In Johannesburg, Mathe Okaba, Association for Communication and Advertising South Africa (ACA) CEO, speaks about the huge job that the local industry has yet to do, at a time when the South African economy is largely denuded. Now the communications sector has to deal with transformation — both digital and structural — at the same time as it […]
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The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) ICT sector council is set to review the 2016 amended ICT sector transformation plan in response to the impact of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategy will focus on the inclusion of disabled black women and unemployed youth in the mainstream ICT economy, says
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Black-owned construction group Concor is implementing a youth development strategy that is focused exclusively on education and skills development, which the company views as the most critical driver of ongoing transformation. Concor’s history of contributing to youth development predates its emergence, in 2017, as an independent contractor; a development that arose when a Southern Palace-led
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The Mozambik Restaurant Group and e-commerce and retail platform Humble will this week launch a 2-week pilot programme in Gauteng and the Durban North Coast to drive community entrepreneurship and create income opportunities for individuals, charities, and communities. Mozambik has expanded its restaurant business into a typical hot food delivery and take-away service as well
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Too much post-lockdown focus is on supporting big players and failed State enterprises, but it is small businesses that need it more. The focus of the nation’s leaders and key role players tends to be on the pandemic’s impact on big business and state-owned enterprises, which were already in dire straits before the onset of
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MTN SA CEO Godfrey Motsa says without broad levels of sustained and consistent inclusion and access to technology, the country will not reach its potential. He notes MTN stands in strong support of government’s commitment to ensure South Africans are able to benefit from transformation across business, employment, and skills development. Motsa says MTN’s procurement spend with
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The Ford Foundation and four others plan to substantially increase their spending, a splurge financed in part by issuing debt. The week after the U.S. economy shut down in March, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, fielded a stream of phone calls from the heads of dozens of organizations that Ford supports. Many
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Leading business incubator Raizcorp has called on big corporates to use their enterprise and supplier development (ESD) budgets to rejuvenate the South African small business sector gripped by COVID-19. Raizcorp’s head of sales, Dylan Baxter, said giving small businesses the opportunity to become part of larger companies’ supply chains will help the sector to recover
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Geekulcha, a platform for young talent in the Information and Communications (ICT) exists to create and enable platforms for Innovation and Creativity. The organisation has built a national footprint working with all spheres or government, industries, academia and community development based organisations to build tech and digital skills in all parts of the country. “It’s
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Two of South Africa’s tech giants – Vodacom and Samsung – are leading the transformational charge with the recent announcements of their Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment ratings. For Vodacom, this means one jump up the ratings, a result of accelerating a concerted transformation strategy, ensuring the local economy is structured and transformed to
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