Publish Date: 2019-09-06
Category: Assets and Liabilities
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
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Link full article: August 2019
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Information notice on the official gold and foreign exchange reserves of the South African Reserve Bank as at 31 August 2019
Publish Date: 2019-09-06
Category: Information Notice
Author: Financial Markets
This notice provides detail of the US dollar equivalent of the level of the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) official gold and foreign exchange reserves, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and foreign currency deposits received from customers published today in the SARB’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31 August 2019.
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Why Weight-Loss Surgery Is Not the ‘Easy Way Out’
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3 Strength-Building Moves That Will Help You Run Even Better
Regardless of whether you're gearing up for your first road race or simply want to be more fit, these moves from Scott Carvin, coach at the Mile High Run Club, work the muscles that keep you balanced and strong as you run. Grab a pair of 5-lb. dumbbells and a bench (stairs or a Bosu are good stand-ins), and try this simple strength-building routine at home or the gym.
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Step Up
What it does: Strengthens glutes and hamstrings to help push off smoothly with each step.
Place your left foot on a bench or step that puts your knee at 90 degrees. Hold a pair of 5-lb. dumbbells at your sides. Keeping shoulders and hips aligned, lift right foot onto the bench, then slowly step back to the floor. Do three sets of 10 reps per side.
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Single-Arm Row
What it does: Builds strong back muscles to keep your torso stable as you run.
Place left knee on a flat bench and left hand on bench directly under shoulder. Hold 5-lb. dumbbell with right arm, extending it straight down, palm facing bench. Keeping abs engaged, head in line with spine, and elbow straight back, lift right elbow toward your ribs. Lower arm. Do three sets of 10 reps per side.
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Squat
What it does: Develops a stronger butt and thighs to move faster and protect knees and hips.
Stand with feet hip-distance apart, arms crossed in front of you, elbows out. Keeping your weight over your heels, bend knees to about 90 degrees, as if sitting back into a chair. Hold one count, then return to start, squeezing glutes as you stand up. Do three sets of 10 reps.
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Assistant F&b Manager – The Bay Hotel
The in-house restaurant for The Bay Hotel in Camps Bay, is seeking someone energetic and organised who thrives in a friendly atmosphere, with a well-established team, and loyal customer base. If you think you can while motivate and manage a restaurant team to deliver excellent food and impeccable customer service then we want to hear from you.
CANDIDATE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education:
- Grade 12 or equivalent
- Accommodation Certificate/ Hotel School diploma is advantageous
Work experience:
- Previous experience in the same or similar position in a 4/5 star hotel
- Familiar with all duties and procedures in a restaurant Environment
- MS Office (Word, Excel and Email) is essential
- Opera experience is advantageous
- Must have Micros experience or an equivalent modern POS system admin operation
Other:
- Reliable, responsible and dependable to fulfil obligations
- Admin Orientated
- Able to Manage and Control all systems and procedures Proactive
- Excellent management techniques
- Attention to detail
- Willingness to lead, take charge and offer direction
- Ability to multitask
- Show initiative by taking control of task
- Excellent communication skills
- Friendly and service orientated
- Tasks (include but not limited to):
- Ensure service levels are maintained and sustained
- Ensure quality and concepts are implemented and maintained
- Ensure stock control system is in place
- Operate and present according to the guidelines of the Food and Beverage Custodian
- Producing management reports as required
- Be familiar with guest staying at the hotel
- Upsell F&B, accommodation and tourism services
- Inform guests of current specials
- Schedule staff hours and assign duties for staff.
- Establish standards for personnel performance and customer service.
- Maintain dress code standards
- Conduct performance appraisals
- Implementation of the SOP’s.
- Progressive discipline in conjunction with HR
- Ensure quality and concepts are implemented and maintained
- Ensure stock control system is in place
- Operate and present according to the guidelines of the Food and Beverage Custodian
- Producing management reports as required
- Be familiar with guest staying at the hotel
- Upsell F&B, accommodation and tourism services
- Inform guests of current specials
- Schedule staff hours and assign duties for staff.
- Establish standards for personnel performance and customer service.
- Maintain dress code standards
- Conduct performance appraisals
- Implementation of the SOP’s.
- Progressive discipline in conjunction with HR
To apply for the position, please forward a motivational letter, an updated CV with a picture of yourself to consultant@careercustodians.com
**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
Quality Engineer
Requirements
? Matric
? Engineering Diploma and or equivalent qualification
? Three years’ experience in the quality field
? Detailed knowledge of quality systems, statistical methods and principles of quality control.
Brief Description of Duties and Responsibilities
? Identify customer requirements and translate them into process and product specifications.
? Control and analysis of customer complaints.
? Develop measuring systems and tools to evaluate performance characteristics.
? Develop action plans for realization of improvement projects.
? Compile and control quality related statistics.
? Evaluating the ongoing performance of processes and products to meeting customer requirements.
? Perform advanced quality planning.
? Maintaining control over measuring and test equipment.
Head Of Marketing
Our client, based in the UK, is currently looking to employ a Head of Marketing who will based in their Somerset East (Eastern Cape) office.
This is the senior marketing position at the company forms part of the leadership team.
Awesome global career opportunity awaits!
Responsibilities include:
- Working with Success and Sales teams to understand the needs of the customers
- Developing an overall marketing strategy
- Setting direction and goals for the marketing team as a whole and with individual contributors
- Managing third party suppliers
- Managing the marketing budget
- Delivering on the marketing plan
Qualifications/ Experience/ Skills:
- Project management across multiple projects
- A firm grasp of good copywriting for advertising and content
- Analytical skills including data analysis
- Adwords management
- Budget management
- Experience
- An experimental / Growth Hacker approach to designing marketing campaigns
- 5+ years managing a marketing team
- A tertiary digital marketing qualification
To apply for this vacancy please access this job advert on a desktop computer.
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Pro1800304616 Senior Functional Analyst
Knowledge and Experience
• Bachelors in IT, Pc or related field
• Configuration experience and knowledge of key integration point between Business knowledge & process design skills
Role Description
• Facilitates the implementation and support of modules to enhance business functionality and overall performance of the application, while maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction
• Performs design, configuration and testing activities in various modules of the application with respect to new or existing functionality
• Analyses the current business processes and scenarios and recommends/develops solutions to meet the clients nee
• Responsible for the successful implementation of solutions or upgrades by providing functional expertise, guidance, presentation, and instruction on products to client
• Carries out complex or novel assignments requiring the development of new or improved procedures including upgrades/changes from the vendor
• Develops and evaluates plans and criteria to be carried out by others; provides direction and leadership
• Provides detailed knowledge of industry best practices through experience, research and development
• Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions
• Manages and participates in implementations
• Acts as liaison with clients and vendors for troubleshooting: investigate, analyse and solve software problems and map client business requirements, processes and objectives; develop necessary product modifications to satisfy client’s needs
• Maintains a thorough knowledge of the organization and adheres to all organizational standards
• Responsible for ensuring that the application version is current and relevant Interprets technical manuals and documentation and provides instruction manuals for non-technical users; provides training in all modes of usage of systems, products and services providing information on the full range of capabilities including dealing with exception conditions
• Understand the application and database environment in order to perform the necessary data extracts/enquiries
• Understands the integration of the application within the organization, at a moderate level
Additional Requirements
• Specialised experience across Oracle Finance modules required: Procurement, Payables, Payments, Property, iExpenses, Fixed Assets, E-Business Tax, iSupplier and SLM
• Must pay attention to detail, data-orientated and knowledgeable on best practice
Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks
Senior General Fast Food Restaurant Manager
Responsibilities
A very popular Fast Food brand is looking for a Senior Fast Food Restaurant Manager for their store in the Bloemfontein area
- Responsible for overall Restaurant Management
- Effective deployment of labour, assets and manage production costs
- Meet and exceeding of customer expectations
- Develop and train staff, as well as recognize and reward superior performance
- Monitoring of food, packaging and labour costs so as to meet established targets
- Ensure that all restaurant resources and equipment are at the correct levels to meet the different volumes of business
- Ensure correct cash handling and restaurant banking procedures are maintained
- Ensure correct level of supplies are ordered, deliveries are checked and that stock levels are monitored on a daily and weekly basis
- Perform daily, weekly and monthly stock check
- Assist with IT problems experienced with Micros/GAAP POS
- Prepare weekly labour schedules in advance to ensure all shifts are properly staffed
- Ensure that all new staff receive a comprehensive induction and are correctly trained
- Coach and support all staff and ensure that they are fully trained and on job training is effective
- Provide development for staff and to ensure that succession planning is carried out
- Ensure that Policies and Procedures are followed to minimize employee relations issues within the restaurant
- Complete recruitment and termination payroll change documentation
- Coordinate, hold and record monthly staff meetings
- Ensure that all daily, weekly and monthly administration is completed accurately
- Ensure that standards are in accordance with HACCP
- Local Store Marketing activities as authorized by the Regional Manager
- Monitor local competitor activity and any local activities that might affect the volume of business
- Implementation of in-store promotions ensuring that all staff is fully briefed in advance of promotions
- Administer progressive discipline as needed
Requirements
- Grade 12 / Matric
- 4 – 5 years Senior Fast Food Restaurant Manager experience preferably:- KFC, Hungry Lion, Chicken Licken or similar Fast Food store experience
- Micros/GAAP POS – 4 years’ experience
- MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook/e-mail)
- Salary is dependent on skill set and operational experience
- SA Citizens only
News24.com | SABC apologises to Ramaphosa for pre-recorded address blunder
The SABC has apologised to President Cyril Ramaphosa for flighting a pre-recorded message that included a re-take of his address to the nation on Thursday evening.
While doing a first take on his address, read from a teleprompter at the SABC’s parliamentary studios, Ramaphosa starts his address, but a couple of seconds in, makes a mistake which he flags by saying: “Let’s start again. I made a mistake.”
The version was evidently not meant to be aired, but somehow landed on viewers’ screens.
Ramaphosa’s address focused on the current violence-against-women protests and xenophobia in parts of the country.
“The public broadcaster wishes to apologise to the president of the republic and the nation for any embarrassment caused in this unfortunate breach of the news production process,” SABC spokesperson Vuyo Mthembu said in a statement.
“The SABC takes this issue seriously and can assure the president and the public that due process will be followed and appropriate action taken.”
South Africans have had mixed reactions about the blunder on social media.
A round-up of some of the responses:
