Andrew Watson: The 'most influential' black footballer for decades lost to history

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  By Andrew Aloia BBC Sport Last updated on 11 October 2021 11 October 2021 . From the section Football Watson was a trailblazer who helped transform how football was played There are two murals of black footballers facing one another across an alleyway in Glasgow. One helped shape football as we know it, the other is Pele. Andrew Watson captained Scotland to a 6-1 win over England on his debut in 1881. He was a pioneer, the world's first black international, but for more than a century the significance of his achievements went unrecognised. Research conducted over the past three decades has left us with some biographical details: a man descended of slaves and of those who enslaved them, born in Guyana, raised to become an English gentleman and famed as one of Scottish football's first icons. And yet today, 100 years on from his death aged 64, Watson remains something of an enigma, the picture built around him a fractured one. His grainy, faded, sepia image evokes many differen
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SARS looking for IT professionals to improve tax system

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 29 March 2021

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has announced hundreds of vacancies for skilled workers across various fields as part of its plan to modernise its tax compliance systems with new and evolving technologies.

“SARS is preparing for a future where increasingly our work will be informed by data driven insights, self-learning computers, artificial intelligence and interconnectivity of people and devices,” the tax authority stated.

“Mindful of this, we are evolving our workforce to prepare for this exciting changed and changing world of work.”

“Whilst we continue to develop our own employees, we invite talented and passionate executives, who share our strong public service ethos and unmistakeable commitment to improving the material conditions and wellbeing of all South Africans,” SARS said.

These employees would assist in SARS’s mandate of ensuring optimal compliance with tax and customs legislation in South Africa.

Available positions

In addition to 200 South Africans who have recently graduated in the fields of Customs, Chartered Accountancy, Auditing and Legal, SARS is seeking 370 highly skilled leaders and specialists in specialised roles.

The latter includes Information and Technology specialists with the looking aptitudes:

  • Developers (C#, Java, Angular, Web, Data Warehouse [ETL/C#])
  • Database Administrators (SQL, Adabas)
  • Integration Designers
  • Websphere Application Server Specialists
  • SAP Specialists (GRC, FICA, HCM, SRM, Development & Integration)
  • IT Security Engineer
  • Software Engineers
  • Server Engineers (Wintel)

Other fields outside of IT in which vacancies are being offered include:

  • Data Management
  • Audit and Risk
  • Investigations and Auditing with specific focus on Tax Evasion and related matters
  • Legal Specialists and Consultants
  • Governance, Risk, and Compliance Specialists
  • Specialists in Trust Practice, Research and Analysis, Strategy and Advisory, Interpretive Tax Policy & Compliance

Interested applicants can click here to view all the positions for which they can apply at SARS.

Now read: Remarkable bounceback in jobs in South Africa

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