South African Business 2017 edition
South African Business is a unique guide to business and investment in South Africa. In addition to an up-to-date economic overview of the country, analyses of the main industrial sectors, plus profiles of the nine provincial economies, the 2017 edition of South African Business includes special features on key topical issues such as skills development and education, renewable energy and the REIPPPP programme, and trade with Africa.
South African Business is a unique guide to business and investment in South Africa. In addition to an up-to-date economic overview of the country, analyses of the main industrial sectors, plus profiles of the nine provincial economies, the 2017 edition of South African Business includes special features on key topical issues such as skills development and education, renewable energy and the REIPPPP programme, and trade with Africa.
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INTERVIEW<br />
useful life. The challenge with extended fiduciary<br />
responsibility is that we’re looking to industries in<br />
the manufacturing sector to solve this problem,<br />
and that’s why we say that it's wrong to make the<br />
boss the gardener.<br />
I’m always astonished by the level of innovation<br />
that I am privileged to see among low-skilled<br />
workers. They are so capable and bursting with<br />
potential, but the problem is that we’re not yet<br />
taking the opportunity to these people, and that’s<br />
why it’s important to get them into the system.<br />
Once these people have been brought into the<br />
supply chain we ensure they have access to accredited<br />
courses and skills development to ensure<br />
that they have the opportunity to improve<br />
their own skill levels so they can migrate up the<br />
value chain.<br />
"I ALWAYS SAY THAT YOU<br />
CAN’T BRING A JAPANESE<br />
MODEL AND APPLY IT TO<br />
AFRICA."<br />
Why is the circular economy so important?<br />
When we deplete all of our virgin resources, recycling<br />
will be the only place that we will be able to<br />
get these resources from, so it makes sense from a<br />
strategic perspective. Building a circular economy<br />
requires a strong plan for recycling waste, which<br />
requires that you ensure that recyclable material<br />
is always picked up and put back into the system.<br />
Please give us some background to data<br />
sanitisation and a community-based<br />
marketing strategy.<br />
Data is a problem in <strong>South</strong> Africa, specifically for<br />
us because most of the communities that REDISA’s<br />
initiative aims to empower are informal, so they<br />
don’t have a formal address and so on. How we look<br />
to overcome the problem is through the mobile<br />
technology that we use, a lot of which is GPS-based.<br />
For instance, our registration process is done via<br />
mobile technology so we’re able to utilise where<br />
the person lives and works based on where they’re<br />
registered and, from that, we can factor their details<br />
into a system.<br />
One of the challenges for a community-based<br />
organisation is that, when it comes to driving out<br />
social impact, I believe that the perception of these<br />
organisations needs to change. The challenge is so<br />
big that you need to attract the right kinds of minds<br />
because, if you are dealing with public and social<br />
issues, you need to be the best of the best driving<br />
your initiatives. However, if you want to attract foreign<br />
investment, for example, then you need to be<br />
able to demonstrate the return on that investment.<br />
In other words, you need to demonstrate the impact<br />
that you are making.<br />
CONTACT INFO<br />
Tel: 087-35-73873<br />
Email: customersupport@redisa.org.za<br />
Website: www.redisa.org.za<br />
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