| Letter from our MD |
Greetings,
The year is drawing to a close at a rapid speed and I’m sure I’m not alone when I look back and wonder where the time has gone. |
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We’ve been busy at Empowerdex and in our 5th edition we bring you some of the news that has been keeping us on our toes, ensuring that we remain a leader in the B-BBEE industry. We are proud to bring you the details of the illustrious Trailblazer gala dinner where we celebrate the inspirational black business leaders shaping the future of our country.
The Financial Mail and The Times featured a report compiled by Citydex, a division of Empowerdex. Read more as they report on a "Year-on-year Analysis of Municipal Financial Statements". Read more on Empowerdex's joint venture with Blackpages and Softline Pastel (BEE123).
Other regulars include Empowerdex in the news and featured NGO; OneVoice, whose head office is in Durban.
Until next time, stay informed.
Lerato Ratsoma
Managing Director |
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| Empowerdex in the News |
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Are SA councillors dumb and dumber
While the ideas of some politicians and their financial advisers might be noble, they also strike me as being downright stupid. Here’s the concept: you are owed a lot of money, so you reduce the amount you’re owed to make it easier for your debtors to pay you.
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Kelly hits out at fronting report
Listed employment services provider Kelly Group has dismissed, as “unfounded”, a report that questions its empowerment credentials.
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When it comes to influence, Ramaphosa’s tops
Cyril Ramaphosa was announced as the most influential black director of listed companies in SA on Friday evening.
Read more...
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| Citydex |
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The team at Citydex, part of the Empowerdex stable, have been doing some great work and have compiled a document on the following: "Year-on-year |
Analysis of Municipal Financial Statements". See the insert that featured in the Financial Mail as well as a feature in The Times newspaper.
Go to the home page of our website www.empowerdex.com and read more under 'Empowerdex News, The Times: Municipal Finances hampered by debt and Financial Mail: Municipal Spending.’
"Year-on-year Analysis of Municipal Financial Statements". |
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| Trailblazer |
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The Most Influential, Most Powerful, Most Admired Trailblazer of 2010 has been chosen: Cyril Ramaphosa is South Africa’s most influential director for 2010. Brought to you by Empowerdex, Citadel, Business Times and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. It is once again time to celebrate the inspirational black business leaders shaping the future of our country. The Trailblazers initiative is known for the calibre of the powerful people it acknowledges.
The illustrious gala awards dinner, which was scheduled for the 16th of October 2010, was a special affair where South Africa’s most revered pioneers gathered to pay tribute to their colleagues and friends. Attending the evening from Empowerdex, with their respective partners, were Chia-Chao Wu, Lerato Ratsoma, Jenny Stumbles, Steven Hawes, with Vuyo Jack as one of the speakers. Read more...
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| Shanduka Blackumbrellas |
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Empowerdex has entered into a joint venture with Blackpages and Softline Pastel (BEE123). Instead of the usual |
price of R1 083, for just R524.40 (including VAT)*, the agreement offers: * An Empowerdex EME certificate (valid for 12 months) and
* A 12 month listing in BEE123’s directory. BEE123 is Softline Pastel’s soon to be launched BEE portal and will offer incomparable preferential procurement and enterprise development exposure to Softline Pastel’s 200 000 client user base and Empowerdex’s BEE focused database.
The benefits to members are immediate. Following a business transaction, members can send their B-BBEE certificates to clients, thus fast tracking the procurement points process for their clients. This increases opportunities to achieve and retain a ‘preferred access’ status with local companies and government departments.
* This offer is available only to businesses listed in the blackpages
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Featured NGO – OneVoice
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OneVoice South Africa is a vibrant and unique non-governmental organisation, which uses innovative and creative ways of actively involving young people in HIV and AIDS prevention. Our
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programme is appealing to young people because it provides them with a platform to discuss and address HIV and AIDS, sexual reproductive health, gender and human rights issues.Being a young person in South Africa is not always easy. Growing up is a journey often burdened with the effects of a seemingly unrelenting AIDS epidemic, educational systems still recovering from the country’s previous inequalities – and the inevitable trials and tribulations of negotiating adolescence. Read more...
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