Creating a company’s shared value
South Africa Strategic social investment is more than the traditional concept of charity and philanthropy;…
CSI – what it is, and what it isn’t
Corporate Social Investment (CSI) is often used interchangeably with other concepts like corporate social responsibility…
Protecting CSI from colleagues
Some companies, especially larger ones, create nominally independent trusts or foundations to manage their CSI….
Launching the Nation Builder impact reporting guide – Join us!
Join 300 of us on Thursday 25th March 2021 for the launch of Nation Builder’s…
Empowerment is about people, not things
Of the many things to get right in excellent social investment, the most difficult is…
SA’s in-school nutrition landscape
The Tiger Brands Foundation (TBF) commissioned Accenture to review in-school nutrition programmes across SA, including…
Nurturing a Nation’s Potential
The Tiger Brands Foundation has released its 2020 annual report, detailing its in-school nutrition programme…
Covid-19: Hunger is never on lockdown
Food security programmes have attracted greater attention from social investors in recent years. This trend…
C19: Social investors in an economic squeeze
SA’s efforts to contain the spread of the Coronavirus come at a high cost of…
Sin taxes – the over-reach of doing good
Trying for a healthier citizenry by discouraging the use of legal products like sugar, tobacco…
When CSI is the tipping point
If you imagine that CSI can transform SA, then you’re doing it wrong… By Paul…
Verwoerd, Zuma and the Chiefs
By William Beinart It may seem mischievous to suggest that Jacob Zuma’s thinking on chiefs…
Neither miracle nor apocalypse
By Paul Pereira We have experienced neither miracle nor apocalypse in the changes we see…
First they came for the miners…
Martin Brassey SC says that weak-kneed courts are opening the door to expropriation without compensation….
Lynching Mogoeng, burning the church
By Paul Pereira As he addressed a conference on religion, morality and the law in…
WHAM! Media Background Brief – Africa Rising?
SECTIONS (Click to Jump): The Continental Context The global rise of Africa Africa – the…
Red overalls
VIVA RED OVERALLS! VIVA DEMOCRACY! Can we please celebrate red overalls in Parliament? Not…
South African public schools: the good, the bad, the best. Part two
I think we may have forgotten just how divided we were in the past. Under…
South African public schools; the good, the bad, the best. Part one
PUBLIC SCHOOLS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE BEST. Talk given at the Tshikululu/IQ business Serious…
Discourse of Disillusion
By Paul Pereira This time next year we may well think we’ve been through the…
Riots: “Police under siege”
By Paul Pereira This week’s burning down of a library in Bronkhorstspruit by protesters angry…
Expats come home – but we need more. South Africa calls…
By Paul Pereira Since 1994, South Africa has suffered a net loss of highly skilled…
Whisper it Softly – Our Schools are Getting Better …
By Paul Pereira [symple_divider style=”solid” margin_top=”20px” margin_bottom=”20px”] This week Minister of Basic…
Races mixing it up
Last month’s mourning on the death of former President Nelson Mandela had an almost Diana-esque…
SA’s “Muddle Through” is Okay
A year’s beginning is always a good time for refreshing hope, but realism is key….
Counting Blessings
By Paul Pereira There must be few countries where the discussion about…
The rise of SA’s women entrepreneurs
By Paul Pereira For all the improvements in living conditions, income, health and longevity these…
Companies play ball with NPOs
In this season of giving, it is perhaps encouraging to note that the private sector…
A Plan Fanciful Enough to Consider
By Paul Pereira As South Africa gets ready for a long general election campaign that…
The end of “over-population”
The past two centuries have seen such exponential population growth across the world that the…
Unions in decline
As our trade unions flex their muscles in a year that has been a reminder…
A Healthier Continent Could get Better
Of all the things we can measure when looking at how society is faring, surely…
Our MPs crowd our jails
Nobody likes prisoners and nobody wants to be one. But the state of a country’s…
Today In Fact, 22 October
The end of the World was supposed to happen today in 1844. The followers of…
Unification is slow and difficult
It is 22 years since the reunification of Germany, just under 20 years since South…