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/ 4 November 2003
At least 85% of the Top 100 companies listed on the JSE Securities Exchange provided annual reports on sustainability-related issues this year, according to professional services firm KPMG.
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/ 4 November 2003
<b>Finalist</b> – Corporations Absa Saldanha Mussel Farming Project
There may not be mussels on the dinner table at Elizabeth January’s home, but the sea’s muscle nevertheless put food on the table. She is one of the 18 shareholders in the Saldanha Mussel Growers’ Company.
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/ 4 November 2003
<b>Finalist</b> – Corporations Investec Cida City Campus
Opened to its first students in January 2000, Cida is provisionally registered as a private higher-education institution with the ability to award a degree. The number of students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds has increased from about 100 in 2000 to more than 1 500 this year.
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/ 4 November 2003
The term “triple bottom line”, also known as sustainability, refers to how business makes its money. It is about adopting balanced social, environmental and economic performance. This is where the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Investing in the Future and its sister competition, Greening the Future, step in.
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/ 4 November 2003
The symbol of the South African economy today is no longer the miner in a hard hat of the mid-1980s. The person standing at the traffic lights with a poster board saying “No Job" is also a symbol of the worker of today, testimony to the fact that one in three economically active South Africans is unemployed.
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/ 4 November 2003
The Old Mutual Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) network has more than 20 “champions”, affecting the lives of about 3,4-million people from 18 communities in six of the country’s nine provinces. The primary champions mentor hundreds of other champions and, in the process, more than 15 000 volunteers have been mobilised over the years.
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<b>Winner – Corporations</b>: Old Mutual Rural Economic Development Initiative
Recognising that there is rampant poverty yet huge potential in South Africa’s rural areas, the Old Mutual Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) set out to mobilise resources and stimulate economic development in those areas.
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/ 4 November 2003
The panel of judges for the Investing in the Future Awards 2003 comprised specialists in the field of corporate social investment. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> thanks them for their hard work in choosing deserving finalists and winners from the 31 quality entries in this year’s competition. The judges were:
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/ 4 November 2003
The resolution of land claims remains a key challenge for our young democracy and the land struggle by the Richtersveld community revealed that the courts appear to possess far more wisdom than the government in dealing with this problem. Thanks to the courts, justice has been restored.
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/ 4 November 2003
Petrochemical giant Sasol used last week to reflect on a trying year in which profits came under severe pressure from the strengthening rand, and the group suffered an explosion in its National Petroleum Refiners of South Africa refinery in Sasolburg while struggling to dispose of a plant in The Netherlands.