, organised, efficient, punctual and disciplined. The candidate will also have between three and five years’ experience in agency environment live in or near the city and have their own transport.

Responsibilities

  • Work and partner with internal stakeholders to bring the voice of our brands to life across on all jobs
  • Collaborate with partners to create sales driven collateral
  • Complete projects in a timely manner while prioritizing multiple projects across multiple titles at uncompromising quality and creativity
  • Support strategic and creative ways of bringing a story to life through design
  • Extreme attention to detail
  • Understand how design, copy and photography are part of the same customer experience
  • An understanding of ecommerce and user experience within the digital space.
  • Ability to design collateral with a broad range of styles and quickly adapt to the brands ID.
  • Highly motivated with the capability to meet extremely tight deadlines while multi-tasking and managing a high volume of projects.
  • Assist with graphic design across all formats (brand, digital, print, outdoor, press, POS, event, etc.)
  • Responsible for originating creative digital graphic designs and concepts that support client briefs
  • Generate and create crafted, visually pleasing and highly conceptual designs under pressure and at a fast paced
  • Full design knowledge, strong technical skills, great application knowledge
  • Get excited and excite others about creating beautiful and functional, thought-provoking designs

Requirements

  • Maintain digital studio standards and conventions
  • Manage workflow efficiently and take responsibility for timing and delivery
  • Expert skills in Adobe Creative Suite (especially InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator)
  • Proficient in Mac operating software and MS Office applications like Word and PowerPoint
  • Excellent design skills across a variety of disciplines with great typographic abilities

To apply, please submit your CV, a diverse portfolio of your work and a 250-word motivation letter to

moc.snaidotsucreerac@2tnatlusnoc

. Applicants will be screened and candidates that tickle our fancy will be invited to an interview and will be required to design collateral as a test in a set time period.

**Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us within 5 days – please consider your application unsuccessful**

To browse all our vacancies, please log on to our website – www.careercustodians.com

Requirements

  • Design
  • Graphic design
  • Media

Posted on 24 Dec 10:53

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IR Assistant (Edenvale)

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Remuneration: negotiable Basic salary 
Location: Edenvale
Education level: Diploma
Job level: Junior
Type: Permanent
Reference: #IR ASsistant
Company: Rage

Job description

Rage a large retail company based in Edenvale currently has a position available for an IR assistant. This role is responsible to facilitate and co-ordinate all industrial relations information to ensure accuracy, centralisation and compliance to the South African legal framework. The IR assistant reports directly to the national HR manager. This position provides an administrative support, facilitation and coordination of all the industrial relations information in alignment with the company’s objectives, goals and policies. This position assists with policy formulation by providing input, conducting research, compiling drafts etc. Internal liaison, therefore, takes place with the HR team.

Requirements

Duties include:

  • •o drafting of disciplinary records, issuing warnings and following up.
  • To coordinate and capture all Industrial Relations information to ensure accuracy and centralization of all IR data.
  • To assist with disciplinary hearings.
  • To research on best practice in terms of relevant legislation/ case law in order to ensure compliance.
  • To ensure data integrity/proper record keeping.
  • To assist the IR manager when needed.

Job requirements:

  • Completed Legal Degree (essential) – e.g. BComm Law, BA Law, LLB, Industrial Psychology and Labour Relations, Human Resources.
  • One-year industrial relations experience (Desirable)
  • Intermediate MS Office skills
  • Communication skills
  • Conflict and dispute management skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Research skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Knowledge of employment legislation

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