Sisters with Blisters is an annual event that is aimed at raising much needed awareness on women and child abuse in this country. It falls in line with the International 16 days of Activism against women and child abuse which runs from 25 November – 10 December.

Yesterday staff of Southern Business School participated in the Sisters with Blisters walk to support this worthy cause, and to have some fun in the process! Here are a few images from the event.

Principal of SBS, Mr Chris Vorster with Ms J Smit on the left

Ms Bronwyn Vries (Namibian Office), Ms Corné Siebert, and Ms Misha Vernooy (Namibian Office)

Ms A Kleyn from SBS

At the Start!

Fun on a very hot day!

Ms Kefilwe Manyelo

The concept was 'shoes'!

The Sisters With Blisters website describes the cause in detail. Please visit and we will see you there next year!

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Congratulations to the brave group of cyclists from Southern Business School (and our guest Mr. Johann Visser) who took on the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge – and finished it!

Mr Johann Visser, Ms T Swanepoel, Ms J Coles & Mr D Lucas

We are riding in the colours of the Philile Foundation, one of the causes supported by Southern Business School’s Community Development initiatives.

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The second group of graduates from Associated Motor Holdings’ Management Development Programme were officially capped during a ceremony at Emperor’s Palace.

It was a pleasure for Southern Business School to arrange a special graduation ceremony for our students who completed the AMH Management Development Programme and obtained their Bachelor of Business Administration degrees.

2011 AMH Bachelor of Business Administration Graduates
Front Row: Sean Fenn, Bill Nash, Dean Schoeman, Mariesa Venter, Michael Prigmore
Middle Row: Brett Young, Francois Marais, Travis Evans
Back Row: Justin Thorne, Gary van Gils, Jacob Gerber (Absent: Steven Terblans; Elmarie van Rhyn)

After the constitution of the special congregation by Dr. Kekana (Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Southern Business School), Mr Vorster welcomed all present. This was followed by a motivational keynote address by Mr. Manny de Canha, the MD of the AMH Group. Mr. Bill Nash, the course leader, presented each of the graduates individually.

Congratulations to the graduates: Travis Evans; Sean Fenn (Cum Laude); Jacob Gerber; Charles Marais; Michael Prigmore; Dean Schoeman; Dudley Terblans (Cum Laude); Justin Thorne; Gary Van Gils; and Brett Young!

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The foreword by Southern Business School’s Principal Chris Vorster summarised this momentous occasion effectively:

Mr. Vorster presenting the opening address

Foreword

Welcome to Southern Business School’s 15^th graduation ceremony. Today is yet another milestone in the history of Southern Business School as we award our 1^st Bachelor of Business Administration BBA degrees! To all the graduates, remember this is your special day, enjoy every minute as you reflect back on the journey you have taken in reaching this prestigious milestone in your academic career. Savour this moment, remember it, cherish it and hold it your heart for today is the culmination of years of hard work and dedication.

I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you and to say on behalf of everyone at Southern Business School how very proud we are of you for obtaining your qualification. We know that it took hard work, dedication and sacrifice in order to complete the qualification. We are confident that you have been equipped with the necessary skills to make your mark in the work environment.

As a Southern Business School graduate you will carry on the proud tradition of those who have graduated before you and of being ambassadors for nation building and democracy. You will use your knowledge to truly become quality managers, forward thinking leaders and creative visionaries.

As Nelson Mandela said –

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are more hills to climb.

Today as you reach the top of this hill, take a deep breath, look back and consider with pride how high you have climbed, now look up and revel in the possibilities of the hills which lie ahead of you.

Memorable Moments

The Stage is Set for the Ceremony

Graduates waiting for the ceremony to commence

Welcoming Address being Presented

The principal awards a degree

Mr Malapane reading the names of candidates

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Communities are no longer able to cope with this number of uncared for children. Government welfare organisations are buckling under the pressure. Could you walk away from these children in need? No, we could not either! At Mother of Peace they are fortunate enough to have the infrastructure to take in those children who have nowhere else to go, to take care of them when nobody else can. They provide family homes for children in need, where they are provided the structure of a home and family. Language and culture are maintained as far as possible and children are brought up to be responsible members of society.

On Thursday Southern Business School visited the Mother of Peace Children’s Home to give them beach towels, caps and bags. They have been sponsored a holiday to Durban during December and plane tickets so they will all be flying for the first time!

Mother of Peace Children's Home

Mr Vorster, Principal of Southern Business School, attending the event

Mother of Peace Children's Home

Mother of Peace Children's Home

Mother of Peace Children's Home

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The staff of Southern Business School would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the students who excelled in the November/December 2011 exams. The five top students who obtained 70% or more for each subject are listed here. We know that this achievement is the result of many hours of hard work and dedication – keep it up!

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By Chris Botha, Southern Business School

During July 2011, I had the pleasure of delivering the keynote address at a Policing Reform Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The conference was organised by the Police Reform Programme (PRP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh. This specific programme, given my interest in policing reform, attracted my attention some time ago. Not only is the Police Reform Programme run by a South African, but some peculiarities around Bangladesh’s colonial history compares in interesting ways with South Africa’s colonial history. I have known Henk van Zyl for many years since he also served in the SAPS before joining the UNDP. It was good to see him operate in the PRP and I marvelled at the competence that Henk displays in his daily management role. Henk is ably supported by a host of international experts, with another South African and long‐time colleague, André Redman, in the leading role for training and development initiatives in the Programme. Both Henk and André became friends of mine over the years. Whereas the professional part of the trip to Bangladesh was duly honoured, it was indeed a pleasure to have me with the two of them on a personal basis as well.

Mr Chris Botha (left) with Mr. Peter Tinsley, a Canadian and international expert on civilian oversight in policing and the armed forces.

The conference title (Sustainable Police Reform in Bangladesh: From Global Experiences to Local Strategies) was supported by the themes of the various speakers. My contribution (Contemporary Challenges in Police Organisational Reform – the case of South Africa) covered the policing reform process in South Africa from a historical viewpoint. As such, I embroidered on foreign (unpopular, and even “unlawful”) laws in our history, the concept of “strangers policing strangers”, our extremely violent society and our tendency to offer a military‐styled panacea for our policing problems. I then worked on the nature of the current policing discourse in South Africa. Therefore, the “war on crime” rhetoric, the view that crime prevention as practiced in our country may well be an “impossible mandate”, the results of neglecting crime detection (as well as some transformation issues, such as the establishment of the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation – the DPCI, or “Hawks” against the background of Hugh Glenister v President of the Republic of South Africa & Others) and challenges with our policing leadership (notably the case of the previous National Commissioner), police misconduct (as well as killings and police deaths) and police performance management according to crime statistics were highlighted. In discussion, it was clear that the Bangladesh participants could identify with our colonial past and with our experiences. One was also able to support them in terms of policing legislation based on our various efforts over the years. This was of particular importance to Bangladesh participants since the police in Bangladesh is regulated by legislation dated 1861.

Dr Rowan Barnsley, an Australian academic, worked on the academic imperatives of policing reform in his presentation (titled Organisational Change and Police Reform), which was highly informative and advanced best practice of use to the Bangladesh participants.

Mr Willem Pretorius (another South African, ex‐SAPS colleague and friend!), who is an international expert and leader on the Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons Project in Bangkok, Thailand, spoke to these issues in a Bangladesh parlance with a paper titled Regional Approach and Efforts to Address Trafficking in Human Beings). Given the issue at hand, his paper was experienced as highly relevant to the policing reform process in Bangladesh.

Mr Peter Tinsley, a Canadian and international expert on civilian oversight in policing and armed forces, delivered an insightful paper titled Community Confidence through Oversight. Given the importance of, and current challenges in, civilian oversight over policing in South Africa, I took the opportunity to interview Peter on civilian oversight of policing. This interview has since been published in the September EdiƟon of the SA Crime Quarterly (No 37, available from http://www.issafrica.org).

Mr Huot Veng Chan (Community Policing in Cambodia), Police Major General Krerkphong Pukprayura (The current situation regarding law enforcement co‐operation against Organised Transnational Crimes in Thailand and measures undertaken by local Thai Law Enforcement to prevent serious crimes in rural areas) and Mr Neale Fursdon (Serious Crime Investigations) concluded the conference with papers of high importance to the decision makers in the police of Bangladesh.

I have the greatest of respect for the Bangladeshis that I have met at this conference. They have a very difficult past and the manner in which they are tackling their future must be commended. I believe that they, together with their international advisors, will make a huge success of their policing reform process.

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SBS has run a number of radio advertisements in both South Africa and Namibia.  The Namibian radio advertising has been running since the 4 January 2012 on 99FM.  The South African radio advertising has been running since Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 on MetroFM.  Southern Business School intends on expanding our horizons and enabling prospective students to earn Internationally recognized Degree’s and Diploma’s.  

A full list of the courses on offer can be found HERE and for those who would like more information on our short courses and in-house programme’s for public or private sector organisations go HERE.  If you would like to listen to the advert feel free to play it in the link below.

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Internal vs External controls in crime reduction:  Interpreting SOOTHILL & FRANCIS

by Chris Botha*

Introduction

During early December 2010, the Institute for Security Studies (the ISS) hosted a conference titled National and International Perspectives on Crime and Policing: Towards a coherent strategy for crime reduction in South Africa beyond 2010. The papers delivered at the Conference were published by the ISS and are available on http://www.issafrica.org.

One of these papers, by Soothill & Francis (Considering paradigms of crime reduction in different contexts) is the subject of this article, and the result of enquiries by students at Southern Business School as to an interpretation of the authors’ arguments.

The article aims to clarify these arguments for the South African student of crime prevention, leave space to students to add their own interpretation in the South African context (such as the emphasis on crime control and the neglect of social crime prevention) and augment students’ progress on the structuring and referencing of scientific report writing.

In essence, Soothill & Francis (2011:1) argue that crime reduction is dependent on our ability to develop a society in which all people feel that they have a stake and, thus, develop internal controls to resist crime. The development of more prisons and more intrusive policing, which are measures of external controls, is a sad reflection of our failure to develop these internal controls.

Aspects of Soothill & Francis’ research

The authors identify four paradigms for crime reduction. These are (Soothill & Francis, 2011:3):

*           Relating to parental child-rearing methods

*           Relating to structural factors relating to the family during adolescence

*           Relating to localities / neighbourhoods

*           Relating to individual resource benefits

They proceed to identify several risk factors of crime, which they then display in terms of its relationship to the paradigms. Although they do not define these paradigms clearly in the article, the description of each may be determined by interrogating the risk factors assigned to the paradigms individually. Their results (Soothill & Francis, 2011:4-5) may be presented as follows:

For comparative purposes, Soothill & Francis (2011:3) chose three types of crime, namely shoplifting, burglary and violent offences.  They chose these crimes because they are essentially open to all in the sense that they can be committed by anyone. Unlike, they say, “embezzlement (where employment is a prerequisite) or drink-driving (where access to a car is a prerequisite” (Soothill & Francis, 2011:3).  The authors then proceed to provide examples of crime reduction in these three types of crime if certain risk factors are eliminated.  These may be presented as follows (Soothill & Francis, 2011:6):

To assist students in the interpretation of the table above (and seen from within the boundaries of their study) the authors argue that the elimination of domestic violence (the risk factor) would lead to 89 less shopliftings, 79 less burglaries and 148 less crimes of violence. The rest can now be interpreted in the same manner.

The falling crime rate

Central to their study, is the authors’ discourse on “…the crime rates in many countries appear to have fallen” (Soothill & Francis, 2011:6). They use the word “appear”, for they take cognisance of the possibility that people have lost faith in the criminal justice system and are simply not reporting crimes to the authorities.  However, after a dissection of crime rates over country boundaries (Soothill & Francis, 2011:6-7), they are satisfied that the decline may be accepted as reality.

But what can be offered as an explanation for the declining crime rate? Levitt (in Soothill & Francis, 2011:8) reported on the most frequently cited reasons for the decline in crime in major newspapers.  This may be presented as follows:

In fact, an analysis of the work done by Levitt, Conklin as well as Zimring (in Soothill & Francis, 2011) shows that an increase in prison population is on top of the list in all three studies.

“Supposed” success?

However, Soothill & Francis are coy about issues such as the increased prison population, and innovative policing strategies as real reasons for the falling crime rate.  They refer to Zimring’s “euphoric fallacy”: an urge to assume that the players in the criminal justice system are the cause of the lower crime rates simply because the criminal justice actors have more powerful vested interests “to see their efforts as a cause of the benefits of lower crime rates” and “the advocates of the supposed success of the police and prisons are difficult to resist” (Soothill & Francis, 2011:10).  Their main concern stems from their findings on risk factors (and the crime reduction capabilities of these risk factors): the fact is that none of the commentators talking to the reduction of crime rates have taken issues related to the risk factors into account in their explanations of crime reduction.  At best, this seems to be a gap advantaging the criminal justice system and disadvantaging other thinking on crime reduction.

Two traditions: internal and external controls to crime reduction

The thinking explained above, of course, refers to two different traditions: “one stems from an ameliorative tradition of trying to make things better for offenders and potential offenders, while the other stems from a more social protection / social defence tradition which considers what society must do to protect itself from harm and potential harm” (Soothill & Francis, 2011:10).

The former tradition is nothing else but the “internal controls”, and the latter the “external controls”, in crime reduction. They argue that aspects such as good parenting, good education and job opportunities (internal controls) still have a major role to play in crime reduction.  They also argue that more policing and more prisons (external controls) are not necessary the only answer.

The external controls–discourse is not about changing people, but about containing people by increased police activity or by removing people from society (Soothill & Francis, 2011: 12).  The consequences for an “external controls” approach may be devastating on communities: prisoners leave saddened parents, abandoned mates, and fatherless children (Von Drehle, in Soothill & Francis, 2011: 13). The social and economic costs, the authors say, are enormous. Many totalitarian countries seem to have low crime rates, but living in such countries may be a high price to pay (Soothill & Francis, 2011:13).

Democratic countries should rather hope to achieve “internal controls”: people must want to conform to society’s rules (which in South Africa, we refer to as “voluntary obedience to the law”). A central feature of the “wanting to conform” approach, is found in the three elements of social bonding.  These elements are (Soothill & Francis, 2011:13-14):

*attachment: a human being’s capacity to become affectively (lovingly, caringly) involved with another person and hence sensitive to the other person’s thoughts, feelings and expectations, particularly in regard to the other person’s relevance for his/her own behaviour;

*commitment: the rational element in the social bond. Most individuals do not persist in activity unless there is something in it for them. That something may be a life without been exposed to crime; and

* beliefs: the human capacity to evaluate and take a stand on moral and social issues.

The individual has a strong option to choose a life of crime if these elements fail to develop, or if they are broken. Incapacitation (prison sentences) may well produce results in terms of lower crime rates, simply because the potential offender is in prison.  However, incapacitation produces permanent outcasts who must be locked up for long periods. When we neglect to help persons in building their own stake in society, they will not develop internal controls with which they can resist the temptation to commit crime (Soothill & Francis, 2011:14).

Conclusion

While it may indeed be true that one may be able to achieve lower crime rates by massive investments in measures of external control (high incarceration rates, more policing) we must ask some questions: is this the way that one wants a society to develop?  Is it desirable?

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By Henk de Jager

The Management of REAL PEOPLE decided to enrol 15 staff members for an in-house qualification (The Certificate in Management majoring in Business and Marketing Management), due to the exceptional service given to a staff member from REAL PEOPLE who successfully completed the Bachelor of Business Administration Degree at Southern Business School.

REAL PEOPLE, established in 2001, creates the operational capability of collecting on partial and non-performing consumer finance portfolios in South Africa.  This core competence – to collect unsecured debt in the supposedly “higher risk” end of the market – has enabled them to take opportunities and diversify into a number of related areas of business, such as Unsecured Credit in South Africa and East Africa; Affordable Housing, Educational Products, Cellular Products and Assurance.

The participants attend a three-day intensely interactive contact session on a monthly basis, presented by the Centre for Management and Leadership Development (CMLD) of Southern Business School. Participants are required to complete various formative assessment activities in the form of a portfolio of evidence including assignments, learning experience log sheets and a work-based project to be presented in 2013.  The summative assessment consists of an official 3 hour written examination paper.

Participants from REAL PEOPLE sitting from left to right: Ms A de Witt, Mr D Dladla, Mr Q Botha, Mr M de Lacy and Mr A Strydom. Standing from left to right: Mr N Mongoai, Mr J Venter, Mr M Nel, Mr K Bruinders, Mr K Enus, Mr J Theron and Mr J Benade, CMLD’s Facilitator.
Image by Corné Siebert

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From left to right is Mr Bill Nash (Southern Business School/UPS) with AMH Graduandi Ms Debra Fowler, Ms Simone van Niekerk, Ms Vivien McAvoy, Mr Gerhard van Heerden, Ms Teresa da Costa, Mr Sandro Raomanini, Mr Aarif Limalia and Mr Schalk Lubbe.

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Our Students’ Success Stories … Amalgamated Motor Holdings!

By Manual de Canha – Chief Executive (AMH)

Amalgamated Motor Holdings (AMH) is an organisation that invests in the training of its staff and to this end we utilise literally thousands of man hours in technical and other training programmes annually. We did however realise that we had a need for additional broad based management development and thus turned to Southern Business School, a fully registered and accredited Private Higher Education Institution based in Johannesburg for assistance.

Our need for “broad based” management development (as opposed to training) flowed from two different and distinct desires. Firstly we realised that for AMH and its brands to be sustainable into the future, we would need top class general management and a strong pool of talent “waiting in the wings” to take on future challenges. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, we felt that it was our duty to offer development opportunities to our staff, and in so doing offer them a better and brighter future in our ever more competitive world.

And so it was some six years ago that a customised and subsidised three-year Bachelor of Business Administration programme designed to empower and educate our staff and management was launched. The Management Development Programme (MDP) covers a range of commercially oriented business subjects from Management and Marketing to Finance and Project Management. Made up of a total of 16 subjects the programme awards successful delegates with a fully registered and accredited Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BBA) at the end of three years of study.

Delegates attended two full days of interactive classes per month and in addition work on practical “Burning Issues” projects in syndicates. “Burning Issues” are challenges recognised as critical for the organisation’s sustainability. At the end of each year, syndicates have the opportunity to present their findings and recommendations to a panel made up of Directors and Southern Business School personnel.

We are proud of what we offer our staff! The MDP programme is open to all staff and management irrespective of position, colour, race or creed and fully subsidised by AMH. In fact, the only cost carried by a successful delegate is that of his/her textbooks – even refreshments and catering is sponsored!

We have had two sets of graduates from the programme and will, by the time you read this, have graduated our third set of alumni from the AMH Management Development Programme with 39 BBA degrees!

I do believe that the future of our country and indeed our business lies in improved education. In closing, I am reminded of a quote attributed to John Maxwell “I do today what others do not do, so that I can be tomorrow what others cannot be”. Each year across AMH we invite our staff to “do today what others do not do, so that they can be tomorrow what others cannot be”.              

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APRIL GRADUATION CEREMONY

19 APRIL 2013

SILVERSTAR CASINO

The April Graduation Ceremony took place on a rainy, Friday morning the 19^th of April 2013 at Silverstar Casino. The wet weather did not dampen the spirits of the diplomandi and graduandi as they waited excitedly to receive their qualifications.

Mr Vorster delivered the welcome address, which was followed by an item by the SAPS choir. It was then the turn of Southern Business School BBA graduate, Mr Senn Fenn to inspire and motivate the VVIP’s (diplomandi and graduandi) of the day with his keynote address.

We would like to congratulate all those who graduated on the day as well as the following prize winners:

 Awards for Diploma & Degree 

Top Disaster Risk Reduction III student
Michael John Wallis – 96%
 
Top Economics II Student
Michael John Wallis – 92%
 
Top Financial Management Student
Charles Mongare Geni – 84%
 
Top Human Resource Management III student
Nokuthula Lydia Khuzawayo – 93%
 
Top Management Practice III student
Gladys Phillistus Ramothata – 96%
 
Top Project Management III Student
Johannes Martinson – 80%
 
Top Public Relations III Student
Dithakong Aaron Lebabo – 98%
 
Top Public Sector Financial Management Student (Degree)
Arnold Quinton McGuire – 78%
 
Top Public Sector Management III Student
Letlhogonolo Benjamin Setlhabi – 87%
 
Top Research Methodology Student (Degree)
Bukeka Magenu – 78%
 

Awards for Advanced Diploma 

Top Management Practice IV Student
Nomampondo Thembekile Martha Tindleni – 84%
 
  

 Awards for BPP 

Top Crime Prevention Management III Student
Cornelia Johanna Bronkhorst – 84%
 
Top Police Management III Student
Lunny Ignatius Spogter – 97%
 
 

 Awards for BBA Hons 

 Top Strategic Management V Student
Abdul Jalil Haruna Mijima – 86%
 
 

 Awards for BPP Hons 

 Top Leadership V Students
David Richard Coetzee – 78%
 
Top Police Management V Student
David Richard Coetzee – 75%
 
Top Research Methodology V Students
Lindsay Graeme Delarey Lategan – 88,5%
 
 

 Overall Achievement Awards
 
Top overall achievement – BBA 

Pierre Jansen van Rensburg – 82,66%
 
Top overall achievement – BPP Hons 

David Richard Coetzee – 78, 25%

Once again the Graduation Ceremony was a day to be remembered as we are very proud of all of you!

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Windhoek – 10 June, 2013 Southern Business School of Namibia, through their sponsorship of the Miss Namibia Beauty Pageant is proud to announce that Miss Namibia will be enrolling in one of their courses for the 2013-2014 calendar year.  Beauty and brains is what it is all about in the Pageant and ensuring that these talented young women receive a good qualification, is why SBS Namibia supports the event. Miss Tsakana Nkandih was awarded a bursary to enroll in a 1 year course of her choice by the Academic Institution.

Miss Namibia has chosen to pursue a Certificate in Management with Business & Marketing Management as her major. She was one of the first students to enroll, as enrollment started from June 10, 2013.

Right to Left: Miss Namibia – Miss Tsakana Nkandih and Ms Bronwyn Vries from Southern Business School Namibia

Southern Business School has also introduced 70 more courses to its registry.  Follow this LINK to find out more

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Registration Open Day – Saturday 13 July 2013

Join us on Saturday 13 July 2013 for a Registration Open Day. You are invited to register for the 2nd semester and collect your study material from the main campus on Saturday 13 July between 9am and 1pm. If you work or reside close to the main campus in Mogale City/Krugersdorp, join us on Saturday morning and bring your friends!

New and current students welcome!  Get a HEAD START with the registration documents, download them HERE.

See you then!

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Registration Open Day – Saturday 3 August 2013   Join us on Saturday 3 August 2013 for a Registration Open Day. You are invited to register for the 2nd semester and collect your study material from the main campus on Saturday 3 August between 9am and 1pm. If you work or reside close to the main campus in Mogale City/Krugersdorp, join us on Saturday morning and bring your friends! New and current students welcome!  Get a HEAD START with the registration documents, download them HERE.

See you then!

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For those of you who are interested to partake in this charitable event, please download the below form and once completed fax or email to the contact details on the form.

Southern Business School 5th Annual Charity Golf Day – Friday 6 September ’13 @ Roodepoort Country Club. *protected email* for more info.

Letter 06092013 Golf Day To Whom It May Concern

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By Henk de Jager

The Management of REAL PEOPLE decided to enrol 15 staff members for an in-house qualification (The Certificate in Management majoring in Business and Marketing Management), due to the exceptional service given to a staff member from REAL PEOPLE who successfully completed the Bachelor of Business Administration Degree at Southern Business School.

REAL PEOPLE, established in 2001, creates the operational capability of collecting on partial and non-performing consumer finance portfolios in South Africa.  This core competence – to collect unsecured debt in the supposedly “higher risk” end of the market – has enabled them to take opportunities and diversify into a number of related areas of business, such as Unsecured Credit in South Africa and East Africa; Affordable Housing, Educational Products, Cellular Products and Assurance.

The participants attend a three-day intensely interactive contact session on a monthly basis, presented by the Centre for Management and Leadership Development (CMLD) of Southern Business School. Participants are required to complete various formative assessment activities in the form of a portfolio of evidence including assignments, learning experience log sheets and a work-based project to be presented in 2013.  The summative assessment consists of an official 3 hour written examination paper.

Participants from REAL PEOPLE sitting from left to right: Ms A de Witt, Mr D Dladla, Mr Q Botha, Mr M de Lacy and Mr A Strydom. Standing from left to right: Mr N Mongoai, Mr J Venter, Mr M Nel, Mr K Bruinders, Mr K Enus, Mr J Theron and Mr J Benade, CMLD’s Facilitator.
Image by Corné Siebert

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