{"id":4960,"date":"2024-03-11T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T13:14:07","slug":"igniting-our-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/archives\/4960","title":{"rendered":"Igniting our business"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Well done to the winners of our coveted Ignite Awards! You have inspired us with your passion, dedication and hard work as you live the values and purpose of the AfroCentric Group.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We introduced the Ignite Employee Recognition programme more than a year ago with the aim of inspiring all our employees, teams and leaders to be the best they can be, and to reward excellence.<\/p>\n

The nominees are celebrated in three categories.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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And the winners are . . .<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The AfroCentric 2024 Ignite Awards gala event was held on 22 February at the Balalaika Hotel in Sandton, where we celebrated the winners.<\/p>\n

The list of attendees included AfroCentric CEO Gerald van Wyk; Satish Antony, Executive Manager: Actuarial Consulting; David Carolus, CEO: Denis; Elnarie Hendricks, Interim Chief Executive Officer: ADS; Hannes Boonzaaier, CFO: Afrocentric Group; Monwabisi Kula, Chief Audit Executive; Tebogo Makoe, Executive Director: Human Capital and Transformation; Fezeka Nompumza, Managing Executive: Clinical Risk & Advisory; and Andrew Scwhulst, CEO: Medscheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe culture of aiming for excellence at all costs, recognising and celebrating it, is the culture I\u2019m aiming to entrench \u2013 an environment full of passionate people who show up every day to do and be the extraordinary.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations to all the nominees and the winners who left the Ignite Awards evening with certificates, trophies and cheques. I\u2019m truly proud of you for being a shining example that embodies what a true AfroCentric employee is,\u201d Gerald said.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Shaping our Future<\/strong><\/p>\n

First prize: R50\u00a0000 | Second prize: R30\u00a0000 | Third prize: R20 000<\/p>\n

Winner: Team Data Insights<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vukosi Sambo | Ncumisa Hlapo | Itumeleng Ralekoala | Taryn Fivaz | Hansel Govender | Chanwyn Williams | Gerda Strydom | Bheki Zondo<\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> runner up: Team Branch Network <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nadine Viljoen | Karin van Heerden | Lubaina Ismail<\/p>\n

2nd runner up: Team Bonitas <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jackie Karshagen | Sonia Alexandre | Preya Naidoo | Tebogo Leboi | Lara-Jane Blackbeard | Liana Groenewald<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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AfroCentric Citizen<\/strong><\/p>\n

First prize: R50\u00a0000 | Second prize: R30\u00a0000 | Third prize: R20\u00a0000<\/p>\n

Winner: David Kotze<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> runner up: Muzi Khumalo <\/strong><\/p>\n

2nd runner up: Dina Louw <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Community Citizen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three teams were acknowledged because of their contribution to their various community CSI projects, including some of the good work done on Mandela Day, 18 July 2023. The panel recommended seed funding be donated to the community project identified by the teams to develop a sustainable initiative with ongoing support.<\/p>\n

Be sure to read more about our top three nominees in each category in our nominees article<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Well done to the winners of our coveted Ignite Awards! You have inspired us with your passion, dedication and hard work as you live the values and purpose of the AfroCentric Group. We introduced the Ignite Employee Recognition programme more than a year ago with the aim of inspiring all our employees, teams and leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-business-afrocentric-09","tag-afrocentric09"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}