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Member of Legislature donates Sports Equipment to Mthatha School

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It is said “not all heroes wear capes” but one thing is for sure, it takes a village. Mxolisi Dimaza, Member of Provincial Legislature (MPL) and Chairperson of Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature Health Portfolio Committee, not only found it deep in his pockets, but also in his heart, as he took it upon himself by personally sponsoring brand-new sports equipment at Gobizizwe High Senior Secondary School in Mthatha.

The need for this came to Dimaza’sattention and devotion when he spearheaded a School during the visits by the Portfolio Committee team that consisted of officials from Provincial Legislature and Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDoE). After the visit to Gobizizwe High School, Dimaza promised to bring the school sports wear and equipment, in order to curb the burning issues faced by the pupils in the community and by the school at large.

“Making a promise is one thing, but keeping it is another big deal,” said Dimaza. The purpose of the school visits give the Portfolio Committee great detail and insight of the challenges faced by the schools. “It is quite saddening that our children outside the classrooms are consumers of drugs and are busy committing crimes, because there are no extra mural activities that uplift them. These sports kits and equipment will hopefully change their lives,” added Dimaza.

Gobizizwe Senior Secondary School principal Thuli Mbixane was full of joy as she was presented with this gift and referred to Dimaza as “a gift from God”.

Impromptu School Readiness visits at Attwell Madala High School

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A team led by Mxolisi Dimaza who is the Member of the Provincial Legislature and also chairperson of the Health Portfolio Committee conducted an impromptu visit at Atwell Madala High School in Mthatha(OR Tambo Inland District) on 26 January 2018.

The School Readiness programme is designed to check the status of readiness of all schools in the province for the whole year.Dimaza started by explaining to the Principal Yalelwa Mfecane and her School Management Team (SMT) the purpose of the visit, “Every beginning of the year, the Education Portfolio Committee visits schools to see their state of readiness for that particular year. What happens is that a Districtgives our team a list of all schools to be visited, the reason vary as some are one of the best performing and some are the worst, sometimes we visit any school though they are not on thelist,” said Dimaza.  He further explained that every member of the Provincial Legislature,“no matter which portfolio committee you serve under if Education needs your help you must help.”

“We mainly focus on the Admissions, Results, Teacher Pupil Ratio, Learner, Teacher Support Material (LTSM), Nutrition, Scholar Transport and School Governing Body (SGB),” explained Dimaza.

Mrs. Mfecane stated that as a school they are facing a lot of challenges, especially in the 2017 school calendar year.“We lost 2 Science teachers through death and 1 Mathematics teacher was attacked by a stroke and we have no substitute for that teacher since March 2017, overcrowding is one of the major problems we are facing, the total enrollment is 1571 for 2018 and no infrastructure. Classrooms are overcrowded.”

With sadness in her face she said, “the pass rate for our Matric students has dropped since 2015 to 2017. In 2015 it was 66%, 2016 it was 62% and now in 2017 it is 56,5%.” She also said that there was no Nutrition and Scholar Programme at the School. Transfers and promotions during the school academic year disrupts the academic year for the schools they are leaving behind. We acknowledge that there is a problem and we as Educators at the School need to conduct an introspection within ourselves and not blame one another for us to improve the status of our school.”

Mr. Phumzile Mashalaba,  from the Education Department who heads the Maths and Science Subjects voiced his concerns over the loss of the Maths and Science teachers and promised that he would do everything in his power to help the School resolve these issues before it’s too late.

Sales Executive (Nelspruit)

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Remuneration: Basic salary 
Location: Nelspruit
Reference: #NEL007716/PF
Company: MPRTC Recruitment

Sales executive required in Nelspruit.

Requirements:

  • Grade 12/ Matric
  • Degree/ Diploma in Sales and Marketing (Advantage)
  • Three years’ Experience in Sales
  • Ability to communicate in English and Afrikaans
  • Strong Interpersonal and Negotiation skills
  • Deadline Driven
  • Valid Drivers Licence and Own Transport
  • Ability to identify new Business
  • Computer Literate
  • Self-Management

You will need to reside Nelspruit in or surrounding area.

Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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Posted on 31 Jan 07:38

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Mid-Senior QA Engineer – Publishing (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: Basic salary 
Location: Cape Town
Type: Permanent
Reference: #1801408
Company: Datafin Recruitment


Environment:

A reputable media house seeks a Mid-Snr level QA Engineer (publishing) to join their iOS and Android developers team in an Agile environment. Should have at least four to six+ years of QA experience in testing web andmobi-web sites, testing various browser behaviours. Ability to read Afrikaans, ISTQB Certification and Automation testing experienceis required.

Duties:

  • During grooming estimate test effort that includes the creation, review and execution of test-related activities.
  • The primary objective would be to drive the testing process through development into production.
  • Work with agile team to write test cases/testing tasks for each story and create acceptance criteria.
  • Regular test case reviews.
  • Perform test execution in a fast-paced environment while in the Agile Scrum environment.
  • Log detailed bugs that surfaces during testing.
  • Use investigative and analytical skills to find defects, whilst continuing to complete tasks set by Team Leads.
  • Collaborate with Agile Scrum Team as needed to resolve problems and identify the root cause of product defects.
  • Send out test results report to communicating the state of the software.

Requirements:

Skills and competencies:

  • Excellent knowledge of testing Web and Mobi-web based websites.
  • Excellent knowledge testing various browsers behaviours.
  • Excellent knowledge and experience of Scrum Agile.
  • Ability to turn Product Requirements into test scenarios.
  • Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
  • Strong ability to work on own initiative (think on your feet).
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Must be willing and able to learn new technologies quickly through self-learning.
  • An excellent communicator both verbally and written.
  • The ability to read Afrikaans.
  • Process driven, and task orientated.
  • Able to utilize multiple testing techniques and types.
  • Depending the type of bug that you have, perform risk analysis and reporting.
  • Experience in .net programming language would be advantageous.

Qualifications and experience:

  • At least four to six+ years of QA experience testing web and mobi-web sites.
  • ISTQB CTFL (foundation level) certification obtained.
  • Experience automation testing software.
  • Excellent knowledge of using a Test Management tool.
  • Excellent knowledge of using a Defect Tracking tool.
  • Advantageous:
  • Scrum Agile Certificate.
  • Achievements.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

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Posted on 30 Jan 15:45

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Mid-Senior QA Engineer – Mobile (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: Basic salary 
Location: Cape Town
Type: Permanent
Reference: #1801407
Company: Datafin Recruitment

Environment:

A reputable media house seeks a mid-senior level QAengineer (Mobile) to join their iOS and Android developers team in an Agile environment. Should have at least 4-6+ years’ experience in automation testing software, specifically related to mobile application testing – native/hybrid iOS and Android; ISTQB Certification and ability to read Afrikaans.

Duties:

  • During grooming estimate test effort that includes the creation, review and execution of test-related activities.
  • The primary objective would be to drive the testing process through development into production.
  • Work with agile team to write test cases/testing tasks for each story and create acceptance criteria.
  • Regular test case reviews.
  • Perform test execution in a fast-paced environment while in the Agile Scrum environment.
  • Log detailed bugs that surfaces during testing.
  • Collaborate with Agile Scrum Team as needed to resolve problems and identify the root cause of product defects.
  • Configuration of mobile devices for testing purposes.
  • Send out test results report to communicating the state of the software.

Requirements:

Skills and competencies:

  • Excellent knowledge of testing Native/Hybrid iOS and Android applications.
  • Proficient in MacOS X and Windows, the ability to efficiently use both operating systems.
  • Excellent knowledge and experience of Scrum Agile
  • Ability to turn Product Requirements into test scenarios.
  • Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
  • Strong ability to work on own initiative (think on your feet).
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Must be willing and able to learn new technologies quickly through self-learning.
  • An excellent communicator both verbally and written.
  • The ability to read Afrikaans.
  • Process driven, and task orientated.
  • Able to utilize multiple testing techniques and types.
  • Depending the type of bug that you have, perform risk analysis and reporting.
  • Bonus: Has done proof of concept initiatives.

Qualifications and experience:

  • At least four to six+ years od QA experience in native/hybrid iOS and Android applications.
  • ISTQB CTFL (foundation level) certification obtained.
  • Experience in automation testing software, specifically related to Mobile application testing – native/hybrid iOS and Android.
  • Excellent knowledge of using a Test Management tool.
  • Excellent knowledge of using a Defect Tracking tool.
  • The following experience would be advantageous:
    • Scrum Agile Certificate.
    • Achievements.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

Comments:

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moc.nifatad@esereht

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Posted on 30 Jan 15:37

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Junior Entry Clerk/Data Capturer (Durban)

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Remuneration: Basic salary 
Location: Durban
Reference: #NEL007715/SH
Company: MPRTC Recruitment

Junior entry clerk/data capturer required in Durban.

Requirements:

  • Grade 12
  • Two to three years’ experience in a similar position
  • Ability to capture entries on Cargowise System
  • Ability to work independently
  • Knowledge with customs regulations when framing entries
  • Understanding of tariffs
  • Ability to be a fast learner

You will need to reside Durban in or surrounding area.

Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Visit our website to view all of our current vacancies: www.mprtc.co.za 

Posted on 30 Jan 15:25

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Operations Analyst (Johannesburg)

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Remuneration: negotiable Basic salary 
Location: Johannesburg, Randburg
Job level: Mid
Type: Permanent
Company: HR Studio

Job description

Our client is a digital marketing company and one of the largest lead generation firms in South Africa.  They use a range of digital channels to improve sales and optimize their clients’ ROI (return on investment). They strongly believe in the ethos that any digital marketing initiative taken needs to be highly measurable and results driven, thus enabling their clients to successfully measure their return on investment. All their digital marketing campaigns are 100% trackable, making it possible to measure and account for every cent spent.

Our client is looking for a young highly energetic, problem solving, system and process orientated person to join their team.

Role Responsibilities:

  • The operations analyst is a key member of the operations team supporting data management, financial reporting, process design & optimisation, and system issue resolution.
  • This person will work closely with all internal client and supplier facing teams, as well as non-customer facing development and design teams to ensure integrity of the business systems.
  • Identify issues / defects in business and operational processes, and fix these through the implementation of improved/optimised workflows, business procedures, and other recommend changes.
  • Ensure new data brought into the business is received, checked and stored as applicable.
  • Perform daily checks on failed leads and repost where necessary
  • Assist with consolidation and distribution of reports on an ad hoc basis.
  • Design and documentation of project artefacts, business requirements and processes.
  • Assist with system solution design, user testing, and obtaining business sign-off.
  • Ensure comprehensive user testing is performed on all projects implemented within operations.
  • Ensure implementation support within operations from both a business and systems perspective.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

  • BSc Industrial Engineering preferred. Willing to look at BSc in Engineering, Maths/Stats, or any other technology related field
  • Min 1 year work experience within an operations environment looking at analysis of business processes and/or reporting/analytics
  • Ability to map out and document processes and systems
  • Must be able to read code.
  • Excel (MUST be good at Pivots, macros, vlookups, hlookups, etc.) advantageous.
  • Relational database scripting and querying experience a must (university or work) advantageous.
  • Ability to code in any language would be advantageous

Attributes and Competencies

  • Self-driven person who can take initiative with minimal guidance
  • Proactive – capable of identifying and initiating change
  • Positive and energetic
  • Structured and detail orientated but able to work in an unstructured environment
  • Must be able to multi-task, work within a team or alone
  • Needs to be focus driven on implementation and delivery
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to work under pressure

Posted on 30 Jan 15:05

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Big Data Developers (Johannesburg)

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Remuneration: Negotiable depending on experience 
Location: Johannesburg
Education level: Degree
Job level: Senior
Type: Permanent
Reference: #LV37680-2017
Company: e-Merge IT Recruitment

As a big data developer, you will be responsible for building data applications and big data initiatives. These data applications derive insights from very large data sources and provide those insights to internal and external clients through customised web applications. Everybody on the team is exposed to challenges in big data; the team design solutions jointly and understands the criticality of big data. This company invests big into large scale data applications.

Minimum requirements 

  • Degreed
  • Five to 10 years’ experience
  • Banking experience beneficial
  • Experience in Spark, Hive, HBase, Impala, Kafka
  • Would consider senior Java developers with a passion for big data!

If you are ready to take your career to the next level, then this may be the right opportunity for you!

Reference Number for this position is LV37680-2017 which is a permanent position based in Johannesburg offering a salary negotiable on experience.

The time for change is now! e-Merge IT recruitment are specialist niche recruiters with a wide range of positions available. We offer researched positions with top companies to strong technical candidates. Email Liza on

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or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Check out our website www.e-merge.co.za for more positions that might be right for you!

Do you have a friend who is a technology specialist? We pay big cash to you if we place a friend that you sent us!

If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within two weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position.

Posted on 30 Jan 14:40

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Lusikisiki Schools achieve beyond Expectations

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Two Schools in the rural areas of Lusikisiki beat all odds to achieve above 90% pass rate in the 2017 NSC Grade12 Examinations. Ben Mali Senior Secondary School in Luqoqweni village and Siwali Senior Secondary School in Mcobothini village are a living testament that success is not only reserved for a few, and certainly does choose a designated area.

These schools achieved what most would see as an unreachable dream for schools in deep rural villages. They have defied stereotypes and changed the narrative about our rural schooling in the Eastern Cape. Both these schools obtained a 94.82% pass respectively, with Ben Mali improving by 66% from 28.8 % in the previous year and Siwali improving from 75.3% in 2016. Their dedication and commitment saw both these schools skyrocket to higher heights and reaching the levels that were beyond expectations.

This achievement also saw SiwaliSenoirSecondary School occupying the number 1 spot in the OR Tambo District. 77 learners from this school sat for the 2017 NSC Matric Examinations, 73 passed and 4 obtained supplementaries.They recorded 37 Bachelor passes, 29 Diplomas and 7 Higher Certificates.

Speaking to Mr. Nyandu who is the Deputy Principal at Siwali SSS, he attributes this success to the support programmes offered by the Department, Discipline and constant interaction with parents. He also recognises and acknowledges the impact made by winter and spring schools as well as weekend and afternoon classes.

The ECDoE extends a word of appreciation to both the learners and teachers of these schools, for their dedication and commitment. In the midst of challenges experienced in our rural areas, they have been able to dig gold in its purest form.

Area Operations Leader (Bloemfontein)

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Remuneration: Market related 
Location: Bloemfontein
Job level: Management Snr
Job policy: Employment Equity position
Type: Permanent
Reference: #CUMG-928
Company: Cape Union Mart

Job description

We are seeking a self-motivated, goal orientated individual, passionate about the Cape Union Mart group and their career development, to manage stores in the Northern Region.

You will be responsible for improving performance, productivity, efficiency and profitability through the effective implementation of strategies in line with the company vision.

Requirements

  • Lead a team of store managers towards effective collaboration and attainment of goals
  • Optimise and oversee in-store operations to ensure efficiency
  • Attention to financial performance in order to ensure that stores are profitable and stay within budget
  • Responsible for all store recruitment and timeous filling of vacancies
  • Ensure compliance with company’s policies and operational guidelines
  • Deal with challenges by providing creative and practical solutions
  • Evaluate performance using key metrics and address issues to ensure improvement
  • To participate and contribute to a culture that builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional customer service
  • To promote equality and diversity as part of culture of the organization
  • To ensure that the people-perspective is represented in strategic decisions
  • Provide teams with a stimulating and supportive environment and drive their growth and development
  • Decisive thinking and an ability to analyse information quickly and use it to make robust decisions
  • Ability to work well with a range of people both within and outside of the organisation
  • A strong inclination to take on additional responsibilities and ensure delivery with high level of commitment
  • Leading and driving change management projects and promoting operational projects and initiatives to internal clients and getting their buy-in
  • The ability to lead in a highly pressurised, rapidly growing environment

Experience and qualifications

  • A minimum three years’ management experience in operations in a retail environment
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact at all levels
  • Proven managerial and leadership skills (inspirational leadership)
  • Proactive management and the ability to work unaided
  • Skilled in the use of Microsoft Word and Excel
  • Qualification in business or retail management advantageous
  • Valid driver’s license
  • Ability to travel extensively within the region

Personal skills/attributes

  • An emotionally intelligent, inspiring leader
  • Action orientated/results driven
  • A strategic mindset
  • Ability to convert vision and strategy into actions and results
  • Critical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Planning and organizing
  • Strong delegation skills
  • Sound decision-making ability
  • Ability to work in a Team
  • Conflict management
  • Excellent communication skills
  • High attention to detail
  • People focused
  • High tolerance for stress

Posted on 30 Jan 11:05

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