Not only large corporates need to engage in CSI / CSR, says MD of PR Worx, Madelain Roscher,
SMEs need to get involved as well. According to Roscher, companies will see benefits in terms of brand recognition, increased sales, return on investment (ROI), tax benefits, and, most importantly, fostering trust with employees and the general public - all that while contributing to a greater good... What are you waiting for?!
Remember the ladies in orange at the 2010 FIFA World Cup who were accused of ambushing marketing for Bavaria? Well, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has warned that
he'll be having none of that during AFCON 2013. Davies plans to designate the sporting event as a "protected event" to ensure stringent advertising laws are enforced.
Former MTN CEO Phuthuma Nhleko is a wanted man -
wanted by Anglo American that is, to take the helm. While chairman John Parker sings his praises, a London-based mining analyst doesn't believe him to be the right man for the job, citing lack of operational mining experience.
It's not often that the big guy lends a helping hand to the little start-up, but here's a little heart-warmer for you; as part of its Enterprise Development Initiative, Cape Town's Protea Hotel Victoria Junction has
signed a "twinning" agreement with a local guest house in Thornton. In order to help the guest house owner, Khanyisa Balfour, put her best foot forward and realise her life-long ambition, the Protea Hotel Victoria Junction management team will provide expertise and training to the guest house owner.
Let's all put our best foot forward into what's left of 2012!
Sindy Peters: Group Head, Content
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At a recent conference, 'Living with World Heritage in Africa', which described the activities of the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile called on corporate South Africa to support the fund, which is producing a coffee table book that will take the reader through a selection of the unmissable places of outstanding universal value. 
The world is barrelling down a path to heat up by 4°C at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heatwaves, declining global food stocks and a sea level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people. 
From blue factory to ocean blue - Volkswagen Group South Africa is forging ahead with plans to turn its "brown" factory site into a "green" one and to play an important role in saving the environment. 
Dwindling profitability and water scarcity mean that South Africa has less than two thirds of the number of food producing farms it had in the early 1990s, says the latest agricultural trends report by the World Wide Fund for Nature. 
Greener motoring turned out to be a hit with schoolchildren who attended the most recent Project DAD event on 6 November 2012. Project DAD is an ongoing initiative to combat drinking and driving and promote road safety among young people. 
Serco and SPAR SA have worked together to develop a prototype of a new concept trailer designed to help reduce fuel costs and carbon dioxide emissions while at the same time being highly practical to load. 
