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ESD – Cringe Worthy Compliance or Cata-List for Meaningful Change?
“Supplier Development (SD) is just like Enterprise Development (ED), it’s just that SD allocation has to be up to 2% Nett Profit After Tax as opposed to 1% for ED, and the allocation has to go to an SMME that is already a supplier to you”. This statement above, which...
B-BBEE Taking Advantage of Crisis. The Case of South African Tech Giants.
Two months on, and the IT Service Management giant EOH has officially hit a 9 year low in share price, with an onerous road to recovery. This colossal fall is another illustration that the South African economy needs variety and competition. As part of prudent...
Tshokoma’s Growth Promises To Act On Africa’s Challenges
While we find ourselves in the midst of the 4th industrial revolution it is important we never lose sight of where we come from. Not so much as to hold on to the past, rather as to have a solid understanding of our growth trajectory. As Africans, when our ancestors...
The Poor as subjects, Government as Enablers and Business as Catalysts of Sustainable Development
How do we ensure that all groups (particularly the most vulnerable in society) are not left on the platform of perpetual poverty and deprivation as the SDG train steams ahead? This is the key question concluding a recent article titled, ‘For the poor, the SDG train...
R50BN adrenaline shot? Why thank you Mr. President
With two successive quarters of economic contraction, the announcement of an economic stimulus package is one well welcomed across the country. We also want to ensure that this first shot is the sweetest, and don’t want to fool ourselves in believing that it’s a given...
Enslaving the Machine for Social Justice:
The Role of Equity Equivalent Programmes in advancing social justice within the context of BRICS. Towards BRICS Plural Invitation of South Africa to the Brazil, Russia, India and China to the trade and development table has come with considerable fan-fare and...
