Socio-economic development

What would South Africa look like if the nonprofit sector was destroyed or was drastically weakened? Before even considering the social development and welfare contributions, policy makers in both government and business should be considering that the sector is a huge employer — according to the latest available research, it is second only to the […]

The Revised BEE Codes of Good Practice are not Intended to make things difficult 2012-11-16   The draft codes have elicited widespread support but the department has received feedback expressing alarm that some charitable organisations and beneficiaries will lose benefits associated with the current version of the BEE Codes.  This is not true. The proposed

This was published this morning in the Business Day. The four points are very relevant to both the corporate and NPO sector, it's just the nonprofits who lose out completely. If business is clever they'll submit comments and if Rob is clever he'll read them. If the codes go through as is then business would

The Socio Economic Development (SED) element is addressing socio-economic developmental initiatives that can be tackled either through monetary or non-monetary contributions with the targeted beneficiaries as defined in the BEE legislation as stipulated above.  BEE SED was never intended to displace Corporate Social Resp/Invest of companies, its meant to alleviate inherent social challenges confronted by