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PRETORIA, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 – In celebration of Deaf Awareness Month (September), SARS will be assisting the Deaf communities with their tax affairs at specific SARS branches around the country.
The initiative involves availing South African Sign Language interpreters weekly at the SARS branches in Alberton, Vereeniging, Roodepoort, Pretoria, Polokwane, Nelspruit, Durban CBD, Mthatha and Worcester.
The service will be rendered at the following branches during the month of September:
The public is requested to disseminate the message to all the Deaf in their respective communities and to note that this service will also be extended to other members of the community who need to visit the SARS branches. This will afford the Deaf taxpayers with a unique opportunity to attend to their tax affairs.
SARS has pledged to improve accessibility for the Deaf and Blind communities, and to educate the general public about tax matters.
Find detailed schedule below:
Branch SASL Interpreting Services Schedule
| Date | Branch |
| Tue, 4 Sep | Roodepoort, Worcester and Pretoria North |
| Wed, 5 Sep | Alberton |
| Fri, 7 Sep | Polokwane, Nelspruit, Vereeniging, Durban CBD and Mthatha |
| Tue, 11 Sep | Roodepoort, Worcester and Pretoria North |
| Wed, 12 Sep | Alberton |
| Fri, 14 Sep | Polokwane, Nelspruit, Vereeniging, Durban CBD and Mthatha |
| Tue, 18 Sep | Roodepoort, Worcester and Pretoria CBD |
| Wed, 19 Sep | Alberton |
| Fri, 21 Sep | Polokwane, Nelspruit, Vereeniging, Durban CBD and Mthatha |
| Tue, 25 Sep | Roodepoort, Worcester and Pretoria CBD |
| Wed, 26 Sep | Alberton |
Fitness influencer Anna Victoria used to only post “perfectly posed” photos of herself on Instagram, with her stomach sucked in and muscles popping. But she realized that it could be negatively impacting her followers.
Victoria, 29, came to realize that she wasn’t accurately depicting her life.
“Through sharing my own posed photos over the last few years, I noticed a trend of young girls and women of all ages leaving a variety of comments from ‘#goals’ to ‘I hope I can one day look like that,’ to ‘I will never look like that.’ It began to weigh on me,” she wrote in an essay for Today.
Victoria laments that as much as she loves and relies on social media, it “tends to remove the human component” as people try to make their lives look perfect.
“When young girls and women of all ages see countless pictures of seemingly flawless women, it can seem like these beautiful women are in the majority,” she said. “This leads these normal, everyday women to feel like there’s something wrong with them. Why can’t I look like that? Why am I eating so healthy, working so hard in the gym, yet my body doesn’t look like that?”
Thinking about these issues led Victoria to post an honest photo in January 2016 of the belly rolls she has when sitting down. The Instagram post immediately went viral and she received an “overwhelming amount of support.”
“I could tell this was something women clearly needed: to know that they don’t have to live up to the unrealistic expectations of never showing a bad angle, cellulite, stretch marks or belly rolls,” she wrote.
Victoria has since shared several more “normal” photos, from ones of her bloated stomach after a big meal to her “real life booty,” and wrote that it clearly makes a difference.
“I received a variety of comments, from women thanking me for showing it’s OK to be human, to others sharing that they’ve struggled with body dysmorphia and eating disorders because of all the perfect images they constantly see online, and that my photo saved them,” she said. “If all I have to do to help so many overcome such serious internal battles is to share a photo of myself sitting with a few belly rolls, it’s the least I can do.”
Victoria said her goal is for women to “feel confident in themselves.”
“I want women to love themselves and appreciate themselves from all angles because a bad angle doesn’t take away from our worth or our beauty,” she said.
Optical Fitter/Lens Surfacing Technician (Optical) EKE292
Millpark, Port Elizabeth.
R8500 per month plus benefits. Educational requirements:
Grade 12 or higher and/or surfacing experience
Computer literate in selected programs.
Technical background and knowledge of optical industry.
At least 1 year working experience is required. Main Function:
Surface all lenses
Follow standard operating procedures
Adhere to ISO standards. Duties and responsibilities:
Setting up machines
Perform testing procedures.
Maintain and clean machines.
Blocking lenses on manual Loh 2000 blocker and semi-automatic Schneider CB bond
Polishing lenses on Toro X and CCP Swift polishers
Calibrate and recalibrate machines
Monitor machines during procedures.
Troubleshoot.
Perform random tests/safety checks
Ensure stock is readily available.
Create and maintain activity logs
Meeting daily targets of lenses per day. You must have experience as a machine operator on these specific machines as indicate in order to qualify for the position. Please email Cv to recruitment@kontak.co.za and EKE292 in the subject line
| Remuneration: | negotiable Cost to company |
| Location: | Cape Town |
| Education level: | Degree |
| Job level: | Mid |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Company: | MasterStart |
We’re seeking a strategic, organised and results-driven email marketing professional who will own and execute email marketing strategy across MasterStart’s offering. The ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of marketing automation platforms and CRM integrations as well as best practices in email marketing, campaign management & analytics.
MasterStart is a leading EdTech company based in Cape Town, South Africa. Our diverse team includes eCommerce, learning and technology experts focused on online education in Africa.
We offer academic institutions the opportunity to build African leaders through meaningful online learning experiences by providing access to University expertise.
Our current offering of online short courses in executive education are built in collaboration with University of Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development. Through this partnership, we support USB-ED in its mandate to provide meaningful learning experiences for Africa’s leaders and give rise to positive change across the African continent.
Key responsibilities:
Job requirements:
Posted on 29 Aug 14:52
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Pretoria, Tuesday 28 August, 2018 – A prominent Western Cape man and an East Rand bogus tax practitioner who participated in a scam defrauding SARS of R32 million, were sentenced to a combined 26 years direct imprisonment last week.
Mr Cornelius Johannes Kriek (42) from the East Rand pleaded guilty to 29 fraud charges, 21 money laundering charges, and one charge of corrupting a public official. He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 21 August.
In the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, on 23 August, Mr Thomas Bloemeris (Tommy) Fortuin (66) from Ridgeworth in Bellville, was sentenced to six years direct imprisonment on 236 charges of fraud and forgery relating to the tax affairs of close corporations belonging to members of his family. He pleaded guilty to all the charges put to him in terms of a plea bargain agreement reached with the state.
Magistrate W van der Merwe handed down an additional 12 months imprisonment to Fortuin for failure to submit two Income Tax returns. Three of the six year imprisonment sentence and the one year jail sentence for failure to submit outstanding returns were suspended conditionally for five years.
Cornelius Kriek
Kriek presented himself as a bookkeeper to unsuspecting Value Added Tax (VAT) vendors, offering swift and corrective action by submitting VAT201 returns on their behalf. Suspicion was raised by a legitimate tax practitioner who discovered that a large refund had been paid into the account of her former client within a short while after the client had switched his account to Kriek.
Kriek was also sentenced to 84 years imprisonment, suspended wholly, but conditionally for money laundering and ten years imprisonment for corrupting a public official. Five of the ten years is to be served concurrently with sentences for other charges.
It is alleged that a former SARS employee, previously employed by SARS as a VAT auditor for 35 years, assisted Kriek to commit the fraud. The cases against the two accused were recently separated after Kriek pleaded guilty. The case against the former SARS employee continues on 23 October 2018.
SARS fraud investigators established that the VAT auditor enabled the fraud by releasing substantial VAT refunds after she ostensibly audited the respective VAT 201s submitted by Kriek on behalf of vendors. The fraudulent refunds were divided between the vendors, Kriek and the SARS employee. A total of 18 companies were involved in the VAT refund scheme, which created an actual loss of just over R32,9 million to the fiscus.
Tommy Fortuin
Two other accused in the Fortuin case were also sentenced.
Fortuin’s son, Tom-Ross Fortuin (35) and the bookkeeper who assisted the family in committing the crimes, Mr Ivor Carlo Carolissen (38), also entered into a plea bargain with the state. They were both sentenced to four years imprisonment suspended for five years, and 18 months Correctional Service, which includes house arrest and community service. Fortuin was found guilty of 79 charges of fraud and uttering and Carolissen for 167 charges of fraud and uttering.
Mr Fortuin (jnr) was ordered to pay SARS back an amount of R615 592, representing the full capital amount of money stolen from SARS through the scams perpetuated by the accused. This money had to be paid in full beforethe sentencing procedure, and has been received by SARS.
He was also sentenced to 12 months, suspended for five years, for failure to submit three Income Tax returns.
The sentences follow an investigation by SARS criminal investigators, which revealed that the convicted individuals submitted fraudulent VAT refund claims to SARS, based on fictitious transactions between the family’s four closed corporations.
Neo Tsholanku, Group Executive: Criminal Investigations welcomed the sentences, saying that SARS is committed and has the depth and tenacity to bring unscrupulous thieves who steal from the fiscus to book. He noted that the sentences also show that the courts are increasingly taking a stance against failure to submit tax returns to SARS.
Tsholanku added that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has prosecuted 29 cases since April 2018, maintaining a conviction rate of 97%. More than 400 other cases dealing with tax crimes are currently on trial.
A fact sheet relating to the Fortuin case, prepared by the NPA: Western Cape is attached.
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| Remuneration: | R10000 – R25000 per month negotiable Basic salary |
| Benefits: | TBD |
| Location: | Durban, Sherwood |
| Job level: | Senior |
| Travel requirement: | Occasional |
| Company: | Recharger |
Required: Senior – online marketing/digital marketing/business development
Note: Fulltime position –
Provide CV detailing experience, availability, current salary.
Recharger currently supplies prepaid meter products/services and software to the largest retailers on the stock exchange and internationally.
Posted on 29 Aug 12:40
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