For its corporate social investment programmes that have uplifted and changed the lives of many in the Eastern Cape and SA, ISUZU Motors SA is this year’s Herald Nelson Mandela University Citizen of the Year in the business category.
South Africa has experienced an average GDP growth of just 0.8% since 2018. We need bold, targeted economic reforms that will allow South Africa’s labour absorption rate to increase from its paltry figure of 38% to 69%, where it was in 2008.
ENVOY NURTURES MILESTONES … CORNERSTONES
The diplomatic world is no longer male-dominated and is also very much a woman’s world. Although the glass ceiling is not yet fully broken, the gender balance in the international relations sector is being addressed. Ambassador Alina L. Romanowski, Ambassador of the United States of America to Kuwait, a career member of the Senior Executive Service, is one such trailblazer who, for four decades of her illustrious career, served her nation in senior intelligence and security roles and policy-shaping activities. In her years in the US public service, Ambassador Romanowski, an expert on Middle East Affairs, focused mainly on Near East and South Asia.