Kevin commented on my Zuma appoints members of BBBEE Advisory Council post. It's too good to leave buried away under comments so I've reblogged it. I am thrilled by the composition of the Advisory Council – not one BEE consultant, not one verification agent and not one member of the team that drafted the Codes […]
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Caird follows a very strict implementation methodology on all our engagements. Understand the client's business This is a singularly vital aspect in any consultation. Without a firm understanding of a company's internal and external workings it is not possible to develop any working BEE solutions. Often the codes' requirements cannot and will not fit into
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It's made the press again -in fact it's made a lot of press. I was referred to the Business Day report by Robert Simmonds. This report concentrated on the beneficiaries, 20% of whom are SAB's lower paid white employees. And once again Mr Obvious (one Ajay Lalu) is asked for his opinion – to which
I just got a call from Mzwandile Jacks telling me about the BEE Advisory Council that's just been announced. This is what it looks like Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies. Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel Minister of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities. Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya. Professor Mohammed
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This is truly an hysterical article. I would normally Tweet on these things but it warranted a lot more than 140 characters. Ann Crotty reports that the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which manages about R800 billion of funds on behalf of the Government Employees Fund, is in discussions with the Department of Public Works
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It's been a while since my last post. I've been doing a lot of work on public private partnerships which I'll blog about at some stage. To my mind these are the only way that we are going to get the economy going. We are going to be hosting a two day conference on PPPs
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A light bulb has suddenly gone on within Eskom. They placed an ad in Sunday’s Sunday Times. I can’t find this on google – and I’m not going to sift through Eskom’s website to try and find it, so I’ll type it out. REQUEST FOR VALID B-BBEE CERTIFICATES Dear valued supplier Eskom is migrating
THIS IS A SENSATIONAL HEADING, I am hoping it will sell more copies of my book. It is totally false, but I think there are a lot of people out there who would love it to be true. The Eskom situation does raise a lot of questions about their very questionable procurement practices. For some
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The Financial Mail had a huge feature on BEE a few weeks ago. The lead article, entitled spiritually bankrupt, is probably the best article Sibonelo Radebe has written so far. The title is a pun on compliance vs the spirit of BEE and argues that we are heading more toward a culture of compliance as
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I blogged about the Presidential Black Business Working Group wanting stronger laws to enforce the implementation of BEE. The Business Report carried an article yesterday about this. It would seem that the DTI wants "wants more legislative clarity to deal with fronting of companies by black people." I figured that you could only deal
