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The Hope Factory – growing and fostering entrepreneurship

Growing entrepreneurial skills, developing businesses and impacting communities − this is the core of what The Hope Factory delivers, and so much more. This non-profit company forms part of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Nation Building division. Socio-economic empowerment The Hope Factory focuses on developing business skills in individuals and assisting them to […]

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No longer business as usual: The role of the private sector to improve schooling in South Africa

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This article is based on a Report titled “No Longer Business as Usual: Private sector efforts to improve schooling in South Africa,” funded by Absa Group Citizenship, and prepared by the Centre for Development and Enterprise. Click here to download the Report , or visit www.cde.org.za The COVID-19 pandemic affected education systems around the globe

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How Covid-19 exposed weakness in the supply chain

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Although the full impact of Covid-19 on supply chains remains unknown, what we do know is that the economic and financial ramifications are being and will continue to be felt across global supply chains for some time to come.

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How Absa’s supply chain beat COVID-19

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Here is a snapshot of Absa suppliers that have demonstrated true Africanacity, a distinctly African ability to always find ways to get things done …

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Watch: How an Absa sewing project built one SME up in more ways than one during lockdown

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The brief was to sew 52 000 masks in a very short time. Absa’s support of this small company enabled its employees to feed their families. And as the Jodi Deerling team worked day and night to fill this enormous order, they gained another invaluable benefit from the project. They realised that they are also family to each other.

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Why CSI programmes for children affected by HIV/Aids are more important now than ever before

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2020 will forever be remembered as the year of Covid-19. Efforts to keep economies afloat, infection and death rates down, as well as to create a vaccine have been the primary focus worldwide. In the chaos, the progress made in the fight against HIV has been gravely threatened. And it appears that children will pay

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How the 4th Industrial Revolution and Covid-19 are changing the face of CSI donations

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By Sithandile Mpofu – Editor, Social TV It is common company practice to stick to a three-year cycle to update and upgrade employees’ computers and laptops, but many of these devices still have years of use to go. So, instead of sending them off to the recycling depot, rather follow DriveRisk’s example in donating them

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King of #MakingADifference

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In 2012, King Price stepped into the South African insurance industry as the first insurer to offer car insurance premiums that decrease monthly. The fuel that powered this innovation? Our desire to change lives for the better. Our commitment to #MakingADifference is supported by our vision: Lower premiums; Higher purpose. Thanks to our unique business

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The most urgent climate crisis-related risks facing South Africans in the first half of the 21st century

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By Kevin Bloom Kevin Bloom, senior investigative journalist of Daily Maverick‘s Climate Crisis reporting division “Our Burning Planet” This article is based on a Climate Risk Report commissioned by Absa Group Citizenship and online independent newspaper Daily Maverick. World-acclaimed scientists at Wits University’s Global Change Institute, with a panel of 12 experts from various disciplines,

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An insider’s view: Building socially conscious enterprises of the future

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Luleka Mkuzo has perhaps some of the simplest yet wisest words to offer any aspiring entrepreneur or small business owner when she says: “Our backgrounds don’t determine our tomorrow, our dreams are within reach if we stay focused, work hard and believe in something greater than ourselves.” A community engagement strategist and social entrepreneur focused

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