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Action for
Southern Africa (ACTSA)
Amnesty
International documents on South Africa
Biowatch
South Africa
The
Business Trust
Country
profile: South Africa (Eldis: the gateway to development information, Institute
of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
Development
information about South Africa (World Bank): Select "South
Africa" in the "All Countries" box.
The
Digital Partnership:...The first pilot programme is currently being set up in
South Africa with the support of national and international business including
leading global IT companies, content partners, Government and public authorities
in South Africa, foundations and grant support from the World Bank. (Prince
of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)
Empowerment:
What black empowerment means for BP - Landmark partnership deal [South
Africa]:...promoting empowerment is both the right thing to do and makes
business sense...Recently we took a dramatic step forward by taking into our
South African company - BP Southern Africa (Pty) Limited (BPSA) - black
empowerment partners. These partners will hold an equity stake giving them 25%
shareholder voting rights and three seats on the board. (BP)
HIV/AIDS:
New policy to protect employees - No compulsory testing - Education and
counselling programmes [regarding BP's new workplace policy on HIV/AIDS in South
Africa]:...Both the policy and the programmes are underpinned by key ethical and
moral principles: non-disclosure, confidentiality, tolerance and
non-discrimination. (BP)
Human
Rights Links: South Africa (Derechos)
Human Rights Watch
reports on South Africa
The
IBLF in South Africa (Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)
Johannesburg
Climate Legacy 2002: Take part in the World Summit and help neutralise its CO2
emissions -...We are measuring the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of the Summit
[World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg] (from delegates' flights
to electricity used at the event). These emissions will be 'offset' through
investments in carbon-reducing sustainable projects across South Africa.
Companies, individuals, and governments can sponsor this 'offset' by making
donations to a dedicated Trust Fund (Johannesburg Climate Legacy 2002)
National
Business Initiative
Pilot
project: Southern Africa Business and Gender Initiative [companies
participating: ABSA, SAB-Beer Divisions, Vodacom, Toyota, Old Mutual]
(Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice)
profile:
Management of water services in suburbs of Durban and Pietermaritzburg,
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa:...Vivendi Water, an international water company,
took the first steps towards developing a tri-sector approach to finding an
affordable solution for providing water and sanitation services to the growing
urban poor in these two municipalities (Partnership Brokers Forum: Building
Partnerships for Sustainable Development)
Shared
Interest: a not-for-profit social investment fund designed to enhance low-income
South Africans' access to credit previously denied them because of their race,
gender, or income
Special
report: The Aids crisis (Guardian [UK])
Treatment Action
Campaign: Fighting for affordable treatment for people with HIV (South
Africa)
United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Country Office in South Africa
U.S.
State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2001: South Africa
(U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Mar. 2002)
Volkswagen:
street children project -...The project, begun in September 1999 in partnership
with the children's rights organization terre des homes, aims to supply
continuous, long-term financial support for street children projects that are
run by local institutions and initiatives near Volkswagen sites around the world
(Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Germany). (World Business Council for
Sustainable Development)
Youth
Career Initiative: Empowering and protecting our children -...a business and
community partnership with the international hospitality industry to utilise the
global resources of the industry and allied partners to enable young people at
risk in poor countries to obtain education and training in the tourism sector
[initiative of Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum and the
International Hotels and Restaurants Association, being launched in South
Africa, India, Brasil, Central America, Mexico, and the Carribean] (Prince
of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)