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Rugby World Cup quarter-finals: Who plays who … and when

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The pool phase of the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan has been completed and we’re left with eight countries vying for glory in the ninth instalment of the tournament. QUARTER-FINALISTS: Pool A 1. Japan 2. Ireland Pool B 1. New Zealand 2. South Africa Pool C 1. England 2. France Pool D 1. Wales..
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ANC-regime needs money! South Africa’s big expat tax is coming – and financial emigration isn’t the quick fix you think it is

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South Africa’s big expat tax is coming – and financial emigration isn’t the quick fix you think it is

While financial emigration may be a viable option for a small minority of individuals who will be hit by South Africa’s coming ‘expat tax’, for the majority, it’s likely to be a costly exercise which won’t provide significant tax relief in the long-term. This is according to Ettiene Retief of the South African Institute of..
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Japan Embassy invites South Africans to come and teach English

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Japan Embassy invites South Africans to come and teach English

The Japanese Embassy wants to help with unemployment in South Africa and invites graduates to offer English in their country by 2020. Those who want to apply for the Japanese exchange and education program (JET program) must be a South African citizen with a degree in any direction, says Embassy Kota Toba in a statement…
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SA faces serious shortage of qualified workers – experts are leaving country in search of a better future

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SA faces serious shortage of qualified workforce - experts are leaving country in search of better future

South Africans with good qualifications are leaving the country in increasing numbers, causing a serious shortage of well-qualified workers. Immigration agencies are experiencing an increase in people with good qualified careers who are going abroad for a variety of reasons. According to informed sources, the main reasons are cited as the shrinking economy, the state’s..
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Rugby viewers are furious at French referee Garcès about his performance in the match between Boks and All Blacks

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French referee Jérôme Garcès receives plenty of criticism for his performance in Saturday’s World Cup match between New Zealand and South Africa. The All Blacks beat the Boks 23-13. This is Garcès third World Cup and he is particularly criticized for his decisions at the breakdowns. Garcès scored 13 penalties in 80 minutes in Jokohama,..
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Thomas Cook Travel company have collapsed, How South Africa is affected this firm’s liquidation

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Thomas Cook Travel company have collapsed, How South Africa is affected this firm’s liquidation

It just goes to show that nobody is too big to fail these days. Thomas Cook, one of the largest travel operators in the world, have ceased trading on Monday after a last-ditch bid to save the company fell agonisingly short. The company were declared bankrupt at 2:15 earlier this morning. This is the sombre..
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Emigration: Where most South Africans leave for, and what jobs they do

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Emigration: Where most South Africans leave for, and what jobs they do

Thanks to this new emigration website, we can track where South Africans are leaving for as they seek to carve out a new life for themselves overseas. A fresh batch of emigration data has shown a sharp rise in the number of applicants over the past few years, as South Africans – almost en-masse –..
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White man from SA who experiences racial abuse at work compensated R1 million after British colleagues called him k-word

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A 35-year-old young man was cursed by his British co-workers with the K-word. Unconfirmed reports say that he was annoyed by the person who humiliated him in such a way, which is why he sought legal advice and made a case against the person. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff and ordered that..
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Counterfeit South African Passports Are Big Business as Other Africans Use South Africa and it’s Passport as a Gateway to Claim Asylum in Ireland & UK

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Apartheid

Africans love to hate the very thing they want the most. They allegedly hate colonialism, but want everything it offers. During the economic boom of Apartheid South Africa, Africans were risking their lives to get INTO apartheid South Africa and there weren’t any sprawling refugee camps on the borders of the country Africans so loved to hate. Now, apart from the destruction of the economic boom by the ANC regime, it seems little has changed – Africans are still flooding INTO South Africa, although now there is no border, so very little risk. Through a policy of Deliberate Negligence, the ANC has effectively implemented an open border policy for South Africa, much to the UN’s pleasure…
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Two missing South Africans in Vietnam organ’s may have been harvested

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Two missing South Africans in Vietnam's organs may have been harvested

The two missing South Africans in Vietnam fit the same pattern of victims of organ harvesting, says Imtiaz Sooliman, founder of the Gift of the Givers. “From everything we’ve seen in these two cases, it doesn’t look like anything else. We hope there is another chance to save them, ”Sooliman said. He talked about John..
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