Metropolitan Oliver Empowerment Awards Finalist

Metropolitan Oliver Empowerment Awards are SA’s most influential awards recognising leadership and innovation in Empowerment. The Awards are now in their 10th year and have become hugely prestigious and are considered the ultimate accolade by winning companies for their transformation activity.

Rigorously assessed and independently assured, they provide recognition for companies that are integrating empowering business practice and delivering positive impacts in the marketplace, in the workplace and in the community.

The Awards, with official media partners - Impumelelo and Business Report, are the primary means by which the Metropolitan Oliver Empowerment Awards identifies, celebrates and disseminates good practice and communicates the positive impact on business and society.

They are used to inspire companies to get involved or to do more in transformation, engage companies in their own campaigns and support and challenge companies to benchmark and improve their performance.

A decade of empowerment progress came to a spectacular climax on Thursday 24th March with presentations to the country’s foremost champions of empowerment in the public and private sectors, among major corporates and across the ranks of small, medium and micro enterprises, Sekunjalo Investments Limited participated in Financial Services sector.

The Financial Services Award was Sponsored by Business Report and the Awardees included:

* 21st Century Pay Solutions Group (Pty) Ltd
* ABSA Group Ltd
* Sekunjalo Investments Ltd

Sekunjalo Investments Limited was awarded the 2011 Finalist Certificate of Excellence in the Financial Services Sector for outstanding achievement as a top empowerment company in its sector, and for outstanding contribution to the growth and sustainability of the South African economy.

The winner for this category was ABSA Group Ltd.