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Towards 100 years of selﬂess struggle We have come this far, we will soon be celebrating a century of transforming the nation and a better life for all. We shared our ideals of life in 1955 and shared with the world. We have walked a ‘long walk to freedom’. We have served our people and we will continue to do so. All nations around the world will soon be on our shores - AGAIN - to witness the strength and spirit of a nation built on a solid, world-class democracy. Nakupenda ANC. Nakupenda Michael Butibuti Kenasi Mogotsi “Kwena Ya Barolong, TLOU”

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As a pioneer in the field of transformation through economic endeavour, Thebe is always conscious of the need to promote economic inclusiveness, and to support the development of the communities that continue to be on the periphery of the South African economy. It's for this reason that we decided to focus our social investment strategy on educational development programmes. We also endeavour to source valuable skills from our wide network to augment the efforts of our investee companies to create professional and multicultural environments. This is our social pact to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit in all communities. As part of our enterprise development initiatives, Thebe funds a mentorship programme for 15 SMMEs in the Soweto Tourism Cluster. The Group also sponsors the University of Johannesburg's Small Business Enrichment Programme, which accommodates 50 entrepreneurs from Soweto, in an effort to ensure growth and sustainability in their business. Through our Student Sponsorship Programme (SSP), Thebe also provides five-year grants to disadvantaged but promising students, enabling them to complete their education in South Africa's top high schools. In addition, Thebe supports the Medical University of Limpopo to develop its black faculty through the sponsorship of super-specialists. Thebe has recently established the Thebe Foundation, a further development in Thebe's commitment to empowering communities through business. Though founded by Thebe, the Foundation functions as an independent trust with the aim of partnering with a wide range of organisations and companies in the public and private sector. The Foundation's primary focus is on education and healthcare, aiming to create a centre of developmental excellence in support Thebe's commitment to adding value to all stakeholders.

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hen the African National Congress was formed in 1912, its founders called on the peoples of Africa to cast aside the divisions and ‘jealousies’ that the colonial powers had used to gain control of their lives. It was these divisions, they argued, that were responsible for holding back the struggles for national liberation. Since then, and throughout its existence, the ANC has remained at the forefront of the struggle to build a united South Africa and a united continent. The achievement of democracy in 1994 was the result of a common determination to build a shared future. It was a victory for unity over division; for equality over discrimination. It was a tribute to the vision of those founders, and to the millions of people who, inspired by this call, struggled to achieve a free and united nation. South Africa is a diverse country. For much of its history, this diversity was used as a means to discriminate, oppress and dominate. Yet, over the course of the last century, the people of South Africa have managed to turn this logic on its head. Rather than being our greatest weakness, our nation’s diversity is our greatest strength. Once we accept that we share a common destiny, then we are able, together, to confront our shared challenges. We are able to call on the great range of experiences, insights and

capabilities that this nation possesses to find innovative and lasting solutions that serve the interests of all our people. From its formation, the ANC has sought to promote inclusiveness. From the composition of its inaugural conference through to the declarations of the Freedom Charter, the ANC has always resisted efforts to promote the interests of one group to the exclusion of others. More recently, this inclusiveness has been evident in the drafting of our democratic constitution, in the adoption of our national anthem and symbols, in the choice of official languages, and in the policies that have brought about real improvements in the lives of all South Africans. Though we have come far in realising the vision of the founders of our movement, though we have achieved so much, the need for unity is no less important now than it was 100 years ago. Unity cannot be achieved merely by pronouncements or sincere intentions. It needs to be built through a concerted effort to break down the barriers that continue to divide our people. We have done much to break down the legal and political barriers that divided us. We are making progress in breaking down social, cultural and psychological barriers. But we are still confronted by an economic divide that continues to keep much of the country’s majority in poverty, while a minority retains most of the wealth. This

inequality continues to reflect the patterns of racial and gender discrimination of the past. Such levels of inequality undermine our efforts to build a united nation. That is why, as we celebrate this centenary, we should dedicate ourselves to the achievement of equal opportunities for all South Africans. Our experience tells us that, working together, we can overcome even the most intractable of problems. Together, we were able to defeat apartheid and build a democratic society. Together, we have made significant progress in improving the lives of the poor. All our achievements have been made possible because we have placed unity at the centre of all our efforts. It is only through unified action that we will be able to successfully confront the challenge of inequality. Only by working together will we be able to achieve greater economic growth that benefits all South Africans. Only by working together will we be able to create employment and see an improvement in people’s standards of living. As we strive together towards this goal, we need to draw on the great diversity of resources and capabilities that exist in this country. The unity we seek to achieve and the diversity we seek to harness finds no better expression than in the Progressive Business Forum. It is a forum that brings together a broad variety of South African business people, with different abilities, interests and experience. Yet for all their diversity, these people are motivated by a shared desire for a thriving, prosperous and equitable South Africa. The Progressive Business Forum is a prime example of the value of unity in diversity. As we approach the centenary of this movement, let us use these exceptional qualities to work together to advance the struggle for a better life for all.

MESSAGE | PRESIDENT

Celebrating 100 years of unity in diversity

Jacob G. Zuma ANC President 9

An introduction to the ANC leadership

President Jacob Zuma

ANC | who’s who

Inside Luthuli House Jacob Zuma was born in 1942 in Inkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. Influenced by a trade unionist family member, he became involved in politics at an early age, joining the ANC in 1959. He became an active member of Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1962, following the banning of the ANC in 1960. While on his way out of the country in 1963, he was arrested with a group of 45 recruits near Zeerust and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment on Robben Island. After his release, Zuma helped mobilise internal resistance and was instrumental in the re-establishment of ANC underground structures between 1973 and 1975 in the then Natal. He left South Africa in 1975 and became a member of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) in 1977. By the end of the 1980s he was Head of the ANC Intelligence Department. Following the unbanning of the ANC in February 1990, he was one of the first ANC leaders to return to South Africa to begin the process of negotiations. In 1991, at the first ANC conference held in South Africa since 1959, he was elected the Deputy Secretary General. After the 1994 elections, Zuma was appointed MEC of Economic Affairs and Tourism in KwaZulu-Natal. In December 1994, he was elected ANC National Chairperson. He was elected ANC Deputy President in December 1997. He served as Deputy President of South Africa from 1999 to 2005. He was elected ANC President in December 2007. He was sworn in as the fourth President of a democratic South Africa on 9 May 2009.

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe Kgalema Motlanthe was born in 1949. At school he was influenced by the ideologies of the Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko. In 1976 he was detained for 11 months for furthering the aims of the ANC. He was again arrested in 1977 and sentenced to 10 years on Robben Island. After his release in 1987 he served as an organiser and later as General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers. He was elected ANC Secretary General at its Mafikeng conference in 1997, and ANC Deputy President at its Polokwane conference in 2007. In July 2008 he was appointed Minister in the Presidency. From September 2008 to May 2009 he served as President of South Africa. He is currently the Deputy President of South Africa.

National Chairperson Baleka Mbete Baleka Mbete was born in Durban in 1949. In 1974 she joined the KwaMashu Youth Organisation, a NAYO affiliate. She taught English and Afrikaans at Isibonelo High in 1974 and 1975 and was picked up by the police a number of times in 1975 and 1976. She joined the ANC in May 1976 and went into exile. She worked in the ANC’s Department of Information and Publicity and the ANC Women’s Section. Following the unbanning of the ANC, she was Secretary General of the ANC Women’s League from 1991 to 1993. She was elected to the ANC National Executive Committee in 1994. She served as Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly in the first democratic parliament in 1996 and became Speaker in 2004. She was elected ANC National Chairperson in December 2007. She served as Deputy President of South Africa from September 2008 to May 2009.

Secretary General Gwede Mantashe Gwede Mantashe was born in the Transkei village of Cala. His political activist life began in the Student Christian Movement where he chaired its Western Transkei structures. He joined the National Union of Mineworkers while working at Matla Coal in 1982. From 1985 to 1988 he was NUM Regional Secretary in Witbank, and then served as the union’s National Organiser until 1993. From 1994 to 1998 he was Assistant General Secretary, becoming General Secretary in 1998. He stepped down in May 2006, and was appointed an Executive Director at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. In 2007 he was elected Chairperson of the South African Communist Party and was elected ANC Secretary General in December 2007.

Deputy Secretary General Thandi Modise Thandi Modise was born on Christmas Day in 1959 in Huhudi township near Vryburg. In 1976 she slipped over the border into Botswana and was later transferred to Angola where she received training at Nova-Katenga and Funda camps. In 1978 she returned to South Africa and was arrested in 1979. She was released in 1988. Modise served on the ANC Women’s League National Executive Committee from 1991 until 1993, when she was elected the league’s Deputy President. She was chair of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and the Joint Standing Committee on Defence in Parliament from 1998 to 2004. She then served as Speaker in the North-West Provincial Legislature. She was elected ANC Deputy Secretary General in December 2007.

Treasurer General Mathews Phosa Mathews Phosa was born in 1952 in Mbombela township, Nelspruit. Having matriculated with a distinction in agricultural science, Phosa studied law at the then University of the North. He graduated, completed his articles and started a legal firm. He was a leader in the campaigns to resist the incorporation of KaNgwane into Swaziland. He also led the rent boycotts in the Eastern Transvaal. It was during this time, in the early 1980s, that he joined Umkhonto we Sizwe and the ANC underground. Phosa underwent political and military training in the former East Germany, from where he became the Regional Commander for MK in Mozambique. Phosa returned from exile in 1990, one of the first ANC members to return to begin the pre-negotiations talks with the government. He headed the legal section of the ANC’s Department of Constitutional and Legal Affairs. Following the 1994 elections, Phosa became the first Premier of Mpumalanga. In business since 1999, he has served in the Chambers of Commerce and Industry South Africa, the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut and Business Unity South Africa. He is chair of the council of UNISA. He was elected ANC Treasurer General in December 2007. 11

LETTERS | CO-EDITORS

Letter from the Co-Editors I

n our PBF Update on page 14, readers of Progressive Leader will be struck by the success story that the Progressive Business Forum (PBF) has become.

That success is reflected in a number of different ways, and at its core is the empowerment of those who are participants in its unique Programme of Dialogue with ANC senior leaders, Ministers, Deputy Ministers and ANC public representatives from Parliament, provincial legislature and local government. The popularity of this activity of the PBF is clearly demonstrated by the high attendance of such events and the overwhelming support expressed by our participants in our recent feedback engagement by way of a comprehensive questionnaire on what we are offering, which was sent to all our participants. The message was clear; our participants want more of the same, and we will not disappoint them. What also emerges from our latest PBF Update is that our global reach is growing exponentially, and it is clear that in this regard, on the level on which we operate, we are making a significant impact in strengthening economic ties between South Africa and countries with which we engage like China, India, Mauritius, Vietnam and the United Kingdom, to name but a few. Our cover article featured in Progressive Leader No 6 on BRICS was particularly well received and resulted in our being invited to engage directly with nearly 30 foreign missions in South Africa in recent months, including, most recently, the Asian group of countries. Also, directly flowing from our global activities it has been decided to hold a high level PBF colloquium on BRICS and South Africa in the first half of next year and this will serve to further enhance, in a practical way, the value of the highly strategic BRICS relationship. All of this promises a busy and fruitful 2012, a highly significant year in the life of the mother movement of Africa â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the ANC, as it celebrates its centenary throughout 2012. Not only have we devoted much space to this historic milestone in Progressive Leader 7, but the PBF was also honoured to be tasked with leading the production of a prestigious coffee table publication on the leaders of the ANC over the last 100 years entitled Unity In Diversity â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 100 Years of ANC Leadership, details of which appear on page 34 in this issue of Progressive Leader. All in all, 2012 promises to be a highly significant year in the life of the ANC and we have pleasure in wishing all our readers a happy festive season and a successful 2012. Renier Schoeman and Daryl Swanepoel CO-EDITORS

Renier Schoeman

Daryl Swanepoel

Co-Editors: Renier Schoeman and Daryl Swanepoel Managing editor: Elizabeth Donaldson Chief Albert Luthuli House 54 Sauer Street Johannesburg 2001

Art director: Tumi Sibambo Graphic designer: Buyisiwe Dlamini Contributors: Lebohang Thulo, Steyn Speed, Christo Owen van der Rheede, Dion Viljoen, Loren Shirley-Carr and Lynne Yates Progressive Leader is published by Ballyhoo Media. Opinions expressed in Progressive Leader are not necessarily those of Ballyhoo Media or the Progressive Business Forum. No responsibility can be accepted for errors, as all information is believed to be correct at the time of going to print. Copyright subsists in all work in this magazine. Any reproduction or adaptation, in whole or in part, without written permission of the publishers is strictly prohibited and is an act of copyright infringement which may, in certain circumstances constitute a criminal offence.

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LETTERS | HAVE YOUR SAY

From our readers... China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Guangzhou Committee presents its compliments to you, Progressive Business Forum. With the great assistance you and your prestigious organisation extended to us, the Africa-Guangzhou Economic Business Week and the China (Guangzhou)-South Africa (Johannesburg) Economic & Business Forum, organised by both of us on 8 June 2011, achieved great success. We are glad to see this event has deepened the understanding and strengthened the friendship between our two sides. We hereby extend our sincere gratitude to your prestigious organisation. We wish to further our communication and build a closer relationship between us in the hope of promoting economic and trade cooperation between South Africa and Guangzhou! Zeng Kaizhang, President China Council for the Promotion of International Trade â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Guangzhou Committee

By all accounts, the Korean Expo 2011 Africa was a complete success. Deputy Minister of Knowledge Economy Han and KOTRA President / CEO Hong were very satisfied with the expo, as were participating Korean companies. PBF came out in full force and this was very much appreciated. PBFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lesley Tuchten was a star performer. She made a real difference in reaching out to the PBF membership and in identifying appropriate members to participate in our special focus session: Africa Project Plaza 2011. Lesley and I spoke at least twice daily during the couple of weeks before the expo. Lesley is a real pro. Minister Davies, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Tau, BLSA President Macozoma, TIKZN CEO Gwala, and other prominent South African leaders took part in the opening ceremony. To sum it up, this was another example of the outstanding working relationship / partnership evolving between KOTRA and PBF. Thank you for your outstanding cooperation. Russell W Hawkins Program Counsellor Korea Business Centre, JHB Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency

Thank you for the copy of Progressive Leader. It is an excellent and highly informative publication. Well done and keep up the good work. The magazine serves as an information tool in our work at the Mission. Anil Sooklal SA Embassy: Brussels

Thank you very much for your excellent report on the business-to-business networking session in Vietnam. The PBF is indeed doing sterling work and I am sure we will see the results in our export figures. FC Verwey Dir: South East Asia Department of International Relations and Cooperation

On the PBF visit to the China Harbin International Economic and Trade Fair: It was my first trip with the ANC PBF and I must indicate that everyone in the team made my experience worth remembering. I thank you all and wish all of you the best in your business. Daniel Sedibeng Managing Director Sheleba Technologies

We at Oxygen for Life SA (Pty) Ltd would like to thank you most sincerely for distributing our Cellfood and Group Wellness Programme Special Offer to other PBF members. We are very pleased to say that we have already had two approaches from other PBF members in this regard. Your programme is obviously helping to promote business, create employment, etc. Keep it up. John Verhoog Operations Director Oxygen for Life SA (Pty) Ltd

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PL | CONTENTS

Inside Progressive Leader 23

LETTERS 9 12 14

CENTENARY FOCUS 23 24

30 34 38

Centenary Focus Cover ANC Chairperson Baleka Mbete: On the shoulders of giants President Jacob Zuma: ANC lives! ANC leads! Centenary Celebrations Programme ANC Centenary Book Review

FEATURES 42 62 68 76

PEOPLE 48 86

GURUS 20 52

60 66 81

Letter from the President Letter from the Co-Editors Letters Page

In the Fast Lane: Update on the 25 motor industry Infrastructure: E-government Cultural Legacy: Constitution Hill City Focus: Mangaung

Business Profile: Zamani Letjane Entrepreneurs: PBF People in Business

Simphiwe Dana: Education Sydney Mokwena: Sales Allan Reddy: Tourism

OPINION 54

Planning Minister Trevor Manuel on the global economic meltdown Minister of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Collins Chabane on service delivery Professor Christo Owen van der Rheede on language as an economic tool PBF Co-Convener Daryl Swanepoel on the China-Africa Think Tank Forum

REGULARS 11 16 18 74 93 94 114 144

Inside Luthuli House About the PBF PBF Update PBF Give Back News from Parliament PBF Linkages PBF Networking Events Parting Shot

Rapelang Rabana: Business Sally Stromnes: Environment 15

PBF | ABOUT

Join the Progressive Business Forum

ince 1994, the ANC-led government has worked tirelessly to transform the South African economy, through fundamental macroeconomic reforms, into a robust and vibrant economy characterised by good monetary and fiscal policy. The result has been a prolonged period of uninterrupted economic growth unprecedented in the history of the country. The sound financial system created by the ANC-led government has also helped to protect South Africa from the worst of the global banking, housing and credit crisis, and in a period when others are experiencing or projecting recession, South Africa is less exposed. Effective communication between government and the business community has been vital to the economic successes we have achieved in the past. This has traditionally been conducted at the formal level through entities such as Nedlac and with organised business groups. Now in order to continue facilitating effective and vital communication between government and all sectors and sizes of business, the ANC would like to invite you to join our business group, the Progressive Business Forum (PBF), formed in 2006 with the primary objective of creating an ongoing dialogue between the ANC and the business community.

Beneﬁts to participants

Sustained economic growth and prosperity requires ongoing dialogue between the business community and the country’s policymakers. The PBF provides you and your business concerns with the opportunity to contribute to that dialogue by sharing your aspirations and concerns. As a participant you will be part of an informal mechanism for frank and open discussion between the business community and ANC government leaders. As a member of the PBF, you will: •

be invited to intimate and exclusive events organised specifically for the PBF that will be structured in a way that maximises honest two-way discussion;

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enjoy an effective platform to get a clear understanding of government policy as it affects you and an opportunity for you to express your views and explain the impact of government policy on your business;

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receive information bulletins and documents from our policy team;

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have the opportunity to join ANC-led international trade missions and conferences, enabling you to promote your products and services internationally;

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save money with specially negotiated discount schemes for PBF participants on various products and services, including discounted airfares;

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be able to participate in our Growth Assist Programme, which has been designed to support you in growing your business by giving you access to complimentary training and consultations and exposing you to experts on a variety of relevant subjects such as business growth strategies, tax management, financial management and so forth;

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be able to attend regular courses presented under the SMME training programme; and

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have access to a PBF participants-only helpdesk for advice and guidance from experienced staff and consulting associates.

To join or contact the PBF, send your details to pbfhelpdesk@anc.org.za or go to www.anc.org.za/pbf/index.php for more information 16

Our Vision: To be leading a diversified construction company in the areas where we choose to operate.

Our Core Values: *Customer Service

Our Mission: To become a trendsetter in service delivery , always upholding ethical standards and thereby creating value for our clients. Our Culture: We believe that the strength of our business lies within the quality of our people. The culture of innovation and constant commitment to provide quality service is shared by all within the organization.

*Honesty and Integrity *Professionalism *Passion *Technical Excellence *Safety

LEGNA was founded by Ms Angel Mazubane, and is a young, dynamic and vibrant organization whose core activities include General Construction and Renovations, Civil Construction, Railway Track Maintenance and Protection, and Project Management. The secret behind Legna’s success and growth has been the calibre, expertise, prowess and professionalism of its employees and leadership. Our philosophy is to attract the best possible talent within the areas where we operate. The culture of innovation and constant commitment to provide quality service is shared by all within the organization. LEGNA is a construction led business with four distinct but synergistic businesses: 1. General Construction • Building Construction and Renovations • Light Steel Frame Infrastructure Solutions 2. Civil Construction 3. Railway Maintenance and Protection 4. Project Management At LEGNA, we ensure that we fully understand our client needs so that our offer and services are acutely directed at meeting or exceeding those needs.We ensure that every project that we get involved in is delivered in line with the project management principles (in time, within budget and of acceptable quality) while meeting the safety requirements. It is important for us to treat our current and potential clients as our true partners, fully appreciating that the sustainability of the business depends entirely on them. Tel: 031 563 1371 | Fax: 031 563 1372 | Cel: 082 544 8475 | email: angel@legnacreative.co.za | www.legnacreative.co.za 35 Church Road, Parkhill, Durban North, 4051 | P O Box 201317, Durban North, 4051

PBF | Update

PBF is stronger than ever N

As 2011 draws to a close, we review the year that was, and we can confidently say that the Progressive Business Forum (PBF) has done well, has achieved a lot and ends the year stronger than it started it.

Outgoing PBF trade delegations included those to Port Louis in Mauritius, Harbin, Changchun and Beijing in China and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. These delegations exceeded the PBF’s initial targets and have led to a number of business opportunities being opened up for participating companies. Examples include a major timber deal with a Chinese enterprise working in Angola and a joint venture deal with another Chinese company in the field of steel tower construction, iron ore exports and tyre exports. For the first time PBF companies participated in the Durban Business Fair. With 20 stands the PBF was, in fact, the single biggest participant in terms of booked stands. By all accounts, as you will read in this magazine, it was a highly successful venture, giving PBF companies great exposure and enabling them to make numerous new business contacts. Judging from the feedback, the PBF’s participation in the fair is set to become an annual feature. Joining the PBF’s growing stable of publications, Business Update was published for the first time in August. This is a new bi-annual publication which serves to assist business people of all levels with helpful insights into legislation, how to tackle everyday business challenges, find help, the programmes at their disposal, and more. Business Update is yet another endeavour by the PBF to promote, among

its participant base, corporate compliance and good corporate citizenship. As for good housekeeping we, from time to time, receive complaints from participants that they are not receiving invitations to events. If this is so, there is clearly a hitch, as one can see from the myriad activities covered in this magazine. Should you be experiencing ‘the silent treatment’, chances are your email address needs to be updated. This can be done by contacting the PBF Helpdesk on 021 422 4422. The PBF would once again like to remind its participants of the various incentive offerings available exclusively to PBF participants. Substantial discounts have been negotiated on hotel accommodation at Holiday Inn Express, car rental at Sizwe Avis and airfares at 1Time and British Airways Comair (who offer business class travel for the cost of a full economy ticket). For more details, go to www.pbf. org.za or contact the PBF Helpdesk. As we enter 2012, the year in which the ANC celebrates its centenary, we look forward to yet another eventful year, filled with activity, growth and celebration. We wish the ANC well in the festivities marking this historic and exceptional achievement, and its leading role in achieving victory of human dignity over suppression. The PBF wishes all its participants and the readers of Progressive Leader a blessed festive season and prosperous 2012! <

ow standing at nearly 6,000 participating companies, the number of PBF participants has grown significantly, and continues to do so. And, the activities of the PBF has mushroomed; some 40 events ranging from ministerial and networking briefings, training, gala dinners, incoming and outgoing trade delegations to participation in trade exhibitions, leadership lectures and more have been held this year, with more to come. PBF participants are certainly getting more and more value adds to their participation. Since concluding a number of cooperation agreements with international partners, such as the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), the Korea TradeInvestment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) and the Mauritius Board of Investment (BOI), amongst others, there has been a steady flow of incoming trade delegations from these destinations to South Africa. In the last six months alone the PBF has collaborated with these organisations to host the South Africa Jilin Business Seminar, the Guangzhou/Johannesburg Business Forum, the Korea Trade Expo 2011 Africa, the Vietnam/South Africa Business Seminar, the Mauritius/South Africa Week, all in Johannesburg, as well as additional Mauritius activities in Cape Town and Durban.

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The shift of business services to cloud computing Rapelang Rabana, the Global Head of Research & Development for telecoms pioneer Telfree, epitomises the new generation of global business leaders who nurture paradigmatic change through their influence on the way technology interfaces with all aspects of daily life.

hile the notion of cloud-hosted services sounds ominous to many, the reality is that we have been using cloud services for years without knowing it and without calling it the cloud. Anyone who has ever signed up for a Gmail, Webmail or Yahoo! email account has used a cloud-hosted email account; i.e. whereby your email service is not stored and kept primarily on your computer but is accessible on the Internet wherever you are. Blackberry is also a cloud-hosted email service that is stored and kept on one of Blackberry’s servers. The cloud is far from new. It has been here for a while and now it’s spreading into all areas of business enterprise, from data storage to office telephony and communications.

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, one of the most successful Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, has said that cloud computing was a democratising function and “a movement that allowed SMEs to gain access to the sort of functionality that had previously been restricted to companies with large IT departments.” This is the basic premise that will catapult cloud computing services to the forefront of the business market with the biggest beneficiaries being entrepreneurs and small businesses which will be able to access value-add applications and services on demand and at price points that are reasonable and affordable. The traditional business areas that will be easy pickings for cloud computing are the systems used for payroll and financial management, customer relationship management, document processing, document sharing, information repositories, data storage, virtual servers and business telephony. The shift to the cloud can be likened to the switch, over a century ago, when businesses began to obtain electricity from centralised transmission stations instead of generating power for themselves. As IT services become more commoditised, the need to own and manage the service ourselves declines, much like the need to 20

generate electricity declined. As a next-generation telecoms operator, Telfree is witnessing the demand for telecommunications services without the cost of ownership and with easier manageability. Before the cloud, the only way to manage office communication and calls was to buy a big box PBX system, but now an entire PBX service can be hosted in the cloud and easily managed online, with only a phone connected to the Internet in your office or home to make and receive calls. Even office telephony will be significantly improved through the cloud, with services like www.officeconnection. co.za; from the portability that comes with the cloud (accessing your office telephony system wherever you are, connecting multiple branches, home and mobile workers), to the lower entry barrier where any business, no matter how small, can access a full-featured PBX service without a high capex cost. As with any new concept and idea, there is that initial reluctance to use a cloud-hosted service. We like to ‘own’ things, but building expertise in and maintaining systems that could just as easily be sourced from the cloud will begin to make less and less sense as it diverts critical resources from core business areas. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, said: “Conventional wisdom on cloud computing was that these were toy systems that were not going to be reliable and that people would never store their information in the cloud. But that is all wrong… think about what is really going on here. Wouldn’t it better to have a qualified professional who is operating at absolute scale with a very strong incentive to keep you happy, and you can trust them to do what they do? It actually works.” Cloud computing services will find their way into business, and it will be those businesses that embrace the paradigm shift that will benefit the most… just as those businesses that used transmitted electricity many years ago did.

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On the shoulders

of giants

The ANC National Chairperson Baleka Mbete is also the head of the National Centenary Task Team. She talks to ELIZABETH DONALDSON about the imminent centenary celebrations, their preparations and the importance of this historic event

ational Chairperson Baleka Mbete has held several positions in the ANC, including Deputy President in 2008, but her role as head of the National Centenary Task Team (NCTT) has been one of her most exciting. “It has been two years of intense preparation for this moment; on January 8, 2012 the African National Congress will be a hundred years old. It is an historic achievement for our movement, our people, our continent and the world and we are ready to celebrate it,” she says from the ANC headquarters at Luthuli House, where the National Executive Committee (NEC) established a Centenary Task Team to prepare and coordinate activities for the centennial celebrations. “As part of our preparations over the past two years we have conducted extensive research into our history and we believe that the centenary is an important milestone for the ANC as a liberation movement. We are eager to celebrate our proud traditions, values and principles that earned the movement an indelible place in the hearts, psyche and soul of our people.” The concept document that the task team produced offers a wealth of information about the relevance of the movement 24

and offers valuable insight into why this centenary is so important to us as a nation. “The centenary has given us an opportunity to reflect on who we are and what we are today, and it is after much reflection that we consider the most important element of the celebration to be the theme: Unity in Diversity. This is the founding principle of the ANC and must ring out loud and clear throughout the year. Our congress recognises diversity of race and differences among the native peoples. It calls everyone to unity beyond the ‘demon of racialism, the aberrations… the animosity that exists’, to the recognition that ‘we are one people’. It is fundamentally this unity that enables us to overcome the ‘personal difference and selfishness’, the ‘divisions’ and ‘jealousies’. The theme of unity in diversity has occupied and characterised our movement since its inception and as it evolved throughout different phases of struggle.” Significantly, the search for unity in diversity culminated in the ANC’s most celebrated document, our forebears’ vision for a non-racial, non-sexist, united and democratic South Africa, the Freedom Charter. “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white,… our country

will never be prosperous or free until all our people live in brotherhood,…” This commitment to ensure unity in diversity has been the cornerstone of the nation-building project since the dawn of democracy in 1994. As stated in our constitution, “We, the people of South Africa… Believe that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity.” “We must celebrate this milestone and offer the younger generation access to the story of the liberation struggle, and thus keep the memory alive. The celebrations should leave an imprint on the South African consciousness of the role of the ANC as the liberator of South Africa’s people and be a celebration of our achievements as a liberation movement,” explains Mbete who is quick to point out that the ANC centenary marks not just a South African event, but an African and world historical event. “It is a South African event because it is a product of the South African struggle, committed to the liberation of South Africans, but it is also an African event because the ANC emerged out of Africa’s battles for liberation and self-determination. The liberation movements on the continent

CENTENARY CELEBRATION acted as inspiration to the ANC and the people of South Africa, both in their resistance and their attainment of freedom for their people. Liberated Africa served as a home to exiled South Africans, not only those who were ANC members. The vision of a free, united and prosperous people refers to us as it does to the continent as a whole. The ANC is Africa’s oldest living, national liberation movement, with much to share and learn from the continent, and the celebration of its centenary is part of the proclamation that this is indeed the African Century,” she says. “The ANC centenary is a world celebration. It is a recollection of the contribution of the world to the eradication of the draconian system of apartheid. It is a celebration of humanity and friendship across boundaries of race, creed and geographical location. It is a celebration of unity among people of the world from all walks of life against evil; because never has the world united in one resolute manner as it did during the struggle for freedom in South Africa.” It is clear that the centenary project was a formidable undertaking. It was thus rolled out in four phases, which began with the design and planning and then the 2012 programme. Thereafter comes the project evaluation as well as the legacy projects. “Our earliest concept document in 2010 stated that the ANC will continue to live on beyond its hundredth year. Therefore, it is essential that part of the work done in the lead up to, during and post its centennial celebrations live on for future generations to benefit from it, so we settled on the concept of a Heritage Institute, which would preserve the memory of the ANC in 26

Protesters marching during the Defiance Campaign of 1952.

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particular, and the South African liberation struggle in all its facets. It would also be the single, representative and authoritative centre on the ANC and its history.” Mbete goes on to explain that the ANC is determined to strengthen its relations with other peoples from the subcontinent who were represented at the founding conference. “The Heritage Institute would also represent the legacy of the ANC, and the core principles and values that have endeared it to our people, the continent and the world. It would also continue to lead the way and inspire future generations on how to live in accordance with real values.” The centenary will also spawn several centennial publications including a history book, Unity & Diversity: 100 Years of ANC Leadership (1912-2012) published by BM Books, an ANC Prop Art Book incorporating all the various forms of media generated over the century, an ANC poetry book, a collection of writings from the ANC rank and file, essays from MK Publications as well as a popular history of the ANC for young teens. “This centenary is about nation building. That is our ultimate objective,” says Mbete. 28

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he fact that the ANC turns 100 in 2012 means that we must be more serious about protecting and projecting our image, history, traditions, culture and character as a movement. It means that we must show to all that we are the oldest liberation movement in Africa, and therefore our conduct and behaviour must reflect the maturity of our organisation. As we celebrate 100 years we must ensure that we inculcate and instil the best values of our movement which have sustained us for such a long period. Part of those traditions and culture include the unity of the ANC, unity with its alliance, maintaining the multi-class character of the ANC, its democratic nature, internationalist as well as its

non-racial and non-sexist character. Those are the values that have sustained the ANC for the past 99 years. As we celebrate our 100 years these must be stronger than ever. What is most important about the centenary celebrations is that it gives us an opportunity to articulate as a movement, what it is that we think of ourselves and where we come from. At the ANC National Conference in 1942, the delegates passed a far-sighted resolution that the ANC should attain a membership of one million. On 18th July 2011 at Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, we revived our massive recruitment campaign as an honour to our forebears for their wisdom in ensuring that the ANC is today a living

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organisation capable of fulfilling the aspirations of the masses of our people. The recruitment campaign has also rejuvenated our movement to sustain its historical glory, appeal and relevance to the needs of our people today to the future. The campaign is anchored on two main pillars, namely: massive recruitment campaign targeting new potential members on the one hand, and a focus on political education, on the other because we want to achieve both the quantity and the quality of our membership. As we celebrate, it should be the ANC talking about itself that must capture the public space, not the media, academics, social commentators or so-called analysts. It must be us who lead the process of these celebrations throughout 2012. As we enter 2012 we should remind ourselves of a very important truth; we defeated apartheid through a momentous unity, solidarity and volunteerism to serve our nation. The ANC continues to be of service to our people in our forward march to complete the race towards a better society, a better Africa and an even better world. ANC Lives! ANC Leads!

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Programme for the

Centenary Celebration On 8 January 2012, the African National Congress will be an hundred years old. This is a historic achievement for our movement, our people, our continent and the world. Join in the roll out of the celebrations which will launch officially on 8 January 2012 and continue throughout the year until 8 January 2013. There will be a build up to the launch, starting on 16 December 2011, which is the 50th anniversary of Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK). The celebrations are coordinated by the National Executive Committee (NEC) Centenary Task Team lead

by National Chairperson Baleka Mbete. The National Centenary Task Team, or the (NCTT) as it is known, has been preparing and coordinating the activities for the centennial celebrations since 2009. The NCTT is convened and coordinated in the Office of the National Chairperson and embraces all levels of organisation of the ANC, starting at a national level, through to provincial, regional and branches. The NCTT has prepared a programme that celebrates and honours this auspicious occasion and offers all South Africans an event in which they can participate and take pride.

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JANUARY

100 YEARS OF SELFLESS STRUGGLE PRESIDENT: John Langalibalele Dube HOSTING PROVINCE: Free State

FEBRUARY

FROM COLONIALISM TO DEMOCRATIC DISPENSATION PRESIDENT: Sefako Mapogo Makgatho HOSTING PROVINCE: Western Cape

MARCH

ALL SHALL HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS PRESIDENT: Zacharias Richard Mahabane HOSTING PROVINCE: Mpumalanga

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APRIL

THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN PRESIDENT: Josiah Tshangana Gumede HOSTING PROVINCE: KwaZulu-Natal

JULY

BUILDING A CARING NATION PRESIDENT: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela HOSTING PROVINCE: Limpopo

MAY

WORKERS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION PRESIDENT: Pixley ka-Isaka Seme HOSTING PROVINCE: Eastern Cape

AUGUST

WOMEN AND THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION PRESIDENT: James Sebe Moroka HOSTING PROVINCE: North West

JUNE

THE DOORS OF LEARNING AND CULTURE SHALL BE OPENED PRESIDENT: Alfred Bitini Xuma HOSTING PROVINCE: Gauteng

SEPTEMBER

AFRICAN HERITAGE AND ART PRESIDENT: Albert John Luthuli HOSTING PROVINCE: Northern Cape

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OCTOBER

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY PRESIDENT: Oliver Reginald Tambo HOSTING PROVINCE: All

NOVEMBER

LET 100 FLOWERS BLOSSOM PRESIDENT: Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki HOSTING PROVINCE: All

DECEMBER

PEACE, FREEDOM AND SECURITY PRESIDENT: Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma HOSTING PROVINCE: All

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• Closure of the centenary activities • Announcement of Legacy Projects

The Pillars of the Programme include: Celebrating ANC Presidents

Profiles of Presidency – This will highlight the presidents and the people they led to demonstrate the idea of collective leadership as well as the circumstances and times that made them Declaration of graves and seminars

Mobile ANC Art Exhibition

This will move to all the provinces and be exhibited in an accessible and central community space

One-Month Provincial Focus

Each province will be allocated a month in which that province will run the centenary celebration activities and be the focus of the nation

Centenary torch

The torch will be lit on 8 January 2012 at a ceremony at Waaihoek Church in the Free State. The torch will then make a journey through the country, passing through communities, symbolising their common thread of struggle and representing their aspiration for a transformed country. Various groups will be used to carry the torch. Finally, the torch will be placed at the Heritage Institute at the end of the year during the sod-turning ceremony. 36

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A century of

leadership Since its inception in Bloemfontein 100 years ago the African National Congress has triumphed against adversity. DION VILJOEN previews a soonto-be-released coffee table book that celebrates this remarkable milestone.

f there is a word that encapsulates the centenary of the African National Congress (ANC), it is resilience. This quality is reflected throughout the 300odd pages of Unity in Diversity, 100 years of ANC Leadership, a richly illustrated coffee table book celebrating the centenary of the political party. For any political movement to remain relevant, much less thrive, during a turbulent century is no mean feat. To do so in the face of extreme neglect and indifference to the plight of the indigenous South African population in the early parts of the 1900s, through the material deprivations of two world wars, and to face up to – and ultimately defeat – the most brutal and dehumanising institutionalised racial oppression of the apartheid regime is an achievement of epic proportions. As a consequence the book cuts a wide swathe, highlighting the various contributions and impact of the 12 ANC presidents – from John Langalibalele

Dube (1912–17) to the incumbent, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (2007–) – while contextualising their role within the broader South African historical landscape of the relevant era during which they served their terms. Interestingly, one of the ANC presidents, Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, served his second term 12 years after he was first chosen to lead the party (his first term lasted just three years). But while the ANC presidents receive ample exposure in the book, some of the most poignant aspects of the publication shine through in the supporting pictorial pages. Although some appear antiquated, not even their grainy, sepia patina can obscure the visceral impact of the content. One in particular is shocking: police attacking defenceless women with batons in Cato Manor in KwaZulu-Natal in 1959, a chilling preamble to the outrage of Sharpeville in the 60s, the Soweto uprising of the 70s and the State of Emergency of the 80s.

The book not only incorporates these historical milestones, grim as they were, but pays homage to the selfless contributions of many courageous women and men who may not have served in high office, but who lent leadership to the masses by speaking out against discrimination or through acts of defiance, subversion or sabotage. Charlotte Maxeke and Sol Plaatje – while in London in 1923, the latter had Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika recorded – were two of the pioneers. In their wake followed a pantheon of brave and honourable people from all walks of South African society, from different cultures (even the then-detested culture of the Afrikaans oppressor) and political persuasions (such as the SA Communist Party), who not only experienced the injustice of a cruel system but valiantly rose to the challenge of bringing it to a fall. Some were incarcerated for their political beliefs and actions, along with Nelson Mandela and a host of top ANC 39

CENTENARY CELEBRATION leaders, others were forced to live in exile or to work underground along with Oliver Tambo. Others, such as the indomitable Ruth First and Solomon Mahlangu, paid the ultimate price, the first assassinated by a letter bomb and the latter sent to the gallows for a ‘crime’ the courts could not prove he had committed. Before he was executed, Mahlangu said: “My blood will nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom. Tell my people that I love them. They must continue the fight.” This heart-wrenching message of sacrifice rings true throughout the book and is especially relevant to the ANC in its golden jubilee. Much has been achieved through patience and disciplined action during the past 100 years, and much remains to be achieved besides. The struggle for socioeconomic upliftment continues unabated. 40

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FEATURE | motor industry

FEATURE | MOTOR INDUSTRY

In the fast lane

tarting with the introduction of the Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) shortly after the advent of democracy in South Africa, the automotive industry has grown from a small and uneconomical industry to the single largest manufacturing industry in the industrial sector and one of the three largest contributors to the country’s GDP. “It is no surprise that all developed nations and virtually all successful and growing developing countries have a targeted industrial programme,” says Dr Johan van Zyl, President and CEO of Toyota South Africa Motors. “The industrial sector in general and the automotive sector specifically are major sources of development. This applies equally to the training and development of people, major investment in productive capacity and attracting world-class technology and knowledge.” The South African automotive industry is a textbook example of this. Prior to 1994 the industry produced a large number of vehicle variants in small and uneconomical volumes and sold these in the local market. Imported vehicles were penalised heavily through prohibitively high import duties and customers had a limited number of vehicles from which to choose. Under the democracy-empowered MIDP the industry became an active

member of the international automotive industry. Through this process the industry attracted billions of rands of international investment, rationalised production lines and focused on the production of a limited number of products in high volumes for the local and export markets. Local vehicle manufacturers could further use the credits earned from vehicle exports to offset the duties on imported vehicles, thereby increasing the number of vehicle choices for local buyers. The recent history of Toyota South Africa Motors speaks of this. In the 16 years since the introduction of the MIDP the company has invested over R10 billion in its South African operations and are now custodian of more than 8,500 skilled and semi-skilled jobs. The large number of locally produced vehicles were rationalised to three products that are produced in large volumes – more than 110,000 units per annum in the current economic climate – and now export vehicles to 57 markets as exacting as Europe and as diverse as Russia and Angola. Further support is evident in Toyota’s investment in world-class production techniques, equipment and infrastructure that followed this business realignment under the guiding principles of the Department of Trade and Industry’s MIDP.

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Under this programme Toyota and other automotive manufacturers benefit from local investment, local value addition in the production process and any foreign currency earned. This money not only strengthens the local business and allows for high levels of social investment, but it also strengthens the business case for the production of vehicles in South Africa. Toyota South Africa Motors remains a shining example of a local company that has benefitted greatly from this programme. Its new plant in Prospecton can produce over 220,000 vehicles per year and it is a leading investor in training and social upliftment in the areas of education and the environment. At the same time it promotes the skills and abilities of South African workers and results in Toyota South Africa Motors sending proudly locally manufactured vehicles to customers across the globe. The industry is set to further benefit from targeted industrial intervention when the South African Department of Trade and Industry introduces the successor to the MIDP â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Automotive Production and Development Programme or APDP. Having established a sound production base through the MIDP, the APDP is structured to support the continued development of local production capacity and subsequently incentivise local vehicle manufacturers to improve their level of international competitiveness. The APDP, which is set to be introduced in 2013 as the MIDP concludes, will further boost the local manufacturing industry by placing greater emphasis on locally manufactured and sourced parts and components. This will enable vehicle manufacturers like Toyota to enhance their support and development of local component manufacturers by exposing them to the newest requirements and technological developments in the area of parts and component manufacturing. This will lead to greater local content in South African-built vehicles, which will subsequently lead to higher demand for locally produced components.

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Through this new programme and the MIDP, the industry is set to remain a proud member of the coveted international automotive industry – benefitting local manufacturers by allowing greater access to new vehicle and production technology and customers by offering a greater choice of the latest in vehicle design and development. “One can learn many things from studying the growth and development of Toyota South Africa Motors over the past 50 years in South Africa, but there is one message that should not be missed; a successful company like Toyota South Africa grew from the vision of one entrepreneur, Dr Albert Wessels. He saw a future for the brand in South Africa despite starting the business with only 10 Toyopet Stout pick-up vehicles.”

Through his persistence Dr Wessels built a national dealer network that, at more than 220 dealers, is still the envy of its competitors. This did, of course, take many years of hard work and only in 1980, 19 years after the establishment of Toyota South Africa Motors, did Toyota become the market leader in South Africa. Through further hard work it has maintained this position to this day, 31 years later. “We need more small scale industries like the Toyota of 1961. Even though our industry is a key source of economic growth, true growth comes from entrepreneurs like Dr Wessels. Today opportunities abound and the world has become a much smaller place. Ideas flow across borders and so does the access to new markets,” concludes van Zyl.

Dr Johan van Zyl is no stranger to the South African business community. The President and CEO of Toyota South Africa Motors joined Toyota as a 35-year-old academic with a doctorate in Marketing Management. He started his career in the company as the Director of Vehicle Sales and soon progressed to the position of Group Marketing Director. In 1996 he was appointed to the position of Managing Director: Vehicle Marketing and in 2002 he assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer and President.

“It is important to clearly distinguish between the concepts of management and leadership. A manager directs and manages the assets and people under his control to extract the most value for a company. A leader provides vision, guidance and subsequently the energy to drive personnel to deliver the best results,” says Dr van Zyl. Dr van Zyl is quick to add a past lesson from a business partner and mentor; the analogy that a person has only one mouth and two ears, and therefore that one should be twice as willing to listen as to speak. “Never underestimate the capacity of your people to perform. This is, however, only possible if your colleagues and personnel are empowered to do so and you are informed on what challenges they face and what type of support they require,” says Dr van Zyl. This advice has stood him in good stead. Having succeeded in his local career, Dr van Zyl was appointed to the position of Managing Officer of the global Toyota Motor Corporation in 2010. In this position he assumed greater responsibilities, not only for South Africa but also for the continent. In 2011 his responsibilities were expanded to include the Middle East,

Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean as the Deputy Chief Officer of the region. “South Africans should not underestimate their value as managers and leaders. The global automotive industry is filled with top executives who learned their trade in South Africa. These managers are held in high regard for their ability to effectively operate in a multi–cultural environment, while the unique and varied challenges in South Africa make them well sought after for their crisis management skills,” says Dr van Zyl. With an early career in academia Dr van Zyl is an avid supporter of continuous training and development. Under his guidance Toyota South Africa Motors has greatly expanded its investment in training, both through its corporate training facility – which is deemed one of the largest of its kind amongst industrial companies – and through the social investment in education and the regeneration of primary and technical high schools. “One should never forget that the world is constantly changing. We live in a connected world and you can easily lose out on the pace of development if you do not stay up to date with real world skills.”

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Manufacturing The manufacturing sector focuses largely on basic iron and steel, paper and printing, as well as food and beverages. The sector is characterised by highly sophisticated manufacturing processes. A number of investment opportunities exist in a range of priority sectors, including aluminium, metals fabrication, capital and transport equipment, assembly, capital goods, plastics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, rubber, recycling and more. Resource Based South Africa is recognised as a global centre for mining excellence as a result of its abundant deposits of platinum, vanadium, chrome, zinc, titanium, phosphate rock, nickel, granite rock, manganese and gold. KwaZulu-Natal is itself rich in mineral resources, including ilmenite, zircon, rutile, leucoxene and low manganese pig iron. The mining of these minerals provide wide-ranging opportunities for upstream mineral beneficiation. Agriculture and Agro-processing The region’s agricultural sector is a significant contributor to South Africa’s GDP. Investment opportunities such as forestry and timberrelated industries, paper and pulp, furniture, citrus, organic sugar, vegetables, tropical fruit, macadamia nuts, tequila and more exists. inCentives Incentives available to potential and existing RIBDZ investors: 1. A Customs Controlled Area (CCA) 2. World-class industrial support infrastructure 3. Duty suspension on imports for production-related raw materials, including machinery and assets used in production with the aim of exporting the finished products 4. VAT exemptions under specific conditions for supplies procured in South Africa

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Akani Managing Director Zamani Letjane

A quiet visionary Akani founder, Zamani Letjane speaks to LEBOHANG THULO about his journey to success and his mission to safeguard South Africa’s future wealth.

amani Letjane is the Managing Director of Akani Retirement Fund Administrators (also known as Akani), a company which he also founded. The man behind the 100 percent black owned and managed company has a calm yet determined demeanor with a barely hidden sense humour. Behind his success is a story of unwavering commitment and a vision for helping South Africans accumulate wealth for their future. Letjane started out as a human resources practitioner. Before the multibillion rand funds and the enviable client list was a passion for people and their welfare. This developed into an interest in the then unlikely field of retirement fund administration. “In our culture saving has been about cows and cattle, money was not our way of saving,” he says. This is a perception that Letjane has worked hard to change throughout his career. Before establishing Akani, he managed various retirement funds in both the private and public sector. He was the principal officer of the Municipal Councillors Pension Fund and, as a member of the Pension Fund Advisory Committee, he advised the then finance minister Trevor Manuel on pension fund issues and legislation. Letjane was also the founding member of the Institute of Retirement Funds Communications Standing Committee, an organisation which finds ways of overcoming problems in the sector.

Akani – the foundation

The turning point for Letjane was studying for his MBA. Through that experience he realised that there was more he could accomplish and that his education could make him money. Akani was founded in 2001 as an empowerment initiative, taking advantage of the gap created by the opening up of the sector after the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994. “There were no black people in the financial services sector,” he says, adding, “I wanted to participate.” The process was not without its challenges. After struggling to get the necessary Financial Services Board (FSB) approval and licensing, he still had no funding. “I had to pay out of my own pocket,” he says. Using his pension fund as collateral, he managed to secure a bank loan to start Akani. The financial services sector, especially pension fund administration, is notoriously difficult to get into. The reason for this, Letjane explains, is that pension administration is not a tangible service; results don’t happen overnight, and there are many who don’t make it. “It’s almost as difficult as getting into the tourism sector,” he says, referring to the lack of transformation in that industry. He credits his reputation and the relationships that he has built for his success. “With pension funds you need to understand that you are keeping people’s money, and they need to trust

you.” He recalls sharing with his then colleague Jack Malebane his plans to start Akani, and how Malebane jumped at the opportunity to work with him. “He did not hesitate, he said I am coming with you.” He and Malebane have remained partners for 17 years. That experience, Letjane says, also taught him the value of identifying the right people with which to work. Akani celebrated its 10-year anniversary this year. As a leader, Letjane describes himself as a visionary and a creative thinker who is unafraid of taking risks. One of his reasons for starting Akani was to see his vision fulfilled. “I had my own way of doing business,” he says. Akani was his attempt at doing things differently from the established pension administrators. The company now employs 54 people and administers funds for, among others, the Municipal Employees Pension Fund, the Bokamoso Retirement Fund, World Vision and the SMI Pension Fund. The company’s presence extends to Swaziland, Botswana and Lesotho with plans to expand to Mozambique, Ghana and Malawi. But doing business in Africa is not without its problems. “Dealing with African states is not easy; it takes a lot of research and patience,” he says. But that hasn’t deterred him; his goal is to see Akani take over the rest of Africa.

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Tembisa on the East Rand. His mother was a nurse and his father a policeman stationed at Kempton Park. The young Letjane toyed with the idea of becoming a policeman like his father but went on to complete matric at his father’s insistence. His father again intervened by sending the already politically conscious 17-year-old Letjane to Bushbuckridge in the former Transvaal to prevent him from getting involved in the 1976 student uprisings. He was the first born son of eight children, a fact that he believes played a part in who he later became. “Being the oldest forced me to become self-reliant, there was no one to tell me what was expected of me,” he says. To make up for the lack of guidance, Letjane found other ways to succeed. “I gained knowledge through study and seeing the world and finally finding my niche,” he says.

The company is also aggressively grooming young people internally to take on leadership positions and “become champions within Akani,” he says, but most importantly, to build on the legacy of the company. “Our ideas and thinking must continue.”

Building a legacy Mr Letjane’s speech at the 38th National Conference of the Municipal Employees Pension Fund, one of the Funds under Akani’s Administration.

Perhaps because of his own experiences, Letjane seems driven to helping young people find their place. Through Akani he hopes to get more young people interested in the financial services through mentorships and internships.

Zamani Letjane at his office at Akani House in Kempton Park.

Mr J Malebane (Director of Marketing-Akani), Ms N Bernard (Director of Akani Swaziland) and Mr Letjane at the launch of Akani Swaziland. 50

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Steel roofing turns green into gold As South Africa makes urgent moves towards sustainability, construction plays a very important role, not only because of its economic and social contribution, but also because of its impact on the quality of the lives of all, particularly those who are economically vulnerable, explains Sally Stromnes.

lobally, the building industry provides 5-10 percent of employment and generates between 5 and 15 percent of its GDP. On the negative side, the built environment accounts for 40 percent of energy consumption, 40 percent of CO2 emissions, 30 percent of the consumption of natural resources, 30 percent of waste generation and 20 percent of water consumption. The challenge for the global construction industry is to meet the world’s growing needs while also limiting the downstream impact of its activities. Steel is becoming increasingly important as a material of choice; it offers a wide range of solutions that make buildings more energy efficient, less costly to construct and occupy, and therefore more sustainable.

Steel roofing offers solutions for greener buildings Steel as an ideal construction material

Steel’s high strength-to-weight ratio reduces a building’s environmental impact and conserves natural resources, requiring less material than traditional construction technologies.

Steel roofs allow for easy integration of green technologies Water harvesting is more hygienic off a shiny, smooth surface (such as steel) than off a surface which harbours dust. Steel roofs also provide a high degree of efficiency in the installation of solar heating panels, and are entirely watertight when junctions are sealed.

Steel is the most recycled material in the world

It is 100 percent and indefinitely recyclable, without any quality loss. Recycled steel represents 40 percent of the steel industry ferrous resource in the world.

Aside from its green credentials, steel is also fire retardant and provides a high degree of personal safety for occupants. It is estimated that about 15 percent of burglaries take place through a tiled roof. 52

In all manner of ways, steel is gaining momentum as the roofing material of the future.

Steel roofing works wonders in lowcost housing

In the South African property and construction sector, government is the country’s biggest player, both as a consumer and a regulator. In addition to public buildings and offices, government can make a significant difference in many ways if it incorporated green building elements into low-cost housing developments, affording greater comfort and lower costs to those who can least afford to foot high energy and water bills. Simple interventions, such as building orientation and the construction of an effective building envelope, can make considerable differences to the energy consumption and quality of life of inhabitants.

This is intended to inform a government Green Building Programme and a South African rating tool for public green building. The rating tool will take into account key government imperatives, such as sustainable building, job creation, development in underdeveloped areas, enterprise development and social cohesion. The Green Building Framework will also seek to introduce a green building skills development and training programme, enhance research and development on the subject and establish centres of excellence on green buildings. This is a wonderful and exciting case of working towards ‘a better life for all’.

Steel can provide more comfortable housing

Steel roofs are the first line of defence against the elements, and can contribute to a thermally-efficient building envelope. In winter, a high proportion of energy use is devoted to heating. Steel roofs can be very effectively insulated directly under the exo-surface, increasing the performance of the roof. In summer, a good roofing design, with deeper eaves, can considerably reduce the absorption of heat on west-facing walls. Steel, being light yet strong, is particularly versatile in design terms. Steel roofing is highly reflective and is available in light (cool) colours which absorb less heat. Steel also holds less heat over a period of time. Steel roofing is up to 4 percent cooler than clay or fibre cement roof coverings.

Government is going green in meeting its national objectives

In partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Department of Public Works (DPW) has developed a Green Building Framework.

SALLY STROMNES has been in the marketing and strategic fields for over 25 years. Her posts have included Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes and Bates Global Advertising, amongst others. She is currently National Marketing Executive for Safintra Roofing and Steel South Africa, part of the Safal Group with operations in 12 countries in Africa.

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We have to work as one to survive Planning Minister Trevor Manuel addressed the problem of the global economic meltdown at the at the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies awards in October.

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udget-making in a time such as this is unbelievably difficult. The global environment is risky, with growth prospects middling at best; the bond market remains under severe pressure; in South Africa we have used up more than our fair share of luck in revenue collections and the quality of budget spending is in decline as a consequence of the rapid growth of the wage bill. Minister Pravin Gordhan must therefore be commended for providing a positive signal with the announcement of the R25 billion economic support package in these times. The Economist magazine last week had an absolutely wonderful one-liner. It said, “The global economy is sicker than a man with a bellyful of bad oysters.” Whilst much of the focus is, and has been, on Europe, there is little to celebrate from anywhere. It does not actually matter whether we are trying to understand the depth of the rut in the US economy, a rut that will deepen as the Presidential elections next year grind everything to a halt; or the likely impact on Europe and the world of the 60 percent haircut that Greek bondholders will now take – and it is unlikely that bondholders of other European sovereigns will not be similarly affected; or whether, in respect of China, we agree with The Economist (this past week): “Perhaps the only thing growing faster than China’s economy is worry about the country’s economy.” Or, consider the fact that Britons now retiring will receive an income 30 percent less than those who retired three years ago.

The world is not a happy place. The solution is embedded in the views articulated by Larry Summers in a recent article, explained in his own Summeresque way, “The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence, too much borrowing and lending and too much spending, it can only be resolved with more confidence, more borrowing and lending, and more spending.” But who has the confidence and the war chest to spend? The truth of the matter is that the solutions, as well as the problems, are global in nature. The problems arise from global imbalances that have been left unattended – not ignored, but unattended – coupled with ideological decision-making and weakening supervision; and now the solutions must be found at a global level. The fundamental problem is that the electorates, especially in large countries, cannot conceive of allowing their Heads of State or government to work with peers to find global solutions. It does not matter whether we are looking at the Tea Party in the USA, or Conservative back-benchers in the UK, or the electorate in almost any country; there is a deep fear of global collaboration. The same people who benefit tremendously from globalisation will do everything in their power to prevent supranational solutions. The global crisis is actually not about economics. It exists because of the deep fragmentation in political systems, which makes finding solutions so excruciatingly

difficult. The US battle over the deficit ceiling and more recently over the Jobs Bill is evidence of the inability of the political establishment to lead, to find each other in the interests of their people and the world at large. The unwillingness of European leaders to take bold, decisive and clear action to prevent another meltdown in the global economy is further evidence of dysfunctional political systems. It is this sad feature of contemporary politics that diminishes the value of gatherings such as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be convened in Perth this week and the G20 Leaders in Cannes next week. Similarly, we are witnessing the most extraordinary dance by countries as they try to wriggle away from the commitments made to finance climate change at COP 15 and COP 16 convened in Copenhagen and Cancun respectively; and containing emissions to hold temperature increases to the “less than 2° Celsius” that appears in every document as a mantra is being pushed way beyond the horizon. Actually, this narrow-mindedness that prevents the search for solutions also fuels the rage that we see evolving in movements such as Occupy Wall Street. The lessons for us are clear. We need to be able to work together as business, labour and government to find solutions to the present economic challenges that confront us, partly because of our own economic circumstances and partly because of those imposed on us by the global economic slowdown. This raises 55

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Trevor Manuel addresses the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies event in Johannesburg.

serious challenges for our own political system, our own forms of social dialogue and the quality of leadership in our economy to be able to recognise the dangers that we are facing. We owe it to our citizens, and especially the poor, to sit down together until we have thrashed out a set of solutions to address both our short-term economic perils and our longer term growth and development challenges. We need to be conscious of these trends to appreciate that there is no likely short-term let-up in trends in the global economy. So we must appreciate better what the opportunities are in South Africa. Minister Gordhan said this afternoon, “South Africa has benefitted from the boom in commodity prices over the past several years, but this has not led to significant growth in mining production. Energy constraints, inadequate transport capacity and uncertainty in the regulatory environment have held back progress. In contrast, mining production expanded by 30 percent in Australia, and 44 percent in Brazil and more than four times in Chile between 2003 and 2010. This has provided a huge boost for investment, tax revenues, jobs and incomes in these countries. Minister Shabangu’s engagement with the Chamber of Mines on increasing 56

investment in our mining resources is therefore to be welcomed.” But, in welcoming the engagement, we owe it to ourselves to pause and evaluate why investment and output are lagging, why there is no resonant voice raising the issues appropriately and why we, as a generation of South Africans that lifted this country from a political abyss just 20 years ago, now are impotent to solve the problems. This country desperately needs investment, more specifically, investment in that which we know we have – and that is our rich mineral endowment. And, if for no other reason than we need investment, we must declare repeatedly that the nationalisation of the mines is a seriously bad idea. Even reading the MTBPS with half a brain will confirm that there are no fiscal resources available through taxes or borrowing to pay for mines or invest in them, even if government were to get these mines gratis. So our responsibility must be, yours and mine, to remove the obstacles to investment in the mining sector – we need investment, jobs and taxes if we are to raise living standards. And we must focus on expansion through that which we know and understand – the manufacturing of capital goods for mining and related

industries. We need to understand the enormous advantage we still have in relation to the African continent, and use it. This advantage is not permanent, and it would be reckless in the extreme to test the boundaries of its durability. What this situation demands is that South African decision-makers need to behave very differently, both in respect of those sectors or segments of society that we lead, and in relation to each other. We need to stop acting as though every point of disagreement between ourselves is a fight to the last drop of blood. We need to be bold enough to stand up to each other in order to persuade the other side of our views. We need a commitment to this country and its people that is focused on a longer term view. Moreover, we need to use the knowledge we have of the world, to draw on the strengths of each other and transform this place, South Africa. Opting out and looking after only kith and kin, and then hoping that nobody will notice, is not an option. I am reminded of the words of the Nobel Laureate Sir Ernest Rutherford, “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.”

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Minister of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Collins Chabane reports on service delivery

then have an idea of what “corrective action” could be taken in the area. The minister said in his budget vote later that “good intentions are not enough – badly designed monitoring and evaluation initiatives often result in more negative than positive consequences. Our system is based on negotiated and agreed-upon processes, outputs and targets within government.” Over the past year, he said, the government had made good progress with implementing an “outcomes-based” approach to integrated management. “The main aim of the outcomes-based approach is to improve planning, implementation and coordination between the three spheres of government with regard to cross-cutting priorities.” He told legislators that South Africa was not alone in the world “in its struggle to achieve real joined-up government”. Full integration of the work of all three spheres of government “requires the development of a new culture… a culture which recognises that real coordination involves a negotiation process in which all sides need to make compromises”. Turning to the evaluation of “economic infrastructure development”, the minister said there had been important achievements, including the approval of an integrated resource plan and the tabling of the Independent System and Market Operator Bill “to stimulate greater private investment in electricity generation”. “Over 100,000 additional poor households were given electricity connections.” <

he government is planning to implement a reporting system to alert mayors of the country’s 283 municipalities of shortfalls of delivery so that they will be able to take steps to resolve the problems. This was a key announcement by the Minister for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Collins Chabane, who said yesterday that he would present the cabinet with a strategy document on municipal service delivery next month. As a method to improve productivity in the public service, the minister told a media briefing that the government was looking at linking the performance of departments with performance bonuses granted to senior staff. “The performance of a head of department… should be linked to the performance of the department itself. We think it is the right thing to do,” he told a briefing ahead of his budget vote. The ministry, which falls within the presidency and was formed nearly two years ago when President Jacob Zuma took power, is also planning to provide reports to the nine provincial premiers on delivery shortfalls. Sapa yesterday cited the department’s Director-General Sean Phillips as saying that the service delivery “monitoring system” would be piloted in KwaZuluNatal’s municipalities, but would then be extended nationwide. It was envisaged that reports would also be carried out on delivery ministries in the provinces, including Health and Education Departments. Premiers and mayors would

Guru | eDUCATION

Education for Africa Language is an important part of our heritage, and our future. As such, we should be educated in our first language, argues Simphiwe Dana.

he world has commoditised intellect. It is a currency without which one cannot survive. From time immemorial there has been initiation in schools the world over. I’m not talking about bits of you being cut off; I’m talking about being readied to be an integral part of society. Education is initiation. It is, in postcolonial South Africa, the most important form of initiation. Of the 1.4-million learners who enter the education system, only 100,000 come out competent and ready for the job market. Literacy is the biggest challenge we face. It has been preached repeatedly that mother tongue education produces the best results. In my travels to the rural communities, the use of English as the medium of instruction is producing horrifying results. We are setting our children up to fail and the impact on their psyche cannot be measured. Our children believe they are dumb because they do not understand what they are being taught. Even the teachers are not well versed in the language. How then do our children develop cognitive skills that will help them absorb information better? In my travels for the Black Culture Education Tour I encountered a lot of learners who did not only exhibit intelligence when speaking in their own languages but who were also very articulate. These same learners became tongue-tied when they had to express themselves in English. Who, then, gets an unfair advantage in life in just this aspect of education? Those whose mother tongue is English. It has been said that language is a repository of culture, that the knowledge of a people is stored in their language. It is quite evident in our society that in adopting a non-African language as our national form of communication we have turned our backs on African innovations. Africa has thousands of years of information stored in its languages. The languages naturalise their

belief systems, accentuating their view of their world. They can then shape and reshape their world as they see it. Through this shaping and reshaping evolution takes place and civilisations are born. What happens, then, when you replace their languages with a foreign one? They have to readjust to a new belief system, one not of their own creation, they will forever be unsure of themselves. Most importantly, all that information, collected and refined over thousands of years, is lost to the world. In 1994 the government decided to do away with institutions of Bantu Education. The idea was noble but they didn’t have resources to build a better education system. The apartheid government had only ever taken proper care of 5 percent of the population of South Africa. That is why today we only have 7.7 percent of schools in the whole country with libraries. That is why our teachers are not properly trained for the job. The government is trying to make a system that was designed for 5 percent of the population work for all. This does not, however, excuse government from the errors they have made in pursuit of this noble ideal. It also does not excuse the teachers and unions from doing a proper job. But it helps you to understand what a problem we are faced with and how overwhelming the solutions are. This is where nation-building comes in. The community of South Africa is very individualistic in its approach to nation building. They believe that government must help them build their lives and that their involvement is not required. They don’t understand how this approach renders them powerless and enables an authoritarian state at worst. We are a young nation and being hostile to our government is not the solution, especially when we, ourselves, are not contributing to building our nation. Let us lobby government but support its efforts as well.

Simphiwe Dana is a world-renowned singer who employs a cultural and African identity in her art form. Her 2004 debut album Zandisile launched her into the entertainment industry. Through her music, Dana has become a socio-political commentator on the plight of the poor and dispossessed and her music is now part of the curriculum at various prestigious universities.

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INFRASTRUCTURE | E-GOVERNMENT

South Africa embraces e-government With the right investment and access to spectrum, South Africa can lead the world in e-government

f you have been to a telecoms or public sector conference in Africa recently, you will know that the hot topic on everyone’s lips is electronic government, or e-government. This concept is best described as a country’s ability to significantly increase efficiencies in the delivery of civil services by creating a digital version of its traditional systems. South Africa has committed to embracing e-government and is currently in the process of implementing this strategy. Once this becomes a reality, it will provide the country’s citizens with quicker and more efficient access to municipal and other public sector services, and will provide government with instant access to its citizens. US President Barack Obama demonstrated the immense power of digitally connecting with the public during his presidential election in 2009. For the first time in US history, voters had online access to a presidential candidate through web applications and social networking, and this meant that they could have a conversation. Indeed, this was a gamechanging strategy that played a major role in Obama’s campaign success. More broadly defined, e-government is the move to transforming government to be more citizen-centred. It uses technology to promote a more efficient and effective government, to facilitate broader access to government services, to allow greater public access to information and to make government more accountable to its citizens. So imagine a day when you are able to have a conversation, much like you would on any social platform or through SMS, with your local municipal office. Technology is, without a doubt, a catalyst to both economic and social

growth, and driving an e-government state makes a lot of sense. But South Africa is not the US and only 10 percent of our citizens have access to the Internet. Vodacom, South Africa’s largest mobile operator, believes that mobile technology is the answer. With population coverage for mobile voice services approaching 100 percent and 3G data services available to the majority of South Africans, it is fair to say that South Africa’s mobile communications infrastructure rivals many ostensibly first world economies. By embracing technology, South Africa has effectively leapfrogged the fixed line developmental stage. All segments of the population now have voice connectivity, and we are now entering a second wave whereby Internet connectivity will be available to all. Expanding e-government using our world-class mobile infrastructure as the main platform makes perfect sense, and it follows that improvements to that platform will also be to the benefit of e-government. We have already seen great examples of government partnering with companies to help further the delivery of its national objectives. One such example is the partnership between the Department of Basic Education and Vodacom, who recently launched a mobile education programme. The programme makes use of mobile technology to provide teachers throughout South Africa with better access to quality instruction resources and information and communications technology (ICT). For the first time ever, teachers will be using cloud computing to access resources. The Vodacom Mobile Education Programme has two objectives: One is

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to use mobile technology to help the Department of Basic Education meet its objective of ensuring that a significant number of learners have exposure to ICTs, and the second is to upgrade the quality of instruction by ensuring that teachers throughout the country, both rural and urban, have access to the highest quality teaching resources. Vodacom and the Department of Basic Education have, as part of this launch, created nine ICT Resource Centres, one in every province, each serving up to 200 schools. The centres serve as the district teacher-training hub and are fitted with computer classrooms with 50 terminals and an Internet café. We would like to see the same successful approach applied to mobile technology and e-government. The groundwork has already been done, with government setting a 2020 target of broadband coverage for all. From here, if the right investment climate and framework is in place and if sufficient spectrum is made available, government has the ability to ensure that 100 percent of South Africans will have world-class connectivity. The cost of establishing broadband coverage for everyone is likely to easily exceed R100 billion, but given the enormous benefits that can be derived, it is well worth it. The issue isn’t just about rolling out base stations and the fibre-optic cables to connect them, it’s about ensuring that every inhabited spot in South Africa has upgraded, next-generation, Long Term Evolution (LTE) access. This technology provides a step change in connection speeds and also increases capacity. The challenge is that to make this work, more spectrum needs to be freed up for use by mobile operators.

Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys and the Deputy Minister of Basic Education Mohamed Enver Surty

Guru | Sales

Understanding the power of direct-selling Direct-selling is increasingly being recognised as a viable earning opportunity in South Africa.

ydney Mokwena was a teacher for 19 years before he discovered direct-selling through Avon’s earning opportunity. It was in 1989 that he began teaching at Letshele High School in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga. The experience ignited his passion for educating and developing future leaders and he thrived in this post for almost two decades. In 2003 he decided to join Avon, the largest direct-selling company in the world, as an independent representative in order to make extra income. “It was challenging at first because my friends and colleagues laughed at me for selling women’s products,” he says.

But he didn’t let this stop him. Instead he worked harder and was soon made a Group Sales Leader with his very own team. He took full advantage of the opportunity when Avon introduced the Avon Sales Leadership Framework (ASLF) to the South African market. “It sounds complicated but it’s really just a multi-generational, direct-selling approach that encourages and rewards Avon representatives to sell more but also to share in the earning opportunities. It is supported by a great training and development programme which equips even the most introverted of individuals to become sales gurus,” he says excitedly. Mokwena explains that his background as a teacher has enabled him to fully embrace Sales Leadership because sharing knowledge and helping others to develop to their full potential is second nature to him. In 2008 he resigned from teaching so 66

he could focus completely on his Avon business. His hard work and commitment paid off a year later when he became the second independent representative in the country to achieve the status of Senior Executive Unit Leader (SEUL). Not a shabby achievement for a man. The training he was continuously receiving through the Sales Leadership Framework honed his business skills until he was ready to take on more. He established a guesthouse in Bushbuckridge and now also owns a courier company. Not content with just being successful, however, Mokwena wanted more; he wanted to share his success. He managed to help Susan Mkhabela become a Senior Executive Unit Leader who, through her Avon business, built her own dream home. He then helped Audrey Khumalo and Gift Nziyani to reach the same level, which has allowed them to buy new cars and homes. “It’s an incredible feeling to be able to empower others and see them succeed,” he confesses. His ability to develop the potential in others was just one of the reasons he was nominated for and received the Avon DSA Personality of the Year Award in 2011 from the Direct Selling Association of South Africa. The highlight of his career was sharing the stage with Avon CEO and Chairman, Andrea Jung in Johannesburg during the company’s Believe World Tour, which took place in September 2011. The tour was in celebration of Avon’s 125th anniversary.

SYDNEY MOKWENA started his career as a teacher at Letshele High School in Mpumalanga, later joining Avon as a sales representative. He was soon promoted to Group Sales Leader and subsequently resigned from teaching to devote more time to his new role. Mokwena was the first male in the country to become Senior Executive Sales Leader and the second independent representative in South Africa to achieve the status of Senior Executive Unit Leader. Mokwena now also runs a guesthouse and courier company.

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Culture | Legacy

A place of redemption Constitution Hill offers a rich cultural experience and a great lesson on learning from our past, writes LEBOHANG THULO

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he year 2011 marked the 15-year anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of South Africa. When it was signed into law by former president Nelson Mandela in 1996, it was considered one of the most progressive constitutions in the world with a Bill of Rights second to none. The Constitution Hill precinct has been the home of the Constitution and Constitutional Court since 1995. It is located on a ridge between Hillbrow and Braamfontein and overlooks the bustling Johannesburg CBD. The choice of location of the Constitutional Court was a deliberate one. In part it was to pay homage to the location’s complex history and was an opportunity for something good to come out of the very place where gross human rights violations had taken place.

The Old Fort Prison Complex

Constitution Hill Precint is one of Johannesburg’s cultural heritage sites.

The Constitution Hill precinct is the former site of Johannesburg’s Old Fort Prison, which was built under the ZuidAfrikaanse Republiek (ZAR). The history of the Old Fort dates back to 1892. It served largely as a temporary holding prison where prisoners were sentenced before they were transferred to serve their prison terms elsewhere. In 1913 white miners were jailed for going on strike and the following year General Christiaan de Wet and his followers were jailed for leading the rebellion against the Union of South Africa, fighting in World War I on the side of Great Britain.

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The fort was made up of a series of buildings, which included the Native’s section and isolation cells, known as Sections Four and Five, where black male prisoners were held, a Women’s Prison and an Awaiting Trial building. The Old Fort was feared by both blacks and whites. The prison was notorious for the harsh treatment of prisoners. Among numerous other cases of gross maltreatment, there were no closed toilets so prisoners were humiliatingly forced to relieve themselves in the open. Outbreak of diseases such as typhoid was commonplace with many who had spent time inside reporting on the dirty and dangerously unhygienic conditions.

The Robben Island of Johannesburg

The Old Fort held prisoners guilty of either criminal or political crimes, but the majority of prisoners were held for contravening various colonial and apartheid laws. This included beer brewing laws or hut tax laws or failure to carry the notorious pass books. This meant that the majority of those sent to the Old Fort were black. Some of the prison’s high profile prisoners included

Mahatma Gandhi (in 1906 and 1913), who was jailed along with other Indians for his refusal to carry a pass book. Participants in the ANC Defiance Campaign against apartheid were also jailed after the signing of the Freedom Charter and many of the 156 treason trialists, including Albert Luthuli, Joe Slovo, Oliver Tambo, Helen Joseph and Nelson Mandela, were in 1956 detained at the Old Fort. In 1958 Albertina Sisulu and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela were among the hundreds of women imprisoned for protesting against pass laws and two years later PAC leader Robert Sobukwe and his supporters were held after an anti-pass campaign. The student uprisings of 1976 resulted in many students as well as organisation leaders being imprisoned, among them Fatima Meer, Vesta Smith, Mapitso Lolo Tabane and Nikiwe Deborah. The last of the political detainees were sent to the Old Fort in the early 1980s. The list included Alan Fine, Rob Adams, Barbara Hogan, Joe Thloloe and Reverend Cedric Mayson, all political activists accused of treason.

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CULTURE | LEGACY The Constitutional Court building exterior.

The Old Fort remained a functioning prison until 1987. Despite having been declared a national monument in 1964, the complex was left to neglect and vandalism. The site was revived in the mid1990s and was to be one of the driving forces behind the city’s regeneration initiatives of Braamfontein.

A new life for the Old Fort

The fort was made up of a series of buildings, including the Native’s Section and isolation cells, a Women’s Prison and an Awaiting Trial building.

Constitutional Hill is a visual delight and rich cultural experience. It hosts Constitution Square, the Commission on Gender Equality, the Chapter Nine Commission, museums, exhibition and performance spaces, retail facilities and recreational and visitor’s centres. Most of what remained of the Old Fort has been demolished to make space for these new developments. The entire building and the objects in it are bursting with history, such as the Great African Steps, which were built using bricks from the Awaiting Trial block of the old prison. The judges’ half-moon 71

CULTURE | LEGACY The Constitutional Court building is a mix of textures and shapes.

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The building is a blend of African and modern architecture.

CULTURE | LEGACY The Great African Steps were built using bricks from the Awaiting Trial block of the old prison.

raised podium was designed so the judges and the rest of the court were on the same level as a show of equality. The Constitutional Court itself is a blend of African and modern architecture. The building is a mix of textures and shapes with slanting pillars in earthy greys, creams and blacks. On its walls are colourful contemporary works, many by highly regarded South African artists such as William Kentridge, David Goldblatt and Bongi Dhlomo. Their work and that of many others make it one of the best and most diverse art collections in the country. Also in the collection are tapestries, ceramics, San rock art, sculptures and photographs. Constitution Hill offers guided tours and exhibitions as well as interactive experiences through its public and educational programmes, all of which allow visitors to gain first-hand experience of the activities of the court. It is also home to a series of

permanent and temporary exhibitions. One of the most poignant is the Nelson Mandela exhibition entitled ‘Prisoner in the Garden’. The exhibition documents the time that Nelson Mandela spent in both the Old Fort and Robben Island prisons and is housed in the cell in which Mandela was held captive. The exhibition is made up of Mandela’s communication with the outside world. Nowhere can the story of South Africa’s turbulent past and its extraordinary transition to democracy be told as it is at Constitution Hill. Inscribed on the roof of a passage to Number Four prison is a quote from Nelson Mandela’s book Long Walk to Freedom: “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails”. The Hill is a constant reminder of the struggle for our hardwon democracy but, most importantly, it is the very building where our human rights are safeguarded every day by the

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CITY FOCUS | MANGAUNG The Supreme Court of Appeal.

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A city on the move Mangaung is South Africa’s best kept secret

Home team Bloemfontein Celtics in green and white.

ituated in the heart of South Africa, the Mangaung Metro is home to a rich cultural lifestyle and is a recognised melting pot of creative ideas and expression. Its name means 'place of the Cheetahs', which epitomises the vibrant, dynamic and energetic character of the tourism industry in the 'City on the move'. The Mangaung metro area hosts a population of about 850,000 people. The languages spoken in the area are mainly Sotho, Afrikaans, English and Tswana. The economic development vision for Mangaung is to build a powerful regional economic centre, a world-class African city that it is built on the foundation of a dynamic, vibrant, sustainable and investor-friendly economy. However, it faces a number of challenges in respect of economic development. These include coordinating and building on all attempts to support economic development in the area. Including the coordination of activities of national

government, the Free State Province, Motheo District Municipality as well as the private sector. The city of Bloemfontein is the economic hub of the Mangaung Metro and the provincial capital of the Free State. The city, fondly known as 'The City of Roses', is also the commercial capital of the Free State and the judicial capital of South Africa. Bloemfontein’s economy is mainly based on the services and government sectors. It is also ideally equipped to support demanding industrial activities and is the base of a huge agricultural area. The city’s rich cultural and historical heritage is reflected in its museums, art galleries and cultural festivals. With its picturesque rural tranquility and vibrant, dynamic central business district, this modern city prides itself on being luxuriously steeped in rich traditions – and yet also on embracing other cultures, new ideas and a rapidly changing technology. 77

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Situated 45km from the provincial capital is Botshabelo, meaning 'a place of refuge'. It is believed to be the largest township settlement in the Free State and the second largest in the country after Soweto. Botshabelo has developed into the industrial hub of Mangaung and houses about 154 fully operational factories. High-quality products from predominantly textile related factories are marketed throughout South Africa and exported worldwide. It is also a dormitory town for workers in Bloemfontein. Thaba Nchu is located 12km east of Botshabelo. This settlement lies at the foot of the well-known Thaba Nchu Mountain, also known in the local Sotho language as 'Black Mountain'. Thaba Nchu has been the home of the Tswana people in the Free State for more than 180 years. Mangaung will be at the centre of the ANC centenary celebrations which will be held in the city of Bloemfontein on 8 January 2012. The city is where the ANC was established in the township of Batho in 1912.

Bloemfontein City Hall.

One of the city's political landmarks is ANC founder member Thomas Maphikela's double-storey house which has been declared a National Monument. The house is where many important ANC meetings were held during the party's early years.

In January 2012, Mangaung will see an influx of thousands of supporters as well as 60 heads of state including ANC President Jacob Zuma. Among the many preparations, the national government has allocated R200m to renovate the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium in Mangaung, which will host many of the celebratory events.

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Vrouemonument (Women's Monument), commemorating 26,000 women and children who died in the British concentration camp outside Bloemfontein during the Anglo-Boer War. 79

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Mangaung means the 'place of the cheetahs' in Sotho.

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SA’s judicial capital is Bloemfontein, the seat of the Supreme Court of Appeal. Mangaung translated into English means ‘place of the cheetahs’. Bloemfontein is also known as ‘The City of Roses’. Mangaung is South Africa’s seventh-largest municipality area and sixth-largest continuous urban settlement. Mangaung has a population of just under 850,000 people. The ANC, then the South African National Native Congress, was founded in Bloemfontein on 8 January 1912. John Dube was its first president and Sol Plaatjies was among the founding members. Bloemfontein was the site of one of the world’s first concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War. The National Women’s Memorial, on the outskirts of the city, pays homage to the 26,000 women and children who died in a British concentration camp set up there. The Free State’s gold and diamond mines are among the most productive in the world. Botshabelo has approximately 200,000 residents, and although during 1980s apartheid it was the fastest growing urban settlement in the country, now it is the slowest. President Brand Street – named after the 19th century Orange Free State President, Jan Brand, has been declared a national monument. Bloemfontein was officially founded in 1846. The ANC Heritage Institute will be the single, authoritative centre on all ANC history, and is being built at Waaihoek Church in the Free State.

Guru | Tourism

Adapting to changing needs Understanding marketplace demands is key to recognising a changing economy and the necessity to adapt products and pricing, says Allan Reddy of SA Leisure and Hotels.

A Leisure and Hotels, a division of SATLOG Group, with its core competencies rooted in hospitality was founded in 2008. SA Leisure and Hotels’ vision is to offer an allencompassing holistic approach to tourism in South Africa. “We are a firmly entrenched, strong South African BEE entity,” says Allan Reddy, Chairman of the SATLOG Group.

The acquisition of an eclectic group of properties catering to the requirements of discerning travellers locally and internationally heralds the birth of an African footprint for the group. “Our vision is to grow a brand of hotels and lodges exponentially that is ahead of the economic wave in pricing strategy and consistently drives the demand for service excellence,” comments Reddy. The marketplace demands value for money from service providers and, as a young hospitality group, SA Leisure and Hotels seeks to exceed the expectations of their consumer. “This will be achieved through unified strategy, unique product and exceptional service,” says Reddy. With an adaptable and competitive approach to changing needs, given the economic mist that dampens optimism in the industry, SA Leisure and Hotels forges forth, continuously establishing new ground. “Determining what the demand has become, from leisure vacations to corporate stays, is key to recognition of a changing economy and required adaptation of the product and pricing.” The criteria

are to anticipate ahead and to link in all channels of distribution with sound business strategy. All SA Tourism players are, after all, on the same team. Tourism growth, with the identification of new international markets, prosperity for people through empowerment and employment and profit for the trade both locally and internationally, is sustaining the vital links in the chain that secure prospective and consistent feet through the doors. Reddy says that SA Leisure and Hotels envisages an enterprising business approach to all facets of the supply and demand chain as the solution to an economic downturn in the tourism industry. SA Leisure and Hotels is in a unique position to up the game without driving its price out of a vital component of prosperous tourism, this being the international arena, whilst nurturing healthy economic growth within South African borders and encompassing the basics of delivery to beyond expectation and offering great monetary value. SA Leisure and Hotels is taking the lead in marketing South Africa internationally by bringing groups of tourists on an on-going basis to visit the major tourist attractions and experience the country and its diverse cultures and offerings. “Capitalising on the upliftment of South African people and the industry of tourism, SA Leisure and Hotels is a key player in a sustainable tourism future through strategic vision for hospitality,” concludes Reddy.

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economic tool Christo Owen van der Rheede discusses creating wealth and employment opportunities through indigenous languages.

Christo van der Rheede started his career as an educator in 1986 and was appointed as the CEO of the Stigting vir Bemagtiging deur Afrikaans six years ago. This progressive and dynamic nongovernmental organisation focuses on educational and cultural empowerment of destitute Afrikaans communities. It also assists Sotho, Tswana, Zulu and Xhosa speaking communities in translating indigenous languages, knowledge systems, culture and heritage into sustainable job and wealth creation opportunities. He will take up the position as CEO of the Afrikaans Handelsinstituut from January 2012 and is looking forward to align the activities of this entity with the New Growth Path of government and the NPC’s objectives.

ttempts to break the cycle of intergenerational transmitted poverty will never be successful as long as we disregard or underestimate the educational, economic, social and cultural value of indigenous languages in any society. This is not only disempowering, but it entrenches the myth that indigenous languages are of no value and that only colonial languages such as English or French can serve as catalysts for development and economic growth. Reversing this proclivity towards colonial languages poses, however, a major challenge for most African countries and especially the political elite. Because, in most instances, after the political power was handed to newly elected African governments, very little was done to improve the status of indigenous languages and optimise the economic potential thereof. According to Dr. Neville Alexander the “African elites who inherited the colonial kingdom from the ostensibly departing colonial overlords, for reasons of convenience and in order to maintain their grip on power, have made nominal gestures towards equipping the indigenous languages of the continent with the wherewithal for use in powerful and high-status contexts”. (Alexander 2007: 18). It’s for this reason that Victor Webb, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pretoria and Director of CentRePoL, appeals to our current government to steer clear from such “nominal gestures”, and rather focus on proper language planning which is aimed at elevating the status and advancing the use of our indigenous languages within the education, economic, social, cultural and political spheres. In a paper titled ‘Language Policy Development in South Africa’, he consequently urges the SA government “not (to) endorse a language policy proposal which will simply lead to a reproduction of the previous (and existing) language politics, where nonBantu languages are dominant in public life and are perceived as the symbols of the

ruling elite, prestige and success, and the Bantu languages are perceived as symbols of a socio-economic underclass and as instruments only of the low functions of public life… (but) to achieve the general overall goal of language political transformation where each of the official languages perform meaningful functions (and) language planning in SA (is) directed at... specific goals”. In practice this implies that government must develop strategies that will enhance the use of our official indigenous languages in the educational, social, cultural, economic and political spheres. Such a step will promote language pride and ownership, because communities who have been disadvantaged as a result of colonialism and apartheid are empowered through their own languages. Once communities are empowered, they will have the confidence to continuously advance their own languages for other useful purposes and use it for active participation in the knowledge economy. However, in the absence of a well-planned language empowerment strategy, self-pride and self-reliance will not surface. And without these, the cycle of intergenerational transmitted poverty will continue to plague South African societies. Keith Nurse in a paper titled ‘Culture as the Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development’ cautions us, however, to be always mindful of whose development agenda is served through such entrepreneurial thinking and advises that communities must own such development agendas and drive the process themselves to avoid creating new dependencies. He states that “… sustainable development as practised in the developing world is largely informed by Western notions and is often funded in accord with the agenda of multilateral, bilateral, non-governmental and philanthropic donor agencies from the developed countries. This is viewed as problematic because it creates new dependencies for the developing world and raises concerns about whose agenda is

BUSINESS | CULTURE Dr Neville Alexander delivering the Keynote Address at the first IsiXhosa Conference held in the Western Cape earlier this year. This was an initiative by the XhosAfrika Network, a civil rights movement consisting of Xhosa and Afrikaans language practitioners and organisations working together on a range of language-related projects.

being served”. To avoid such a scenario, it is recommended that a step-by-step process is followed to introduce communities to the audio, visual, print and digital media business opportunities that can be created through our indigenous languages. These steps are as follows: • Identify the unique culture drivers in communities within the language, education, literature, oral tales, poetry, drama, art, music, dance, food, traditions, traditional medicine, architecture, design, fashion, entertainment and religious practices domains. • Determine how each of these culture drivers can be utilised to establish local publication, advertisement, communication technology, radio, television, film, language practice (translation, editing and interpreting), electronic communication media, theatre, design, fashion, entertainment, health, retail, heritage, tourism and cultural festivals industries and enhance education. • Conduct a needs analysis and identify the culture drivers that have already been converted into educational, cultural, intellectual, economic and development activities. • Identify the stumbling blocks preventing effective conversion of culture drivers into self-sustainable and integrated development activities.

• Introduce a well-designed advocacy and training programme to change perceptions and to empower communities with the required skills and knowledge to engage in extensive cultural mapping. • Such cultural mapping involves identifying and documenting all of the local cultural resources, such as writers, poets, musicians, story tellers, dancers, historians, museums, books, galleries, craft industries, distinctive landmarks, local events and other industries, archaeological sites, etc. • Consult and network with other role players in order to establish longterm partnerships, such as amateur and professional cultural agencies. Amateur cultural agencies include individual practitioners, non-governmental organisations, religious entities, cultural groups and councils. Professional cultural agencies include the radio, television, print media, design, electronic media, tourism, heritage, cultural festivals, architecture, fashion, music, drama, education, book, crafts, language practitioners, advertising, agriculture, speech and language therapy, communication and related industries. They provide highly professional services that are geared at developing professionals for the cultural industry. • Consult with these agencies and design sustainable and economically viable projects and programmes. • Identify expertise to execute these

projects and programmes and obtain infrastructure and funding to support the implementation thereof. • Monitor, evaluate and redesign projects and programmes to ensure that they do add value and contribute to the development of communities. • Market projects and programmes, keep community informed and strengthen these initiatives with supporting mechanisms to ensure long-term sustainability and growth. Finally, to still argue that linguistic diversity is a liability and that only English is the way forward in South Africa is to prolong the cycle of intergenerational transmitted poverty in which the majority of non-English speakers are trapped. It is through quality mother tongue-based bilingual education and the optimal employment of our indigenous languages within the audio, visual, print and digital media spaces that opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship, development and self-fulfilment are created. The infrastructure, the policy framework and institutional capacity exist. All that is required is to consolidate the gains made in terms of employing indigenous languages as media tools and to expand their usage within the cultural industries sector. 83

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Thinking it through Think tanks deliberate Sino-African relations. This is an extract from a speech delivered by the Co-Convenor of the ANC’s Progressive Business Forum, Daryl Swanepoel, during the first meeting of the China-Africa Think Tanks Forum (CATTF), held in the city of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China, 26 to29 October 2011. Background

The first meeting of the China-Africa Think Tanks Forum (CATTF) was hosted by the Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua, China. The theme of the CATTF was ‘Sino-Africa Relations in the Second Decade of the New Century’ and was designed to build a mechanism for African and Chinese think tanks to exchange ideas for the promotion of Sino-African relations. The opening session of the CATTF on 27 October was attended by two former heads of state from Africa, African ambassadors based in Beijing and senior Chinese officials. Included in the impressive speakers and participant list were representatives from 27 African countries, including Gambia, Angola, the DRC, Mauritius, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Mauritania, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya and South Africa. The South African speakers at the CATTF included former Minister Essop Pahad and Daryl Swanepoel, Co-Convenor of the ANC’s Progressive Business Forum.

Daryl Swanepoel speaks of the relationship between Sino-African advances and economic growth on the African continent

China’s economic presence in Africa makes a major contribution to the stability, development and creation of hope, which Africa needs. China’s search for much-needed raw materials, markets and employment for its people must not 84

be interpreted simply as neo-colonialism resulting in a scramble for Africa’s raw materials. To dismiss it as such is a misrepresentation of the realities, a view usually promoted by countries with vested interests. There is no reason for major powers to be at loggerheads about each other’s involvement in Africa. Africa is a large continent with many opportunities in the economic sphere. There is a space for all. The more investments in Africa, the better for the investors and for the continent as a whole. The continent is blessed with many raw materials but it needs the skills, training, funds and infrastructure required to create an environment conducive for the development of Africa’s full potential, more particularly for the local beneficiation and utilisation of its raw materials, which will be of enormous benefit to Africa.

Increased Chinese involvement in SA

The enormous increase in Chinese involvement in Africa in the last 20 years has resulted in major economic and infrastructural development and Africa is, today, better placed to take advantage of any economic recovery which may follow the recession. Africa will now have to justify the confidence placed in it by the way in which it not only takes advantage of this economic involvement by China and others, but also in the accountable, open and

transparent manner in which it conducts its business with foreign companies. Chinese involvement in Africa is neither a self-serving exploitation to obtain raw materials, nor a philanthropic mission to enrich the elite few in Africa. China has developed a ‘business is business’ approach, but it is not blind to the injustices which occur in parts of the continent and it wants to be seen as a partner in overcoming these difficulties, whilst at the same time using these endeavours to resolve many of its own domestic challenges by obtaining raw materials, creating jobs and, importantly, utilising the ever-increasing African market of more than 900 million people to its advantage.

Strategic partnerships

A ‘new type of strategic partnership’ has developed in Africa following a number of summits held between China and African countries. The plan is based on ‘pragmatic cooperation, equality and mutual benefit’. The consequences of this plan have, inter alia, been the trebling of aid to Africa, the setting up a China-Africa Development Fund and the encouraging of Chinese companies to invest in Africa. To this end preferential loans have been granted, Chinese markets have been further opened by increasing from 190 to 440 the number of items from Africa which receive zerotariff treatment in China. In the process, thousands of Africans have been trained 84

Helping Africa become a hub of investment

In assisting Africa, in a spirit of partnership, to overcome its own challenges of ineffective transport and lacking economic infrastructure, weak administration, labour productivity etc., in helping Africa to become a hub of investment and trade, in assisting it with improving its production and industrial transformation, it strengthens the continent’s independence and builds a healthy interdependence – the result of a partnership approach. Chinese involvement in Africa in a structured, well-planned manner, focusing on the development of essential infrastructure and the creation of a larger market in and through Africa, will help transform Africa into a modern and competitive continent where poverty, hunger and disease is replaced by sound economic development. This can only be advantageous to both Africa and China, and the ANC’s Progressive Business Forum stands ready to play a positive and constructive role, characterised by a spirit of partnership to the benefit of all.

Beneficiation of raw material and smart investment

One of the biggest challenges facing Africa is to convert the Chinese enterprises from ‘extractors of raw materials’ into ‘transformers of raw materials’ on the continent. This will help in the creation of employment locally, which is imperative for the longterm stability of Africa. Trade between China and Africa should therefore be based on mutual benefit. This will be aided by a greater degree of raw material transformation in Africa itself, prior to its onward transportation to China. It is essential, or at least advisable, that aid should be smart, rather aimed at creating economic infrastructure which would lower the cost of manufacturing, than into more symbolic and grandiose ‘gifts to the nation’. The creation of economic infrastructure that will spur on manufacturing or facilitate the export of goods or raw materials will, however, have a lasting impact on the economic growth – growth needed to create employment, alleviate poverty and restore human dignity.

US debt or African infrastructure

China’s choice could be to invest more in USA debt. Although the US has its own financial difficulties, it will not default on its debt. Companies face less risk by investing in 10-year US government

bonds but they are not likely to obtain a return of more than 2.2 percent, and bearing in mind that China has an inflation of around 6.5 percent, the investment will, in fact, lead to negative real returns. Africa, on the other hand, has experienced a high growth rate in the last few years and this is set to continue. With an African population of 900 million and growing, China has the opportunity of creating large, new markets for itself by making sound investments based on a comprehensive strategy for the future. It will also be mitigating its risk by helping Africa develop its economic infrastructure. By lowering the cost of export through improving transportation means and routes of raw materials, for example, the concomitant cost reduction can buffer falling raw material prices in times of recession, thereby reducing the risk of default on loan repayments to Chinese institutions. And there are other advantages for China in not only transforming the raw materials in Africa but in manufacturing finished goods to sell locally or export from Africa. China has quotas on the export of transformed goods to the USA and the European Union. Africa does not have such limitations and this creates enormous possibilities to increase access to these markets. For Africa, the added advantage will be the creation of muchneeded job opportunities.

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and many hospitals and schools have been built. In 1995 trade with Africa was valued at $3 billion, by 2011 it exceeded $100 billion, making China Africa’s number one trading partner, ahead of the USA.

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PBF people in business Running and maintaining a business takes skill, courage and determination. We asked six PBF business leaders about what drives them and how they succeeded in their individual industries. Angel Mazubane, CEO, Legna Creative Enterprises What words of wisdom do you have for other business leaders? Success comes through hard work, and one of the keys to success is learning to deal with the tension of whatever challenges arise, overcoming hardship and taking advantage of any opportunities. This will give you confidence to walk tall and achieve your ambition. Always remember: “A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new”.

What advice do you have for those who want to enter your industry? Construction trades are not necessarily the first choice for many people, especially young women. Talking to people who have travelled the road and have experience does help and there are trusted centres and/or sources that provide information, advice and training.

What role do you play as a CEO?

I have responsibilities as a communicator, decision-maker, leader and manager. As a communicator my role involves the rest of the outside world, as well as the organisation’s management and employees; the decision-making role involves high-level decisions about policy and strategy. As a leader, I advise the board of directors, motivate employees and drive change within the organisation. As a manager, I preside over the organisation’s day-to-day, month-tomonth and year-to-year operations. 86 86

What challenges do you face in the construction industry?

There are numerous challenges facing today’s construction industry. Some are new to the industry and some are centuries old. Many of these challenges are a direct result of construction operations, while others are a result of indirect, peripheral activities. A surprising number of challenges are not construction issues but must be addressed and managed by the construction manager (CM) to ensure project success. Some of the construction issues include workforce considerations, safety, time constraints and the changing nature of the work.

In what way has being a member of the Progressive Business Forum added to your company?

The PBF has provided an opportunity for excellent networks and great exposure for my business.

What motivates you?

Making a difference. Sometimes we move into a community to deliver on their infrastructure needs and one is faced with dire situations; it is either that the children are learning in a tent or crammed in one temporary classroom and when we leave the site there is a smile on everyone’s face. Some donations of school shoes and jerseys that we made in one primary school in an informal settlement in Durban

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(Avoca Hills)… that smile on their faces is what motivates me, i.e knowing that I have contributed something towards improving their lives. When someone joins the organisation as a cleaner and is up-skilled to a creditor’s clerk – that means we have improved his or her quality of life.

How do you relax?

Given my hectic schedule, I make the most of every opportunity to bond with my family exclusively by going out to watch movies or taking a short holiday to see different parts of South Africa.

What is the best business lesson you have ever learnt?

Don’t become despondent when you are down or when your idea has been rejected or taken away by the opposition. Pick yourself up and do it again. When one door closes, another one will open.

What are your future plans for the business?

My plan is to grow Legna to be a fully diversified construction company that can deliver turnkey projects to its clients. This means employing a team of professionals from civil engineers, geotech engineers to architects etc. The plan is to achieve this in the next five years. Then, the natural progression would be to venture into property development so as to keep the teams occupied.

Elvis Dube, Managing Director, Krossover Technologies What role do you play in your business?

Gwede Matashe, having worked with him at COSATU level.

What challenges do you face in the industry?

What is the best business lesson you have ever learnt?

Managing Director.

To try and accommodate the number of students wanting to do in-service training.

In what way has being a member of the Progressive Business Forum added to your company? Interacting with various stakeholders has contributed towards establishing relationships within the business community in general.

How has your company weathered the economic downturn?

Fortunately we have been able to procure long-term contracts and thus have not been badly affected.

How do you relax?

Gym and playing a variety of sport.

Do you have a role model or someone who inspires you?

The current President Jacob Zuma because we are from the same background. My other role model is Secretary General

To treat people with respect, share knowledge and interact with local communities.

What is your future plan for the business? To grow our business and to empower SMMEs as much as possible.

What words of wisdom do you have for other business leaders?

It’s not about the fact that you cannot do everything, but rather the fact that you can always do something. In other words, don’t subscribe to the notion that if you cannot do everything then it means you can’t do anything.

What advice do you have for those wanting to enter the industry?

Firstly, understand that your frustrations can become your vision. Write down your frustrations, which will enable these to become your vision. Finally, write down your vision and make it happen. 87 87

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Lucas van der Merwe, Owner, Ziphi Nkomo Training Services Tell us about your company.

The name means ‘where are the cattle’. We started with six contract workers at Shoprite 12 years ago, Rual Carelse presented us with an opportunity. The company’s NQF Level 4 Training Company was given birth to, followed by Ziphi Nkomo Training Services, our clothing division, Ziphi Clothing to provide protective clothing, Ziphi Plumbing to add value to already existing clients, Ziphi Hub Guest House for leisure and pleasure and then our exclusive mineral water range, Ziphi Amanzi. Ziphi Nkomo 1 Group of Companies is a level 6 BBBEE contributor. We are accredited with Proudly SA, the Green Building Council of South Africa, the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa, the National Contract Cleaners’ Association, the Wholesale and Retail Sector Education and Training Authority, the Association of Personnel Service Organisations, and the Progressive Business Forum (PBF). Today we provide labour to the Big 5 retailers in South Africa.

What role do you play in the business?

I am a very hands-on business owner who treats every client as our only client. I believe that what you cannot measure, you cannot manage. The business is managed on the following principle: To remain our customers’ first choice at all times.

What challenges do you face in the industry?

Our biggest challenge is to change the perception of labour outsourcing in the country. The enormity of the industry is necessary to maintain continuity in a fluctuating market in order to feed sustainability to the end consumer of products at a fair price and to maintain workforce integrity.

In what way has being a member of PBF added to your company?

Great discounts on airline tickets with 1Time 88

and good exposure of my company brand and integrity as a contributing business to our economy.

How has your company weathered the economic downturn?

Actually very well – we believe that we should concentrate on what we do want and stop focusing on the things we do not want.

What motivates you?

To transfer knowledge and intellectual property and to see the recipients of these develop to their full potential.

How do you relax?

Horse riding, super bikes and fast cars.

Do you have a role model or someone who inspires you? Humble people with integrity always inspire me.

What is the best business lesson you have ever learnt? Always be humble and never become arrogant!

What are your future plans for the business?

To become the leader of my industry with a traceable and reputable reputation to always pay it forward and never take more than we give.

What words of wisdom do you have for other business leaders?

Greatness can only exist in the presence of continuity and perseverance. Always pay your people and suppliers on time. Live in the power of now and always deliver what you have promised.

What advice do you have for those wanting to enter the industry?

Always comply with legislation and your business will prosper.

PBF | BUSINESS PEOPLE Malakia Madzhie, Managing Director, Mashau Salphina Electrical (MSE) Tell us about your company.

Mashau Salphina Electrical (MSE) is a wholly South African controlled engineering company with 100 percent black ownership. We do consulting, contracting and construction in the high voltage electricity field. Our main customers are Eskom and municipalities, where we have done the following projects: • Design, construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks, electrification and substations. • Live-line construction and maintenance. • Quality inspection and audit of electrical networks. • Project management.

What role do you play in the business?

My role as the Managing Director of the company is to ensure the smooth running of the company by managing day-to-day activities and keeping everyone in line with the objectives of the company.

What challenges do you face in the industry?

We are in a very technical and capital intensive industry which therefore needs a high capital injection in the business. The other challenge is the shortage of skilled personnel.

In what way has being a member of the Progressive Business Forum (PBF) added to your company?

Thus far the major benefit is the networking it has afforded and the interaction with not only the senior members of our party but with fellow members in our same industry on a non-competitive front. Whilst this has not yielded a monetary reward in terms of increasing the company’s financial prosperity, it has provided a tremendous platform for our company to grow in other directions.

How has your company weathered the economic downturn?

Through the reserves that we always endeavour to keep during good business times. We always try to prepare ourselves for all situations, hence we have found it very beneficial to keep something in our ‘store house’ to assist during adverse conditions.

What motivates you?

I am highly motivated by meeting and reading about leaders or successful people who have made it in the business environment despite all odds.

How do you relax?

I read a lot, listen to music and go to church.

Do you have a role model or someone who inspires you? Yes, Mr Patrice Motsepe.

What is the best business lesson you have ever learnt? I have learnt that even when business is good you must never stop marketing or saving for the darker days. We benefited a lot from doing this, and, as such, we continued to thrive during the worst times of the economic down-turn

What are your future plans for the business?

I endeavour to make my company a onestop in all matters of electricity. Once that is achieved, we then list on the JSE.

What words of wisdom do you have for other business leaders?

Treat your business like your little baby who needs to be taken care of until he or she can take care of themselves.

What advice do you have for those who want to enter the industry? Nothing is as easy as it looks. The business environment is not easy but it can be entered and no matter how hard it becomes, don’t give up!

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Sydney Zwane, Managing Director, Krossover Technologies Tells us about your company.

Krossover Technologies is a black owned South African company established in 2007. The company provides information technology (IT) services, IT resourcing solutions and develops South Africa’s IT skills.

What role do you play in the business?

I am the Managing Director of the company with the role of ensuring the long-term health and growth of Krossover. My main focus is on customers, employees and other stakeholders that will enable the company to grow.

What challenges do you face in the industry? The global economic climate has put huge pressure on the IT industry. We have experienced cost reduction pressures in the private sector with, for example, banks cancelling or restructuring IT projects by outsourcing some of the project components to large IT companies outside of South Africa. This called for a different approach from Krossover. Specialist IT skills shortage is still an issue in South Africa, which has to be resolved with IT skills development and job creation in mind. Service delivery challenges in public sector organisations demands provision of innovative and efficient IT solutions that will provide improved services to citizens. However, there is a need to build long-term relationships in government organisations.

In what way has being a member of the Progressive Business Forum (PBF) added to your company?

PBF is helping our company develop local and global business partnerships and networks. Companies cannot survive without the global outlook and partnerships. Yet BPF also offers us local relevance, knowledge and is encouraging Krossover to be proudly South African. To a growing extent, it gives us a platform to contribute to the economic transformation of South Africa and informs us of the progress.

How has your company weathered the economic downturn?

In addition to reducing our operational costs and taking care of our quality of service, we looked for innovative ways and opportunities that help our customers weather the economic downturn and resolve challenges. This continues to be done in partnership with our customers and other players in the industry. 90

What motivates you?

Finding solutions to seemingly difficult challenges for our customers, people and the company.

How do you relax?

I love music in general, particularly jazz. I socialise and listen to music to relax.

Do you have a role model or someone who inspires you?

I am inspired by great leaders who bring peace, freedom, love and hope to people of the world. These leaders are passionate and believe in the general good of humankind. They do selfless things that inspire and bring hope to a multitude of wanting people. These leaders include our South African icon, Madiba.

What is the best business lesson you have ever learnt? To be patient and resolute. To think big, start small and scale fast.

What are your future plans for the business?

At Krossover we believe in our capabilities and have ambitions to grow in South Africa and the rest of Africa. We are strengthening our partnerships with global companies that boost our IT expertise and innovation; help us lower costs to our clients; assist us in developing South African IT skills; and give us global delivery capability.

What words of wisdom do you have for other business leaders?

I believe that it is time for South African business leaders to play a meaningful role in our country’s economic transformation, the rest of Africa’s economic development and take advantage of the world’s next emerging market. Our involvement should not be arrogant but showcase our competencies as a developing nation.

What advice do you have for those wanting to enter the industry?

The industry, like any other business, requires focus, big picture understanding and lots of hard work. Coming up with innovative IT services and products has proven to be a winner for most of the world’s successful IT entrepreneurs. Look around, learn, think, experiment and you might come up with something suitable for a local market you understand, and maybe even the global market.

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eagerly, confident that with each passing session, we are a little closer to making that ideal a reality. I encourage all the readers of this publication to visit our Parliamentary website, (www.parliament.gov.za) to explore all the icons and to research for yourselves the significant network of functions that are performed by Parliament. You will be surprised indeed to learn of the areas in which you can become involved and how you can reach to the very heart of our democracy that was once the preserve of a few. From even a cursory glance at the numbers of visitors that have been through Parliament in the last year alone, it is clear that South Africans and foreigners have a deep and abiding admiration for the institution of our democratic Parliament as the birthplace of our representative and participatory democracy, and indeed for its role as an activist institution that knows where the people live, what they aspire to and which intervenes with the executive and business on behalf of the people.

In the course of its mandate to promote and expand business liaison locally and internationally, the ANC’s Progressive Business Forum continues to bring through the doors of Parliament representatives from all over the world. In so doing, these businesspeople from abroad are exposed to the activities of the National Assembly, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), the Parliamentary Committees, its subcommittees, its committee representatives and, in fact, to the most fundamental issues with which Parliament grapples in the course of its programme of work. These visitors from all over the world marvel at the freedom of access to Parliament. To South Africans, it is normal. We are privileged indeed to have an activist people’s parliament. In as much as I encourage each one of you to look at our website, I encourage you all to come and visit this extraordinary place, our Parliament – it is your Parliament and its work is just as much yours as ours. It is a place of which we can all be exceedingly proud. <

e have defined the fourth Parliament as an activist Parliament, that is, a Parliament that not only represents the people within the four walls of Parliament but which interacts and engages with the people, knows where they live, what their aspirations and fears are and intervenes with the executive and business on their behalf. Parliament is the heart of our representative and participatory democracy. I have said in previous editions of Progressive Leader that the ANC has evolved a new strategy of reaching out to the people through Regional Peoples’ Assemblies to ensure that Parliament is literally taken to the people where they live and work. This will ensure that Parliament is also accessible to small businesses and spaza owners. A direct and honest assessment of the successes of making our Parliament truly engaged at the most fundamental level must conclude that we still have much to do on this score. It is thus Parliament’s single greatest challenge and we accept it

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n 8 June the Progressive Business Forum co-hosted an event at the Johannesburg Country Club with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), The Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) and the Southern Africa Canton, HK & Macau Commercial Liaison Association (SACHM). The event was held to bring Guangzhou and South African business people together for business-to-business meetings and to officially open the CCPIT Guangzhou liaison Office in the SACHM. Both the PBF and JCCI invited many of its participants and members to attend and over 230 people attended the opening ceremony, while over 80 business participated in the B2B meetings thereafter. The high level delegation from China included: • Mr. Zhang Guangning, Member of the Standing Committee of CPC Guangdong Committee and Party Secretary of CPC Guangzhou Committee; • Mr. Wang Dong, Vice Chairman of cppec Guangzhou Committee and Director General of Guangzhou Urban Planning Bureau; • Mr. Jiang Wei, Economic & Commercial Counsellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of South Afri ca; • Mr. li Jiangning, Consul General of the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Johannesburg;

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or the first time in its history the Progressive Business Forum led a ground-breaking trade delegation to the island of Mauritius from 10 to 15 June 2011. The delegates included the MP THEN Deputy Minister of Tourism Thokozile Xasa, ANC Treasurer General Mathews Phosa, PBF Co-Convenor Renier Schoeman and PBF participants, all of whom attended for the express purpose of further opening trade and investment opportunities between South Africa and the bustling Mauritian economy. As Mauritius is one of the highest ranking African countries in the economic and social indices such as the Global Competitiveness Report, the Doing Business Report and the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index, it is an important asset to the continent, and a vital trading partner to South Africa. The programme for the visit was divided into two parts: Firstly, on the 13th of June, the delegates attended the PBF South Africa - Mauritius Trade & Investment Seminar, CO-hosted by the Mauritian Board of Investment (BOI), a government run chamber of commerce. Speaking at the Seminar, ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa said “our visit should not be seen as a once-off exercise but rather the start of a new phase of a deepening of the current economic and political links between South Africa and Mauritius, enjoying the full support of the African National Congress as governing party of South Africa.” The keynote address at this event was given by the Hon Vasant Kumar Bunwaree, Acting Minister of Finance & Economic Development, Minister of Education and Human Resources and a

speech was also delivered by Deputy Minister Thokozile Xasa. Highly successful business to business meetings between the South AfricaN and Mauritian companies followed. A number of the South African PBF Participants are returning to Mauritius in July to conclude business deals they began during this session. During the visit, Dr Phosa, Deputy Minister Xasa and Mr Schoeman met with the Mauritian Prime Minister, the Honourable Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Mauritian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Hon Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Hon Devanand Virahsawmy (also Vice Chairman of the Majority Labour Party) and Minister of Tourism and Leisure, Hon Nandcoomar Bodha. Dr Phosa, Deputy Minister Xasa and Mr Schoeman also met with the Treasurer General of the Labour Party, Mr Ahfat K.F. Lan Hing Choy and the Secretary General of the Labour Party, Mr Lormesh Bundhun (also Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister’s office). The second part of the trip was a visit to the Mauritius International Investment Forum (MIIF) held on the 15th and 16th June. This event was organised to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the BOI, and speeches were made by many high level participants from Mauritius and around the world. As with any PBF led trade delegation, time was set aside to explore the country in between official commitments. Delegates went on a cruise from Grande Baie to Port St Louis, visited the Caudan Waterfront and nearby Central Market for some light shopping and saw the spectacular Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens. The delegates also had the chance to visit a tree planted in the gardens by President Nelson Mandela many years ago.

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PBF/Mauritius Board of Investment cocktail event

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n 11 August 2011 the PBF held a cocktail event in conjunction with the Mauritius Board of Investment at the Johannesburg Country Club in Auckland Park. During the week of 8 to 12 August the Board of Investment had held networking sessions to which PBF participants were invited. The goal of the networking sessions was to introduce Mauritian businessmen to their South African counterparts, with the aim of increasing trade and investment between Mauritius and South Africa. The cocktail event on 11 August in Johannesburg was dedicated to a more intimate and informal discussion between the Board of Investment on one hand, and the PBF and ANC on the other. The PBF was honoured to have Deputy Minister of Tourism, Thokozile Xasa, who addressed those present on her recent

experiences in Mauritius on a PBF trade delegation, as well as her ideas for furthering the trade relations between South Africa and Mauritius. The Chairman of the Board of Investment, Maurice lam addressed the attendees, and introduced Mauritiusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aims to grow their education, health and IT sectors. He was ably assisted by Nitin Pandea, the Director of Emerging Sectors at the Board of Investment, who gave a more detailed address on each of these sectors. The official programme of the evening was wrapped up by the PBF Co-Convenors, Renier Schoeman and Daryl Swanepoel, and the assembled guests who included the High Commissioner of Mauritius, HE M Dossa and the CEO of BUSA, Ms Nomaxabiso Majokweni, were able to network over cocktail snacks and drinks.

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PBF hosts cocktail networking event with the Mauritius board of Investment and Afrasia Bank

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he PBF hosted a successful cocktail networking function together with the Mauritius Board of Investment (BOI) and Afrasia Bank at the Cape Town Club (Leinster Hall) on 29 September. The PBF had assisted the BOI and Afrasia Bank in that same week with their intera ctive breakfasts held in Johannesburg (27 September); Durban (28 September) and in Cape Town (29 September) to which PBF members were invited. Speaking at the cocktail event on 29 September, the CoConvenor of the PBF, Renier Schoeman encouraged the guests to network extensively with the BOI and Afrasia Bank and to expand and enhance their ties between South Africa and Mauritius. In turn, the Director of Emerging Services of the BOL Nitin Pandea, delivered an extensive and detailed presentation, pointing out the range of opportunities available for potential Investors in Mauritius in this way.

The Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Economic Development, the Han Freddie Adams spoke of the need to promote business with South Africa and SADDC Member countries and to ensure that benefits accrued satisfactorily to the economies of all sides. The guests from the South African side represented diverse fields such as hospitality; asset managing; agriculture; the motor industry; property, banking ; IT; the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Construction and investment. Included among the guests at the event, was a seven-person delegation from Vietnam who were visiting South Africa and who represented a range of Industries, including agriculture, IT and real estate. The vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Tim Hughes, of DIPLOCOM, and guests were presented with a bottle of famous Simonsig wine by Danie de Wet, the owner of the estate.

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PBF takes its largest yet delegation to attend the 7th Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Expo in Changchun and the PBF Seminar in Beijing, China

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total of one hundred and two people left South Africa bound for the Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Republic of China on 3 September 2011 to attend three primary business events and numerous secondary functions. The South African delegation included the South African Deputy Minister of Water and Environment Affairs, the Hon. Rejoice Mabudafhasi, as well as The Hon. Joan Fubbs MP (Chairperson of the South African Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Trade & Industry) and The Hon. Elsie Mmathulare Coleman MP (Chairperson of the South African Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Economic Development). They were accompanied by Daryl Swanepoel (Co-Convenor or the Progressive Business Forum) and representatives from seventy six privately owned South African business enterprises. The first event was the North-East Asia / PBF Trade Seminar in Changchun, co-hosted by the Progressive Business Forum and the Jilin Provincial Government Department of Technological and Economic Cooperation, on Monday 5 September 2011. A total of approximately two hundred and fifty Chinese and South Africans

listened to South African and Chinese speakers discuss the business potential and synergies between the two countries. The following day, the South African contingent, bolstered in numbers by twelve members of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole, attended the opening of the 7th China North-East Asia Investment and Trade Expo in Changchun as VIP guests of the Jilin Provincial government, whereafter delegates were free to explore the EXPO. The final primary event was the China / South Africa Business Forum co-hosted by the Progressive Business Forum and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) in Beijing. This event was extremely well attended by the local Chinese business community. A MOU was signed between the CCPIT and the PBF on this occasion. The size of the delegation, the largest yet taken by the PBF to China, proves yet again the high level of interest of South African business people in doing business in China. During the visit a MOU was signed

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Treasurer General of ANC accompanies PBF to London for the annual business briefing

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he PBF hosted its third annual briefing event for business in London on 11 October 2011. The event, which was held at The Private Rooms of the Crowne Plaza Hotel at Buckingham Gate, was attended by about one hundred UK business people and politicians and was addressed by ANC Treasurer-General, Dr Mathews Phosa. The speech was followed by an extensive question and answer session and cocktail network interaction. The event was also attended by South Africa’s High Commissioner in London, HE Dr Zola Skweyiya and the High Commissioner of Mauritius in London, HE Mr A Kundasamy as well as a visiting delegation from the Mauritius Board of Investment (BOI), with which the PBF has a close association, headed by its Chair, Mr Morris Lam and its senior official, Mr Nitin Pandea. The South African Deputy High Commissioner Bongiwe Qwabe, also attended as did South Africa’s Honorary Consul for the Midlands, Mr Avi Lazarow. During the visit, Dr Phosa also held a series of meetings with a number of banks and financial institutions and was received by Wendy Mead, the Sheriff of the City of London and Mr Richard Sermon on behalf of Michael Bear, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, whom Dr Phosa and the PBF hosted in Johannesburg in September 2011 but who was travelling.

Dr Phosa also met with Mr Ian McNicol, newly appointed General Secretary of the Labour Party, (sister Party to the ANC) and with senior representatives of the Conservative Party Government. In a series of meetings arranged in London between ANC Treasurer General and business leaders by the ANC Progressive Business Forum two very clear messages emerged. The first being that South Africa is keen to attract further FDI and trade from the UK in line with the commitment of the two respective governments to double their bi-lateral trade by 2015. In the midst of the ongoing economic policy dialogue in South Africa the ANC is very clear – it aims to develop policy that promotes, rather than hinders business confidence and an environment conducive to investment, including investment in mining. The second clear messages that emerged from discussions with financial institutions in London was that they stood ready to fund development in South Africa. There is great interest and confidence amongst the leading financial institutions in London to fund viable projects, including Public Private Partnerships (PPP). The headline sponsor of the event was Sitsabo Project Managers was represented by Rev. Dlamini Sitsabo who addressed the gathering. The second sponsor was ? who also spoke.

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PBF cocktail and networking event with Malusi Gigaba O

n 23 May 2011 the Progressive Business Forum held a highly successful cocktail and networking event at the Sunnyside Park Hotel in Parktown, Johannesburg. The main speaker at this event was the Minister of Public Enterprises, Malusi Gigaba. A record number of PBF participants joined the Minister, totalling over 350 people, indicating an ever-growing appreciation of the value of these events to business people. The official proceedings were initiated by the programme director and PBF Co-Convenor, Daryl Swanepoel, who introduced Renier Schoeman, also PBF Co-Convenor for the welcome address.

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Introducing Minister Gigaba, Mr Schoeman said, inter alia, "Not only is he a highly competent minister, but also a good friend of the PBF. Thereafter Minister Gigaba took to the lectern and spoke knowledgably and with passion about the role and future of public enterprises in South Africa. A lively question and answer session followed. After the programme director closed the official proceedings, the guests were invited to network over cocktail snacks and drinks in the Sunnyside Park Hotel Ballroom and networking continued well into the night.

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rom 4 to 6 July 2011, the Korea Trade-lnvestment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) held the Korean Expo 2011 in Johannesburg. 84 leading Korean companies specialising in electricity, ITC, green energy, automotive, machinery, healthcare equipment, and other industries participated, during which time Korean companies were able to exhibit their products and meet with potential African business partners. PBF participants were invited to attend the exhibit over the three days, in addition to attending networking and business-to-business sessions. On 4 July the exhibit was officially opened by Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, and the opening was attended by many South African business leaders as well as their Korean counterparts. On 5 July KOTRA hosted a networking session called the e-Smart

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World Africa 2011, where South African companies with IT interests were able to join a round table discussion with the OECD Development Centre, African Development Bank (AFDB), and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy of the Republic of Korea. On 6 July KOTRA hosted the first-of-its-kind African Plaza, an event co-hosted with the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy which aimed to promote mutual cooperation between Korean and South African businesses in selected industrial sectors. Presentations were made by prominent Korean firms involved in areas such as integrated transportation systems, rolling stock, high speed transportation, and renewable energy (solar and wind). Presentations were also be made by the Department of Transportation, PRASA, the DAR Group, CEF, and SANEDI (formerly SANERI).

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South African/Vietnam business to business networking session

n 18 July 2011 the Progressive Business Forum (PBF), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam and the Embassy of Vietnam hosted a South African/ Vietnam business to business networking session in Johannesburg. The leader of the Vietnam delegation was the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, Mr Ho Xuan Hung, and he was accompanied by the DG of the Department of Process, Trade in Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Salt Industry of Vietnam, as well as a business delegation of around 15 Vietnamese businesses. The Embassy of Vietnam was also well represented, with the Ambassador of Vietnam to South Africa heading that side of the group. The networking session was moderated by Renier Schoeman, Co-Convenor of the PBF and Ambassador Nguyen Manh Hung of Vietnam. The day was divided into two sections, before lunch a session of speakers from both the SA and Vietnamese sides highlighted opportunities and challenges for business in each respective country, and after lunch, the direct business to business networking around tables between the business people of both countries. The speakers from the South African side were the MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development of the Gauteng Provincial

Government, Ms Nandi Mayathula-Khoza, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Hon Mlungisi Johnson, the GM of Investment and Trade facilitation of the Gauteng Economic Development Agency (GEDA), Mr Mudunwazi Baloyi, Mr Renier Schoeman and Mr Daryl Swanepoel, Co-Convenors of the Progressive Business Forum. The speakers from the Vietnamese side were Mr Ho Xuan Hung, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnan, Ambassador Nguyen Manh Hung, Ambassador of Vietnam to South Africa, Mr Do van Nam, Director-General, Department of Process, Trade in Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Salt Industry of Vietnam. There were about 100 attendees and significant interest was shown by the South African businesses in the tea, coffee and sea food and sea food processing industries of the Vietnamese side. All in all the event was most successful and provided an opportunity for the exploration of potential business opportunities. There seems to be a clear interest on the part of SA business, in particular, SMMEs, in doing business in Vietnam. For the first time in its history the Progressive Business Forum led a ground-breaking trade delegation to the island of Mauritius from 10 to 15 June 2011.

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n 29 July 2011 the Progressive Business Forum (PBF) in conjunction with the Shaanxi China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) held a business-tobusiness networking session at the Johannesburg Country Club in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. Fifteen companies from the province of Shaanxi accompanied the Vice Mayor of Vulin Municipal Government Ms Ma Xiulan to South Africa with the express purpose of meeting South African business in order to foster greater trade and investment between the two countries. The PBF was honoured to have Ms Joan Fubbs, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Trade and Investment and Mr Amos Masondo the head of the Presidency at the ANC and previous mayor of Johannesburg address the participants at the event. Over 100 PBF participant companies attended, and were able to have business-to-business meetings after the formal session was

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concluded. Speaking at the event, Ms Fubbs, highlighted the importance of a mutually beneficial trade regime between South Africa and China. Mr Masondo, commenting on the broader implications of improved South Africa-China trade, said that "South Africa, which is China's second biggest trading partner after Angola, continues to play a significant role in driving the vision of the renewal of the African continent.â&#x20AC;? In addition, speeches were also given by the Chinese Consul General in Johannesburg, Mr Li Jiangning and Mr Wang Xiao'an the Deputy Chairperson of the Shaamxi Provincial Committee of Chinese Peoples' Political Consultative Conference. The business-to-business session which followed was a considerable success, and allowed the South African and Chinese business people to discuss further avenues of cooperation with each other.

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n 1 September 2011 the PBF and Ivor Ichikowitz hosted a lunch at Mr Ichikowitzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in Johannesburg for Rt Hon the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Michael Bear. The Lord Mayor was visiting South Africa with a trade delegation of London businessmen with the intent of fostering further trade links between South Africa and the city of London. The lunch was attended by over 40 of South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier business people, including the CEOs and chairmen of major companies such as Alexander Forbes, Group 5 and the Edison Corporation.

In addition UK Trade and Investment was represented by the British High Commissioner, Dr Nicola Brewer, and the British Trade Commissioner to South Africa Andrew Henderson. The ANC was represented by Dr Mathews Phosa, ANC Treasurer General, and the PBF by its Co-Convenors, Renier Schoeman and Daryl Swanepoel. The Lord Mayor spoke passionately about furthering the already close trade relations between the city of London and South African cities and his delegation agreed that they had enjoyed a most fruitful visit.

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The PBF at the Durban Business Fair for SMMEs F

rom 23 to 25 September the Progressive Business Forum and 20 participating companies took part in the Durban Business Fair at the Durban Exhibition Centre. This is the first time that the PBF has taken a group of companies to exhibit their services at the Fair, and it was a huge success. The PBF Pavilion, which included all the PBF participating companies, gathered a high level of interest from the visitors to the Fair and the grouping of the companies in one space helped to show the public how effective PBF participation can be for furthering business aims. The PBF Pavilion was officially opened at 5pm by Deputy Minister of Tourism Thokozile Xasa and Deputy Metro Mayor of Durban, Ms Nomvuzo Shabalala after the PBF Co-Convenors walked them through the stands and personally introduced them to all the PBF participating companies. Logie Naidoo, speaker of the Ethekwini Metro, also joined the PBF and was a regular visitor to the PBF lounge during the Fair, as were Philip Sithole, the Ethekwini Metro project manager for the Fair, and Zodwa Msimang, from Ikhono Communications, who were the event organisers. After the official opening, the PBF Co-Convenors, Renier

Schoeman and Daryl Swanepoel accompanied Deputy Minister Xasa to the official Gala Dinner of the Durban Business Fair, and they were joined there by Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Elizabeth Thabethe. Another honour for the PBF Pavilion was the visit by the new Deputy Mayor of Ethekwini, Nomvuso Shabalala on Friday, 23 September. On Saturday, 24 September, after a highly successful business breakfast, PBF Co-Convenors Renier Schoeman and Daryl Swanepoel escorted Deputy Minister Thabethe around the PBF Pavilion, once again giving the PBF participants a chance to introduce their services to her. The PBF participating companies that exhibited at the PBF Pavilion included; Amantombazane Tours, Bophelo Benefit Services, Brainwave Projects, E Skilz, Emerald Fire Trading, Footprint Gas, Govimindah Naidoo, Hola World, Ithunzi Protection Services, Morar Incorporated, Queens Print and Promotions, Ready Homes, Solar Primeg, Subban & Subban Insurance Group, Tekmation. The PBF wishes to thank those companies that exhibited with it for their enthusiasm and help in showcasing the value of the PBF to the Durban public.

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PBF business networking lunch with Minister Rob Davies in Cape Town O

n 7 October 2011 The Progressive Business Forum (PBF) held a business networking lunch at Kelvin Grove in Newlands Cape Town, attended by around 100 high level guests including top businessmen such as Dr Christo Wiese as well as ANC metro councillors. The guest of honour and main speaker was Dr Rob Davies, the Minister of Trade and Industry. Present also were the Honorary Consuls of Finland and the Slovak Republic. After an introduction by PBF Co-Convenors, Daryl Swanepoel and Renier Schoeman, and following Dr Davies being awarded a certificate of recognition for his work in promoting trade and

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entrepreneurial initiatives at many venues and supporting the PBF, Dr Davies addressed the guests on the Department of Trade and Industry's current initiatives to boost South Africa's international trade, specifically with Africa. Dr Davies spoke also about SA/China trade relations and highlighted at length, the steps taken by South Africa to ensure the advancement, facilitation and promotion of the state of trade and industry within the country. The Minister also spent time answering questions from guests about challenges in their particular businesses and about business opportunities in South Africa in particular.

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PBF business breakfast with Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Elizabeth Thabethe, at Durban ICC

n Saturday 24 September 2011 the Progressive Business Forum (PBF) held a business breakfast at the Durban International Convention Centre. The main speaker for this event was Elizabeth Thabethe, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry. The Deputy Minister spoke with passion about the strides her department is making in getting SMME business loans to small businesses and creating a more favourable business environment for SMMEs. In addition, the Deputy Minister was able to provide advice to a number of PBF participants who took the opportunity to tell the audience about their own personal efforts to get business loans, improve the reach of their businesses, and generally grow their companies in South Africa. The PBF was honoured to also have Deputy Minister of Tourism, Thokozile Xasa present, who spoke briefly on the role that her department was playing in improving tourism-related business opportunities in KwaZulu-Natal.

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n 5 October and 7 October the Progressive Business Forum held two skills development training events in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth respectively and then on 13 and 21 October in Durban and Johannesburg respectively. Collectively, over 200 PBF participants joined the workshops, which were facilitated by Eugene Nysschen, of Shakenovsky Nysschen

Attorneys. The goal was to introduce and explain the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), an act with wide-reaching but often confusing implications for all business owners. Mr Nysschen covered the following aspects of the act in his lecture; definition and interpretation of the CPA, implementation and application; and fundamental consumer rights.

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matter calmly and we hope to have more clarity on the matter during our elective conference of the ANC at the end of 2012. Nationalisation is one of a number of policy alternatives that the ANC, as the ruling party, will consider from now until the end of 2012. We have to do so taking into consideration global experiences regarding this matter, and the effect that such a measure might have on international partnerships and foreign direct investment. Our much-heralded negotiations during the period leading up to our 1994 elections taught me an important lesson, namely that good negotiators always find space in the middle of extreme positions. We understand, of course, that globalisation will have its own effect on us as a result of the economic challenges in the USA as well as the European negotiations and discussions around some of their economies. This understanding, in my view, is a major motivator for us to move with speed to initiate and conclude transactions between the private sector companies of our two countries. I understand the concerns of British and international companies about a number of issues such as crime, the debates around nationalisation, the

perceived instability in the region and the pressure for us and others to play a meaningful role in the region and continent, the perceived challenges regarding service delivery and a view that reconciliation has moved much lower on the agenda since Mr Mandelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure. sOn the latter issue we realised that, in as much as we need positive international sentiment regarding South Africa, to deepen our commercial partnerships we also need to (again) deepen our commitment to non-racialism in South Africa. As leaders we need to reach across the political divide and specifically look for commercial partnerships. We need to shape a common intent and agenda between us both as international partners as well as South Africans. We are a young and vibrant democracy, whilst we find our democratic feet and international posture, there are those of us, such as myself, who want to do everything in my power to attract British investment into South Africa. It is my sincere hope that we can do so whilst other policy matters are being deliberated by our respective governments. Allow me, in conclusion, to also thank the PBF and their counterparts for their efforts to make this visit and this function a reality. <

outh Africa has had a very close association over the years with the United Kingdom, its government, and business organizations and individuals. It was a mere 70 years or so ago when a South African headed the British government for a few days during war time. Today that leaders such as Jan Smuts, is proudly remembered with political icons such as Nelson Mandela and Winston Churchill just outside the gates of your Parliament. It is indicative of the strength of our relationship that we have remained friends and partners during times of both peace and war. Both partners in this relationship agree that we should place our focus on trade and ensure that we work very hard towards achieving our goal of doubling the trade between our countries by 2015. We should work towards that goal whatever the policy and political challenges are that face both the British and South African governments. During my previous visit a few years ago I faced a lot of questions regarding the issue of nationalisation. Today, this is still an issue which draws a lot of attention, and today it is still not government policy. In South Africa we are debating the

As in the past 11 years, VNA whole-heartedly, as a proud supporter of the AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ideology, embraced the interconnected obligation by addressing economic, social and environmental development in the rural communities where we operate, to enable these communities to better themselves for a brighter future through the development of structures and the implementation of the changes necessary to build that future. In our best wishes for the future lies the hope and acknowledgement that through unity we will maintain our rich rainbow nation of social cultures, with each of them cross-fertilising the others and thus, maintaining the vital diversity essential for indefinite survival without perpetuating our alienation from nature and from each other. VNA congratulates the AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS in the celebration of their centenary birthday. Halala ngosuku lokuzalwa!! Vikash Narsai Chief Executive Officer

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