The report suggests that turning these figures around will depend on the three Es – education, entrepreneurship, and economic growth – the only way in which real empowerment can occur, particularly for those who were disadvantaged by the racial policies of the past. Future progress may therefore come to depend less on racial policies such […]
Racial transformation not ‘complete failure` – SAIRR Read More »
Solidarity took FNB to task about their allocation of education bursaries for employees' children. The November issue of Treetalk (FNB's newsletter) offer financial support to children of African, Indian, Coloured and Chinese employees earning less than R100,000 a year. This is a very well reported story indeed. I'm not in the way of getting involved
FNB rethinks ‘racial’ bursaries – hmmmm Read More »
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
PIC and Cyril – two from Business Report Read More »
My good friend Sandy Pullinger (or Sadams as I have always known her) asked me to speak at an APMP meeting last night. For those of you who don't know Sandy, she runs a fantastic software company called nFold. I recommend you look at their web site too. It was a wonderful event with a
I chaired a two day BEE conference last week and was exposed to some of the finest thinkers in this industry. These include Andrea Brown of Mohlaleng, Kevin Lester (soon to be ex Cliffe Dekker), Robin Woolley, Colin Reddy, Germien du Plessis and Christiaan van der Merwe. The delegates were largely from the major corporates
Strategy, business plans and their ultimate implementation are normally discussed at the upper levels of an organisation. The implementation guidelines are then filtered down to the lower levels. It is quite common that the people at the lower levels are not aware of all the ramifications of the strategy and their implementation may have a
BEE strategy should be communicated to all in the company Read More »
