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 »
Last year I was talking at a conference and one of my co-presenters was the mighty jungle – I did mention this in a post before. Besides being particularly unimpressed with the intrepid orator I was marginally intrigued at his suggestion that the codes would cover all aspects of empowerment. "Name me one charter that
Ask not what you can do for the FSC (an unsponsored post) Read More »
I have not been posting much over the last few months because I didn't think there was much to talk about – or bitch about which is what I do mostly when it comes to BEE. On that note I am struggling to find anyone who is actually positive about broad-based or narrow-based BEE, employment
Phosa – tiff averted? Read More »
I remember reading the Financial Sector Charter for the first time and hating it. The definitions were all over the place and they conflicted completely with the various drafts of the codes. I then met people like Sakkie O’Neil and Marisa Buitendag who had incorporated more contemporary definitions into their implementation of the FSC. The
