Published: 15 November 2021
Have you ever commended someone who regularly volunteers for charitable causes, only to be met with a suspiciously humble response such as, “Oh no, I get far more out of it than the cause I support!” The implication is that their actions – while perceived by others as selfless – are, in fact, self-motivated.
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Published: 15 November 2021
Momentum Metropolitan CSI Manager Charlene Lackay outlines the importance of giving back as individuals and how corporates like Momentum Metropolitan empower their employees to make it happen.
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Published: 15 November 2021
The future of volunteerism - and the secret to a successful CSI volunteerism programme
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Published: 18 July 2021
Youth unemployment in South Africa is spiralling out of control. On 16 June 2021, a day where the country celebrates the power of its youth, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that a youth unemployment rate of 74%* is ‘something no country can afford’.
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Published: 18 July 2021
Rhiza Babuyile celebrated Julia Zwane’s success after graduating from Network Engineering with 10 distinctions out of 12 modules from Pearson Institute of Higher Education.
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Published: 18 July 2021
Pivot. Adapt. Agility. Arguably this past year’s three most overused buzzwords - and, if the countless pandemic-era think pieces are to be believed, the key to flourishing in the ‘new normal’ (another COVID catchphrase.)
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Published: 16 June 2021
When it comes to developing a strategy and effective approach to halting the increase in youth unemployment and contributing to turning it around, the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation (MMF), driven by the Board and the CSI team, has had to be deliberate about the way they show up in the space. And the starting point was the differentiation between a focus on employability versus employment. MMF’s focus is employability, defined by the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary as “the extent to which somebody has the skills, knowledge, attitude, etc. that make them suitable for paid work."
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Published: 16 June 2021
For Momentum Metropolitan Holdings (MMH), the commemoration of Youth Day is not something that is viewed with any type of trepidation. MMH approaches this day with its collective chest because of a decision that the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation (MMF) made in 2018. What decision? Let’s create the context first.
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Published: 16 June 2021
We Think Code_ was established in 2015 as a tuition-free tech institution with the mission “to train Africa’s next generation of top tech talent in order to drive the digitisation of African business
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Published: 18 March 2021
We know, as humans, that we are born with and entitled to certain rights.
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