Suid-Afrika se voorste amateur-gholfspelers se goeie week in Skotland duur voort, met vyf van die land se jong sterre wat Donderdag in aksie sal wees in die Britse Amateurkampioenskap se ronde van 32. En met twee wedstryde waarin twee Suid-Afrikaners mekaar pak, sal die land minstens twee, en moontlik drie, in die ronde van 16 […]
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The Test Kitchen in Cape Town was awarded at The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018. The awards ceremony of the The World’s 50 Best Restaurants was held on 19 June at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. This glittering event attracts the very finest chefs from around the world, as they gather to celebrate (and […]
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The 50 South Africans who fell prey to a work visa scam in China will not receive any financial help from their own government. That’s according to the parents who are fighting tooth and nail to get their children home.
Sucked in by the promises of Owen Wong – a man who claimed to represent a company called Sanda Youth International – the group thought they would be taking up a position to teach English as a foreign language to local children.
They arrived in the country without a hitch, but Wong convinced the would-be teachers that he needed their passports to finalise all of their work visas.
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Picking the right removal company will be one of the most important decisions you make when moving abroad.
Once you have decided you are moving abroad, it is vital that one of the first steps you take towards making your move as plain-sailing as possible is to choose the right removal company.
We chatted to the experts at Stuttaford Van Lines and found out the best way to approach a big move.
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Today it is certainly not an exaggeration to say that literally thousands of South Africans gives school in Russia, the Middle East and Asia. Only in China alone there are hundreds of teachers in the one internet group of which I am the administrator, called South Africans Living In China. But it’s not without dangers and problems, as one of the members of the group recently found out. Madri Strydom was detained in Beijing for sixteen days before being deported to South Africa.
Madri was not the first South African to have been deported. Neither the first who did nothing wrong and yet the Chinese showed her the door. She will certainly not be the last.
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Die Suid-Afrikaanse renjaer Stuart “Stuwie” White het die afgelope naweek een van die wedrenne in die Franse Formule Vier in België gewen en het nou sy oog op die algehele titel.
Stuwie (16) se pa, David, vertel dat hulle eers verlede Dinsdag gehoor het dat ’n borgskap beskikbaar is dat hy in België kan gaan deelneem.
Maar hokaai as jy dink Stuwie was grootoog en het net gegaan om die getalle vol te maak.
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Hy kwalifiseer net voor die 2019 Wêreldbeker-toernooi in Japan om vir dié land te speel en as die afrigtingspan dink hy is goed genoeg, speel hy graag vir sy aangenome land.
Só praat die 30-jarige heelagter Coenie van Wyk, wat die vorige twee seisoene in al die Brave Lupus se ligaverpligtinge in die Japanse Topliga gespeel het. Dié seisoen het hy in 12 uit 15 wedstryde gespeel en net een misgeloop.
Hy is een van ’n rits Suid-Afrikaners wat hul rugby in Japan speel en hy maak geen geheim daarvan nie dat hy graag vir Japan sal wil uitdraf nie.
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Top employer branding company, Universum, has released the findings of a new students and working professionals survey in South Africa.
The research was based on a questionnaire completed by 45,927 students at higher education institutes, as well as 21,775 professionals with an academic degree from September 2017 – April 2018.
The average age of the students surveyed was 24 years old, with the responses indicating that they expected an average annual salary of R282,250 a year. These students said that their top career goal was to be ‘dedicated to a cause or to feel that I am serving a greater good’.
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Hul droomervaring het in ’n nagmerrie ontaard, vertel Madri van den Heever, ’n onderwyseres van Alberton wat 16 dae in ’n Chinese tronk aangehou is.
As straf omdat sy onwettig gewerk het, sou Madri net tien dae in ’n aanhoudingsentrum deurbring, maar sy is uiteindelik 16 dae aangehou.
Sy vertel hoe sy ’n sel met sekswerkers en dwelmgebruikers moes deel en elke dag gestoomde brood “so swaar soos klippe” en waterige groente moes eet wat uit dromme geskep is. Sy is herhaaldelik ondervra, een keer terwyl haar voete aan ’n staalstoel vasgeboei is.
After growing by 3.1% in the fourth quarter of 2017, the South Africa economy wobbled in the first quarter of 2018, shrinking by 2.2% quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest data from Stats SA.
Agriculture, mining and manufacturing were the main contributors to the slowdown, with the electricity, construction and trade industries also recording negative growth, the group said.
The 2.2% fall is the largest quarter-on-quarter decline since the first quarter of 2009. In that quarter, the economy contracted by 6.1%.
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