COMMUNITY UPLIFTMENT AND IMPROVEMENT

This award celebrates businesses and social enterprises that are making KwaZulu Natal a better place to live, work and prosper.

WINNER

USE-IT WASTE BENEFICIATION (RF) NPC is a non-profit company rooted in a simple but powerful principle: waste should be seen as a resource. Waste beneficiation is a practical platform for community upliftment, job creation, income generation, environmental restoration and township-based enterprise development.

Learn more about USE-IT WASTE BENEFICTION (RF) NPC herehttps://use-it.co.za/

FINALISTS

CHARGEOS Leather Ware and Accessories represents a unique category of community upliftment. The luxury leather house has been built from inside Inanda by founders who grew up in that township, employing skills indigenous to that township, and exporting to the rest of the world.

Learn more about CHARGEOS Leather Ware and Accessories here: https://thechargeo.com/

Ensure Security represents the successful evolution of a traditional security company into a next-generation organisation that combines security, technology, urban regeneration, employment creation and measurable community impact.

Learn more about Ensure Security here: https://thechargeo.com/

JD Desai, Standard Bank, Jana Barff, WOA; Takalani Rathiyaya, Belinda Putterill, and Gerald Chotu, USE-IT Waste Beneficiation; and Pria Hassan, WOA

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