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Providing HR Services to companies and DRG is involved in Environmental initiatives:
individuals from 40 countries around the world Chairman of the Human Elephant Foundation,
with business interest in South Africa, and in 20 an organisation founded in 2008 to help guide
countries in Africa. conservation activities, and to ensure that the
DRG Outsourcing has provided services to more animal kingdom has a voice.
than 3000 organisations in KwaZulu-Natal and Co-Founder of Rewilding Africa CIC, a UK based
South Africa. organisation raising funds to help maintain and
DRG Siyaya, a 52% Black Women Owned Company: manage conservation projects in Africa.
DRG Siyaya does absolutely everything in Supporting local activities as restoring and
HR, from payroll, employment equity, and maintaining the Everton Conservancy.
skills development administration, reporting and DRG is involved in Governance initiatives as:
compliance, to helping companies create
productive and engaged cultures / work Founder of BusinessFit, a group of 3 organisations
environments, facilitating hearings, managing providing business development services:
performance processes, and doing job » BusinessFit SA – providing a 5-Stage quality
descriptions, job grading, benchmarking, etc. assurance process, using the BusinessFit App as
DRG Siyaya in its 18 years of operation continues a support tool to guide business development.
to provide high levels of administrative and The BusinessFit App is a South African invention,
which is also growing popularity in the United
compliance HR service to small, medium, and
large organisations. Kingdom.
» BusinessFit International – situated in the United
BusinessFit SA, 52% a Black Owned Company: Kingdom, and providing a “trade conduit service”
Helping entrepreneurs and business leaders build for South African organisations to meet with and
better businesses through a defined quality gain local networking and business support
assurance and sustainable development process services in the United Kingdom.
to help support their enterprise foundation, » Bizhealth t/as BusinessFit – providing incubator
intention, and desired outcome. training and Stage 1 business development
BusinessFit was initially established in 2012. services.
Founder of The Africa Marketing Initiative (TAMI),
Contribution to business imperatives, stakeholders an inward bound business portal, making it easy for
and ESG international organisation to contact service
DRG recognises that business success is the outcome providers in South Africa in each functional
of meeting not only business imperatives, but also in and business support focus areas such as banking,
the contributions made to stakeholders, which include human resources, financial services, black
sustainability considerations within communities and economic empowerment, legal, marketing, etc,
society as a whole, and ensuring environmental rights and to connect with professional facilitators, able
and protection are achieved. to support research, networking and localisation
services.
DRG is involved in Social and Community initiatives:
Co-Founder of Green Lights Sustainability Initiative
Working with orphanages in the Botha’s Hill and (GLSI), an organisation focused on supporting the
Inanda areas through Sibanye Africa – a DRG transfer of knowledge and understanding of
initiative set up for this purpose. matters sustainability and ESG transformation,
Being an Exco member and the SA Chapter Leader and providing organisations with a formal GLSI
for the SA Chamber United Kingdom, whose sustainability accreditation.
primary mission is the support and development Transferring knowledge and understanding of
of South Africans and South African business. business best practice, governance, sustainability,
Being involved in the Commonwealth engagement, organisation culture design, etc,
Entrepreneurs Club, as President SA, whose primary through being a columnist in Business Sense.
mission is in networking and creating opportunity Summary
for SMEs to access and leverage opportunities DRG’s purpose is to be a pillar of strength to small,
across the entire Commonwealth chain of 56 medium, and large organisations, helping them
countries. meet their administrative, compliance and reporting
DRG and BusinessFit sponsored the KZN Top responsibilities, and supporting them in their creation
Business Women initiative in 2023, and will of productive, sustainable, and engaged business and
continue to do so in the years ahead. work environments.
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