This document announces a Governance Week conference taking place from June 10-13, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency in Johannesburg. The conference will focus on taking governance to the next level by enhancing relationships between business, government, and other stakeholders to drive economic and societal change. It will feature talks from experts on topics like the impact of socio-political issues on business, corporate social investment, the National Development Plan, stakeholder activism, boardroom governance, and regulatory compliance. Attendees will learn how to address risks, benchmark good governance practices, and network with their peers.
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10 – 14 June 2013
The Hyatt Regency, Rosebank,
Johannesburg
Taking governance to the next
level: enhancing the relationship
between business, government
and other key stakeholders to
drive economic and societal
change
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Leading local experts who will be speaking include:
➤➤ Leslie W. Maasdorp, President, Southern Africa Bank of America Merrill Lynch
➤➤ Donna Oosthuyse, Managing Director, Chief Country Officer, Citi South Africa
➤➤ Dr Hennie Bekker, Economics and Financial Advisor
➤➤ Malcolm Pannell, Managing Director, The Hay Group
➤➤ Dr Azar Jammine, Chief Economist, Econometrix
➤➤ Prof. Mervyn E King SC, Chairman, The International Integrated Reporting Council
➤➤ Angela Dick, Chief Executive Officer, Transman
➤➤ Cynthia Mgijima, Head, Transnet Foundation
➤➤ Thobeka-Sishuba Mashego, Group Director - Company Secretariate Corporate Governance,
Woolworths
➤➤ Theo Botha, Shareholder Activist
➤➤ Tammy Bortz, Director, Werksmans Attorneys
➤➤ Andrew Bizell, Chairman, BEE Institute
➤➤ Carina Wessels, Group Company Secretary-Company Secretariat, Exxaro
➤➤ Dawie Roodt, Director & Chief Economist, Efficient Group
Key benefits of attending:
➤➤ Learn how South Africa’s current sociopolitical landscape will impact your business and how you can
guard your organisation against this impact
➤➤ Gain strategic insights into South Africa’s boardroom governance
➤➤ Benchmark the necessary elements of good governance from leading business pioneers
➤➤ Get hands-on advice through case studies from South Africa’s leading companies
➤➤ Network with your peers and develop new awareness into what governance truly means in the current
South African context
Post-conference workshop: Direct and indirect application of offshore legislation
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Day one: Monday 10 June 2013
Assessing the influence of socio-political
issues on governance
08:00 Registration and early morning refreshments
08:30 Chairman’s opening remarks
Terry Booysen, Chief Executive Officer, CGF
Institute
08:45 South Africa’s business confidence scenarios for
2013 and beyond
•• Assessing the state of the world economy, with
particular reference to the US and European debt
challenges and their potential impact on the South
African and African economies
•• Examining demographic changes in South Africa and
the world and the opportunities that they present to
South African businesses
•• Examining the current state of the South African
economy and an assessment of the outlook from a short
and long-term perspective
•• Putting focus on the issue of corruption and examining
this from an international perspective
•• Some reflections on the body politic of the country
Dr Azar Jammine, Chief Economist, Econometrix
09:30 Assessing South Africa’s socio-political and
economic risks and their impact on business
investment – how can you address these risks in
your organisation?
•• Examining the current economic and socio-political risk
outlook
•• How can South African businesses help to restore
investor confidence?
•• Integrating social and political risk into executive
management decision-making
•• Can government and the corporate world partner to
encourage governance and reduce socio-political risk?
Donna Oosthuyse, Managing Director, Chief
Country Officer, Citi South Africa
10:15 Mid-morning refreshments and networking
10:45 The role of business leaders in finding real solutions
to the real challenges facing South Africa
South Africa is at a crossroads. It is now at the centre of
development concerns and its business leaders are striving
to find an outlet through which the country can continue
to play a role at the forefront of the world stage. Business
leaders must now be capable of dealing with a number of
socio-political and economic challenges and how these
various challenges are tackled is crucial.
Dr Azar Jammine, Chief Economist, Econometrix
Dr. Tony Harwood, Chief Executive Officer,
Montero Mining & Exploration
Dawie Roodt, Director & Chief Economist, Efficient
Group
Mannie Hersch, Founder & Director, Gestalt
Victor Sekese, Chief Executive Officer,
SizweNtsalubaGobodo
Cassim Coovadia, Managing Director, Banking
Association of SA
11:45 Making Corporate Social Investment (CSI)
credible in South Africa
•• How CSI can play a supporting role and align itself with
government priorities
•• Creating a compelling business case for CSI
•• Achieving a demonstrable, positive developmental
impact
•• Monitoring progress and linking with broader initiatives
that will sustain the CSI programme after individuals
driving the programme have left
Cynthia Mgijima, Head, Transnet Foundation
12:30 Lunch and networking
13:30 South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP): a
business perspective
•• How does the NDP affect business in South Africa – what
should matter to you?
•• Corporate citizenship - examining the role of businesses
in the National Development Plan (NDP)
•• Collaboration between government and business - the
essential element
•• Expected challenges for businesses in meeting the NDP
vision
Speaker to be confirmed
14:15 The role of communities in the promotion of good
governance
•• Does the Companies Act create enough room for
communities to participate in and influence issues of
governance?
•• What role does King III expect communities to play in
the promotion of good governance?
•• What role can communities play in the promotion of
good governance?
•• To what extent does the growing focus on ESG issues
enable communities to influence issues of governance?
Bethuel Ngwenya, Chief Executive Officer, Applied
Christianity Foundation
15:00 Mid-afternoon refreshments and networking
15:30 Exploring stakeholder and shareholder activism in
African corporates - a modern business necessity?
•• Evaluating shareholder activism as a reflection of
changing societal pressures
•• Changing activist tactics and corporate responses to
activism
•• Is shareholder activism a benefit for society?
Theo Botha, Shareholder Activist
16:15 Chairman’s closing remarks and end of day one
Day two: Tuesday 11 June 2013
Boardroom governance
08:00 Registration and early morning refreshments
08:30 Chairman’s opening remarks
Ronald Moyo, Director, Sekela
08:45 Ethical leadership – developing world-class
African business leaders
•• This presentation will look into how to develop the
power of ethical leadership and use this as the basis for
building and maintaining solid governance structures in
your organisation.
Leslie W. Maasdorp, President, Southern Africa
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
09:30 To be accountable and transparent, corporate
reports must be understandable!
Businesses cannot carry on as usual in the new world of
the 21st
century - the world has changed and so has the
identity of the company. Corporate reporting as we
know it is no longer fit for purpose - investors need concise
and understandable reports in order to make informed
decisions about long-term value creation but they cannot
do so from current corporate reports. A company’s
resources and relationships are interconnected - strategy
must integrate them and the report must be integrated.
Prof. Mervyn E King SC, Chairman, The
International Integrated Reporting Council
10:15 Mid-morning refreshments and networking
Paneldiscussion
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10:45 Addressing dysfunctional boardrooms
•• Amending the relationship between the local board and
the group board
•• Political directorships – do they bring value to the
company?
•• Assuaging the disconnect between management and
the board, and between the board and shareholders
•• How can companies shape a board that works for them?
Carina Wessels, Group Company Secretary-
Company Secretariat, Exxaro
Thobeka-Sishuba Mashego, Group Director-
Company Secretariate Corporate Governance,
Woolworths
Tim Anderson, Executive Consultant, 21st
Century
Pay Solutions Group
11:45 Examining issues arising from directors’ conflict of
interest
•• Assessing the legal position relating to conflicts of interest
•• Reviewing the consequences of getting it wrong for
directors and prescribed officers
•• Looking into some risk mitigation strategies around
conflicts of interest
Teri Solomon, Divisional Executive, Marsh Africa
12:30 Lunch and networking
13:30 Executive remuneration – linking performance to
remuneration
How and to what extent executive pay packages should
be structured is a touchy subject. This presentation intends
to unpack new thinking around this subject and offer you
possible solutions for dealing with it in your organisation.
Malcolm Pannell, Managing Director, The Hay
Group
14:15 Evaluating the performance of the board,
committees and individual directors
•• Business and compliance rationale for board evaluations
•• Global trends
•• King III principles relating to board evaluations
•• The process of undertaking a board evaluation (who is
evaluated, on what and by whom?)
•• What is done with the results?
Tim Anderson, Executive Consultant, 21st
Century
Pay Solutions Group
15:00 Mid-afternoon refreshments and networking
15:30 Assessing the status of the Social & Ethics Committee
and the Audit Committee
The governance framework has evolved with statutory
committees being deemed to have more power than
any board committee. The balance of power seems to
be shifting, so that these statutory committees now have
unfettered decision making and the shareholders are
holding these statutory committees accountable. Are
these statutory committees becoming more powerful than
any other committee of the board and if so what are the
implications for your organisation?
Thobeka-Sishuba Mashego, Group Director -
Company Secretariate Corporate Governance,
Woolworths
16:15 Creating a leadership framework and principles that
promote ethical decision making
•• The links between organisational culture and ethics
•• Embedding ethical values into the management
framework of your organisation
•• Making decisions supporting ethical values in the
workplace
•• What happens when things go wrong?
Cynthia Schoeman, Managing Director, Ethics
Monitoring & Management Services
17:00 Chairman’s closing remarks and end of day two
Day three: Wednesday 12 June 2013
Regulatory governance in South Africa
08:00 Registration and early morning refreshments
08:30 Chairman’s opening remarks
Roger Hitchcock, Specialist Advisor, Strategy,
Governance and Leadership, Honeylane Consulting
08:45 How to comply with the corporate governance
obligations in King III to monitor applicable laws
•• Understanding the nature and scope of new laws that
impact your organisation
•• Evaluating the regulatory statistics over the last 5 years to
identify the most highly regulated business activities
•• Identify which sources of law other than the Government
Gazette to monitor to ensure you have covered all the
bases
•• Explaining the challenges faced by the legal, company
secretarial and compliance divisions to effectively
monitor new regulatory developments
•• Can the monitoring of regulatory developments be
outsourced? If so, what are the benefits?
Wim Mostert, Managing Director, Mostert Opperman
Attorneys
09:30 Malicious compliance to BBBEE: the greatest
impediment to the creation of high performance
organisations and an inclusive economy
•• Investigating the ‘unethical’ nature of malicious
compliance
•• Shock to the ‘born-frees’: not equal after all
•• The letter of the law and the spirit of the law
•• The drivers of a culture shift: more than just lawyers and
compliance officers
•• Examining the case for ‘new’ capitalism: why
shareholders should embrace it
Goodnews Cadogan, Executive Director, The
Village Leadership Consulting & The Centre for
Courageous Authenticity in Leadership
10:15 Mid-morning refreshments and networking
10:45 Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) – market
realities vs. policy
•• Can it ever achieve its purpose?
•• Assessing the implications of the new BBBEE codes – what
do they mean for businesses?
•• What happens when marketplace realities diverge from
government policy - are labour policies becoming an
obstacle to job creation?
Angela Dick, Chief Executive Officer, Transman
Andrew Bizzell, Chairman, BEE Institute
Goodnews Codagan, Executive Director, The
Village Leadership Consulting & The Centre for
Courageous Authenticity in Leadership
11:45 The Protection of Personal Information Bill: how can
your company prepare for the new legislation in
order to ensure that your business is compliant?
•• Determining the key changes that will affect businesses –
a breakdown of the Bill
•• What does the POPI Bill mean to your business and its
possible implications
•• Ensuring that the Bill is practically applied in your
organisation
Tammy Bortz, Director, Werksmans Attorneys
12:30 Lunch and networking
13:30 Integrated reporting is a process not just a product -
it reflects what can be called ‘’integrated thinking’’
•• Reviewing the integrated reporting framework
•• Assessing strategic management and communications
•• Looking into contemporary management and leadership
•• Information and knowledge management
Shaun Vorster, Partner, Mazars
Paneldiscussion
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14:30 Altron’s integrated reporting journey – much
more than just compliance!
•• Where integrated reporting started for Altron
•• How this reporting has evolved over the last few years
•• The pros and cons of integrated reporting for Altron
•• Where do we go from here?
Jannette Horn, Group Sustainability Manager,
Allied Electronics Corporation Limited (Altron)
15:15 Mid-afternoon refreshments and networking
15:30 Electronic board papers: the future of the
boardroom
Facilitating sound decisions for an organisation in the
face of more information, compliance and regulatory
requirements will continue to put boards under pressure
in 2013. For members sitting on multiple committees and
boards – and those supporting them – the demands will
be even greater. This presentation discusses the benefits
of the paperless boardroom and how the use of this
technology can lead to better meeting preparation,
decision making and strategic discussions.
Charlie Horrell, Managing Director EMEA, Diligent
Boardbooks
16:30 Chairman’s closing remarks and end of day three
Day four: Thursday 13 June 2013
Corporate Governance reform and
Public Sector Governance
08:00 Registration and early morning refreshments
08:30 Chairman’s opening remarks
08:45 Corporate governance: the intersection of public
and private reform
•• The linkages between corporate governance and
development
•• From sustainable companies to sustainable
economies: corporate governance as a
transformational development tool
•• Transforming business-state relationships
•• Corporate governance and accountability as an anti-
corruption tool
Dr Hennie Bekker, Economics and Financial
Advisor
09:30 Transparency, anti-corruption practices and
corporate governance
•• How corporate governance is being used as an
effective tool to combat corruption
•• Transparency and corporate governance - what
management should be doing
•• Why corruption matters to investors
Deborah Vogler, Chief Operating Officer, The
Fight Against Corruption (TFAC)
10:15 Mid-morning refreshments and networking
10:45 Assessing corporate governance in the supply
chain
•• External and internal supply chain compliance –
are private companies oblivious to governance
standards?
•• Building ethical supply chain relationships
•• Assessing best practices in supplier engagement that
provide guidelines for compliance
Speaker to be confirmed
11:45 Public sector audit committees: effectively
executing their role and meeting requirements in
terms of the PFMA, National Treasury regulations
and King III
•• Assessing the basic administration of the committee in
terms of secretarial services
•• How to translate the Charter to a year planner based
on reporting lines of the PFMA and audit strategies of
auditors
•• Reviewing working structure and reporting – Auditor
General, Public Oversight (SCOPA), Accounting
Authority, Internal Auditors and Management
•• Evaluation of effectiveness of the committee
Precious Mvulane, Managing Director, GAD
Consulting Services
12:30 Lunch and networking
13:30 Assessing the uniqueness of internal auditing in
the public sector
•• Reviewing the challenges and perspectives on the
function of internal audit in the public sector
•• Looking into obstacles in establishing, implementing
and operating the internal audit function within the
public sector
•• Recommended action – what you can do to improve
your internal audit’s function
Vukani Dlamini, Chief Audit Executive,
Department of Correctional Services
14:15 Creating a robust environment for effective
governance in the public sector
•• What defines effective governance in the public
sector?
•• Creating innovative mechanisms to improve
accountability within the public sector
•• Using leadership as a tool against corruption
•• Lessons from the private sector for the public sector
Dr Darion Barclay, Chief Director: Strategic and
Operational Support, Office of the Premier
15:00 Chairman’s closing remarks and end of day four
Day five: Friday 14 June 2013
Post-conference workshop
Direct and indirect application of
offshore legislation
Facilitated by: Steven Powell, Forensic Executive, ENS
What will be covered?
•• The anti-corruption components of the Companies Act. (Reg
43)
•• The OECD recommendations
•• An overview of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
•• An overview of the UK Bribery Act
•• The cost of non-compliance
•• Implications for South African business
•• Facilitation fees
•• Liability for acts of third parties
•• Anti-bribery due diligence procedures
•• Case law and enforcement actions
Key learning outcomes
Participants will:
•• gain a clear understanding of global and local anti-corruption
requirements
•• learn about key anti-corruption concepts and definitions
•• receive insights into the risks posed by non-compliance
•• learn what is meant by and required in terms of anti-bribery
due diligence
Registration will start at 08:30. The workshop will run from
09:00 to 15:00 with breaks in between for refreshments
and lunch.
Casestudy
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Dear Governance Professional
The term ‘corporate governance’ has been described as “the set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions affecting the way
in which a corporation is directed, administered or controlled.” In South Africa’s case, the elements attributed to this definition have
changed quite dramatically over the past few years, with a definite shift from a functional business focus on company problems to a
public policy approach that pursues investor and non-shareholder stakeholder protection. This change in the perception of corporate
governance reflects the broader changes in South Africa’s view of business corporations and the community in which they operate.
This year, the Institute for International Research (IIR), in partnership with CGF Research Institute, has looked beyond the many traditional
perceptions of corporate governance in order to explore South Africa’s more ‘intimate’ governance dilemmas at our 2nd
Annual
Governance Week conference. At this event, we will bring you some of South Africa’s leading corporate governance professionals for an
informative and enlightening discussion. After the year we have just had, surely it is clear that we need to re-examine how we do business
in this country and it is our hope that Governance Week 2013 will provide a vehicle for this transformation.
I look forward to seeing you in June.
Kind regards
Cynthia Makarutse
Project Manager: Conferences
Institute for International Research
Speaker line up at Governance Week 2013 includes:
We are pleased to inform you that through our years of strategic association with CGF Research Institute, IIR has successfully negotiated
for 20 lucky companies wishing to make use of CGF’s web-based Corporate Governance Body of Knowledge® that the usual corporate
licence fee of R90,000.00 and R40,000.00 (ex Vat) for listed and unlisted companies respectively, will be waived. The standard annual
subscription of R34,000.00 (ex Vat) will apply for 100 registered user licences per company.
In order to make use of this unique offer, the first 20 companies to register for Governance Week 2013 will be contacted by CGF and a
demonstration date will be arranged with each company at their premises in Johannesburg. Thereafter, the company will have 7 days to
decide whether or not they wish to make use of this special offer.
Contact IIR for more information by emailing cmakarutse@iir.co.za
PS. Do not miss the post-conference
workshop on the direct and indirect
application of offshore legislation!
Toregister:Tel:+27(0)117717000Email:registrations@iir.co.zaWeb:www.governanceweek.co.za
Dr Azar Jammine,
Chief Economist,
Econometrix
Tammy Bortz,
Director, Werksmans
Attorneys
Theo Botha,
Shareholder Activist
Precious Mvulane,
Managing Director,
GAD Consulting
Services
Dr Hennie Bekker,
Economics and
Financial Advisor
Terry Booysen, Chief
Executive Officer,
CGF Institute
Shaun Vorster,
Partner, Mazars
Dr Darion Barclay,
Chief Director:
Strategic and
Operational Support,
Office of the Premier
Prof. Mervyn E King
SC, Chairman,
The International
Integrated Reporting
Committee
Thobeka-Sishuba
Mashego, Group
Director - Company
Secretariate
Corporate
Governance,
Woolworths
Malcolm Pannell,
Managing Director,
The Hay Group
Steven Powell,
Forensic Executive,
ENS
Tim Anderson,
Executive
Consultant, 21st
Century
Deborah Vogler,
Chief Operating
Officer, The Fight
Against Corruption
(TFAC)
Angela Dick, Chief
Executive Officer,
Transman
Carina Wessels,
Group Company
Secretary-Company
Secretariat, Exxaro
Cynthia Schoeman,
Managing Director,
Ethics Monitoring
& Management
Services
Donna Oosthuyse,
Managing Director,
Chief Country
Officer,
Citi South Africa
Bethuel Ngwenya,
Chief Executive
Officer, Applied
Christianity
Foundation
Cynthia Mgijima,
Head, Transnet
Foundation
Dawie Roodt,
Director & Chief
Economist, Efficient
Group