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Bridgestone SA appoints new chief: many of them spent at the Port Elizabeth and Brits plants before he was appointed chief operating officer in 2012 and chief executive in 2014. Bayman said Young’s role would be to engage the organisation to drive growth and profitability over the next …
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‘I put the tactics in place, make sure we have the right strategy, Axel puts it into action’ — Erasmus: He flew over before Ireland’s final Test against the Springboks. Defence coach Jacques Nienaber took a plane the day after the Port Elizabeth season-closer. Their haste was an effort to make sure the coaches were all on the same page in the unusual …
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South Africa’s ANC Takes an Early Lead in Municipal Vote Count: The DA also leads the tally in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, which includes Port Elizabeth, with 56.8 percent compared with the ANC’s 33.9 percent. The partial results may not be an accurate indication of the final outcome as counting from rural …
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Zille and Trollip celebrate resounding win in Eastern Cape bellwether: The rural municipality — which includes Jeffreys Bay‚ Humansdorp‚ Oyster Bay and Cape St Francis — borders Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth). The DA won by 57.04% with 42,738 votes to secure 17 seats‚ the ANC share stood at 40.01% with 30,043 …
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Local elections in South Africa to push ANC towards populism – BBH: Looking at the local races themselves, polls suggest the ANC could lose control of the metropolitan areas of Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Port Elizabeth. If the ANC loses big, then it may swing towards more populist policies in an effort to boost its …
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Key issues in SA’s local government election: Pretoria is the national capital, and Port Elizabeth is a major port and manufacturing hub. Those areas alone are home to more than 8 million people, and bring influence over annual budgets of about $ 10bn (£7.5bn). The answer may rest with the person to …
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South African vote tests ANC hold on cities, Zuma in focus: In the capital, Pretoria, the ANC polled 47 percent support, the DA 43 percent and the EFF 9 percent, while in the southern port city of Port Elizabeth, the DA had 44 percent backing, the ANC 37 percent and the EFF 6 percent. Many voters in South Africa …
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South Africa’s ANC takes early lead in vote, battle for cities still on: (Additional reporting by Nqobile Dludla in Pretoria, Mfuneko Toyana and Tanisha Heiberg in Johannesburg, Siphiwe Sibeko in Limpopo, Joe Brock in Port Elizabeth and Wendell Roelf in Cape Town; Writing by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by G Crosse and Paul Tait)
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Day of reckoning for ANC as South African poll results due: Polls leading up to the vote had the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), which controls Cape Town, trouncing the ANC in the capital Pretoria, economic powerhouse Johannesburg and seaside Port Elizabeth. But a final Ipsos survey earlier this week …
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