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Greetings,
Welcome to the fourth edition of our newsletter. We are excited about growing our news-letter and welcome any feedback.
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In this issue we introduce Envirodex, a new division of Empowerdex. The main focus of this consultancy is to aid businesses in accurately determining the sustainability issues they are faced with. Due to popular demand, we bring you more details on our prized Certified Empowerment Contributor Trademark logo, who should use it and how. We feature one of Vuyo Jack's columns under Black Jack as he gives his opinion on an empowerment deal from 'cradle to grave'. Other regulars include Empowerdex in the news and featured NGO; Tsiba Education.
We'd like to wish all our Muslim staff and customers well over the holy month of Ramadaan.
Until next time, stay informed.
Thank you!
Lerato Ratsoma
Managing Director
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| Empowerdex in the News |
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Black managers remain too few
Increasing the number of black staff in senior management and disabled employment remained a challenge despite Altron's companies being more than half of the way to meeting empowerment targets by 2012, it said yesterday.
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Makana increases stake in Cadiz - acquires a further 5% stake
Cape Town - Cadiz Holdings (JSE:CDZ) today announced that its strategic empowerment partner, Makana Investment Corporation (Makana), will increase its effective shareholding in the company to 15% following the acquisition of a further 5% stake.
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Bytes Document Solutions boosts BBBEE rating to Level 2
Bytes Document Solutions, the authorised Xerox distributor to 27 African countries, has been noted as one of the most empowered office automation companies in South Africa after being audited by Empowerdex, an accredited verification agency. The company has improved its BEE status from a Level 3 to a Level 2 Contributor, as well as being a Value-Adding Enterprise.
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| Envirodex |
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Empowerdex has launched its division Envirodex. It is a consultancy focused on aiding business to |
accurately determine sustainability issues facing the business and its stakeholders, report on sustainability issues according to globally accepted standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and the Water Disclosure Project (WDP) and manage the transition of the business into the low-carbon economy of the future.
Services offered include:Carbon Economy Advisory and Training, Carbon Footprint Management, Energy Efficiency Analysis, Sustainability Reporting Advisory, Data Retrieval and Collation, Sustainability Reporting Assurance, Green Project Development. Read more…
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| Certified Empowerment Contributor Trademark |
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The Certified Empowerment Contributor trademark is a status which may ONLY be used by companies that have been rated by EMPOWERDEX, South Africa's leading verification agency. The introduction of the Certified Empowerment Contributor tardemark is intended to enhance the credibility of your company's BEE status by allowing you the privilege of proudly displaying this token of your company’s commitment to BEE.
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Companies that have been rated by EMPOWERDEX and wish to exhibit the Certified Empowerment Contributor status, may use the trademark on corporate stationery, marketing material and websites.
Who may use the Certified Empowerment Contributor trademark? Read more…
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| Black Jack |
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Life of an empowerment deal from cradle to grave
Last week at the National Empowerment Fund’s Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment 2020 Vision conference the ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa commented that when empowerment deals and initiatives are launched there is a lot of fanfare around their birth. However, when they fail, there is no funeral that is held and no post-mortems as to what caused their demise.
This was a very interesting idea that I would like to explore by looking at the life of a black economic empowerment initiative from cradle to grave. Read more…
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Featured NGO – TSIBA Education
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The Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA) is a private provider of Higher Education in business. TSiBA offers a unique Foundation Year Certificate in Business Administration followed by an enriched Bachelor in Business Administration focused on Entrepreneurial Leadership. |
TSiBA specifically targets scholars and potential students that would otherwise not have access to tertiary level education, by offering successful applicants full tuition scholarships. Read more…
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