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- Retired South African medical journalist, ex-Sunday Times of Johannesburg.
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Racial statistics of State-owned businesses
11:37 | 
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A Stuijt |
"How many black, brown, Indian and white men and women are currently employed at each service level, and how many vacant posts are there in each specified public enterprise in South Africa?
Reply by
Department of public enterprises, National Assembly, Question Nr 334, 26 February 2010
(1) How many (a)(i) black, (ii) brown, (iii) Indian and (iv) white (aa) men and (bb) women are currently employed at each service level and (b) vacant posts are there in each specified public enterprise;
(2) what steps will she be taking in order to fill those vacant posts?
NW398E REPLY
The tables below indicate the number of employees that are currently employed by State Owned Enterprises (SOE) that report to the Department of Public Enterprises as per their levels, race and gender. “SOE has recruitment policies in place to fill empty posts.’
VACANCIES:
4,459 vacancies at Transnet
77 vacancies at Broadband Infraco
69 vacancies at Denel
1,288 vacancies at Eskom.
PBMR has no open vacancies as it is ‘undergoing a “rationalisation process’…
Alexcor has no vacancies.
607 vacancies at South African Airways
35 vacancies at its low cost SAA company SAX
135 vacancies at SAFCOL
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There are no vacancies at Alexcor
77 vacancies at Broadband Infraco
There are officially 1,288 vacancies at Eskom. However only 134 are advertised publicly: Apply for jobs at: http://www.eskom.co.za/live/content.php?Item_ID=3500
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PBMR, SA Airways and SAFCOL
The Pebble Bed Modular (Nuclear) Reactor project has no open vacancies as it is ‘undergoing a “rationalisation process’… The 500-member PBMR project team is based in Centurion near Pretoria. Its CEO Jaco Kriek recently resigned.*
South African Airways has 607 vacancies
SAFCOL has 135 vacancies
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There are 39 vacancies at SAX
There are 4,459 vacancies at Transnet
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* The PBMR: From a small nuclear engineering ‘company’ with barely 100 employees at its inception in 1999, Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd (PBMR) has grown into one of the largest nuclear reactor design and engineering companies in the world. In addition to the core team of some 800 people at the PBMR head-office in Centurion near Pretoria, more than a 1,000 people at universities, private companies and research institutes are involved with the project. Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Limited is a public-private partnership comprising the South African government, nuclear industry members and state-utilities. The PBMR is a strategic national project. ON 8 March 2010 its chief executive Jaco Kriek resigned - ‘he agreed with Dr Alistair Ruiters, Chairman of the PBMR Board, to assist with a hand-over process and will also continue to assist with specific PBMR activities in the next few months.” The Board of PBMR expressed its appreciation to Jaco for the exceptional work he performed over the past six years as CEO of PBMR. Under his leadership, the PBMR company has grown from a small Research & Development company to a global company that is capable of participating in international nuclear programmes. Westinghouse, a US based nuclear company and investor in Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd, also thanked Jaco for his guidance and stewardship of the PBMR Company. According to Kriek, he wants to explore opportunities in the energy industry, but does not have any immediate plans regarding his future. “I am going to take a good break and will consider my new career once I am back,” he says. Kriek is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA) and a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants (UK). He also obtained an M.Com (Financial Management) degree at the Rand Afrikaans University (now called the University of Johannesburg) and completed a Management Development programme at the INSEAD business school in France. Before his stint at PBMR he was Executive Vice President: Projects at the IDC, where he was responsible for mega projects. The PBMR Board has announced that Dr Alex Tsela, currently PBMR’s GM: Nuclear Compliance Assurance, has been appointed as the acting CEO.http://www.pbmr.co.za/index.asp?Content=218&Article=111&Year=2010
South African Airways – no online employment information:
- Comments on SAA blog: http://www.southafrica.to/transport/Airlines/SAA-flights/SAA-flights.php5
- To whom it may concern! I would like to apply for a flight attendent vacancy, but the problem is that i do not find any website that can assist me with that! I wanted to drive to the airport the weekend and ask anyone of the SAA crew to maybe assist me but thought it would look unprofessional, but it would also look good seeing that i am willing to get off my backside and work for this great airline that SA has! and another thing is that i tried getting recruited from 'quest' but they are to incompetent to help me, so i beg of you to help me out on this one!!!! why work for a british airline if your country has an awesome airline like SAA Kind regards Deon van der Merwe
- Denisha Gangadin Hi, i am 19 years old i am currently seeking employment at your airline. I am a cabin crew license holder with qaulified skills for both the air as a cabin crew and ground crew.
- gugulethu can u plz send me an email when ever the are post available,plz i'd realy love to hear from you guys.
- gugulethu can u plz send me an email when ever the are post available,plz i'd realy love to hear from you guys.
- Jayde Casoojee Hi i am 17 years old, and would like to become a flight attendent next year, please could you mail me application forms and the qualifications needed. Thank you
- Donald Khosa I want to be a pilot i want your help about info and where can i get application form.
- LUKWAGO SHIFRAH i would like to register as a frequent flier of Saa but cannot find the website . please help
SA Express (SAX): careers advertised: http://www.flyexpress.aero/vacancies/index.html
Safcol, is the state-owned ‘company’ charged with the management and development of forestry. It owns vast state-owned plantations. It has no listed website although it has a large number of vacancies.
Transnet is governed by the “Companies Act” and functions “in every way as a public company with a board of directors. The entire issued share capital is however controlled by the Minister of Public Enterprises – i.e. taxpayer-funded. The group consists of the holding company Transnet, and seven transport “businesses” such as the seperate division for the SA Harbours, a number of related and “support businesses”. In 1990, the South African Transport Services was corporatised to form Transnet Limited. This fragmented system does not work well the opportunity for large-scale fraud are massive without a lack of central control, and many accidents also occur.
There are officially 1,288 vacancies at Eskom. However only 134 are advertised publicly: Apply for jobs at: http://www.eskom.co.za/live/content.php?Item_ID=3500
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Third youth dies at gay bashing camp
Gay-bashing game-warden training camp: three young Afrikaners dead since 2007‘Contains information published with permission from Sondag newspaper, South Africa, journalist: Riaan Bam 25 April 2011
VEREENIGING. Raymond Buys, the fifteen-year-old Afrikaans youth who was rushed to hospital i
n severely emaciated condition -- after ten weeks of training at the Echo Wild Game Rangers’ camp run by controversial rightwinger Alex de Koker -- died Wednesday-night in a Vereeniging hospital, according to an exclusive by journalist Riaan Bam in the Sondag tabloid. Third death since 2007:
This is the third death recorded at this camp since 2007. The prevous two death of Eric Calitz, 18, and Nicolaas van der Walt, 19,were both recorded on their death certificates as ‘natural deaths’.
Camp cures ‘femine traits’ in male youths…
This is the third death occurring at this camp at a Swartruggens smallholding since 2007. Parents enrol their children in the camp for R1,500 a month to make wild-life rangers and men out of them.
In 2007, Eric Calitz, 18, and Nicolaas van der Walt, 19, also died at this camp. At that time, Alex de Koker and two assistants were arrested - yet released on very low bail amounts by the Swartruggens magistrate’s court. It was revealed that the two youths’ death-certificates had listed the deaths as ‘natural’. The then-national police commissioner claimed however that the camp was still being investigated for ‘right-wing militia training activities.’ It’s not known what has happened to this case.
Young Buys fought for his life in the intensive care unit for the past four weeks . A post-mortem examination and an inquest will be held into the cause of death. A week earlier, Echo Wild Game Ranger’s manager Alex de Koker (right) testified in the local court in front of the ‘clearly horrified’ magistrate Bruno van Eeden, that the injuries sustained by the young Buys, who was healthy and unblemished before he entered the costly training course, were 'caused by Raymond himself, for instance when he ran against the pump-house’.
Pictures submitted by the parents to the court however showed the steady deterioration of the Afrikaans youngster after his parents dropped him off at De Koker’s smallholding on 12 January 2011 until they rushed him to hospital ten weeks later. On the first photos before he started his training camp, Raymond was a healthy, cheerful and unblemished youth. His steady deterioration over the next two and a half months turned him into a walking skeleton, with numerous injuries.
His mother Wilna and her fiancee Gys Nezar told Sondag journalist Riaan Bam that her son ‘fought bravely for his life and that he now is with dear Jesus.’
http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/Ma-se-verdriet-
Two other Afrikaans youths also died in 2007 at ‘gay-bashing’ camp:
In 2007, 18-year-old Eric Calitz and Nicolaas van der Walt, 19, also got the chance to train as a game ranger and earn R5,000 a month – and grabbed it. Both young Afrikaners died at Alex de Koker’s camp. De Koker was arrested for the Calitz and Van der Walt deaths – and released on R10 000 bail. He and two of his alleged “lieutenants” Jacques Mans and are facing trial, it was reported in 207, for the brutal murder of 18-year-old Calitz on January 31 2007. After Calitz died, while training with 14 others in Swartruggens, in North West, his family received an SMS telling them he had died of a heart attack…
Inexplicably, Alex de Koker, 43, the chief executive of Echo Wild Game Rangers, assistants Bianca Pronk, 18, and Jacques Mans, 18, were granted very low bail at the Swartruggen’s magistrate’s court on April 18 2007. Pronk and Mans were relesed on R5,000 bail each, while De Koker was granted R10,000 bail. Police say Eric Calitz, the victim, was allegedly ‘assaulted to death’ during so-called “game ranger” training in Swartruggens in January. In a statement issued by the office of the national police commissioner, police confirmed they suspect “the paramilitary-style training presented on the course was not normal ranger training and this forms a key part of the investigation”. Police are also probing the death of another man who reportedly died during the same training session. — http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/03/21/SouthAfrica/camp.html
The late Mr Calitz's sister, Mathilda Groenewald, was informed he had died as a result of bleeding on the brain. A devastated Groenewald and her husband Henno spoke to The Star, saying that Calitz was very ‘impressionable, slightly brain damaged and struggled to keep down a job because he was born slightly brain-damaged after he was born too early. "He was hit, burnt and wounded," Groenewald said. "It's beyond sick - it's psychopathic."Another youth, 19-year-old Nicolaas van der Walt, also died at the camp. Groenewald claims he was beaten and had a car seatbelt tied around his neck before being dragged "from the lake to the camp".
Calitz's murder, Groenewald said, was sparked by his asking De Koker if he could quit the camp.
'What did Eric do to deserve this?'
‘You aren’t a moffie…’
"Alex (de Koker) told him (Calitz) that he wasn't a moffie (gay) and he would make a man out of him."
Groenewald said her brother was a "miracle baby" who was born three months premature, died in the incubator and was brought back to life. This, unfortunately, had left him brain damaged and he never finished school. She recalled that the only jobs her brother could keep were basic security guard ones where he would earn about R1,500 a month. According to Groenewald, Van der Walt could afford the camp entrance fee of R10,000 -- but her brother could not. He arranged to work off the debt and signed a two-year contract. He had been lured in by their brother Brian Calitz, 31, who was working as an instructor in the camp. Brian is now co-operating with the police. "When they went to the camp, their cellphones were confiscated. He just disappeared," Groenewald said.
Police will have to investigate how these deaths were declared natural.. ‘ said SAPF spokeswoman Sally de Beer’Calitz's mother, according to Groenewald, was shattered and undergoing counselling. She said the family suspected the camp was a ‘recruitment centre for the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging's Ystergarde (Iron Guard). "It is suspected that the paramilitary-style training presented on this course was not normal ranger training and this forms a key part of the investigation," said police spokeswoman Director Sally de Beer. De Koker, 43, had been advertising the training camps since the middle of last year, police said. The business was operating from a Vereeniging farm. Although they won't confirm it, police will now have to investigate how it came to be that the deaths were declared natural. "Every aspect of the deaths will be thoroughly investigated," was all De Beer was willing to say.
AWB denies that De Koker is even a member…
However four years later, on April 31 2011, the new leader of the AWB, Steyn van Ronge, threatened to sue De Koker for ‘deliberately discreting the AWB by using the organisation’s logos and flags to pure people. Van Ronge said De Koker was not an AWB member.
It is understood that about 13 people were involved in running the training camp, including Bianca Pronk and Jacques Mans, who were arrested with De Koker. The trainees were taught various military skills, such as leopard crawling, and were conditioned to walk and run long distances. Part of their training was apparently a two-day vasbyt (endurance march). Police detectives from the national Violent Organised Crimes Unit swooped in on their suspects the weekend before last. De Koker and Pronk were arrested in East London on Friday night while Mans was apprehended on a farm near Henderson, in the Eastern Cape. "He (De Koker) was very surprised," the source said. None of the suspects resisted arrest and no weapons were found in their possession. Pronk and Mans were released on R5,000 bail the following Monday while De Koker remained behind bars. On Tuesday, despite the state objecting, he was released on bail. He wasn ordered not to leave Gauteng and not to apply for a passport.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20070321000006969C766315
http://www.boerevryheid.co.za/forums/archive/index.php/t-6275.html
AWB wants to sue training camp organiser Alex de Koker
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Steyn van Ronge wants to sue Alex de Koker (left), who runs the controversial ‘game-warden training camp’ where 15-year-old Raymond Buys emerged in such emaciated, abused condition that he died in a Vereeniging hospital on Wednesday, April 21 2011. http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/AWB-wil-Alex-hof-toe-vat-
Van Ronge accused De Koker of deliberately discrediting the AWB by using the organisation’s logos and flags to lure people to his training camp – but that the AWB have nothing to do with this and that De Koker isn’t even a member.
Sondag reported a week earlier that De Koker issued all his ‘trainee-rangers’ with AWB-membership cards which, allegedly in his words, ‘made them untouchable.’
Van Ronge is livid, telling Sondag that he issued those cards all by himself and is demonising the AWB. ‘We don’t even know anything about all these things Ronge told to Sondag. We are talking to our attorneys to undertake legal action against him. “He is linking our organisation to his criminal behaviour and this is just rubbish.’ http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/AWB-wil-Alex-hof-toe-vat-
Raymond de Koker: background:
Aug 17 2010 -- Elise Tempelhoff, Beeld Johannesburg - Farmers next to the Vaal River and residents of Parys are fed-up with Groenpunt Prison's "refuse" which is being dumped into the river. They complain that pieces of pork meat, blood, stomach contents, sewerage and old dishwater has for several months been running into the Vaal River from the jail.
The file-smelling waste ran into the river about 7km downstream from the Vaal Dam. Alex de Koker from Ecowild, a non-governmental organisation which looked after the interests of about 52 farmers with farms on the edge of the Vaal River, said he didn't know "where to go with his complaints". Three departments were in charge of matters at Groenpunt. The department of correctional services looked after the prisoners’ wellbeing, water affairs made sure water licences were abided to and public works maintained the infrastructure.
Bokkie Redelinghuys, acting head of the prison, said on Monday that there was "a problem" but that it had been fixed. "One of the pumps of the sewage works broke and some stuff ran into the Vaal River. But correctional services fixed it."
But when De Koker and other reliable sources went to investigate on Sunday, the situation was unchanged. De Koker said he had been complaining about the matter since May. Groenpunt had its own feeding pen with about 4 000 pigs. They were apparently slaughtered on the premises. Redelinghuys said he was not aware of this as he had only been the acting head of the prison for two months. Beeld learnt that some of the prisoners and their family members had also complained about unhygienic conditions to Rand Water.
Gregg Mulzack, head of communications at Rand Water, said it was no concern of his what was going on at Groenpunt. When Beeld pointed out to him that drinking water for Gauteng was sometimes (even if it was in small amounts) taken from the Vaal Barrage, he said the reporter "was becoming ridiculous".Water tests done by Rand Water on Monday showed no signs of any harmful bacteria or viruses, he said.
A scientist said such unhygienic conditions (like those at Groenpunt) were an ideal breeding ground for viruses like giardia and cryptosporidium. Water tests sometimes did not immediately show the presence of these viruses. "If the same water is tested two or three days later, it could possibly pick up the viruses."
Annalien Burger, chair of Save the Vaal in Parys, said she was shocked to hear of all the rubbish that Groenpunt was dumping in the Vaal River. "Don't they know it is Parys's drinking water that they are messing with? We don't have all of Rand Water's technology. Ngwathe (the municipality serving Parys) tries to purify its own water, but it is struggling." The department of water affairs was not available for comment.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Farmers-Prison-polluting-Vaal-20100817
raymond buys, 15, dies after hell camp
Afrikaans youth was ‘tortured and starved’ for 10 weeks, SAY HIS PARENTS
source: Riaan Bam 25 April 2011 ‘Sondag’ tabloid, South Africa
April 21 2011 – VEREENIGING. Raymond Buys, the fifteen-year-old Afrikaans youth who was rushed to hospital in severely emaciated condition after a ten-week stay at a controversial ‘game-warden-training camp’, has died Wednesday-night in a Vereeniging hospital according to journalist Riaan Bam of the Sondag tabloid.
The youth fought for his life in the intensive care unit for the past four weeks . A post-mortem examination and an inquest will be held into the cause of death. A week earlier, the training camp’s manager Alex de Koker (right) testified in the local court in front of the ‘clearly horrified’ magistrate Bruno van Eeden, that the injuries sustained by the young Buys, who was healthy and unblemished before he entered the costly training course, were 'caused by Raymond himself, for instance when he ran against the pump-house’.
Pictures submitted by the parents to the court however showed the steady deterioration of the Afrikaans youngster after his parents dropped him off at De Koker’s smallholding on 12 January 2011 until they rushed him to hospital ten weeks later. On the first photos before he started his training camp, Raymond was a healthy, cheerful and unblemished youth. His steady deterioration over the next two and a half months turned him into a walking skeleton, with numerous injuries.
His mother Wilna and her fiancee Gys Nezar told Sondag journalist Riaan Bam that her son ‘fought bravely for his life and that he now is with dear Jesus.’
http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/Ma-se-verdriet-
AWB wants to sue alex de koker
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Steyn van Ronge wants to sue Alex de Koker (left), who runs the controversial ‘garme-warden training camp’ where 15-year-old Raymond Buys emerged in such emaciated, abused condition that he died in a Vereeniging hospital on Wednesday, April 21 2011.
http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/AWB-wil-Alex-hof-toe-vat-
Van Ronge accused De Koker of deliberately discrediting the AWB by using the organisation’s logos and flags to lure people to his training camp – but that the AWB have nothing to do with this and that De Koker isn’t even a member.
Sondag reported a week earlier that De Koker issued all his ‘trainee-rangers’ with AWB-membership cards which, allegedly in his words, ‘made them untouchable.’
Van Ronge is livid, telling Sondag that he issued those cards all by himself and is demonising the AWB. ‘We don’t even know anything about all these things Ronge told to Sondag. We are talking to our attorneys to undertake legal action against him. “He is linking our organisation to his criminal behaviour and this is just rubbish.’
http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/AWB-wil-Alex-hof-toe-vat-
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