BWASA Corporate

Members Corporate

The Businesswomen's Association offers membership to corporate / professional women in business and government, entrepreneurs, rural business women, honorary / retired members and corporate members.

For an annual fee of R 28 500.00 (incl. VAT), companies can become corporate members of the Businesswomen's Association. While we are constantly expanding our benefits to members and corporate members, corporate membership currently brings with it a number of benefits, over and above being seen to actively support South African women in business, namely:

The prerogative to nominate up to 50 women employees to become members of the Association. The women nominated are thereby able to take advantage of all the normal benefits of being a member of the Association, without having to pay the annual subscription fee
Opportunities to address our members, at networking functions and seminars*
Advance notice of functions and events to allow for preferential booking. This includes the Businesswoman of the Year Award
Recognition on the BWA website (www.bwasa.co.za) that the company is a corporate member of the BWA
Provision of an automatic link from the BWA website to the corporate members website*
Opportunities to profile women achievers in the corporate member company, on the BWA website and in newsflashes to members
Tailor-made programmes and workshops

*Subject to existing sponsorship agreements

Please contact Busi Mkhabele, should you be interested in a Corporate Membership.

As an association, we are proud to have the following, leading South African companies, as corporate members. We value their contribution and clear commitment to the issues of women in business.

IDC

Established in 1940, the IDC is a national development finance institution. The core business of the IDC is to provide finance to entrepreneurs for the development of competitive industries. The Corporation functions as an ordinary business, following normal company policy and procedures in its operations, paying income tax at corporate rates and dividends to its shareholder, while reporting on a fully consolidated basis.

IDC finance is available for projects within South Africa, the SADC region and the rest of Africa. Our role, as your preferred investment partner, is to assist you financially. We do not seek shareholding control or management participation. Finance is only made available after comprehensive risk studies.

It is our aim to match our financing packages to the needs of the project. Our financing instruments are: Equity, Quasi-equity, Limited recourse finance, Commercial loans, Wholesale finance, Share warehousing, Export / Import finance, Short-term trade finance, and Guarantees.

Selecting the IDC as your investment partner makes sound business sense. The IDC is the largest centralised, multi-disciplinary project evaluation group in Africa, offering:
An exemplary track record in industrial development; A unique combination of resources; Over six decades' experience across a broad base of projects; An intrinsic developmental focus and approach; Expertise in identifying investment opportunities; A neutral partner; and Access to a network of innovative entrepreneurs, industry players, co-funders and the public sector.

Call Centre No: 0860 693 888
www.idc.co.za
callcentre@idc.co.za

FNB Corporate

FNB Corporate, a division of FirstRand Limited, is a leading provider of transactional banking services and innovative credit and financing solutions to large and medium sized corporates, financial institutions and government entities.

Recognising the importance of the entrepreneurial spirit in expanding the South African economy, FNB Corporate provides a complete range of financial services to meet the needs of growing businesses, backed up and supported by an experienced team of specialists and dedicated Client Portfolio Executives.

By creating, building and nurturing knowledge-based relationships, FNB Corporate allows entrepreneurs to focus on their core competencies, and in so doing, grow their businesses.

"FNB Coporate joined the Businesswomen's Association because we feel that we may network, gain experience at forums & expose our ladies in Corporate to other professionals in other industrys."

Contact: Lee-Anne Van Zyl
Phone: 011 371 8591
www.fnbcorporate.co.za
lee-anne.vanzyl@fnbcorporate.co.za

Vodacom

Vodacom is a pan-African cellular communications company providing a world class GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) service to some 9.5 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Vodacom expects to start commercial operations in Mozambique in the next several months.

Vodacom is the market leader in South Africa, with more than 94% of South Africans now within the coverage area of its impressive 5 000 base station cellular network.

Vodacom's support of the Businesswomen's Association is a reflection of its desire to level the corporate playing field so that the many business opportunities presenting themselves in post-1994 South Africa can be exploited by a more diverse group of South Africans.

Contact: Dot Field
www.vodacom.co.za
fielddo@vodacom.co.za

Cell C

Cell C is South Africa's first cellular provider operating a dual band GSM 900/1800 Mhz network, offering products and services to over two million subscribers.

With a network capable of providing voice, data and future multimedia communications, Cell C is committed to providing subscribers with a full range of GSM services, based on the key principles of simplicity, choice and value. Cell C has achieved significant market share since it's launch in 2001.

Contact: Mercia Maserumule
mmaserumule@cellc.co.za
www.cellc.co.za

Old Mutual

Old Mutual plc is an international financial services group, whose activities are focused on asset gathering and asset management.

Our strength is the diversity of our business. This diversity makes us a resilient business, the benefits of which can be seen in our results.

During 2002 we made substantial progress in increasing the strategic focus of the Group. Our planned disposal programme and the consolidation of our 2000 and 2001 acquisitions are now largely complete.

We offer a broad range of financial services in three principal geographies: 60% of our business is in South Africa, 30% in the United States and 10% the United Kingdom.

In South Africa, we are the largest financial services business, through our life assurance, asset management, banking and general insurance operations.

Contact: Zingisa Hobo
www.oldmutual.com
zhobo@oldmutual.com