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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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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Through ESD, Exxaro seeks to lead economic transformation by supporting black-owned, black women owned and black youth-owned small businesses that will create jobs in host communities, transform its supply chain and support the organisation’s growth aspiration. The Exxaro ESD approach, while ensuring Compliance with relevant legislation, has four Strategic objectives: Innovation – invest in high-growth
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Adcock Ingram is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company that markets and distributes various healthcare products and supplies to private sector and public sector in the South African market. In alignment with the Companies Act regulations, Adcock Ingram aim to be a responsible corporate citizen, the activities of which are monitored by the Social, Ethics and Transformation
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Conceived and developed by Zandile Njamela, Accenture’s Enterprise Supplier Development programme has become a point of pride in the organisation, providing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with business development support, mentorship and access to the market, while helping them achieve economic empowerment and contribute to job creation. In her own words, Zandile tells us about
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To support efforts in combatting the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in South Africa, Vodacom Group will donate 20 000 smartphones plus 100 terabytes of data and 10 million voice calls minutes to the National Department of Health. The company says this will be used by frontline health workers to collect and transmit data in real time for resource planning
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