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On 19 August 2026, we hosted Building High Impact Enterprise and Supplier Development Programmes with the ESD Community of Practice and we are delighted to share the highlights.

We opened by asking the room a simple question. Is your enterprise and supplier development programme compliance driven, or impact led? Of those who voted, 70% said impact led.

Gary Joseph, CEO of the South African Supplier Diversity Council, offered a warm reality check. Most programmes contain elements of both. They sit on the same spectrum rather than in opposing camps, and that is precisely why the question is worth asking out loud.

The central argument of the session was a hopeful one. Impact and compliance are not competing agendas. A programme designed for genuine supplier outcomes, revenue growth, stronger capability, real market access and supply chain resilience, produces the very evidence that compliance requires. Not as the objective, but as the natural by product of doing the work properly. Plans, milestones, contracts and outcomes create an audit trail, and that audit trail carries renewal value.

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.