An exciting career opportunity exists for a debtors clerk to start immediately in Durbanville, Cape Town to join South Africa’s leading property investors group and one of the fastest growing rental management companies.
Please note:
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:
Strong time management skills.
Deadline driven individual.
Firm and clear telephone voice.
Confidant and self-assured individual.
Ability to deal with people from all walks of life in a very firm but respectful manner.
Skills/duties:
Daily management and control of the current and future rental arrears book.
Making payment arrangements that are satisfactory to both Investor and Tenant.
Ensuring all payment arrangements and payment deadlines are honoured.
Issuing Letters of Demand to non-paying tenants.
Issuing Notice to vacate due to poor/non-payment.
Working closely with and handing accounts over to attorneys to proceed with evictions.
Daily/weekly feedback to Investors on rental collection progress.
Blacklisting tenants.
Able to speak, read and write English, Afrikaans and Xhosa (Ability to speak French would be a bonus).
Knowledge of Payprop and TPN advantageous.
Understanding the rental collection process.
Applicants must reside in Durbanville, Cape Town or surrounding area.
Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.
Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Posted on 21 Dec 08:55
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A meat processing establishment requires an FMCG management accountant in the Cullinan area.
Please note:
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:
CIMA or Bcom qualification essential
Six to eight years’ financial management experience
Six to eight years’ experience in a management accountant role within the FMCG industry
Financial analysis and reporting experience
Applicants must reside in Cullinan or surrounding area.
Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.
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 21 Dec 08:52
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The head of the police’s Crime Intelligence division, Lieutenant General Peter Jacobs, is facing a standoff within his unit, which is resulting in the freezing of operations as informer rewards are not being paid, rent payments for safe houses are being withheld and funds for operations are not being released.
A six-page grievance against Jacobs has been submitted to police management, authored by the suspended chief financial officer of Crime Intelligence, Brigadier Tiyani Hlungwani.
At the centre of the standoff is the criminal case involving Hlungwani, former Crime Intelligence head Major General Pat Mokushane and head of technical support, Brigadier Leonora Bamuza-Phetlhe.
In June this year, the three appeared in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on charges of corruption, fraud and money laundering. They were each released on bail of R5 000 and are due back in court next year.
It is alleged that Bamuza-Phetlhe was paid R50 000 from the secret service account for catering at a meeting which was approved by Mokushane. This was done after Hlungwani allegedly approached a colonel in the secret service to make payment into Bamuza-Phetlhe’s personal bank account.
However, it’s alleged that the actual payment made to a company for catering services was R5 000 and that the accused wanted the money for their own benefit.
Recently, while out on bail on the criminal charges, Phethle and Hlungwani were cleared in an internal disciplinary hearing. The officer that chaired the internal hearing criticised police management for their handling of the case against and it was suggested that they were charged because they blew the whistle on corruption related to the unit’s slush fund.
Phethle was acquitted of eight charges in a separate matter in November and was cleared by the Inspector General of Intelligence. However, she has another parallel disciplinary hearing.
Phethle returned to work but produced a sick note that booked her off work temporarily.
Withholding funds to sabotage Jacobs
According to several sources within Crime Intelligence management, Bamuza-Phethle and Hlungwani, supported by head of legal services Brigadier Dennis Chile, are behind the grievance against Jacobs.
As CFO, Hlungwani allegedly tightened his grip on the purse strings for Crime Intelligence and has withheld funds to pay informants, pay rent for safe houses and fund operations. The impact on crime fighting has been severe.
“It’s been very negative. One faction is fighting another and trying to rally the troops to their side. It’s been chaos and not much crime fighting is happening,” says one insider.
“Jacobs has done well since he has come in. He wants to end the looting.”
Brigadier Hlungwani confirmed that he submitted a grievance against Jacobs but would not comment further, saying he was not permitted to do so. Bamuza-Phethle said she was in not involved in the lodging of the grievance in any way.
Inside the grievance against Jacobs
Jacobs was appointed to head up Crime Intelligence in March this year, after a decade of scandal and instability there.
Under his authority, there have been a number of successes, including an intelligence-driven operation to arrest those responsible for the Verulam mosque attack. Cash-in-transit heists are down and the Anti-Gang Unit has been established.
News24 is in possession of the grievance. In it, Hlungwani complains about Jacobs’ “autocratic management style”, unfair discrimination, racism, perjury, defeating the ends of justice and maladministration.
“He does not allow or accommodate different views and opinions and he surrounds himself with individuals who just agree with him even if what he is saying is incorrect,” complains Hlungwani.
“He has created a parallel Finance Structure within SSA (State Security Agency) finance by bringing Colonel Mayekiso without consulting me or telling me the role that Colonel Mayekiso has come to play in SSA finance. Colonel Mayekiso at times signs documents on my behalf while I am available. Colonel Mayekiso doesn’t report to me and I do not know to whom he is reporting.”
Hlungwani alleges that Jacobs, a former MK soldier with a well-documented record of fighting the apartheid government, is racist.
“Lieutenant General Jacobs doesn’t like black people and he undermines them and unfairly discriminates against them. This is surprising for a person with struggle credentials, but I am of the view that he joined the struggle to emancipate only the oppressed minorities and not the oppressed majority indigenous people of this country… He vigorously pursues cases against black officials and turns a blind eye on cases where whites and Indians are involved.”
Hlungwani goes on to list a number of examples. These include that Jacobs apparently told a black colonel to hand back his official vehicle but did not issue similar instructions to white, Indian and coloured colonels. In addition, he apparently instituted an investigation into the same colonel to prevent him from being appointed and allegedly “undermines and belittles the Inspector General of Intelligence because of the colour of his skin”.
Jacobs is also accused of failing to take steps against senior managers and other employees who committed criminal offences, and of failing to report crimes in terms of the Corruption Act.
Hlungwani gave examples of how a major general and a lieutenant colonel used Secret Services account funds to book accommodation and submit fraudulent claims and used a safe house as their place of residence without authority at exorbitant rentals. Another colonel was apparently paid an amount of R160 000 for rentals of his own house after colluding with other officials to rent his house to Crime Intelligence as a safe house without disclosing the conflict of interest. He complained that the incidents were never reported for investigation.
In the grievance, Hlungwani suggests that a disciplinary investigation must be instituted against Jacobs and he must be charged for unfair discrimination and victimisation of black employees within the division. He also wants Jacobs to be held personally liable and investigated for maladministration.
Hlungwani suggests there needs to be an investigation into Jacobs’ fitness to hold the critical position of national head of Crime Intelligence and says a criminal probe must be instituted.
Hlungwani also wants five months’ compensation for the violation of his basic human rights.
Grievance shows members have avenues for “recourse”
The police have not officially confirmed that a grievance was lodged against Jacobs, but spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo said “the mere fact that a member is able to lodge a grievance against the head of a division, is a confirmation that members have avenues for recourse”.
He did not respond to detailed questions. Jacobs also did not respond to requests for comment.
“Given the sensitive nature of the work done by the environment your query is based on, I am not going to respond in detail to these matters as they are operational in nature. However, I think you are aware that the Crime Intelligence environment has been without a permanent head for up to seven years and it was an environment that was marred by one controversy after another during that period. Since the appointment of Lieutenant General Jacobs as the head of Crime Intelligence a few months ago, a turnaround strategy was adopted. We can confidently say that the Crime Intelligence environment is now operating with greater effect now than during the tumultuous period I have alluded to earlier,” said Naidoo.
One senior unit member described the situation as a “standoff”, saying “Hlungwani was daring Jacobs to take steps against him”. Another described the grievance as “all bullshit”.
Bamuza-Phetlhe “untouchable”
Bamuza-Phetlhe has a history of run-ins with her bosses at Crime Intelligence and with the law in general.
She was accused of fabricating the security clearance for the former acting head of Crime Intelligence, who was removed from the post in August last year. There were also questions about how R50 000 from the State Security Agency landed up in her bank account.
Last year, National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole faced a grilling about her when he appeared before Parliament’s portfolio committee.
MPs described Bamuza-Phetlhe as being “too powerful”.
“She even controls her seniors. She does as she wishes. She’s untouchable in fact. Why is she feared like that?” asked ANC MP Angelina Molebatsi. At the time, the national commissioner gave parliamentarians an undertaking that Bamuza-Phetlhe was being suspended and dealt with.
But in a telephonic interview with News24, Brigadier Bamuza-Phetlhe insisted she was not untouchable and was not part of any kind of cabal attempting to oust Jacobs. She said she and Hlungwani were not part of a faction.
“We speak the same language as each other and there are always people who you sit with when you eat lunch and people assume you are part of the same faction. We support one another but we just want to do our work,” insisted Phethle.
“No, not myself. I’m not in there. Even when we are sitting together, we are discussing work.”
She also doesn’t understand why she has been labelled untouchable and says she just wants to do her work, which is to fight crime.
“I am not untouchable but always stick to the truth. But I don’t mind being called that because that and all other name callings do not reduce me to nothing. I encourage General Jacobs to do his work with integrity and fairness and not listen to gossipers trying to derail him. I don’t know where that’s coming from. I don’t have time to entertain such things and I don’t care what they are calling me. As painful as it is for them to drag my name, I don’t care. Crime is so high because they are just wasting time in Parliament talking about Phethle when they should be fighting crime. The truth will always prevail.”
On 18 September 2018 the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the highest court in the country, decriminalised the private use and cultivation of marijuana.
The unanimous court ruling was met with approval and celebration by the South African public.
For all of those not partaking in the “joint” rotation and concerned about the “second-hand high”, rest assured that you’ll remain unaffected… kind of.
The effects of second-hand marijuana smoke have been a subject of investigation and research for years.
‘Hot-boxing’
One of the first studies to test its effects, conducted in 1985, put five non-smoking volunteers in a small car alongside five marijuana smoking volunteers. This practice is commonly referred to as “hot-boxing”, where marijuana is smoked inside a car with its doors closed and windows rolled up.
The study found that only a small amount of THC (the psychoactive element in marijuana, the compound responsible for the high) residue could be detected in the blood and urine of the non-smoking participants but not enough for them to experience a “high”.
Many other tests followed similar procedures in trying to determine whether a second-hand high was possible – and came to similar conclusions. The arguments against these studies, especially those conducted in the 20th century, is that marijuana is stronger now than it was 20 years ago.
According to an article by Business Insider, the cultivation of the plant has been refined to such an extent that the THC content in marijuana went from 4% in 1995 to 14% in 2014. So, if these studies were conducted today, would a second-hand high be possible?
Cecilia J Hillard, a pharmacology professor and director of the Neuroscience Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin, said in an interview with Business Insider, “The ‘contact high’ is purely a psychological phenomenon.” And that, “little residual THC is present in exhaled air”.
She goes on to state that while people “may experience runny noses or itchy eyes from the smoke”, the smoke won’t be enough to cause a “high”.
In an interview with Health24, Dr André Marais, clinical pharmacologist and senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, said, “The effects of second hand cannabis intake would, in my opinion, be similar to that of cigarette smoking or even inhaling smoke from a nice South African braai. You will basically inhale hydrocarbons and not necessarily the active ingredient THC.”
Unrealistic conditions
Recent studies, however, show that a contact high may be possible, but under unrealistic circumstances.
A 2015 study confined six marijuana smokers, each provided with 10 marijuana joints, and six non-smokers, in ventilated and unventilated areas. Researchers were able to detect the presence of THC in the blood and urine of the non-smoking participants, as well as minor physiological and psychomotor effects.
The study showed that the level of ventilation, the size of the smoking area, the frequency of marijuana consumption and the duration of exposure play a major role in the possibility of a second-hand high.
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Pretoria, 20 December 2018 – National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service have published the 11th annual edition of the Tax Statistics.
The 2018 edition provides an overview of tax revenue collections and tax return information for the 2014 to 2017 tax years, as well as the 2013/14 to 2017/18 fiscal years.
In 2017/18, for the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis, tax revenue growth did not exceed GDP growth. Key points in the 2018 edition are:
Tax revenue collected amounted to R1 216.5 billion, growing year-on-year by R72.4 billion (6.3%) mainly supported by Personal Income Tax, which grew by R37.0 billion (8.7%):
Personal Income Tax (PIT) at 38.1%, Corporate Income Tax (CIT) at 18.1% and Value-added Tax (VAT) at 24.5% in aggregate remain the largest sources of tax revenue and comprise about 80.7% of total tax revenue collections.
Despite tough economic conditions in which real and nominal GDP increased by a modest 1.3% and 7.0%[1] respectively, the Tax-to-GDP ratio decreased marginally from 25.9% in 2016/17 to 25.8% in 2017/18.
In Chapter 2: PIT, geographic and demographic analysis of the assessments of the taxpayers who had been assessed as at the end of June 2018 showed some interesting results:
2 678 743 (54.7%) of assessed taxpayers were male taxpayers; 2 219 822 (45.3%) were female.
1 331 419 (27.2%) of assessed taxpayers were aged 35 to 44 years; and
1 966 744 (40.1%) of assessed taxpayers were registered in Gauteng, of which 629 113 lived in the Johannesburg Metro and were taxed on an average taxable income of R446 838.
Statistics in Chapter 3 regarding CIT reveal that just over 24.2% of the 768 687 companies assessed as at 30 June 2018 for tax year 2016 had positive taxable income. A further 48.3% had taxable income equal to zero and the remaining 27.4% reported an assessed loss;
Net VAT collections totalled R298.0 billion and grew by R8.8 billion (3.1%) compared to the previous year. Domestic VAT, which amounted to R336.3 billion and grew by R14.8 billion (4.6%), was the key driver for the aggregate growth in net VAT. Import VAT collections totalled R152.8 billion and grew year-on-year by R3.5 billion (2.4%). VAT refunds totalled R191.1 billion and grew by R9.5 billion (5.2%).
Chapter 4 indicates that in 2017/18, 76% of active VAT vendors were companies or close corporations. They contributed 92.0% to Domestic VAT payments and accounted for 89.8% of VAT refunds. Although individuals (sole proprietors) comprised 18.4% of VAT vendors, they contributed 3.1% of Domestic VAT payments and received 1.5% of VAT refunds.
After experiencing a decline in collections in 2016/17, Import VAT and Customs Duties showed some recovery in 2017/18, as detailed in Chapter 5. They accounted for 12.6% and 4.0% of the year’s Total Tax Revenue respectively, resulting in a 16.6% aggregate, which was below the 18.3% average over the preceding five years. The share of these taxes to GDP also shrunk to 4.2% from the preceding five-year average of 4.6%, with Import VAT recording 3.2% and Customs Duties at 1.0% for 2017/18.
Import VAT from the top 3 contributing economic sectors made up 88.0% of the total, namely the Wholesale and Retail Trade, Catering and Accommodation sector (Tertiary) at 39.6%, followed by Manufacturing (Secondary) at 30.2% and Financial Intermediation, Insurance, Real-Estate and Business Services (Tertiary) at 18.1%.
The overall effective Customs Duty rate in 2017/18 was 3.2% compared to previous year’s 3.0%. Key commodities with the highest effective Duty rates were Footwear and Accessories at 22.9%; Hides, Skins and Leather at 18.0%; Textiles and Clothing at 16.0%; Food, Beverages and Tobacco at 11.8% as well as Vehicles, Aircraft and Vessels at 8.2%.
Finally, Chapter 6: Other Taxes and Collections provide information about taxes such as Capital Gains Tax (CGT), Transfer Duty, Mineral and Petroleum Resources Royalty (MPRR), Southern African Customs Union (SACU) payments and Diesel refunds. In 2017/18, CGT of R17.6 billion was raised of which R10.0 billion was attributable to individuals and trusts and R7.6 billion to companies. This shows a narrow increase of R0.6 billion (3.3%) on the R17.1 billion raised in 2016/17. An aggregate of R124.8 billion has been raised since the introduction of CGT in October 2001.
SARS and National Treasury welcome public comments and suggestions to continue to enhance the publication’s utility in policy evaluation, and developing new insights in South Africa’s social and economic context. These can be provided via e-mail to taxstatistics@sars.gov.za.
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The Loeries is the largest and most respected brand communication awards across Africa and the Middle East and we are seeking a junior – mid-level production assistant for the awards team.
We are looking for someone who is humble, hungry, helpful and smart to join our production team.
This may be a fixed term or permanent contract, depending on the candidate and the position filled.
The ideal candidate:
Has at least two years’ working experience in a production environment, preferably in events production and/or the advertising or brand communications industry
Is a South African citizen, or has permanent residence
Has a SA drivers license and preferably their own vehicle
Is intelligent, hard-working, and a self-starter
Is hands-on, with the ability show initiative
Has excellent attention to detail
Is well spoken and able to communicate well in writing
Has strong Microsoft Office skills, especially with Excel
Is digital and tech savvy and able to work with online resources, including Dropbox and the Loeries own Entry Management System
Has experience managing and meeting production deadlines
Is used to working under pressure during critical production times
To apply for this job, please send a cover letter outlining why you believe you are the perfect candidate for this position, with your resume. At least three contactable, professional references must be included in your resume.
Role and responsibilities:
Production Coordination of all awards shows under the Loeries administration, including but not limited to: The Loerie Awards, Creative Circle, Pendoring, Bookmarks and APA Kenya.
Processing entries: follow the processing procedure from receiving entries to resolving queries, rechecks and testing.
Preparation for Judging week – including cataloguing of entries, packing and shipping of all material.
Support Loeries Creative Week event production where necessary.
Work with the relevant manager to set up and manage various awards and/or events hosted/managed by the Loeries.
Develop and accurately maintain/update all relevant projects and schedules, budgets and status reports.
Schedule meetings and, take meeting minutes and draft for manager to sign off.
Maintain all records, including but not limited to schedules and checklists.
Communicate major milestones, priorities, bottlenecks and other major problems, which can affect the successful running of the Loeries.
Client and customer Liaison: handling verbal and written communications (incl. but not limited to: entry queries and awards queries) with clients and customers throughout Africa and the Middle East.
Assisting with setting up of judging on CMS where required.
Assisting with the management of the Traveling Exhibition, including preparing exhibition, confirming schedule and communicating with hosts throughout the year.
Assisting with store orders when required.
Any other secretarial/office management/administrative/supervisory/production duties that may be assigned from time to time, including answering telephones, dealing with queries, filing, guest hospitality, organizing tea & refreshments, etc.
Provide additional administrative support to staff members where appropriate.
Requirements
Attention to detail
Excellent communication skills
Interpersonal skills, including work well within a team and independently
Adaptability
Enthusiasm
Determination
Perseverance
Ability to work well under pressure
Organisational and administrative skills
Budgeting skills
IT skills
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