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Vacancy Announcement: Chief of Party, SAIBL Programme, Woodmead, Johannesburg

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:24:33 -0700

Vacancy Announcement: Chief of Party, SAIBL Programme, Woodmead

Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 24, 15 April 2011

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:09:47 -0700

Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 24, 15 April 2011

Vacancy Announcement: Programme Coordinator, SAIBL

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:28:11 -0700

ECIAfrica is seeking candidates for the position of Programme Coordinator at the SAIBL Programme at the ECIAfrica offices in Woodmead, Johannesburg.

View the Vacancy Announcement

saibl Clients at the Technical Women In Business Awards Finals

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:33:23 -0700

saibl clients Amelia Ramphadi of Amelia Women Project and Sharon Mulraj of Quadrant Engineering were amongst seven finalists invited by the Department of Trade and Industry to a gala dinner for the Technical Women In Business Awards (TWIB 2010/11) . Both were awarded certificates at the awards ceremony.�

saibl Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 23, 18 March 2011

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:19:20 -0700

Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 23, 18 March 2011

Corporate South Africa Commits to Supplier Diversity

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:01:39 -0800

Media Statement: The South African Supplier Diversity Council (SASDC) is now open for business. This demonstrates a clear commitment by Corporate South Africa to adopt supplier diversity as a core business support strategy.

Following the registration of the SASDC as a Section 21 company on 10 January 2011, the Council’s Board of Directors met for the first time on Friday, 11 February 2011. Matthew Govender, Managing Director of Barloworld Siyakhula, was appointed to serve as Interim Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Read the media statement

Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 22, 07 March 2011

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 02:20:40 -0800

Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 22, 07 March 2011

Vote in our online poll on supplier diversity

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:20:52 -0800

Poll: The new JSE BEE scheme share-trading facility allows shareholders to trade with only those compliant with the BEE listing requirements of the bourse. Will this promote supplier diversity?
Cast your vote in our new poll on www.sasdc.org.za.

21 Feb 2011: saibl Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 21

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:08:06 -0800

saibl Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 21

11 Feb 2011: saibl holds strategic planning workshop

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:04:20 -0800

saibl this week held a two-day strategic planning workshop for all staff at the Holiday Inn Sandton, Rivonia Road. The theme of the workshop was Account, Achieve, Succeed. The focus of the workshop was on the new South African Supplier Diversity Council and the alignment of saibl’s goals and objectives with the aim to promoting and developing supplier diversity. The workshop also served to introduce new staff members to the programme. The opening session was attended by Dr Claudia Manning, Managing Director of ECIAfrica and Leslie Marbury from USAID, whilst the workshop was facilitated by Mr Golden Mahove, Programme Manager with the Business Trust.

In addition to providing background on the SASDC and the way forward, staff discussions were led around issues regarding supplier competitiveness, saibl manual revisions and process entrenchment, the effective utilization of the Picking Sound Companies and Company Diagnostics Tools, the planned process of certification of black suppliers to the SASDC, the establishment of a Management Information System and knowledge sharing mechanism for the SASDC, the effective utilization of business service providers, as well as the identification of opportunities for matchmaking and linkages.

The workshop achieved substantial consensus on the priority focus areas for saibl during the extension of the programme and the prominent role it had to play in the promotion of supplier diversity.

Today sees the inauguration of the SASDC Board!

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:09:52 -0800

On Thursday 10 February, the SASDC�s final Executive Committee meeting took place. The objective of this meeting was to finalize preparations for the Final Steering Committee Meeting and the SASDC�s Inaugural Board meeting, both convened on Friday 11 February. The primary focus of today's final Steering Committee is to ensure a consolidated and comprehensive handover of all SASDC-related matters (both concluded and to be concluded) to the Board of Directors. To date, all SASDC progress has been guided and directed by the advice and input of a committed Steering Committee. However, with the inauguration of the SASDC Board today, the Steering Committee will officially be dissolved and its responsibilities handed to the Board. It has indeed been an exciting week for the SASDC! Today�s Board proceedings will very much guide the direction of the Council�s activities going forward, and we thank both Steering Committee as well as Board members for their commitment and support, both past and to come!

09 Feb 2011: saibl Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 20

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:41:05 -0800

Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 20, 09 February 2011

04 Feb 2011: saibl Discusses Supplier Development with the Western Cape Government

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:35:07 -0800

saibl�s Chief of Party and the Cape Town saibl team last week met with the Chief Director, Integrated Economic Development Services of the Department of Economic Development and Tourism in the Western Cape to discuss areas of cooperation in promoting business linkages and supplier development in the province. The meeting agreed that SAIBL and the Department would collaborate to promote and facilitate the recruitment of Western Cape based corporations to join the South African Supplier Diversity Council (SASDC). saibl will nowpresent a proposal and plan of action to the Department by the end of February.

04 Feb 2011: BBSDP Workshop for Network Facilitators

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:33:01 -0800

SAIBL facilitated a Black Business Supplier Development Programme (BBSDP) workshop which was attended by 21 Network Facilitators. The aim of the workshop was to provide the Network Facilitators with insights into the criteria that are used by financiers to fund the CAPEX applications that they will floating to funders on behalf of their clients. The Department of Trade and Industry also used the workshop as a feedback platform to the Network Facilitators on the state of progress of the programme as well as to commit to the implementation milestones for the next three months. The Network Facilitators expressed satisfaction on the outcomes of the workshop and requested that a similar workshop involving other financiers should be organised in future. They also requested that such a workshop should equip them with training on the different funding instruments available in the market.

24 Jan 2011: SAIBL and Barloworld-Equipment Empower Black Suppliers

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:43:58 -0800

On 20 January 2011 saibl and Barloworld-Equipment (BWE) held a meeting for the purpose of discussing a new co-operative agreement that will aim to increase BWE's number of black owned suppliers (including black women owned suppliers) and increase their annual procurement spend. saibl will honor this agreement by conducting Picking Sound Company evaluations, Company Diagnostics (CD) and interventions arising from the CD findings. Once these suppliers have been assessed it will allow them to be awarded work from BWE which will in turn increase the spend to black suppliers.