Corporate Members
BEN-Africa wishes to thank the following corporate members for their contributions:
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| www.ethicsa.org | www.bcx.co.za | www.usb-ed.com | www.greatercapital.co.za |
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| www.gov.co.bw | www.midroc-ethiopia.com | ||
EthicSA is a non-profit (Section 21) company and public benefit organisation incorporated in 1999. We are governed by a board consisting of prominent individuals in the private and public sectors as well as academia. Our mission is “building an ethical South Africa” and our core activities are: Ethics advocacy; Ethics education and training; and Ethics advisory services. EthicSA’s work covers a wide spectrum of ethical issues raised by individual and collective human action, with a special focus on organisational ethics (including business ethics) and bioethics (medical ethics). EthicSA’s organisational ethics activities are consistent with the King 3 Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa (2009). We cooperate with clients in the South African public and private sectors with a view to directing and managing suitable corporate ethics interventions. EthicSA also operates in several African countries, sharing its ethics resources and endeavoring to build ethics capacity.
Business Connexion is one of Africa’s largest black empowered ICT companies with annual revenues in excess of R3 billion. Founded in 1996 by present CEO Benjamin Mophatlane and brother Isaac, Business Connexion merged with Seattle Solutions in 2001. This merged entity was renamed Business Connexion (Proprietary) Limited, the holdings company was renamed Business Connexion Group Limited and the company has traded since then under the current share code of “BCX”. Business Connexion have offices in all major South African centres, a 30-year history of ICT service excellence, a client base including key JSE-listed and public sector organisations, Parastatal enterprises, and medium-sized emergent companies.
Greater Capital is a social enterprise providing strategic impact investment advice and opportunities as part of the GreaterGood group. Drawing on the group’s extensive social development experience and reach, GreaterCapital focuses on the provision of specialist services to the social investment sector – foundations, asset managers, corporate social investment divisions, civil society organisations, non profits and social enterprises. Profits from GreaterCapital’s consulting work support our sector research, advocacy and public benefit activities and are a key part the group’s sustainability strategy. Our work is underpinned by a belief that thoughtful social and impact investment has the power to change lives, for good. So we advocate for a long term, integrated and evidence-based approach to social investment
USB Executive Development (USB-ED) is the public executive development company within the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB). The company owns all the executive and management development programmes of USB and is the official body that develops, launches and delivers open and customised learning interventions in the fields of executive leadership, management and organisational development. USB-ED also offers enterprise development, a one-stop service that delivers several enterprise and executive development interventions concurrently. USB-ED has three unique centres one which is the Centre for Business in Society whose work is focused on responsible leadership, sustainability and social capital development.
MIDROC Ethiopia, owned by Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi, started operation in 1996. It is the leading private investment Group engaged in multifaceted investment undertakings that have proved to make significant contributions to the development of the country’s economy. Based in Addis Ababa, MIDROC Ethiopia Investment Group to date has 41 companies operating in agriculture & agro-industry, construction, hotel & tourism, manufacturing, mining, oil & gas distribution, real estate development, transport (including air transport), trade & commerce, healthcare, and education & training.
The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) was established in 1994 through the Corruption and Economic Crime Act to fight corruption and economic crime in Botswana. It has adopted the ‘three-pronged strategy’ of investigation, corruption prevention and public education which has proved to be effective and now internationally accepted as an effective tool in the fight against corruption. The DCEC carries out its mandate as an operationally autonomous body.