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<b>Finalist – Corporations:</b> Eskom Cairn Lemon Project
David Mabaso can tell you a thing or two about the sweet and sour of life. The tall, 38-year-old son of farm labourers at Cairn Farm near Nelspruit, is a hero in his community after playing a central role in preventing them from being evicted and for negotiating tirelessly to get them a 45ha lemon orchard.
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/ 6 November 2003
You don’t have to be the chairperson of a multibillion-rand company with millions invested in a foundation or trust to get involved in corporate social investment (CSI). Employees earning a weekly wage can make as important a contribution as their bosses.
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Girls aged between 14 and 18 start applying their minds to career and education choices, so this is a good age at which to prevent their choices from being influenced by gender stereotyping. This was the reason why, on May 8 this year, more than 2 500 girl children from schools in disadvantaged communities across the country were invited to participate in Cell C’s Take a Girl Child to Work Day.
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Unless companies do research into the needs of the communities their corporate social investment projects will touch, they will not know at the end of the project whether they have satisfied any needs at all. Lulu Khumalo provides advice about one of the most basic requirements for a successful CSI initiative.
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Businesses must be careful not to impose on people what they think they need or what the companies want. A number of corporate social investment (CSI) projects that have been undertaken by companies have turned into white elephants because the companies may not have researched the needs of the community for which the initiative is intended.
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/ 6 November 2003
For those who havn’t noticed the writing on the wall, the increasing glare from the thinning ozone layer, causing you to need to wear sunglasses and the increasing incidents of skin cancers and cataracts, is a death sentence to all animal and birdlife — who can’t put on protective glasses and thus will gradually be blinded and become extinct. Ian Fraser takes a look at the bigger picture.
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The Springboks have not beaten New Zealand since Nick Mallett’s penultimate test as Springbok coach three years ago. In Pretoria this year the All Blacks racked up a half century of points against the Boks in the most embarrassingly one sided encounter ever between the two old rivals. So why is it that there is a strange sense of optimism ahead of Saturday’s quarterfinal in Melbourne?
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Playpumps have made collecting water in many rural areas fun. Children on brightly painted merry-go-rounds make the task easier for thousands of women who walk a long way to a water source. The merry-go-rounds’ action pumps water from an underground source into an overhead reservoir, using a patented South African invention called a playpump.
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First National Bank (FNB) is one of the South African banks that measures it success by its contribution to community development, not only by growth in profits.
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/ 6 November 2003
The days are rushing past, and so are the minutes and seconds before Bafana Bafana national coach Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba is set to announce his final 22 players for the Nations Cup in Tunisia in January next year. But will he have enough time to make them gel to take on the Nigerians, Morocco and Benin?