About

This website was developed:

• With the prime objective of supporting the leaders in the transformation of the community members, integrating the community with themselves and other communities as well as
  
• to develop the community’s ICT skills level in order to ensure that associated mediums such as sms, radio and websites function as a medium of choice between the various community members and the structures supporting them.
  

The various contact people for this website are:

• Councilor Ndumiso Mngwentshu, Councilor of Wallacedene and France
  
• Jabu Stinge, Community Development Worker of Wallacedene and France
  
• Mwabiswa Nqobi, Mobicom Agent for Wallacedene and member of local Sanco structures
  
• Eduard Scholtz, Chief Social Entrepreneur, Mobicom
  
• Tim White, Managing Director, First Business South Africa
  

Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives have traditionally focused on making donations to underprivileged communities with a view to earning scorecard points or creating a photo opportunity. Often these interactions with impoverished communities are once-off affairs that benefit only a few, deepen dependency levels, offer temporary relief and no real long-term benefits for both the company and the community.

The community leadership of Wallacedene and France together with social entrepreneurial brands Mobicom and E-Spaza are embracing a new approach to community transformation or Corporate Social Investment as per corporate terminology. This approach has been developed to offer numerous long-term benefits and real, measurable economic gains for both corporations and the communities within which they operate.

By adopting Roberts’ Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) mindset, developed in the mid-1990’s, the community leaders have adopted the innovative framework called Social Return on Investment (SROI).that will be used by the community and the associated partners to calculate the economic and socio economic impact of the transformation initiative. REDF broke the benefits of the social venture into two parts: enterprise value and social purpose value. The combined value of the REDF model is called the blended value. For more detail please refer to Social Development Q iii below.

• Mobicom
• E-Spaza
• Brightstar
• National Community Radio Forum
• City Of Cape Town
• SANCO: The France and Wallacedene branches

• What is a social entrepreneur?

• Why all of a sudden this big hype on effective community transformation and development?

• Is this just a different version of the same bunny hucking approach followed by environmental activist?