Pick n Pay School Club has awarded Grade 2 learner, 8-year-old Codie Koopman from Eindhoven Primary School in Delft, with an Environmental Hero Award for his enterprising recycling business, which supports his family and “employs” 10 other local youngsters. Andre Nel, head of sustainability at Pick n Pay, says the company was “heartened by the sheer determination and entrepreneurial spirit that Codie shows at such a young age. Not only is he trying to support his family and friends but is also contributing to a better environment for his community. It’s a phenomenal gesture from such a young boy and
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Monthly Archives Jun 2021
PICK N PAY CUSTOMERS HELP TO RE-FOREST FIRE-DEVASTATED KRAAIBOS NEAR KNYSNA
Funds raised in run-up to World Environment Day 2021 through recyclable shopping bag purchases will help plant 1000 new trees In the run-up to World Environment Day, taking place this weekend, Saturday, 5 June, Pick n Pay is celebrating its customers for their part in ensuring that the Kraaibos Forest near Knysna in the Western Cape is revived following devasting fires in the area in 2017. Pick n Pay recently partnered with local NGO, Greenpop, leading up to world Environment Day 2021, launching a limited edition 100% reusable RPET bag featuring two of South Africa’s most beautiful and iconic trees,
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Joy Market Store opening creates local jobs for people of Etwatwa’s Barcelona on Gauteng’s East Rand
Serving people and giving them the best possible is part and parcel of Gordon Mazibuko’s DNA. This week, his passion for customer satisfaction was realised with the opening of his first full-fledged retail story, Joy Market, situated in London City Avenue, Barcelona, an area of Etwatwa on Johannesburg’s East Rand, the result of a partnership with Pick n Pay’s Market Store programme. Gordon runs Joy Market Store with his wife and business partner, Tabisa, herself no stranger to the customer service frontlines. Both Gordon and Tabisa followed careers as airline cabin crew members which brought them together and saw them
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Young cyclist, Nic Dlamini, from Capricorn informal settlement in Cape Town, makes Tokyo Olympics 2021 Team SA
Nicholas Dlamini, the 25-year-old cyclist from Capricorn informal settlement near Muizenberg in Cape Town, this week became one of only 3 elite South African cyclists to be selected to participate in the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Dlamini will join Team SA when the Tokyo Olympics takes place from 23 July to 8 July 2021 and will represent the country in the Men’s 234-kilometre-long Road Race. “I’ve had this dream to get to the Olympics for a long time and made Tokyo my goal. I put everything into focusing on achieving that. “Growing up I was fortunate to have
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FINANCIAL MYTHS AND FALSE BELIEFS
By Rita Cool, certified financial planner at Alexander Forbes Throughout life you will come across financial ideas that you assume must be correct because everyone is doing it. You might believe that unless you follow suit, you are not successful. By doing this, your brain is taking a shortcut in deciding by assuming that everyone else who is doing these things has done the research, checking the benefits and negatives. However, it might not be the best solution for you. For example, people may buy or sell shares because everyone else is doing it, not necessarily because it is a
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