CSI Benchmarking Tool
South Africa’s free online CSI benchmarking tool. Facilitated and sponsored by Nation Builder, this world-first…
Planning CSI with a business mindset
Now that you’ve decided that your company’s approach to CSI is going to be strategic,…
Monitoring: The cruise control of CSI
Corporate social investment (CSI) that is well managed will be taken as seriously by a…
CSI project evaluation: Looking back at your journey
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a critical part of best practice CSI. It is the…
CSI comms for developmental effect
Cultivating good relationships involves good communication: with each other, as well as with other stakeholders….
The DA is in great danger
Remarks by Paul Pereira to the Democratic Alliance Johannesburg City Councillor strategy workshop, Hunter’s Rest,…
SA’s unique social investment history
Opening address by Paul Pereira to the annual Nation Builder “In Good Company” conference, Pretoria, 15 August 2017. The…
Having businesses is a critical good.
Then SA companies do a lot more – for human rights By Paul Pereira Although…
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…
Informal assumptions defying reality
Informal assumptions defying reality “Kasinomics” author and township marketer GG Alcock lifts the curtain a…
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…
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…
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…
The Criminal Underworld
Paul Pereira tells PowerFM’s Azania Mosaka of a tipping point in SA’s fight against organised…
Beating organised crime
IRS Forensic Investigations chairman Chad Thomas on how crime bosses work together but are beginning…
Memories of Pondoland
By Tony McGregor Move to Buntingville In 1960 my family moved to Buntingville, a former…
Let’s Name SA’s Turkey
By Hilton Hamann I am, quite often, prejudiced and bigoted. I’m not proud of it…
Greener grass on whose side?
Azania Mosaka and Paul Pereira talking on PowerFM about who is leaving SA, and who is…
Schools that Unlock Learning
Part 2 of Don Millwood’s description of the Creating Schools Trust approach to schools that…
Verwoerd, Zuma and the Chiefs
By William Beinart It may seem mischievous to suggest that Jacob Zuma’s thinking on chiefs…
Drinking with Ghosts
Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism Michael Schmidt discusses themes from…