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News Editor (Durban)

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Remuneration: negotiable Cost to company 
Benefits: Medical Aid, Retirement Fund, Cellphone Allowance, Car Allowance, Funeral Policy
Location: Durban
Education level: Degree
Job level: Mid/Senior
Own transport required: Yes
Travel requirement: Occasional
Job policy: Employment Equity position
Type: Permanent
Reference: #News Editor – MERC
Company: Independent Media (Pty) Ltd

Job description

The Mercury has an exciting and challenging vacancy for a News Editor. The successful incumbent will be responsible for the planning and strategising of content and includes managing a team of staff in the delivery of content for use across multi platforms, multi media and across verticals (print & digital).

The successful incumbent will be responsible for:

  • Identifying, planning and driving content for the group
  • Recommending strategies aimed at growing our online audience, presence and reputation
  • Achieving and maintaining quality of all content
  • Meet the deadline demands across various streams
  • Managing a team of staff
  • The quality, look and design across all titles and platforms within the group
  • Establish a superior network of contacts
  • Diary Planning
  • Managing the Newsroom
  • Developing staff
  • Project a positive image of the title
  • And any other functions as an when required

Minimum Requirements:

  • Must have tertiary qualification in journalism or equivalent experience
  • Must have at least 8 years extensive senior journalistic experience in a newsroom environment of which 4 years must be that of managing & leading a team of newsroom staff.
  • Have a sharp news sense with good general knowledge
  • A thorough understanding of issues affecting Durban, KZN & SA
  • The ability to make critical and valid news judgments
  • Must have a good knowledge of the legalities affecting journalism
  • Must be computer literate in MS Office, One View & Baobab
  • Must be able to rewrite copy
  • Must have a valid driver’s licence with own transport

Requirements

  • The ability to cope with the constant pressure of strict deadlines
  • The ability to generate ideas and to be innovative
  • An excellent command of English
  • Leadership, coaching and mentoring skills
  • Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
  • Be willing and flexible to work long, irregular and unpredictable hours
  • Planning and organisational skills

Posted on 10 Mar 09:43

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Front-End Java Developers (Johannesburg)

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Remuneration: R700000 – R720000 per year 
Location: Johannesburg, Sandton
Education level: Degree
Type: Permanent
Reference: #ZH48291
Company: E-Merge IT Recruiment

Job description

We looking for the best of the best! Intermediate front-end Java developers to be involved in a heavily invested platform that has exclusive rights to a suite of infrastructure and terminal fleet management solutions that provide to the financial landscape market. If you a developer that wants to be developing end – to end solutions in Java and Native JavaScript, with a flair for the creative… with the UX/UI space then send your CV today!

The reference number for this position is ZH48291. It’s a permanent position based in Sandton, Illovo offering a salary of up to R720,000 per annum cost to company, negotiable based on experience, education and skill. Contact Zara on

az.oc.egrem-e@haraZ

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

Are you ready for a change of scenery? E-Merge IT Recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the E-Merge website for more great positions.

Do you have a friend who is a developer or technology specialist? We pay cash for successful referrals: https://www.e-merge.co.za/careers/referralprogramme/

Requirements

Requirements

  • Three to five years of front-end development experience required
  • Thorough knowledge within front-end web technologies
  • Experience with Angular and Vue.js framework
  • Native JavaScript experience beneficial
  • Bootstrap Frontend framework experience beneficial
  • User Interface (UI) design experience highly beneficial
  • User Experience (UX) design experience highly beneficial
  • Source control experience specifically Git highly beneficial
  • Experience in full software development lifecycle

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Sport24.co.za | ‘Colour card’ blamed for Loftus jersey confusion

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2020-03-10 09:21

Sanzaar, the southern hemisphere’s rugby governing body, says it hopes that the jersey confusion which occurred in the Bulls v Highlanders game can be avoided in future.

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There was chaos in first half of the encounter at Loftus Versfeld last Saturday when both teams ran out with similar-looking jerseys.

The Bulls wore their regular blue kit, while the Highlanders’ sea-green colour made it difficult to distinguish between the teams.

The Bulls, who trailed 10-5 at half-time, then changed into a yellow and white strip before running out 38-13 victors.

Greg Thomas, a spokesperson for Sanzaar, told Netwerk24 that they were happy that the issue was sorted out at half-time and that the governing body would take note of what transpired.

Sanzaar is responsible for approving teams’ jerseys and a “colour card” is made of all the matches. However, Thomas said on the colour card it looked as though there was enough of a contrast between the two jerseys.

The governing body did not indicate whose responsibility it was to intervene prior to the match.

Meanwhile, Blue Bulls Company CEO Alfons Meyer said he was surprised that Sanzaar approved the jerseys.

“You could see in the first half some of the players were struggling with it. Luckily we had the yellow jerseys on hand at Loftus,” Meyer told the Afrikaans publication.

Meyer added that the yellow and white kit was originally designed for their away match against the Waratahs on March 21.

The Bulls boss continued: “This year we didn’t want to make a home and away kit, as well as a Captain America jersey. Before the competition started we asked the Waratahs if they would consider playing in their white jerseys when we tour there but they refused.

“The plan was for the yellow jersey to be an exclusive one with only 1 000 produced, but now it looks like there won’t be a supporters’ jersey. They team will wear the (yellow and white) jersey against the Waratahs and there may only be about 30 of it (produced).”

The Bulls start their Australasian tour this weekend against the Reds in Brisbane (March 14), before facing the Waratahs (Tamworth, New South Wales, March 21), Hurricanes (Wellington, March 27) and Chiefs (Hamilton, April 4).

Bulls touring squad:

Trevor Nyakane, Jaco Visagie, Lizo Gqoboka, Muller Uys, Josh Strauss, Marco van Staden, Ruan Nortje, Ian Groenewald, Corniel Els, Gerhard Steenekamp, Wiehahn Herbst, Ryno Pieterse, Ruan Steenkamp, Dayan van der Westhuizen, Louis van der Westhuizen, Embrose Papier, Manie Libbok, Rosko Specman, Johnny Kotze, Franco Naude, Cornal Hendricks, Warrick Gelant, Ivan van Zyl, Morne Steyn, Divan Rossouw, Marco Jansen van Vuren, Burger Odendaal

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Short-term Insurance Broker

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Are you a qualified short-term Insurance Broker who is passionate about service and maintaining and growing client relationships? Our client is looking for a vibrant go-getter to use their sales and marketing experience to join their A+ team with their exceptionally high service standards that they offer.

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Matric with relevant qualification

60 FAIS credits/Full Insurance Qualifications (depending on Dofa)

Min 2 years sales experience in commercial short-term insurance

Proven sales track record

Previous experience working within Short-Term Brokerage ESSENTIAL

Confident individual with excellent people communication skills

Focused customer service and a good team player

Empathy and integrity qualities essential for dealing with clients

A self-starter who can work successfully unsupervised

Clear Criminal record

Valid drivers license

Own transport

DUTIES

Sales and Marketing in order maintain top service with existing portfolio of clients

Selling of short-term insurance to SME companies

Prospecting to grow customer base and introduce their high standard of service

Attention to detail with all correspondence completed accurately

Extensive telephonic client liaison

Working to exceed targets and deadlines

Weekly and Monthly reports

Keeping abreast of opposition products

Constant awareness of business opportunities to extend customer liaison

Networking in all areas for business contacts

Providing feedback to line management when requested.

Attending all weekly and adhoc team meetings.

Working closely with internal stakeholders that is, underwriting/actuarial, claims as well as surveying.

Salary:    Dependent on experience

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SAP Authorisations/DevOps Engineer (Johannesburg)

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Recruit Digital; leading recruitment agency for the Digital, Media, IT & Advertising sectors in South Africa.

Covering both Cape Town and JHB roles, Recruit Digital provides staff for Media firms, Digital Agencies, Corporates, Startups, E-commerce retailers, and all other Internet related businesses.

Recruit Digital fills vacancies within Client Services, Creative & Design, Development & Technology, Sales, Copy-writing, Social Media, SEO, Planning & Strategy, Marketing, Senior Management & Executive positions.

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News24.com | ‘I wash my hands like a mad man’ – life in a coronavirus quarantine

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This South African has been quarantined for weeks. He does not mind spending time alone, but these days he finds himself more and more puzzled by people, their habits, and strangely their attitude towards pens. This is part two of our series of first-hand accounts.

We queue for food in three long lines every morning, noon and night. There is one line for each block of student flats. The queues snake from one small rectangular table manned by masked men the university employs to bring us food.

We were warned to keep our distance from the food delivery guys and each other, but it is still too close for my liking. 

You need to have your temperature taken before you can get your food. It is one of those thermometers they use at the airports. Sometimes there is no one manning the scanner, and then you must take your own temperature.

ALSO READ | ‘The girl who cracked’: Quarantine chronicles of a South African student in Wuhan

I hope I have been doing it right. 

If your temperature is too high, they scan you a few times to make sure you have a fever before they take you to the hospital.

Then, there is the pen. Everyone must sign next to their name, and to write down their temperature. 

I see everyone else is relaxed about this pen. Don’t they think about how many people touch it every day? Must be hundreds. 

Everyone signs their name with that pen like it’s nothing. Most days I can’t get back to my room quick enough to scrub my hands.

We haven’t been given any hand sanitiser, so I made my own. As soon as I get back to my room, I scrub my hands like a mad man. Even the holder that the food comes in. 

“Yoh, bra, you’re going crazy,” one of my Moroccan friends said in a text message the other day. 

Someone was taken away at breakfast the other day. I had just returned to my room to eat that same old meal when I heard it happening. 

That guy could have been behind me in the queue. Did he use the pen to write down his name, I wondered? 

Extra careful

I’ve been watching people. And I’ve noticed something. When people are around strangers, they are extra careful. They keep their masks* that the Chinese government issued on and keep their distance. 

But when they are around friends, they are not even that phased about masks. 

Where do these people come from? It’s like they think the virus looks at them and thinks: “Oh no, these people are friends, let me leave them alone.” 

*An ordinary mask, such as those bought from pharmacies, won’t protect you from getting infected with Covis-19. Masks do, however, help prevent people, who are infected with the virus, from spreading it to others. Read more here. 

This entry is part of a series of first-hand accounts from inside the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak called “Quarantine Chronicles“. Joan van Dyk compiled this first-hand account from an extensive telephonic interview with a South African in China who spoke on condition of anonymity. It was dubbed “Student from Wuhan“.

This story was produced by the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. Subscribe to the newsletter.

Dc Fleet Facilities And Asset Manager

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DC Fleet Facilities and Asset Manager.
Johannesburg. Duties Include: Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Company’s own as well as any leased buildings and assets including plant, fleet and materials handling equipment and accessories related under following key performance areas.
Daily inspections of physical buildings, assets or equipment.
Asset management and equipment uptime
Breakdown and accident response as well as reporting.
Ensuring that everything is actioned accordingly to regulation and Quality standards.
Coordination of repairs of breakdowns, accidents, damages and defects as reported or otherwise required.
Responsible for Ad Hoc vehicle and driver management.
Responsible for Fuel Management, Quality Standards as well as cost control.
Routine servicing and maintenance of physical assets or equipment per manufactures specifications
Routine servicing and certification of physical assets or equipment per regulatory requirements.
Responsible to ensure equipment resourced according to operations planning.
To cultivate and maintain strategic third-party supplier relationships and service level agreements
Responsible to ensure that quality standards are consistently maintained in accordance with manufacturer recommendations and company policies. brandanc@mpc.co.za

Section Manager

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Great opportunity exists with a manufacturing giant offering career growth and excellent package. Key responsibilities will include: Provide an effective boiler making maintenance and breakdown service to an agreed standard Ensure the plant responsible for is maintained in a safe and reliable condition and operates as designed. Managing a continuous improvement in performance. Leadership to ensure people productivity and availability to attain production requirements Plant availability and reliability Maintaining of safety, health, environmental and legal standards. Budget planning and control People Management. Planning, prioritising and coordination. The ideal candidate should meet the following requirements: N6 Mechanical Diploma and /or equivalent (S4 Diploma, B Tech, BSc – Mechanical Engineering) 5 years heavy industrial experience with relevant supervisory duties. Management training CORE, BMS, FMP Code EB Licence Computer Literate. SAP PM, Work Management Technical Report Writing Financial Management. Professionalism, Energetic, Effectiveness under pressure, Quality orientation, Planning and organising, Leadership, Interpersonal skills. South African Citizens only. Due to the volumes of applications received – correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. If you have not received a response within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful. multitechstaffing22@gmail.com

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Health24.com | Trying to get over a breakup? Social media will only make it worse – even if you block or unfollow your ex

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Getting over a breakup doesn’t happen overnight, but staying connected to social media is not going to bring you closer to the peace and healing you’re seeking. That’s according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder that explored how breaking up is tougher to do in the online age.

“Before social media, breakups still sucked, but it was much easier to get distance from the person,” said Anthony Pinter, a doctoral student in the information science department and lead author of the study.

“It can make it almost impossible to move on if you are constantly being bombarded with reminders in different places online.”

Think about it. You forgot to unfriend your ex, and wake up to them posting they’re “in a new relationship”. Or, perhaps you see his sister under the platform’s “People You May Know” whimsical feature. It could feel like there’s no escaping. 

And when Facebook launches a timeline memory of the two of you enjoying a date night (that you’ll now always remember)? That timeline exploding into little highlights of happy moments in your relationship certainly won’t help you to let go of the past.

No escape

Participants who had experienced an upsetting encounter online involving a breakup within the past 18 months were recruited and interviewed for over an hour.

Among 19 participants who underwent in-depth interviews, it was found that even when they took every step to remove their exes from their online lives, social media reminded them – several times a day – putting them in an emotional tailspin. Not fun, especially once you’ve started to come to terms with the fact that the relationship is over and started to heal from the pain of the breakup.

And in even more dispiriting news: “A lot of people make the assumption that they can just unfriend their ex or unfollow them and they are not going to have to deal with this anymore,” said Pinter. In fact, their research shows quite the opposite. 

News Feed is ‘the devil’

If you’re on Facebook then you will be familiar with News Feed, the primary interface that opens when one launches Facebook. This interface, respondents said, is a major source of distress, as it delivers news of ex-lovers, like announcing that they’re in a new relationship.

In the case of one participant, his social media profile worked against him during his breakup when he noticed his roommate had already “liked” his ex’s post announcing their new relationship, saying that he was the last to know about it.

Seeing their exes leaving comments in shared spaces, such as groups or mutual friends’ pictures, was also a common complaint by participants.

“In real life, you get to decide who gets the cat and who gets the couch, but online it’s a lot harder to determine who gets this picture or who gets this group,” said Pinter.

But, wait, what about Facebook’s 2015 ‘Take A Break’ feature that promised to stop reminding you about your unwelcome memories? 

Well, that feature only works if Facebook knew you were in a relationship. When you switch to “single”, you’re then asked if you want activities that are linked to your ex to be hidden. But if you don’t use the Relationship Status tool, those reminders will keep coming.

“Am I never going to be free of all this crap online?” asked one exasperated participant.

All this distress seems justified to the research team conducting the study, aimed at identifying and offering solutions for “algorithmic insensitivity”.

Simply put, the authors would like such unpleasant encounters be minimised, and platform designers pay more attention to the “social periphery” – all those people, groups, photos and events that spring up around a connection between two users.

Their research stems from a larger National Science Foundation grant award called Humanizing Algorithms.

“The algorithms are really good at seeing patterns in clicks, likes and when things are posted, but there is a whole lot of nuance in how we interact with people socially that they haven’t been designed to pick up,” said Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker at UCB and researcher of the study, Jed Brubaker.

Healing rationally

Life can be unimaginable without social media, but if you truly want to rid your online life from reminders of a break up, the researchers recommend unfriending or blocking, and untagging your ex in all photos and videos. The Take a Break feature might work, but remember that it may not be foolproof.

Your best bet? “Take a break from social media for a while until you are in a better place,” said Pinter.

If you aren’t feeling like you’re floating in inner peace, then for the process of acceptance, forgiveness and moving on to happen, we agree with Pinter – getting off social media entirely will help you to cleanse your life of any negative energy. This doesn’t mean you have to hole up in your home.

Instead, spend quality time with your loved ones, do some travelling if you have the means, and take charge of your life. Getting over the breakup isn’t going to happen overnight, but focusing on yourself and the things that bring you happiness is an effective way to get you through the situation.

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