Benoni is a town on the East Rand,Gauteng,South Africa,some 26 kilometres (16 mi) east of the Johannesburg CBD,within the City of Ekurhuleni municipality.
Empangeni is a city in KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa. It is approximately 157 kilometres north of Durban,in hilly countryside,overlooking a flat coastal plain and the major harbour town of Richards Bay 16 kilometres away. The N2 freeway runs east from Empangeni intersecting John Ross Highway (R34) which connects Empangeni and Richards Bay.
The Cabinet of South Africa is the most senior level of the executive branch of the Government of South Africa. It is made up of the President,the Deputy President,and the Ministers.
Lewisham East is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the by-election on 14 June 2018 by Janet Daby of the Labour Party.
Robert Oliphant is a Canadian politician and a United Church minister. He served in the House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Don Valley West from 2008 to 2011. He returned to office after re-election in 2015 and subsequently in 2019.
Ebrahim Patel is a South African cabinet minister,who holds the position of Minister of Trade,Industry and Competition. He previously served as Minister of Economic Development from 2009 to 2019.
Maite Emily Nkoana-Mashabane,formerly known as Maite Mohale,is a South African politician who served as the Minister of Women,Youth and Persons with Disabilities. She was Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform from 2018 to 2019,and previously served as Minister of International Relations and Cooperation from 2009 to 2018. Nkoana-Mashabane is also a former member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC).
BRICS is an acronym for five regional economies:Brazil,Russia,India,China,and South Africa. The first four were initially grouped as "BRIC" in 2001 by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill,who coined the term to describe fast-growing economies that would collectively dominate the global economy by 2050;South Africa was added in 2010.
Labour brokering is a South African term for a form outsourcing practiced in which companies contract labour brokers to provide them with casual labour. Labour brokers are different from recruitment agencies in that labour brokers handle almost all aspects of the worker's employment,whereas recruitment agencies are only responsible for sourcing candidates for employment. In essence,rather than a company hiring a worker,it hires a labour broker who hires the worker in its stead. In other jurisdictions,labour brokering is referred to as Labour hire,Permatemp,or Employment agency.
Stephen John Doughty is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2012. He has been the Shadow Minister for Africa and a Shadow Minister for International Development since 2020.
The Department of Mineral Resources is a department of the national government of South Africa which is responsible for overseeing the mining industry of South Africa and the exploitation of the country's mineral resources. The department's origins lie the creation in the 1890s of the "Department van Mijnwezen" in the government of the Transvaal Republic. It has existed under its current name since 2009 when the Department of Minerals and Energy was divided and the Department of Energy was created. As of 2013 the political head of the department,the Minister of Mineral Resources,is Ngoako Ramatlhodi and his deputy is Godfrey Oliphant.
The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy is a minister in the cabinet of the South African national government. The portfolio was called the Ministry of Minerals and Energy until May 2009,when President Jacob Zuma split it into two separate portfolios under the Ministry of Mining and the Ministry of Energy. Ten years later,in May 2019,his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa reunited the portfolios as the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy.
Buti Kgwaridi Manamela is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Higher Education,Science and Technology,having previously served as the Deputy Minister for Planning and Monitoring in the Presidency since 26 May 2014. He is currently serving under the current Minister of Higher Education,Science and Technology Blade Nzimande and current President of South Africa,Cyril Ramaphosa. Manamela has also held the post of the spokesperson to former president,Jacob Zuma.
Virginia Ruby Andersen is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
Khumbudzo Phophi Silence Ntshavheni is a South African politician serving as Minister in the Presidency since 2023. She has been a member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2019. She served as Minister of Small Business Development from 2019 to 2021 and as Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies between 2021 and 2023. She is a member of the African National Congress.
The next United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held no later than 28 January 2025. It will determine the composition of the House of Commons.
Nceba Ephraim Hinana is a South African politician of the Democratic Alliance who served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from May 2019 until his resignation in March 2023. He was a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from May 2014 to May 2019.
Michael Bagraim is a South African politician and labour lawyer. A member of the Democratic Alliance,he was elected to the National Assembly in 2014. He was then appointed Shadow Deputy Minister of Labour. In 2017,Bagraim was promoted to Shadow Minister of Labour. After the 2019 election,he was made Shadow Deputy Minister of Labour and Employment.
Matthews Johannes Wolmarans is a South African politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2019. A member of the African National Congress,he previously served in the assembly between 2017 and 2019. Wolmarans is also a former mayor of the Rustenburg Local Municipality.
Langalakhe Nicholas "Senzo" Mkhize was a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly and KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature. Formerly an activist in the ANC Youth League,he served in the National Assembly from 2009 until 2010,when he was transferred to the provincial legislature. He remained in the provincial legislature until his death in 2016 and was its Chief Whip from 2014 onwards. At the time of his death,he was also a member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal branch.
