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Must have FGASA level 1 with back up trails, a valid PDP and be DEAT Registered. Excellent communication skills coupled with a passion for the industry. Willing to assist in all departments of the lodge including maintenance and in F&B. Must have previous experience in a similar position in a big 5 reserve. Single accommodation offered. liz@lfhr.co.za
Cape Union Mart International (Pty) Ltd has been equipping South African adventurers since 1933, and is South Africa’s favourite outdoor adventure store. Stocking everything one needs for outdoor pursuits – including hiking, camping, trail running, mountain biking, snow sports, travel and more – Cape Union Mart is an essential first step in every adventure. Cape Union Mart has stores across South Africa, and in Namibia and Botswana.
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Our client specialising in chemicals is looking to employ an experienced raw material feeder in the Durban area.
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The most essential and important resource any company can possess will undoubtedly be the talent that they employ. This is where MPRTC is crucial, in that we specialise in the most diverse and complex resource; we supply people, the right people, for your company.
At age 21, Kirstie Ennis was living the life of her dreams. The daughter of two Marines, she had enlisted at 17 and was flying combat and rescue missions in Afghanistan as an aerial observer and gunner. “I was the eyes and ears for the pilot, letting him know what’s going on behind and around him,” she says. “I’m small—5’4” and 115 pounds—and as a woman I had to fight tooth and nail to prove that I could do the job. But it was worth it. I loved everything about it.”
June 23, 2012, started like any other day. She and her team had already completed one mission and were en route to pick up Marines who were pinned down in an active combat zone in Helmand Province, when their helicopter suddenly went nose down, then rolled to the left and crashed. “I just watched the ground come towards me and hoped I would open my eyes afterward,” she recalls.
Kirstie suffered a traumatic brain injury as well as severe damage to her face, spine, shoulders and left leg. “When you're recovering from a traumatic injury, you don't just lose yourself physically but mentally and emotionally,” she says now. “You wonder if you'll ever be the same person again. For me that was a pretty huge internal battle.”
One year after the accident, on her “Alive Day,” as critically injured vets call their traumatic anniversaries, she tried to take her own life. “It was a very dark time, and I thought I didn't want to be here anymore,” she says. “After my suicide attempt, my dad was the one who talked some sense into me. He said, ‘The enemy didn't kill you. Why would you try to do it yourself? You’re tougher than that.’ It was just what I needed to hear.”
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Afterward, Kirstie stopped dwelling on what she couldn't do and began thinking about what she could do. Several months before, a group called Disabled Sports USA had taught her to snowboard, and she loved it. “During the following season, I trained hard, and that became my lifeline,” she says. “Snowboarding restored my confidence and gave me joy. It literally got me up on my own two feet again.”
In the years after the crash, Kristie endured dozens of surgeries to reconstruct her face and attempt to save her left leg. Then in 2015, doctors had to amputate the leg—first below the knee, then, after an infection set in, above the knee. “With an above-the-knee amputation you’re basically starting from scratch in learning how to use your leg again,” she says.
Instead of losing hope, she got hungry. She threw herself into mountain climbing, and set herself the goal of summiting the Seven Summits—the highest peaks on all seven continents, including Everest.
In March this year she summited Kilimanjaro, then in July topped Indonesia’s technical and treacherous Carstensz Pyramid—the first combat-wounded female amputee to achieve both peaks. “Carstensz was brutal,” she says. “We were climbing in blizzards, but I proved to myself I could do it.” Now she has her sights set on snowboarding in the 2018 Paralympics in South Korea.
“After my accident, I did lots of psychotherapy, but talking to someone who had no idea what I’d been through didn't help,” she says. “Being physical did. It gave me a sense of purpose, made me believe in myself and showed me how resilient my body is. It gave me goals, led me to a career and gave me the courage and strength I needed to move past my injury and into the future.”
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule was mum on Monday on events unfolding in the Free State and the controversy surrounding Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba, however, he was full of promises for Midvaal residents.
Magashule paid visits to the residents of Mamello and Sicelo and held meetings in the two areas as part of the ruling party’s blitz campaign in Gauteng.
Surrounded by reporters for the majority of his tour in both areas, Magashule refused to address questions on allegations around missing artworks in the Free State and claims that the province was experiencing serious financial challenges.
Read: Ace Magashule ‘gives away’ Pierneef painting worth more than R6m
Magashule was at the helm of the province as premier and ANC provincial chairperson until he was elected as the party’s secretary general in December 2017.
“Let me not respond to allegations,” said Magashule.
“No, no… I am not addressing anything about Free State,” he insisted when pushed for an answer.
Election campaign
His refusal to comment comes on the back of his confirmation last week that he had been questioned by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on the controversial Vrede dairy project as well as recent reports on the Free State Development Corporation (FDC), which violated financial regulations by placing a R100m investment with the now collapsed VBS Mutual Bank.
Read more: Public Protector questions Magashule on Vrede dairy project, hearings with others to follow
News24 has established that the FDC, which is state-owned, ignored or bypassed provisions in the Public Finance Management Act and Treasury regulations by placing the investment with VBS.
Also on the blitz campaign on Monday were ANC leaders deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte, who was in Ekurhuleni, chairperson Gwede Mantashe who was in the West Rand, treasurer general Paul Mashatile and other national executive committee (NEC) members who visited communities across Pretoria.
The visits are part of the electioneering machinery of the ANC as South Africa gears up for the 2019 general elections. Both ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and deputy president David Mabuza were not part of the campaign as the president was at the G20 summit and his deputy was on leave.
Magashule had a lot of promises for the residents of Midvaal residents, an area governed by the official opposition the DA.
He committed to helping young people who could not afford to study further than matric and said that he and the ANC would help get them into institutions of higher learning, either in the country or in one of the Brics countries.
‘I came to hear from you’
He also promised the residents of far-flung Mamello that he would return with Ramaphosa and Gauteng Premier David Makhura in two weeks and that he would bring along officials from social services and home affairs to help community members register for identity documents and social grants.
“There’s a power station here, there is electricity but these people don’t have electricity, no toilets, no school…. they have to travel to Heidelberg,” said Magashule as he listed the challenges facing the small community.
The secretary general was initially met with some hostility when he arrived in Sicelo, also in the Midvaal, however, he managed to win residents over.
“I have no promises for you, it’s my first visit here. I came to see and to hear from you, regarding the needs of this community,” said Magashule, who said he would return to the area as well.
However, residents refused to let him leave after addressing a meeting, instead inviting the ANC secretary general to see their living conditions.
Residents took him on a tour of their informal settlement, where he walked over sewerage on the roads. He was also shown exposed live wires on the ground.
Gigaba matter ‘private’
“This is heartbreaking. I cannot believe you live in such conditions,” said Magashule.
Magashule told the people of Sicelo that he would bring Ramaphosa and Makhura to the area.
“When people say, ‘Don’t go there, people are angry’, I say, ‘No! I am going’,” he said, telling residents he was happy to have met with them.
Magashule also committed to one day returning to Sicelo to help some of the informal settlement’s struggling students get into institutions of higher education.
Earlier, Magashule was asked to comment on claims made by Home Affairs Minister and ANC NEC member Gigaba that he had reported to the State Security Agency that he was being blackmailed by anonymous people who had illegally obtained a 13-second video which showed Gigaba engaging in a solitary sexual act.
“I can’t enter personal and private matters,” said Magashule.
A technical retail supplier are looking for Warehouse Manager in George
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The death toll in the wildfire in the Bosdorp community has risen to eight people, police said on Monday night.
Captain Malcolm Pojie said intially four people were reported dead and later it was confirmed that the fatalities increased to eight people.
Pojie said it was reported that a pregnant woman was among those who were later reported dead.
The Garden Route District Municipality had earlier said the wildfire in the Bosdorp community has claimed four lives.
“It is with great shock and deep sadness that we have been informed of four fatalities in the Bosdorp community due to the wildfire,” the Garden Route District Municipality noted in a tweet.
It said that EMS reported that one one adult, two toddlers and one baby died around 18:00.
The municipality had earlier said the fire was moving through Karatara, in the Kraaibosh area above Rheenendal.
It said three structures had burned down.
Rheenendal Fire Management Units FMU’s have been activated, according to the municipality.
Residents were being evacuated to the Karatara Community Hall.
Over 200 people were currently in the hall, according to the municipality.
The George and Garden Route District municipalities stated in a joint statement earlier that there were ongoing active fires in George in the Outeniqua Pass area, reported News24.
In two areas close to the pass, the traffic department and police were aiding a precautionary evacuation.
“George Municipality is, as a precaution, evacuating residents in Blanco Golden Valley and Step-Aside,” according to a municipal alert.
“We request people to move carefully and not to panic.”
Over the last week, firefighters in the Western Cape have been battling blazes in Kosovo informal settlement, Khayelitsha, Overcome Heights in Vrygrond and along the Garden Route.
Outeniqua Pass on fire (Supplied by Georgiete Staan Saam Facebook page)
Outeniqua Pass on fire (Supplied by Georgiete Staan Saam Facebook page)
Outeniqua Pass on fire (Supplied by Georgiete Staan Saam Facebook page)
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Johannesburg – Improving away form, finding an alternative scrumhalf and picking more black starters are among the challenges facing South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus on their November tour of Europe.
The Springboks, who have won five Tests and lost five this season, face England, France, Scotland and Wales on consecutive Saturdays from November 3.
South Africa have fared poorly in Europe since finishing third behind champions New Zealand and Australia at the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England, winning just two of seven Tests.
Among the five defeats spanning two visits was a thrashing from Ireland in Dublin and a humiliating first loss to Italy as they fell in Florence.
Last month, the Springboks achieved the seemingly impossible by defeating the virtually invincible All Blacks in Wellington – their first win in New Zealand since 2009.
But that totally unexpected triumph came after away losses to Wales, Argentina and Australia, with the disappointment of the results exacerbated by poor performances.
The Springboks have often battled in Europe because they struggle to adapt to alien tactics, heavy pitches, torrential rain, biting cold and partisan crowds.
They also struggle to solve problems set by teams there, like high kicks, with Ireland continually exploiting that South African weakness in Dublin last year.
“This tour to the northern hemisphere will be another test of the character of our team,” said Erasmus, a former Springbok flank who succeeded sacked Allister Coetzee this year.
“We are looking forward to facing the challenges posed by England, France, Scotland and Wales.”
The coach has been criticised for relying too heavily on some players, notably scrumhalf Faf de Klerk from English Premiership club Sale Sharks.
The blonde halfback has played in nine consecutive Tests, starting with the dramatic triumph over England in Johannesburg, but is unavailable for the November tour.
Not only has De Klerk played, but Erasmus has been reluctant to substitute him until late in matches if at all, leaving replacements with little Test experience.
“I think it would be frustrating for any player if they are not getting a lot of opportunities to play,” admitted sometimes replacement scrumhalf Embrose Papier.
Although often the second choice behind Ivan van Zyl at the Blue Bulls, Papier could be first in the Springboks queue ahead of Van Zyl and Sharks captain Louis Schreuder.
South Africans long for a situation similar to that enjoyed by New Zealand, who have world-class performers Aaron Smith and TJ Perenara vying for the No 9 jersey.
When Erasmus succeeded Coetzee, dumped after his teams conceded 57 points in successive matches against the All Blacks, he acknowledged the importance of racial transformation.
But after selecting up to seven black starters early in the season, only three were in the run-on teams that won and lost against New Zealand recently.
Injuries have not helped with prop Trevor Nyakane part of the 36-man squad for Europe having missed the 10 previous Tests this year due to injury.
Legendary prop Tendai ‘The Beast’ Mtawarira was not on the weekend flight to London, though, nor was promising centre Lukhanyo Am as both are injured.
Despite an agreement between SA Rugby and the government that half the 2019 Rugby World Cup team in Japan must be black, Erasmus is picking 80 percent white run-on sides.
“My target this year is that 45 percent of the players I select over this season must be black,” he said soon after his appointment.
But in 10 Tests, the coach has picked 57 run-on blacks when his target was at least 70, and only four black forwards are among the 20 chosen to tour Europe.
Twenty three white players were picked – 64 percent of the squad – which is sure to upset a government that wants the Springboks to better reflect a 92 percent black population.
For most of the apartheid era, blacks were barred from representing South Africa and forced to play in racially segregated competitions.