INFORMATION BRIEF No. 124 | Sep 2024
At the recent 16th Annual SA Sports Awards Ceremony for 2024, Cricket South Africa (CSA) was awarded the National Federation of The Year Award.
John Collier Survey
INFORMATION BRIEF No. 123 | Aug 2024
On 9 August 2024, South Africa celebrated National Women’s Day, and the day has been set aside on our calendar, to commemorate the famous women’s march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August 1956. The march saw 20 000 women protest the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act, which included the extension of the Pass Laws to women.
John Collier Golf – annual survey and Top Club award’s results’ discussion.
While ESG (environment, social responsibility and governance) is an ongoing theme in BG, in June and July each year, BG’s focus turns particularly to the environment.
And, it would seem that every year the need to keep our eyes on the environmental ‘ball’ becomes ever more poignant, with 2025 seeing ‘weather incidents’ on a global scale taking up an increasing amount of media ‘space’.
TOP CLUB AWARD 2024/2025
The John Collier Survey’s data, which is received from golf clubs throughout South Africa, is combined with desktop research and interviews with people knowledgeable about golf courses throughout the region, and then analysed, following which we publish the John Collier Annual Survey in March each year.
INFORMATION BRIEF No. 122 | June 2024
Do golf clubs and the governing bodies of South African Golf have the appropriate and transparent data to manage situations that have recently arisen in the USA, Europe and EU?
INFORMATION BRIEF No. 121 | June 2024
Why not celebrate WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY on Wednesday 5 June, and congratulate ELEMENTS PRIVATE GOLF RESERVE as South Africa’s TOP CLUB in the country, for environmental compliance, social responsibility and good governance (ESG) for 2023-24, along with Umhlali Country Club and Olivewood Private Estate for their Special Mention Awards?
Annual Survey 2024 to 2025 Discussion | Part 2
We continue our discussion on the key points of the latest John Collier Golf Annual ESG Survey
INFORMATION BRIEF No. 120 | April 2024
As referred to in Info Brief Number 119 the seventeenth John Collier Annual Survey on environmental compliance, social responsibility, and good governance (ESG) has been published.
Annual Survey 2024 to 2025 Discussion | Part 1
On the front cover of this month’s issue, we refer to the ‘tale of the tape’, which is a boxing reference, by which combatants were ‘measured up’ for a fight.
ESG CONFERENCE HELD AT THE SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE ON 1 and 2 OCTOBER 2024
Given the increasing importance of ESG in day-to-day business, when I heard that Alistair Collier (AC) had attended the Environmental, Social, Governance Africa Conference & Expo in Johannesburg at the Sandton Convention Centre I asked him to share his key take-outs from the event.