If your B‑BBEE reports look impressive but the communities around your operations can’t see the difference, you don’t have a transformation strategy – you have an accounting strategy. B‑BBEE points only translate into community impact when spend is treated as social investment capital with a clear theory of change, not as a quota to be filled. Context: B‑BBEE is a lever, not a goal The B‑BBEE framework was designed to shift economic power, skills and opportunity towards black

- Photo taken on a development mission to Ghana in January 2026 - Every few years, it helps to pause, look up from the work, and re‑introduce ourselves. GrowZA Social Investment Agency started as a simple idea: if we could connect real development opportunities with the right mix of capital, partnerships, and discipline, we could help social investment do what it promised on the label. Over time, that idea has evolved into a hybrid social investment platform that works across

Penned by GrowZA ED - Craig Kensley Yesterday I found myself sitting in a room at the Mercedes‑Benz factory in East London, invited to speak to the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation . Just being in that room was an honour, not because of the brand names, but because it signalled something important about how GrowZA has been growing up. If you’re reading this next to the glossy photo of a tuxedoed champion holding two Laureus statuettes in front of a G‑Wagon: no, that’s not t