• How do companies become BEE compliant?
• Maintaining your market high ground through constant
  Employment growth
• Progressive monitoring and implementation processes
• The future prospects of BEE compliance

Dr Patrick Maesela
Chief Executive Officer
Zonkizizwe Interactive Financial Services, South Africa

• Evaluating the criteria and priorities for funding
• Access to funding – why are some deals not financed?
• Creating an enabling environment for funding SMME’s
• BEE: an opportunity for innovation and creativity

Bheki Sibiya
Chief Executive Officer
Business Unity of South Africa, South Africa

• Broad based BEE strategies
• Overcoming the challenges that face equity ownership
  structures
• What will ensure sustainability in your BEE structure?
• Legislation: achieving empowerment targets

Lebo Gunguluza
President
Black Entreprenuers Forum, South Africa

• Evaluating the criteria and priorities for funding
• Access to funding – why are some deals not financed?
• Creating an enabling environment for funding SMME’s
• BEE: an opportunity for innovation and creativity

Bheki Sibiya
Chief Executive Officer
Business Unity of South Africa, South Africa

• Outlining the historical background of the BEE legislative
  framework
• Analysing how the different sectoral charters impact on your
  BEE strategies
• How has current legislation impacted business?

Lebo Gunguluza
President
Black Entreprenuers Forum, South Africa

Bheki Sibiya
Chief Executive Officer
Business Unity of South Africa, South Africa

Mirriam Zwane
Director
Praxis Computing, South Africa

• What has Namibia’s implementation process been?
• What does BEE mean within the context of economic
  development?
• Improving the financing mechanisms for BEE deals
• Overcoming challenges of black economic empowerment

Tarah Shaanika
Chief Executive Officer
Namibian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Namibia

• Assessing the success – where are black empowerment
  partnerships today?
• Identifying and choosing a suitable partner
• A successful deal for the finance arena
• How do you enact transfer of ownerships without
  discouraging foreign investors?
• Addressing fronting

Mannie Hirsh
Director
Gestalt Corporate Engineers, South Africa

• The implementation process of the merging companies
• Answers to the unique challenges faced by NAMPOWER
• What was considered during the merger?
• Protecting your business through tailored contingency policies

Dr Leake S. Hangala
Managing Director
Namibia Power Corporation (Pty) Ltd, Namibia

• Solutions to the most common BEE risk profiles
• Mitigation of risk factors
• Does equity compliance dilute political risks?
• Reducing corporate vulnerability to fraud and malpractice
• Evaluating critical areas when choosing business partners

Ochieng Okeyo
Director
Kago Capital, South Africa

• When should a company undertake mezzanine finance?
• What are the benefits of mezzanine finance as an option for
  BEE transactions?
• Using mezzanine finance despite its high-risk profile
• Analysing the benefits of using senior debt

Tebogo Khaas
President
SMME Forum, South Africa

• Are there direct costs to BEE transactions?
• What are these costs?
• How do the costs match the benefits?
• How have investors responded to both the costs and
  benefits?

Derrick Msibi
Executive Director
Old Mutual Asset Managers, South Africa

Chia-Chao
Managing Director
Empowerdex, South Africa

• Attracting non listed companies to vendor financing
• Investigating the legal machines used to finance these
  transactions
• Comparing vendor and externally financed BEE deals
• Case study Leisure Knit

Kieran Clifford
Founder, Hermes Capital
South Africa

• Table 1: Codes of good practice as a vehicle
  for BEE implementation

Peter Metcalfe
Chief Executive Officer
Foundation for the Development of Africa, South Africa

• Table 2: Identifying a BEE partner how?
  

Lebo Gunguluza
President
Black Entreprenuers Forum, South Africa

Topics to be covered include:

• Practical application if the BEE balanced scorecard
• Finding out how you can make money through BEE
• Understanding key differences between the Financial
  Services Charter and BEE Codes Phase Two
• Case studies of successful BEE partnerships
• Interpreting the following sections of the BEE Codes:
  -    Code 000: Framework for the Measurement of Broadbased
        Black economic
  -    Code 100: Measurement of the Ownership Element of
        Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment
  -    Code 300: Measurement of the Employment Equity
        Element of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment
  -    Code 400: Measurement of the Skills Development
        Element of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment
  -    Code 500: Measurement of the Preferential Procurement
        Element of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment
  -    Code 600: Measurement of the Enterprise Development
        Element of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment

Steve Kgatuke
Director
i-Cap Business Development, South Africa