KEVIN MAYHEW THE TENDER process and the information required to successfully tender – whether to private enterprise or government – has been drastically changed by consciousness of true empowerment credentials by clients and potential business partners. George Khumalo, managing director of Simesonke, a company that provides its logistics services by incorporating the global international network of its 49% shareholder, worldwide forwarding major Birkart Globistics, believes that a lot more disclosure has resulted from the implementation of corporate empowerment. “When tendering it means immediate disclosure of proper empowerment credentials as well as playing open cards about the future of the empowerment of the company. Clients are definitely looking at this as an important factor in awarding contracts because the empowerment status of their business partners has an impact on their level of empowerment acceptability,” he explained. George Khumalo . . . a lot more disclosure has resulted from the implementation of corporate empowerment.
