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News24.com | Coronavirus: Cases increase by 13 285 to 350 879 as Mkhize warns SA about complacency

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Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize.

Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize.

  • Positive Covid-19 cases have risen by 13 285 to 350 879, with 4 948 deaths recorded. 
  • Health Minister Zweli Mkhize reiterated his call for South Africans to follow measures to prevent the spread of the virus, including hand-washing, mask-wearing and physical distancing.
  • “We are extremely concerned that fatigue seems to have set in and South Africans are letting down their guard at a time when the spread of infection is surging,” Mkhize said.

The country has recorded 13 285 new Covid-19 infections, bringing the number to 350 879, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.

The death toll now stands at 4 948 after 144 new deaths were reported.

The recovery rate sits at 52%, with a total of 192 230 recoveries.

In the last 24 hours, 49 688 tests were conducted, taking the total to 2 422 741.

READ | Covid-19 storm is approaching – Mkhize

Appeal to adhere to recommendations

Amid concerns people are “letting down their guard”, Mkhize once again appealed to all South Africans to follow non-pharmaceutical interventions in the form of hand-washing, physical distancing and mask-wearing.

This, he said, would directly impact rising numbers.

“As the government, we have mobilised every resource, every faculty and wherewithal at our disposal to effect the necessary interventions. But the government cannot manage this unilaterally. Every single South African now needs to focus on adhering to recommendations pertaining to non-pharmaceutical interventions.”

He added there were concerns around some people who were not following these measures at a time when the country could least afford it.

“We are extremely concerned that fatigue seems to have set in and South Africans are letting down their guard at a time when the spread of infection is surging.

“We see poor or no social distancing in communities. Masks are being abandoned or not worn properly and there is a laxity setting in around frequent hand-washing.

“This will directly influence the rise in numbers in the next two weeks. We must all appreciate that there is a direct causal link between the surge of cases and our ability, or inability, to adhere to these very basic principles,” Mkhize said.

ALSO READ | Recommended isolation time for Covid-19 patients reduced from 14 to 10 days

He warned fighting Covid-19 was dependent on South Africa’s willingness to practice these measures.

“We do not have a vaccine. We do not have a cure. Our ability to break the cycle of infection depends on our willingness to remain focused and disciplined and take non-pharmaceutical interventions seriously.

“We can beat this pandemic together. We have already proved this during the lockdown. It remains in each and every citizen’s hands to admonish family members, colleagues, friends who refuse to adhere to measures that protect lives by limiting the spread of this virus,” Mkhize said.

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Covid-19 breakdown 18 July 2020 (Sourced: Department of Health)

Covid-19 breakdown 18 July 2020 (Sourced: Department of Health)

News24.com | Attempt to steal PPE from OR Tambo leads to deadly shootout

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  • An attempt to steal personal protective equipment from OR Tambo International Airport was foiled by the police following a dramatic shootout and high-speed car chase.
  • The police said seven suspects were arrested, two shot dead and several injured, including a member of the public. 
  • Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula welcomed the quick action of law enforcement. 

An attempt to steal personal protective equipment from OR Tambo International Airport’s cargo area on Saturday left two people dead and several injured, including one civilian, according to the police.

In a statement on Saturday, police spokesperson Colonel Brenda Muridili said seven suspects had been arrested and five firearms were recovered following a shootout between law enforcement and the suspects after a high-speed car chase.

READ | 2 dead, 7 injured during alleged robbery at OR Tambo

“At about 12:30 today [Saturday], a group of suspects entered the cargo section at the OR Tambo airport and held the staff at gunpoint at one of the warehouses.

“The manager of the warehouse noticed employees lying on the floor and immediately notified the police and airport security,” Muridili said.

Upon arrival, the police and security officers chased after the suspects’ truck and bakkie which had left the cargo area.

“A high-speed chase and shootout resulted. Subsequently, seven suspects were arrested, four of them with gunshot wounds, while two others were shot dead.

“A civilian in the vicinity sustained a gunshot wound apparently by a stray bullet,” she said.

When the police caught the suspects, they found they had attempted to steal personal protective equipment, including masks, as well as three crates of cellphones.

“The police and airport security’s swift response to the robbery is proof of the effective collaborative security measures that have been put in place at the airport.

“The arrested suspects will be appearing in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court soon, facing charges of armed robbery,” Muridili added.

Mbalula welcomes quick action

According to department spokesperson Ayanda Allie Paine, Reshebile Aviation and Protection Services Explosive Detection K9 Unit, which is contracted by the Airports Company of South Africa, had responded to the robbery.

The nine suspects allegedly held staff at the cargo area hostage while they robbed the premises.

The police were alerted to the robbery and intercepted the suspects before a shootout ensued.

ALSO READ | OR Tambo customs officials seize rhino horns worth R117m

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula welcomed the “swift action” of law enforcement, saying criminal elements were determined to undermine the law even during Covid-19.

“As the country unites to fight against the spread of Covid-19, it is clear that there remains a few criminal elements who are hell-bent on undermining the laws of the republic and putting the lives of law-abiding citizens at risk.

“Their brazen acts of criminality will not be tolerated, we will not allow crime to prevail, even in times of Covid-19. We will continue to ensure both the health and the safety of all,” Mbalula said.

Draughtsman & Specifier

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Open position : Draughtsman & Specifier
Location : Port Elizabeth
Salary : Nett R10 000 to R12000
Type : Permanent position 


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  • MS. Excel – Costing & Calculations
  • Autodesk CAD
  • Autodesk Revit

Tasks:

  • Balustrade Design
  • Product Specifying
  • Job cards
  • Internal Sales & Orders
  • Job Planning and Project management
  • Create Revit Product Family with all our products including permissions & Specs
  • Load our Family onto the International Revit database.
  • Nett salary R10 000 to R12 000

  

Candidates meeting all the above criteria are invited to email their CV’s to lisa.applications@kingrec.co.za

If you have not received contact from us within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

 

Commercial Vehicle Sales Executive – Freestate

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#SHIFTINTOHIGHCAREER to an established and highly successful Commercial Dealership who requires the services of a Commercial Vehicle Sales Executive

#SHIFTINTOHIGHCAREER to a long established and highly successful Commercial Dealership who requires the services of a Commercial Vehicle Sales Executive

Minimum Requirements

  • Must have a minimum of 3 years Commercial Vehicle Sales experience within the Motor Industry
  • Must average 3 – 5 units per month
  • Grade 12 Qualification essential
  • Valid Driver’s Licence essential
  • Must be able to grow the brand into the market
  • Specific Brand experience such as Cummins | International | MAN | Tata | UD (To be discussed during screening interview with shortlisted candidates only)
  • Must have contactable references
  • Must be able to provide at least 6 months’ payslips or commission sheets on request

Salary Structure

  • Basic Salary from R 10 000 – R 15 000 based on experience
  • Incentives (Average of R 10 000 – R 20 000 per month)
  • Benefits including Medical Aid and Provident Fund
  • Company Vehicle
     

(Only suitable candidates will be shortlisted and contacted within 14 days) 
Please send your CV to heloise@gapconsulting.co.za

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Desktop Support Technician (office 365)

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Responsibilities 

  • Provide customer-facing product engineering support for Office365
  • Provide real-time client support for faster resolution of cases
  • Conduct research on complex cases, validates cases for escalation to Backline and contributes to knowledge management initiatives.
  • Be the focal point for communications, coordination and overall adherence to the Microsoft Office 365 knowledge management program.

Requirements 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, Computer Science or other relevant fields – Experience in or exposure to a client facing role
  • At least 2 years of professional IT experience
  • Good communication skills
  • Amenable to a flexible work schedule, as the need arises
  • With solid Infra background, strong understanding of servers, Active Directory or AD, and the like
  • With Office 365 skills and experience
  • Solid MS Exchange Skills
  • Solid SharePoint Skills
  • Proficient in MS Exchange and two or more O365 technologies
  • Proficient in MS SharePoint, along with at least two O365 technologies
  • At least three Office 365 technologies, if Exchange or SharePoint is not part of skillset
  • God to have if with certification on the following
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • MS Windows Server
  • MS Exchange

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Health24.com | Exercise might make breast milk’s goodness even better

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  • Babies who receive a certain compound when breastfed are less likely to experience chronic illness later in life
  • This compound is called 3SL and is present in the milk of mothers who get enough exercise
  • If 3SL can be isolated, it could be included in infant formula or supplements to benefit babies 

Exercise is part of a healthy lifestyle, but a new study suggests it also increases the amount of a beneficial compound called 3SL in the breast milk of both humans and mice.

Based on that, researchers think that its benefits to babies could last for decades, potentially making them less likely to experience such chronic illnesses as obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease as they age.

“As long as they were given 3SL during their nursing period, they were protected as they aged,” said Kristin Stanford, who led the mouse portion of the study at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. “In the absence of any self-intervention, this has absolutely provided a really strong protective effect.”

Though past studies have shown the benefit of maternal exercise to offspring, this study begins to answer the question of why, Stanford said.

The more steps, the better

The human side of the research was led by Aline Andres at Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center and included 150 pregnant and postpartum women who used activity trackers to count their steps. The women then provided samples of breast milk, which researchers analysed.

Mothers whose trackers had recorded even a moderate number of steps showed a greater amount of 3SL in their breast milk, without considering exercise intensity. And more steps showed even greater levels of 3SL in the women.

Andrea Berardi was one of those women. The Ohio resident has always enjoyed exercise, running marathons and doing deep-stretch yoga classes, so continuing to stay active during pregnancy came naturally. Now the mom of a 6-month-old daughter, she joined the study right after her daughter was born.

Though Berardi initially thought she would breastfeed her daughter for six months, her goal now is one year. To think that what she’s doing now could enhance her daughter’s health for years to come is amazing, she said.

“So many people want to give their children the best step forward and do everything that’s best for them,” Berardi said. “Anything to help her bypass those major issues in her medical charts, that’s obviously a goal of mine.”

Improved glucose metabolism

Stanford was thrilled to see the human findings mirrored what her team saw in mice.

“It was really exciting for us to have them do the study in a totally different institution and see the same thing that we had seen in mice that they were seeing in humans,” said Stanford, who is an associate professor of physiology and cell biology at Ohio State’s Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute.

The research was published on 29 June in the journal Nature Metabolism and also included scientists from the University of California, San Diego, and the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

In mice, researchers found the offspring of those who exercised had reduced fat mass or body weight, as well as improved glucose metabolism, Stanford said. When other mouse pups were given the breast milk of the exercise-trained mice, they showed these same benefits.

“This showed that the milk is definitely an important factor in that,” Stanford said. “It was really enough to contribute to these overall metabolic effects.”

Even when the mouse pups were fed a high-fat diet later, they still had improved metabolism, cardiac function and body composition. The increased 3SL in breast milk for moms who were more active held true, even if the moms were overweight.

‘Breast milk is remarkable’

“It didn’t really matter what your starting BMI [body mass index] was or your starting body weight, as long as you were moving, we saw these effects,” Stanford said.

“If something as simple as increasing your steps per day while you’re pregnant can protect your child from some of these things or even have a minimal effect on how they develop in a positive way, I think that the implications for public health can be pretty dramatic,” Stanford added. But the study could not prove that exercise actually caused 3SL levels to rise.

Researchers also are examining whether they can isolate 3SL for potential future inclusion in infant formula or infant supplements.

Breast milk is remarkable, said Connie Diekman, a food nutrition consultant in St. Louis.

“The validation of this study is what we have long said, that breast is best,” Diekman said. “It is that foundation that it lays for the rest of life that is so vitally important and that we don’t fully understand.

“It appears even if a mom can do it for six weeks or two months, that infant gets a very significant benefit for the rest of their lives,” she added.

For mothers who may not be able to breastfeed or who choose not to, “you still can provide your infant a well-balanced, healthful eating plan,” Diekman said.

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News24.com | Some businesses won’t recover from Covid-19 travel crisis, says Kubayi-Ngubane

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Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane.

Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane.

  • SA’s tourism minister believes many businesses in the sector won’t survive the pandemic.
  • But Kubayi-Ngubane is confident gaps and opportunities will exist all along the tourism value chain.
  • The finance ministry’s June supplementary budget saw the department’s budget allocation drop.

The Covid-19 pandemic has created a crisis from which many tourism businesses will not recover, Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has said.

The minister replied to a written parliamentary question from ANC MP Ernest Thokozani Myeni, who wanted details on the future of start-up businesses within the tourism sector post Covid-19.

“Many will also be forced to scale back operations,” part of Kubayi-Ngubane’s reply read.

ALSO READ | Tourism sector warns of massive job losses if travel only reopens widely by September

She said, however, that global recovery benchmarks indicate that tourism is typically resilient in the face of pandemics and is able to rebound strongly.

“Widespread business failures coupled with a fast rebound could create supportive conditions for start-up businesses. Gaps and opportunities will exist all along the tourism value chain and it is important that entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs are supported in their efforts to capture these opportunities.

“It is for this reason that the recovery plan recommends the launching of an investment and market-entry facilitation programme to stimulate capital investment, sector transformation and product diversification,” she said.

Kubayi-Ngubane said, ultimately, the sector must work to attract investment through the recovery cycle in order to create sufficient supply capacity.

“…But also, to support the product diversification and unserved market needs that are likely to accompany renewed growth. Changing traveller preference and behaviours will also create new opportunities that may not previously have existed,” she said.

Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni’s June supplementary budget saw the Department of Tourism’s allocations drop as funds were redirected to more urgent budget items.

As News24 reported earlier this week, the Department of Tourism saw its allocation drop from R2.4 billion to R1.4 billion, as funds were redirected.

SA Tourism’s total revenue of R1.5 billion was revised downward to R438 million.

Since the national lockdown came into effect in late March, the tourism sector has been hit hard due to international and domestic travel restrictions.

Last week, DA MP Manny de Freitas slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “flip-flop” on tourism regulations after the Presidency backtracked on a decision to open hotels, guest houses and lodges for leisure purposes.

The Presidency seemingly confirmed the reopening of hotels and guest houses in a tweet, but it was later removed, stating it was incorrect.

A new tweet summarising a new set of regulations, which included the prohibition of leisure tourism, was posted.

De Freitas said: “The confusion by government has demonstrated it literally has no clue as to what it is doing, but it is also showing total disregard and disrespect for the tourism and hospitality sector”.

News24.com | SA Rugby hope world champions Springboks can play this year

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SA Rugby said on Friday they hope the world champions Springboks can play this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.

“SA Rugby continue to work with all stakeholders on the prospects of a return to play for the Springboks at some point this year,” a statement said.

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SA Rugby chief executive Jurie Roux will hold an online press conference on 21 July and is expected to release plans for domestic and international rugby.

There has been no rugby in the country since 14 March when the table-topping Sharks defeated the Stormers in round seven of Super Rugby.

Earlier on Friday, it was announced the country’s top eight professional teams – Bulls, Lions, Stormers, Sharks, Cheetahs, Kings, Pumas and Griquas – will resume non-contact training next week.

“Contact training will not be permitted for the moment but the players will be allowed back onto the field with a rugby ball and back into the gym – while observing strict protocols in both areas – which comes as a great relief to the sport,” Roux said.

Roux said various formats were being discussed for domestic competitions because it was unlikely that air corridors would be open soon enough to enable the teams to play in international competitions such as Super Rugby and PRO14.

He said all other rugby not involving the eight teams had been cancelled for the 2020 season.

The Springboks had to cancel three home Tests, two against Scotland and one against Georgia, this month due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

By Thursday, South Africa was the African country suffering most from the pandemic with 324 221 confirmed cases and 4 669 fatalities.

The other home fixtures for the Springboks, against Argentina, Australia and New Zealand in the Rugby Championship during August and September, have not been officially cancelled.

‘No chance’ 

However, an SA Rugby official told AFP there was “no chance of those matches going ahead given the seriousness of the health situation in the country”.

New Zealand has been suggested as the venue for a revamped tournament with Argentina, Australia and South Africa playing all their matches there.

Jacques Nienaber’s men are also scheduled to play November Tests in Italy, Ireland, France and Wales, but that tour may also be in doubt.

There have been reports the four European countries, plus England, Scotland, Fiji and Japan, are lining up a tournament during November.

The Springboks were originally scheduled to play 13 Tests this year, with the internationals seen as vital preparations ahead of hosting the British and Irish Lions next July and August.

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Our client based in the Northern Suburbs is looking for a passionate team player to come make a difference in this fast paced environment.  Be able to handle pressure and work to tight deadlines.

This established Company offer professional, A class offices.

You need to be professionally presented, well spoken, fully bilingual and have great Customer Service / Client relationship skills.  DealMaker experience preferred?

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  • Assist with the updating of spreadsheets
  • Ad-hoc bonds and administration duties

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Plant Engineer Gcc (electrical/mech)

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  • Employment Level : Senior Management
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  • Region : Kwazulu-Natal
  • Company : Sharon Nurock Recruitment cc

An opportunity has arisen at this global manufacturing concern for a Mechanical Engineering Manager. Reporting directly to the Divisional Head: Engineering and Projects, the successful candidate will have overall responsibility for the Engineering department within the PCR Plant.

Minimum Requirements:

  • B.Sc or S4 Technical Diploma (Mechanical and/or Electrical Government Certificate of Competency).
  • Electrical Engineers Certificate of Competency (GCC) is a must.
  • Minimum 5 to 8 years proven experience in a leadership position gained in a manufacturing environment is key to success.
  • Experience in the application of World Class Manufacturing techniques and a high degree of computer literacy is essential.

Responsibilities:

  • Direct and co-ordinate the Engineering activity of the Production Maintenance, Engineering Support and Project Engineering teams, as well as planning, directing and controlling plant improvement projects.
  • Analyse plant and equipment failures, initiating and following through action plan to reduce to a level insignificance and to implement the permanent fix.
  • Set and maintain Engineering standards and systems of the process plant and equipment.
  • Teach and coach the Engineering, Production and Support teams regarding Engineering and process matters.
  • Develop and implement Engineering and process technology, operating philosophies and practices to optimise product quality and eliminate waste through yield improvement and engineering machine availability.
  • Ensure that all engineering systems and standards are in place and audited.
  • Provide technical expertise and support for Engineering, Production and Product Technical departments.
  • Provision of effective engineering maintenance planning and maintenance information support activities.
  • Plan and control total plant Capex and departmental budgets.
  • Plan, organise and co-ordinate all activities regarding compliance to South African Law as regards the OHSA, Environmental and other applicable legislation.

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