How can businesses be improved through BEE?
Keith Levenstein. chief executive officer of EconoBEE. comments on the lack of understanding of black economic empowerment at grassroots level, and how small startups can benefit from the Broadbase BEE Act.

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Emerging contractors in the building and construction industries can now benefit from a vital enabling incentive in the form of the Contractor Development Programme (CDP). The programme is set to create a pool of capable, sustainable, self-sufficient and highly skilled contractors able to compete with the best in infrastructure development.  read more

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Organisations: khula Enterprise (MENTION), National Empowerment Fund (MENTION)
Interviews/Quoted: Mario Oriani-Ambrosini (RECORDED)...read more

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 It is now only one day before South Africa's SumbandilaSat launches into space atop a Russian Soyuz rocket at Baikonur in Kazakhstan.The 81 kg microsatellite, which is about 1m x 0, 5 m in size, will lift off into space on 15 September 2009 from the Baikonur space base where it is being integrated into the Soyuz rocket...read more

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Leading empowerment facilitator, the National Empowerment Fund (NEF), has announced that the NEF Asonge Share Scheme investors who participated in its historic public share offer two years ago are about to be rewarded for their resolve in having stayed invested. In September 2007 the National Empowerment Fund, an agency of the dti, offered half of its 1,5% shareholding in MTN to Black (African Coloured and Indian) investors at a 20% discounted retail price as part of its mandate to promote a culture of savings and investment among Black people in South Africa. ... read more

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