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Celebrating Women at SASDC: Leading With Purpose, Growing With Grace

As SASDC marks Women’s Month, we celebrate the women within our organisation who continue to lead, contribute, innovate and create meaningful impact.

Today’s Women’s Day programme was an opportunity to recognise the incredible women leaders across SASDC who continue to make a difference through their work, leadership and contribution to the organisation.The theme of the day, “Growing With Grace,” connected with our Women’s Month theme, “Lead Tomorrow.” Together, these themes created an opportunity to reflect on what it means to grow, lead and make an impact while remaining true to who we are.

Throughout the day, we explored the different ways women grow and lead. One of the activities involved building flowers together, which offered a simple but meaningful reminder that growth takes time, care, resilience and the right environment to flourish.

POSITION PAPER
THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF INCLUSION

BY GARY JOSEPH
SASDC (SOUTH AFRICAN SUPPLIER DIVERSITY COUNCIL)

Transformation in South Africa is at one of its most consequential inflection points in two decades. Four policy documents sit on the table at the same time: the draft B-BBEE Code amendments, the proposed Transformation Fund, the Public Procurement Act, and the newly introduced Economic Inclusion for All Bill. Together, they will reshape how state and corporate buyers procure, how compliance is measured, and how billions of rand of public and private capital reach majority black-owned and small business hands over the next five years.

At SASDC, we believe our members deserve a clear-eyed view of what's unfolding and a confident sense of where supplier diversity fits in. That is the purpose of this paper. Our position is straightforward: Whatever the political weather, the operational reality of moving money to diverse suppliers stays the same. South Africa still needs credible certification, capable suppliers, neutral verification and effective matchmaking between buyers and producers. SASDC has spent years building exactly that infrastructure. The policy shift sharpens our purpose; it does not change it.