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News24.com | Pule Mabe cleared of sexual harassment charges by ANC grievance panel – report
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe has been cleared of sexual harassment charges by the party’s grievance panel, City Press reported. He was accused by his former personal assistant of three instances of sexual harassment, but the panel was reportedly not impressed with her evidence.
News24 reported last year that Mabe had requested to be placed on leave pending the outcome of the internal investigation into the woman’s allegations. The woman apparently said Mabe treated her badly after she complained about his alleged advances, and that her salary was cut because of it. Mabe, in turn, said the complaint against him was motivated by the salary cut.
The woman has also laid charges against Mabe with the police. Eyewitness News (EWN) reported last year that the Hawks had taken notice of the case, although it had not been given to them at that stage.
The Sunday Times reported that Mabe said the woman’s “poor performance” had led him to start making inquiries about her qualifications. He reportedly discovered that she had allegedly lied about this on her CV and her salary was therefore cut.
The woman reportedly claimed that on one of the occasions when she was allegedly sexually harassed, Mabe entered her bed while she was asleep and got under the blankets, putting his legs on top of hers. Mabe denied this.
According to City Press, the panel, chaired by ANC national executive committee (NEC) members Thoko Didiza and Sdumo Dlamini, found that Mabe’s version had been corroborated by witnesses. The matter is reportedly expected to be challenged at the NEC’s meeting on Sunday, as the woman’s supporters feel the panel’s handling of the matter was unfair.
The panel has apparently recommended that the woman should be moved to a different department at Luthuli House, and that the ANC should adopt a sexual harassment policy. The panel also wants both parties to go for counselling, and has warned against the use of staff or managers’ rooms as meeting venues, as allegedly occurred with Mabe and the woman.
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News24.com | Mahumapelo wants ‘political solution’ to North West ANC’s problems – report
Ousted North West ANC chairperson Supra Mahumapelo wants a “political solution” to the impasse in the province, the Sunday Times reported. This follows two court victories by Mahumapelo, the last one ordering the ANC to immediately reinstate him.
A previous court victory ordered that the disbanded North West Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) should be reinstated. Complicating matters, however, is that the PEC’s term expired last week.
In August last year, following violent protests against Mahumapelo’s provincial government and the premier himself, the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) disbanded the PEC and removed Mahumapelo. North West premier Job Mokgoro was appointed as interim convener of the province, News24 reported.
On February 13, the North Gauteng High Court ruled in favour of Mahumapelo and four others, who wanted an urgent order reinstating the former chairperson, News24 reported.
Mahumapelo argued in court last year that the NEC acted unlawfully when it disbanded the PEC.
News24 revealed on Friday that a “rapid response team” put together by the NEC to deal with the North West problem will table four proposals for the NEC to consider. One of these is the proposal to establish a new task team made up of equal numbers of each pro-and-anti-Mahumapelo factions.
Another proposal is to allow the PEC to carry on but with 17 more members co-opted from the interim structure.
According to the Sunday Times, Mahumapelo and the members of his disbanded PEC had a meeting with ANC deputy secretary general Jesse Duarte, to ask for a political solution. They reportedly want the Provincial Task Team (PTT) put in place in the province to be disbanded, and for an interim structure to be put in place that would comprise 15 members from either faction.
No decisions were apparently taken at the meeting but the issue will reportedly be discussed at a meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee on Sunday.
Mahumapelo was conspicuously absent from the North West state of the province last week, despite his court victory, according to IOL. This was reportedly despite the fact that all former premiers were invited to the event.
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If you do not fit the specification with the minimum requirements your application will not be accepted for this position. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete an Assessment or Test to demonstrate your knowledge of this position.
Requirements:
- Matric Certificate
- Two to Five years relevant experience in the security industry
- Two to Five years stores or warehouse experience.
- Strong customer service background and experience.
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- Providing counter sales and customer support
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- Petty cash control and banking
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Applicants must reside in Pietermaritzburg or surrounding area.
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Sport24.co.za | Faf: We don’t have a problem with pressure
Durban – It will go down as the most calamitous collapse in Proteas Test history, and while Sri Lankan hero Kusal Perera deserves all of the credit after one of the game’s great knocks, South Africa will take a while to get over this one.
As stunned skipper Faf du Plessis said in the immediate aftermath of the game, the reasons for what went wrong in that final hour and a half will take a day or two to sink in.
The undefeated 78-run stand between Perera and Vishwa Fernando is the highest 10th-wicket partnership to have ever been recorded in a successful Test match run chase.
Nothing the Proteas did worked.
Even when Sri Lanka were still 80 runs out, Du Plessis employed an ultra-defensive field against Perera. At some stages, there were eight South Africans on the fence to Sri Lanka’s new main man.
The plan, of course, was to restrict Perera’s scoring as much as possible while the Proteas wanted to bowl as many balls to the tail as possible.
Perera, though, felt no pressure with the field back and he worked his twos, hit his boundaries and took the singles at the most inconvenient times for the hosts.
South Africa simply didn’t bowl enough balls at the tail, and while that may have been down to some questionable tactics, it was mostly down to Perera’s brilliance.
Even when the Proteas did get their chance to bowl at Fernando, who was clearly uncomfortable, they could not get the job done.
Dale Steyn was too short, Kagiso Rabada could not hit the stumps with his yorkers and it all unravelled for Du Plessis and his men.
Perera hit 5 sixes in his knock, but the two he hit off back-to-back Steyn overs were the most memorable.
Steyn, one of the great fast bowlers of all time, was dispatched over square leg and deep into the stands with a brand-new Kookaburra in his hands.
By then, Du Plessis and the Proteas knew that they were on the verge of a loss that would raise serious questions.
This is a World Cup year and watching Steyn and the Proteas wilt under pressure will ring the alarm bells.
South Africa’s inability to rise to the occasion when the heat is turned up is well-documented in World Cups, and while this is obviously a different format entirely, the likes of Steyn, Rabada and Du Plessis will be key figures in South Africa’s charge in England later in the year.
And, when the pressure was at its highest on Saturday, South Africa’s old demons started rearing their heads once more.
Nobody at the post-match press conference on Saturday used the word ‘choke’, but it did not take long before Du Plessis was asked about the World Cup concerns that arise from losing a match from such a dominant winning position.
“I don’t see that. The pressure of Test cricket is very different,” the skipper said.
“You’re bowling to one player the whole time and some days you just have to say, ‘well played’.
“It wasn’t through our mistakes where we dropped catches and things like that. It was purely a super-human effort with the bat and when that happens in Test, T20 or ODI cricket then that’s got nothing to do with us and pressure. It’s got to do with how someone else plays.
“There have been no chats about World Cups since the Test team got together.”
Undefeated in a home Test series since taking the captaincy in 2016, Du Plessis was clearly distraught at the result.
Not only was Saturday the lowest point of his time as skipper, but the result means that South Africa cannot win this Test series with only next week’s Port Elizabeth affair to come.
With Du Plessis desperate to take the Proteas back to No 1 in the world, failure to beat Sri Lanka on home soil will do nothing for the Proteas in that endeavour.
The second and final Test gets underway on Thursday.
Health24.com | Hunting, harvesting leave big animals at risk of extinction
Humankind may be eating hundreds of species of large wild animals into extinction, a new study says.
Researchers looked at nearly 300 species of large animals (megafauna) – defined as mammals and fish weighing 220 pounds (99.7kg) or more, and amphibians, birds and reptiles weighing at least 88 pounds (39,9kg).
An important conservation tactic
The investigators found that 70% (200) of the species are in decline, and 59% (more than 150 species) face extinction. People’s use of them for food or medicine is a major reason.
“Direct harvest for human consumption of meat or body parts is the biggest danger to nearly all of the large species with threat data available,” said study corresponding author William Ripple. He’s a professor of ecology at Oregon State University College of Forestry.
“Thus, minimising the direct killing of these vertebrate animals is an important conservation tactic that might save many of these iconic species as well as all of the contributions they make to their ecosystems,” Ripple said in a university news release.
These large species are under greater threat and have a higher percentage of decreasing populations than all other vertebrate species combined, Ripple said.
As humans’ ability to kill wildlife at a safe distance improved over the past 500 years, 2% of large animal species have gone extinct. That compares to 0.8% of all sizes of vertebrates going extinct, according to the study.
Snares and traps
“Our results suggest we’re in the process of eating megafauna to extinction,” Ripple said.
The use of various animal parts in Asian traditional medicine is also taking a heavy toll on the largest species.
“In the future,” Ripple warned, “70% will experience further population declines and 60% of the species could become extinct or very rare.”
In the past 250 years, nine large animal species have either gone extinct overall or disappeared from their natural habitats. That includes two species each of deer and giant tortoise (one of which went extinct in 2012).
“In addition to intentional harvesting, a lot of land animals get accidentally caught in snares and traps, and the same is true of gill nets, trawls and longlines in aquatic systems,” Ripple said.
The last of the Earth’s megafauna
“And there’s also habitat degradation to contend with. When taken together, these threats can have major negative cumulative effects on vertebrate species,” he stressed.
Preserving the large animals that remain will be complicated, with economic arguments against it as well as cultural and social obstacles, Ripple said.
“But if we don’t consider, critique and adjust our behaviours,” he concluded, “our heightened abilities as hunters may lead us to consume much of the last of the Earth’s megafauna.”
The study was published in the journal Conservation Letters.
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Experience: 2 – 5 Years’ experience in Business Analysis
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Job Description: Intermediate Business Analyst
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Requirements:
IT related Degree/Diploma.
BACA Level 3 Competency
Agile BA Practitioner Certification
IIBA Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA)
2 – 5 Years’ experience in Business Analysis
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