Every year since 2010, South Africa celebrates Nelson Mandela Day as a way of encouraging civilians and corporate organisations to give back to their communities in whatever way they can. This year, Cresta Shopping Centre decided to lend a hand to two organisations which help improve the lives of children in and around their community. […]
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Distell, a leading alcohol manufacturer of award-winning brands such as Amarula, Nederburg, Savanna, Durbanville Hills and Bernini, is a business with deep roots in South Africa with a growing presence on the African continent as well as abroad. Our Corporate Social Responsibility strategy incorporates international best practices – this includes taking guidance from the 2030
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For over a decade, Mandela Day has mobilised individuals, civil society and corporate entities to make the world a better place for all. In the lead-up to Mandela Day, CSI Agency, MAMAS Alliance, urges corporates to take action to inspire change. With a network of 2 200 Mamas across 37 independent autonomous NGOs operating from 75 predominantly
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Old Mutual Insure has a responsible business programme that enables the company to be responsible towards its customers, employees, broader communities, and the natural environment. Its aim is to deliver cutting-edge Corporate Social Investment, to contribute to inclusive, transformative, impactful, and sustainable socio-economic development in communities where it operates, and does this through a deliberately
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Bayer has released a documentary trailer highlighting grain farmers’ stories of hope and success. A soon to be released documentary on the success of Grain SA’s Farmer Development Program will tell the stories of passionate farmers who has risen above almost impossible odds. Across Africa, Bayer invests in the support and development of smallholder farmers
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Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day, teach that person to fish and you feed them for a lifetime. This age-old principle of alleviating poverty by facilitating self-sustainability is the premise of Afrika Tikkun’s Urban Agripreneurship Incubator Project. This empowering programme is currently operational in Dieplsloot and Orange Farm in Gauteng.
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SAICA Enterprise Development (SAICA ED) in partnership with a sponsoring client, embarked on a 12-month Leadership Development Programme, which entailed coordinated and structured set of initiatives that were aimed at a higher purpose, building the eco-system of six Chartered Accountants who own Small Medium Practices (SMPs). “In the spirit of transformation, the firms selected
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For 102 years, Sanlam has been deeply committed to the human side of business. In the last decade alone, the Group invested around R630 million in the financial resilience of Africans across the 33 countries in which it operates. Right now, the world is going through a time of profound turmoil, but also possibility: Sanlam
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The global pandemic has laid bare risks we have ignored for decades: inadequate health systems; gaps in social protection; structural inequalities; environmental degradation; and the climate crisis. Entire regions that were making progress on eradicating poverty and narrowing inequality have been set back years, in a matter of months. Those were the words of United Nations
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By Nozizwe Vundla, head of the Sanlam Foundation In the past decade alone, Sanlam has invested around R630 million in the financial resilience of Africans. We believe the business sector has a responsibility to holistically support communities to be sustainable in the long-term. This requires a 360-degree approach which empowers people to empower themselves. Ultimately,
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