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CEO Engagement with Minister Willie Aucamp – Environmental Stewardship as a Catalyst for Growth
We were honoured to host Minister Willie Aucamp, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment at our recent CEO Engagement, providing business leaders with an opportunity to engage on the intersection of environmental stewardship, investment, economic growth...
CEO Engagement with Premier Alan Winde
We were honoured to once again welcome Premier Alan Winde to our CEO Engagement networking session last week, as part of Accelerate Cape Town’s (ACT) continued commitment to promoting dialogue and collaboration between the public and private sectors. Ryan Ravens, ACT...
Building a Future-Proof Talent Pipeline, Working Towards Deeper University-Industry Collaboration
We were honoured to host Professor Sibusiso Moyo, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies at Stellenbosch University, and Cathy Sims, Executive Director of SAGEA (South African Graduate Employers Association), at our recent Thought...
CEO Update
As we approach the end of another dynamic year, I am filled with gratitude and optimism for the strides we’ve made together as a business community. Given unprecedented levels of uncertainty – particularly with respect to ever increasing geopolitical tension, our...
CEO Engagement with National Minister of Transport, The Honourable Barbara Creecy
It was a privilege to host South Africa’s Minister of Transport, the Honourable Barbara Creecy, at our recent CEO engagement. The transport sector is complex and has posed challenges that have hindered our local economy for several years. Addressing these issues...
Driving Collaboration for a Prosperous Future: Insights from Premier Alan Winde
As part of our ongoing commitment to fostering dialogue and collaboration on critical issues impacting our region’s economic growth and development, we were honoured to host Premier Alan Winde at our recent CEO engagement. With a renewed five-year mandate, Premier...
CEO Update
The elections are done and dusted, the GNU has been established and we have a new provincial cabinet in the Western Cape. For the regional business community, it is hugely encouraging that Premier Alan Winde has secured another 5-year mandate in the Western Cape. We...
In Conversation with Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis | Resilience & Divergence – our city’s building blocks for success!
It was once again an honour to host Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis as part of our ongoing series of networking events between Western Cape business and local government. The session provided the opportunity for Mayor Hill-Lewis to update Accelerate Cape Town members on the...
CEO Update
As we rapidly approach year-end, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our community. We’ve been through another challenging year but can hopefully now pause for a time of reflection, gratitude, and positive anticipation of the opportunities that lie ahead. Amid an...
Growth for Jobs Strategy Discussion
"Unified action is imperative, I urge all parties to work together, collaborating jointly to generate the momentum needed for positive outcomes and collective success. We are in this venture together! While competition has its place, let us focus on co-competition." -...
NEWS & OPINION
Western Cape Business and Local Government up the Ante on Collaboration and Public Private Partnerships
09 March 2022 | A recent engagement between Western Cape business and local government had, as its core focus, to further discussions around co-operation between the private and public sectors. This, for the betterment of all and reemergence of our local economy....
Public Private Partnerships Key to Infrastructure Development and Urban Mobility
01 March 2022 | “As a regional business community, we welcome Premier Winde’s announcement during his recent State of the Province Address (SOPA) of the establishment of two new departments in the Western Cape – Infrastructure Development and Urban Mobility,” says...
Mr. President, South Africa is Burning!
08 February 2022 | South Africa is on the brink of collapse! A declining economy, staggering unemployment, unfettered corruption, rampant lawlessness, a failing infrastructure – and one can easily draw the analogy that, as too, with the Houses of Parliament on fire...
VIDEOS
‘Your Best Shot’ – Corporate Cape Town Engages the Arts to Drive Vaccine Uptake
‘Accelerate Cape Town & Santam #YourBestShot
#YourBestShot Delft Community Mural
#YourBestShot Athlone Community Mural
#YourBestShot Langa Community Mural
#YourBestShot Mitchell’s Plain Community Mural
#YourBestShot Bonteheuwel Community Mural
RESOURCES
FAQs vaccination in the workplace
Vaccine Benefits vs Side effects: Western Cape
Vaccine Benefits vs Side effects: Western Cape
SA Coronavirus website
Corporate Cape Town Engages the Arts to Drive Vaccine Uptake
22 March 2022 | The recently launched ‘Your Best Shot’ campaign will leverage dynamic and original pieces of art in and around the city of Cape Town to help encourage and drive greater vaccination rates. Spearheaded by Accelerate Cape Town, a business leadership...
Old Mutual Partners with Western Cape Government and Accelerate Cape Town to Launch Mobile Vaccination Service for Outlying Areas
07 December 2021 | Outlying communities in the Western Cape, that may previously have struggled to access transport to and from vaccination sites, can now receive their jabs close to home at a Vaxi Taxi mobile vaccination site. This is thanks to a partnership between...
Twenty Years in the Room, Through Good Years and Hard Ones
FROM THE CEO As we prepare to vote next month, it’s a good time to reflect on Accelerate Cape Town’s journey in this city. ACT has worked with every mayor this city has had since we were founded in 2006, and with provincial and national administrations of different...
Partnership Needs Machinery, Not Just Goodwill
From the CEO On 4 November, voters elect the councils that will run service delivery for the next five years. Business may not get a vote but arguably carries considerably high exposure to the outcome. The article below makes the case for partnership between...
A Training Pipeline Needs an Offtake: Can Your Organisation Place an AI-Ready Learner?
FROM THE CEO AI has become the easiest subject in business to have an opinion about and the hardest to have a plan for. The change is however happening in real time, and this is why it matters now. The article below sets out four disciplines; the one I'd underline is...
Silence is a choice. We’re making a different one.
Accelerate Cape Town CEO, Ryan Ravens FROM THE CEO An eleventh woman's body was found in Springs last week. By the time you read this, the number may have changed. That it requires a series of brutal murders to draw attention to the ongoing scourge of GBV in...
The Heritage We Haven’t Built Yet
FROM THE CEO Heritage is often spoken of in the past tense, but the finest heritage might well be the one we haven’t created yet. Every generation inherits what came before, but it also carries a responsibility to add to it. In an increasingly AI-driven world, the...
Capital Committed, Execution Pending
Accelerate Cape Town CEO Ryan Ravens addressing delegates at the International Business Forum hosted by Investissement Québec International & Invest Cape Town FROM THE CEO The infrastructure numbers for this province read well. R40 billion committed by the City...
AI Can Model The Risk. It Can’t Earn Consent
Accelerate Cape Town CEO, Ryan Ravens FROM THE CEO The Constitutional Court's Wild Coast judgment last month should be read by every business leader in this province, and not as an energy story, but as a leadership lesson. Shell did not lose on geology or economics....
Standing Still Is Not a Strategy
Accelerate Cape Town CEO, Ryan Ravens FROM THE CEO, CONTINUED Our newsletter used to arrive when we had enough to say, and it has never been our practice to shout every activity or achievement from the rooftops. That was a knowledge-economy habit: accumulate, then...
CEO Engagement with Minister Willie Aucamp – Environmental Stewardship as a Catalyst for Growth
We were honoured to host Minister Willie Aucamp, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment at our recent CEO Engagement, providing business leaders with an opportunity to engage on the intersection of environmental stewardship, investment, economic growth...
N2 Freeway Management Plan with Alderman JP Smith – Safety and Security
We were honoured to have Alderman JP Smith, Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, join us at our recent thought leadership engagement. Focused on the safety and security of the N2 freeway corridor, one of Cape Town’s most critical economic routes, this...
‘Your Best Shot’ – Corporate Cape Town Engages the Arts to Drive Vaccine Uptake
‘Accelerate Cape Town & Santam #YourBestShot
#YourBestShot Delft Community Mural
#YourBestShot Athlone Community Mural
#YourBestShot Langa Community Mural
#YourBestShot Mitchell’s Plain Community Mural
#YourBestShot Bonteheuwel Community Mural
FAQs vaccination in the workplace
Vaccine Benefits vs Side effects: Western Cape
Vaccine Benefits vs Side effects: Western Cape
SA Coronavirus website
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