Counting trees, missing woo
By Paul Pereira Having discovered there was an unprecedented rolling-back of poverty this last…
South Africa’s social investment story
Paul Pereira’s address to the 2017 Nation Builder conference on the long story of SA…
Having businesses is a critical good.
Then SA companies do a lot more – for human rights By Paul Pereira Although…
Releasing a nation’s promise
Nation Builder (www.proudnationbuilder.co.za) is a business coalition managed by the Muthobi Foundation, assisting companies to…
Ignore the good news at our peril
No other country with such a young median age has as much wealth as SA….
We are not helpless. Go gently.
By Tsepo Monaledi The profound advice of De Beers enterprise development head Tsepo Monaledi to…
When CSI is the tipping point
If you imagine that CSI can transform SA, then you’re doing it wrong… By Paul…
Quick tips if you’re starting a CSI career…
By Paul Pereira I’d already had good careers in political analysis and journalism when I…
Specialist CSI lessons and tips – by sector
When South Africa calls you to hard places, be sure to prepare. Join Nation Builder…
CSI a unique South African gift
IN GOOD COMPANY 2016 features BUSA CEO and former head of Anglo American South Africa,…
Informal assumptions defying reality
Informal assumptions defying reality “Kasinomics” author and township marketer GG Alcock lifts the curtain a…
Nation Builder’s exclusive CSI boutique mini-conference
Tuesday 30 August, 08:00 to 14:30 Lynwood’s Atterbury Theatre, Pretoria, 08:00 – 14:30 No NGOs….
The ins and outs of Inside-Out Diversity workshops!
Running Inside-Out Diversity workshops has truly been a blessing and a challenge, testing whether I…
The Race Debate: Care to get out of the Boxing Ring?
Conversations around race relations and racism in our country has become an absurd concoction of…
The Reality of Sexuality in South Africa
On the 10th of October 2015, I was privileged to host my first Sexual (Real)ity…
Reframing Diversity
The concept of Diversity in South Africa might seem like a worn out tyre to…
A Reflection on Creativity & Toxicity
Creativity is placed on a pedestal as a quality of high importance, necessary for…
CSI is Voluntary, but Feel Encouraged
By Paul Pereira We sometimes think about “business” as a thing, when it’s really just…
CSI’s Multiplyer Benefits to Government
By Paul Pereira As we discussed HERE, corporate social investment (CSI) in essentially a voluntary…
South Africa’s CSI Reporting Often Misleads – Study
While criticism at claims made about community development and project delivery usually focuses on the…
CSI Growth Flattens in 2014
Company expenditure on social development, which grew year-on-year over the past decade, stagnated in 2014,…
In 2015 We Start 2 Live Again…
Hoor u die magtige dreuning? (“Die Lied van Jong Suid-Afrika”). WHAM! Media’s partner “I START…
CSI spend flattens
Cathy Duff unveils Trialogue’s 2014 CSI research, finding that corporate social investing has declined in…
Drinking With Ghosts (2)
Michael Schmidt, author of “Drinking with Ghosts”, talks about SA’s secret nuclear weapons programme pre-1994,…
Africa Trending
Paul Pereira talks to Good Governance Africa CEO John Endres about that organisation’s just-released annual…
The Angel
By Viv Vermaak The universe does work in mysterious ways. It’s weird. I never expected…
The Russian
By Viv Vermaak Sometimes I go to the pub and pretend to be Russian. I…
Mind the Work Gap
Gillian Godsell talks to Jocelyn Smith, development & entrepreneurship consultant; Leigh-Ann Moulder, The corporate Ladder…
BEE – Helping or hurting?
The SAIRR’s Anthea Jeffery tells Paul Pereira about her new book, and how race-based law…
Third World Child
GG Alcock tells Paul Pereira about his journey from rural Msinga to running the Minanawe…
Creativity as a Critical Thinking Tool
Last week, I was blessed to attend and present a workshop at The 9th Annual…
Growing the Bara Children’s Burns Unit
Dr David Kloek of the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital Paediatric Burns Unit, along with volunteer…
Choose What You Wear
JEPPE GIRLS VALEDICTORY OCTOBER 2014 The very first time you wrote the…
A Nation in its Twenties
In their weekly PowerFM chat, Azania Mosaka and Paul Pereira talk about what it means…
A Nation of Shoppers
GIBS marketing lecturer Kerry Chipp on a new survey of South African shopping mall habits…