Taking on the struggle to save Liliesleaf, an anti-apartheid heritage site – Nic Wolpe
Bought as a safe house for anti-Apartheid activists in the 60s, Nic Wolpe is taking on saving Liliesleaf with a funding campaign.
Bought as a safe house for anti-Apartheid activists in the 60s, Nic Wolpe is taking on saving Liliesleaf with a funding campaign.
My attendance at the CEO SleepOut at Liliesleaf farm this week was an eye opener.
It’s bad enough when cynics snipe about “poverty porn” and spout other mindless sound bites. But this year, a pre-meditated wave of negative publicity hit the CEO SleepOut in the critical ramp-up phase.
Widely travelled, Harvard educated James Donald is an unlikely candidate for the CEO post at an idealistic non profit.
Liane McGowan, who is responsible for the operational side of the CEO SleepOut Movement, gives us an update on South Africa’s largest charity fund-raising project.
Back in 1980 when he was a student leader in his native Korea, Samsung Electronics CEO and President Sung Yoon got to hear about Nelson Mandela.
Using international measures for the Social Return on Investment, IQ Business Group has quantified that in its three years thus far, the project’s total impact has been four times the R52.7m distributed to beneficiaries by the CEO SleepOut.
You’d think CEOs would be falling over themselves to support the amazing initiative. If only to feature in the half hour DSTV documentary.
Chief Risk Officer of the IDC, Phakamile Mainganya, explains how the alignment between the value of the CEO SleepOut movement and those held by Nelson Mandela motivates his organisation to lend its full support to the initiative.
Founded in 1924 to supply explosives to an emerging South African mining industry, AECI has evolved into a major chemicals group generating annual sales of almost R20bn a year.