Jan – Mar 2018
Dear SAICA staff, Having placed our sole objective as “responsible leadership,” SAICA is committed to creating and maintaining a profession of empowered members who ‘support the development of the South African economy’ that is central to the SAICA Constitution. To this end, our organisation runs numerous initiatives under the SAICA Nation Building umbrella that aid the national drive for transformation, employment and growth in order to support social and economic development. The selection of our initiatives is informed by the challenges that have been flagged in the National Development Plan (NDP) as stumbling blocks for the country’s developmental goals. These include: • • • •
The quality of education for black people is poor. The economy is unsustainably resource-intensive and too few people work. There is a need for improved skills development. Public services are uneven and often of poor quality.
In the first Nation Building newsletter of 2018, you will discover the direct impact of the work SAICA Nation Building has done in the first quarter of 2018 as illustrated by its alignment to SAICA’s five strategic initiatives.
INITIATIVE #1 SUSTAINABLE SKILLS PIPELINE THROUGH AN APPROPRIATE FUNDING MODEL THUTHUKA: School initiatives produce top matrics Year after year, we see that participants of Thuthuka’s various school interventions have an advantage over their peers going into their final matric exams. And while not every learner who participates in these programmes seeks to become a CA(SA), our desire is to grow these initiatives – irrespective of the professions learners wish to pursue and with the view of creating a pool of learners for all scarce-skills professions. 2017’s top performing matric learners were: •
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Reamohetse Mofitiso, who participated in the Eastern Cape Development Camp, achieved seven distinctions and was crowned the top national achiever in quintile 1. Reamohetse is pursuing actuarial science at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Mogopodi Molusi, Northern Cape Development Camp attendee, was the third best maths learner in the country and achieved six distinctions in his matric exams. Molusi is studying Medicine at UCT. Mphoentle Piliso, an Eastern Cape Development Camp attendee, bagged seven distinctions and the title of South Africa’s-best performing quintile 3 learner. Mphoentle is doing a degree in medicine at UCT. Sbongakonke Ntsele benefited from SAICA’s Thuthuka feeder programme. She was recognised as KZN’s top accounting learner against adversity after clinching seven distinctions in her matric exams. Sbongaknoke is studying a BCom Accounting Science degree at UCT. Philip Visage’s 100% pass mark earned him the title of “top accounting learner in the Western Cape”. Philip placed second in the province in the 2017 SAICA Accounting Olympiad and is pursuing a BAccLLB at Stellenbosch University.