WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE GLOBAL CORPORATE SOCIETY TO START PRIORITIZING ON DOUBLE BOTTOM-LINES OF BOTH PROFITS AND SOCIAL BENEFITS!!

There seems to be a general intolerance for corporate greed and bad practise policies that benefit a few and disastrous consequences for society as a whole. Let’s take for instance the recent BP saga when tonnes of countless oil waste made it to the Pacific Ocean with dire impact on the environment. It has also become apparent at this point that most of the super powers/ developed world has shown very little enthusiasm in setting a framework and in setting standards, penalties as well as targets to curb carbon emissions//COP17.

Companies with a good Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) enhance their reputation and guarantee stakeholders long term benefits. Global trends also indicate that a company’s behaviour and presumably that of its people should be aligned with CSR values, in a consistent way. This sense of intolerance towards greed and disregard for common good by the corporate society, took centre stage during the “Occupy-wall-street” movement that has since gained momentum throughout the world.

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Corporate society need to get in the driver’s seat inspiring innovation that will bring about a holistic change that will retain income, staff and stakeholders as well as better the lives of the end user. The 21^st century is an eclectic era for modern technology, which demands that corporates dig into their creative reserves to unpack the solutions for the future generations. The defining juncture is in every CSR program or corporate citizenship status measured on building long-term constructive relationships that strengthen reputation, build brand and lead to further deal flow :) Win Win

As a key driver of value in any organization, employees need to be engaged in the task of integrating CSR throughout the firm, helping the firm achieve its CSR goals and adhere to its CSR principles consistent with its strategic business direction. Anything less than this is likely to breed cynicism and lead to reputation issues and a disconnection between rhetoric and practice.  The growing awareness that business value is more and more a function of intangibles such as goodwill, reputation, trust, talent and intellectual capital, makes this an increasingly important consideration.

"In this “war for talent”, employer differentiation will become more and more important.  People increasingly want to work for an organization that has a “conscience”, and values are key to building conscience. "

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@PerfectSens: Imagination lives when new or emerging entities factor a big chunk of their corporate activities to social development and serving for a bigger need than just "in it for the big bucks??" frenzy.

A Closed Corporation called Guy Communications operating in the North West Province of South Africa has established itself as a social enterprise with its biggest stakes in Youth and Women related strategies through skills development and capacity building initiatives. Guy defies the odds as operating on a 80:20 ratio split of its key result measures in Social work and Commercial work to drive profits simultaneously adding value to the social infrastructure that sustains growth ultimately. According to GM@Guy Lerato Mosimane, "business should be about the unique value preposition and now more than ever it has to be long term value with legitimate goals - people want the real thang for an improved life at a reasonable cost. In a place like South Africa, the youth and women have a great deal to offer society but they are not afforded the opportunities.Its a situation that can be declared a State emergency....fueled by a eurocentric media that perpetuates false identity promoting socially ill lifestyles that destroy lives."

Guy Communications has established a youth trust as a Donor called Platinum Africa Youth Tourism (PAYT)  Trust that has been created as a public charitable trust working towards the education and industrial development of the youth, with a network of African Youth Organizations extended across Africa, including dynamic correspondents and exchange programs with the likes of Maisha Yetu  and WAP in Kenya and Senegal.

On 8 Dec PAYT Trust hosted its inaugural 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Golf Charity Challenge 018Golf Challenge, which kick started with a Golf Clinic in Mahikeng NW South Africa at the Leopard Park Golf. 018 Golf is a non-violence campaign that has a 5 year action plan in the form of a Violence Intervention Program inspired by the University of Maryland Medical Center Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/vip.htm

018 Golf promotes wellness through leisure sports and cultural exploration or even alternative therapy, the Golf Charity is meant to create a small fund for the distribution of wellness hampers that include a self plant Lavender seed pack  to care-givers within the North West and Gauteng South Africa.

Life most ideal!

The second scramble for #Africa indicates a real pressing need that is the Planet's plague - land fields that have not fallen prey to  the developmental charge that has taken over.
Most of Africa is still very much underdeveloped (hence 3rd world), and this is primarily due to the sense of indigenous cultural practices that still exist despite the blatant surge of western cultural indoctrination and domination.

Mobile lifestyle paves way for Nomadic Nights

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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces: Anticipating a New Golden Age

"The age of the material universe is about to reach its peak and most importantly its tipping point, as we welcome the age of the Ether (Center & Creativity). This is due to the fact that most of life existence is based on a holographic balance, a sub-zero notion whereby in real physical form, all matter with bonds of negative and positive always balance off."

Life most ideal in the 21st Century requires a dynamic but centred approach towards a holistic nature based lifestyle. For most of Africa's former centuries pre-colonization, the people of the many Tribes still in existence, lived in high frequency tune into Nature mode. An ongoing dialogue between earth and its living creatures exists >the people chant, perform rituals and demonstrations as a sign of respect as well as honour to all Devine creations that sustain Mankind.

Making Green Choices!

The era of disposables has compromised our environment to a point that we are so dettached from the real effects of increasing land dumps and ineffective waste management. As it turns out our lives have been reduced to aiming for convenience, passed off as making life easier which in fact has the opposite result.

Making green choices is really about a lifestyle change and becoming self aware of the small things you can start doing in your daily activities to reduce your carbon footprint.

MAKING OUR PLANET A BETTER PLACE ONE DAY AT A TIME:

Tip: If you are a loving mother who also cares about the environment your kids will have in the future....then you should make the choice to use cloth diapers that are used with nappy liners.

This range can be found at http://www.bamboobaby.co.za/

Our Motherland: Africa is Cradle of Mankind

The World's priceless Jewel

Africa should be the most protected and beloved habitat for the world to love and cherish as the Devine's gift to man. It can easily be said that the continent Africa is an enigma or a wonder in itself with mystery surrounding its politics, nature and cultural heritage. It stands out as the most habitable for man with an abundance of natural resources, a complex but yet adaptable climate, created for a diverse offering of species.

The concept of oneness, a deep connection with everything in the universe demands that we recapture a new ideology of embracing a one world approach to solving the problems of the coming 5th world modern age. Africa alone can feed the world, if all its natural resources were used efficiently coupled with a robust technologically advanced systems in access to energy, water and land. All of which must be founded on harmony or a coexistence with mother nature.

Fisher men from the Okavango Delta

Africans if left to their own devices should be able to tap into their ancient indigenous systems that have sustained life for thousands of years.
Instead of a world view that Africa is a remote place with problems and plagues that no one cares about, The us and them stance breaks away from the fundamental principle of oneness from which we are created; that universal bond that cannot be broken, and which the forces of nature will always seek to retrieve in balancing matter to sub zero. African proverb "Motho ke motho ka batho", "U are because we are" points out the cause and effect that exists amongst us and therefore their problem is in fact our problem.

In reference to true African wisdom and concepts of divine intervention, we should embrace the continent's practice of spiritual healers known as Sangomas/ traditional healers or in Setswana "Dingaka-tsa-setso". These practitioners although shunned and misunderstood, bridge the gap between the ancestors and living flesh. The kind of wisdom that does not come from books, education or travels but from the realm of a higher conscienceness. Spiritual dimensions that can bring about tremendous good and source of knowledge to the physical world of  the 5 senses.Let us free our minds and develop a sense of oneness perhaps our sixth sense!

Gathering food is done by both women and children

[There is no such thing as "child labour" in African terms, as in animal kingdoms children are taught to fend for themselves from an early age]

So our motherland, Africa is to the world like a battered woman, when all she wants to do is love and nurture, she is abused and degraded by the very one who's meant to love and protect her.

 Africa arise for the 5th World of  Peace!

Life and value of indigenous knowledge

That there is another way of living a life of fulfilment, well-being, communality and in harmony with the whole creation, with the consciousness of environmental awareness.
A tale of many perspectives of the experienced reality and unique forms of the construction and production of knowledge; the story of the life of Mama Grace Masuku. A South African environmentalist and traditional herbalist.
The story of Mama Grace Meiki Masuku is a demonstratable justification of the authenticity of other ways of life providence that has given to so many people and the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela; her people, are not the least of those.
Mama Masuku relates how the African Indigenous knowledge, has been subjugated and vilified for at least four centuries and severely corroded by the encounter with western colonial forces.

"Humanity has much to lament for the loss of so much wealth of cultural conservation of wisdom, nevertheless, a remnant of that knowledge has survived the turmoil of life."
The story further accounts for the history of the Bakgatla-ba-kgafela: they are one of South African tribes who fought against the dominance of the Anglo-Saxons since their arrival in the Tswana region.

The disadvantage of Ancient history and that of indigenous knowledge is the scarsity of written and documented material that can be a point of reference for the future generations. This brings up a very important practice in Genealogy>the study of family history and the descent of individuals. Genealogical developments can assist in translating sacred information passed on from generation to generation and hence becoming a vital act in the production of knowledge.

In Ethiopia the earliest written records date from the 4th century AD. The "traditional book" of the Ethiopians, the Kebra Nagast (the glory of the kings), was probably composed in the 14th century on the basis of much earlier traditions.
In the modern times indigenous is downplayed as being irrelevant however this is most further from the truth. Indigenous is the key ingredient in tourism and most relevant when it comes to acts of humanity. As we move closer to the month that opens the subject of humanitarian:
In October>> World Animal Day; World Habitat Day, World Food Day & International Day for the eradication of poverty

NB:
Whether you are Chinese, Lebanese or Indian there are those ancestors that paved the way for today's existence and in most instance the most sustainable practices lie in the indigenous realm.

Open eyes to the present Day

In today's world we are bomdarded with conceptions of false sense of realities perpetuated by our media. When do we start re-analyzing and become less of group thinkers that we have being manipulated into accepting as the norm. Most states have buit societies on controlling the behavior of their populations through fear.

Our common bond truly is Freedom, the freedom to be whom you choose to be without any constraints. Dare to be that individual who is truely free and you will find a million n 1 excuses of why that sense of freedom is not possible for you today??. Break the chains of thoughts that have you succumed to the status quo, become the true rebellion they do not want you to become...self-empowered with true consciousness. Fully understand that you are a free enterprise and start embracing and living according to the natural law...true abundance as life was meant to be!!