Employment equity, skills development and management control are vital indicators of broad-based empowerment, but they are also areas of low BEE progress. Equity transfer is still king, though this must change if BEE is going to be broad-based. This has emerged from the two baseline studies into BEE.
The earliest examples of women scientists come from Africa — in the persons of the Egyptian physician Merit Ptah, who practised medicine around 2700BC, and Zipporah, a physician who lived around 1500BC. Ancient Egyptian women were free to attend medical school with men or attend one exclusively for them at Sais.
Carren Ginsburg’s research ventures into areas where few women scientists have gone before. Not only is she combining two divergent disciplines of research, but her PhD study also has a strong emphasis on innovative statistical modelling techniques that have not yet been applied to longitudinal data analysis in the South African context.
Type 1 diabetes is threatening the lives of about 17-million people worldwide, and this number is increasing. The financial burden associated with the treatment of this serious, debilitating disease is enormous. Early diagnosis and intervention are vital in the fight against the life-threatening complications of the disease.
In South Africa, Women’s Month is celebrated as a reminder of the contributions made by women to society, the achievements towards women’s rights and an acknowledgement of the difficulties and prejudices many women still face. Women have come a long way from those early days when a woman’s place was in the kitchen. They have become a force to be reckoned with — even in former male strongholds.
Constantine Rodriguez had just fetched chilli peppers and was going out to get some onions when he heard the siren for an incoming rocket. All he remembers was a door blasting open and a loud explosion. He is lucky to be alive, said Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Martin, the surgeon who treated him earlier this month at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad.
Nedbank is making things happen in a number of rural communities in the Eastern Cape. It has opened a mobile branch in Centane and another branch, called the Green Shop, will open as soon as it is built. Working with Pick ‘n Pay Group stores, Nedbank has opened an in-store branch at Boxer Superstores, one of the Pick ‘n Pay Group stores.
”After having collected the money from [Charles] Modise, I gave it to the general secretary of the SACP [Nzimande]. Why I did not take it to the bank is again part of the information contained in the affidavit that I have given to the police,” says Willie Madisha who spoke to the Mail & Guardian‘s Matuma Letsoalo about the disputed R500 000 donation to the SACP.
Before focusing on retention strategies, one should focus more time and energy in the executive search and selection process up front. An in-depth process aligning the individual’s goals or aspirations with what the organisation has to offer in terms of current and future prospects is necessary to ensure that future expectations can be met for both parties.
Two recently released reports on BEE are typically South African and expose a racial gulf. The one commissioned by the Presidential Black Business Working Group (PBBWG) spoke of 75% non-compliance. The survey released by a white-owned auditing firm, KPMG, spoke of a success rate of well over 75%.