Top performing companies in Limpopo receive awards

Companies that have improved productivity and performed beyond expectations have received Regional Productivity Awards. The entity responsible for promoting productivity within South Africa, Productivity SA along with sponsor, The Limpopo Provincial Government Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism (LEDET), awarded the best performers at a ceremony held at the Cajori Hotel in Phalaborwa, Limpopo.

According to the Chief Executive Officer of Productivity SA, Mothunye Mothiba, “The awards are intended at recognising organisations making significant contributions towards making South Africa a productive country. Through awarding these organisations, which are from the public, private and emerging sectors, Productivity SA aims to encourage other organisations to strive to be productive and globally competitive”

Mothiba says “as the country’s fight against unemployment intensifies, it is through the efforts of companies such as the finalists that the issue of unemployment can be tackled effectively.” Productivity SA is a government entity established in terms of section3 1(1) of the Employment Services Act, No.4 of 2014 as a juristic person with a mandate to promote employment growth and productivity government.

The regional awards provide a platform to inspire a competitive and productive South Africa.  Productivity improvement is considered the most effective way of ensuring ongoing competitiveness, economic growth and, consequently, more wealth for all. The Deputy Director-General LEDET, Keleabetswe Clementine Tlouane says that it is critical to create jobs in order to address challenges of unemployment”. All South Africans (not only workers in the formal sector) are central to this process.

South Africa currently faces major challenges, for example how to create employment opportunities, stimulate economic growth and reduce poverty. If South Africa is to reduce unemployment and poverty, and increase its economic growth, its emphasis should be on developing productive capacity in all sectors of the economy.

There is a need to focus on critical growth sectors and on making enterprises more competitive. Moreover, there is an urgent need to address job creation and ensure that previously neglected sectors have access to knowledge, skills, resources and technology. The Productivity SA Awards seek to galavanise companies into adopting productivity as a fundamental tool to be more competitive. Productivity SA was created in 1969 as the then National Productivity Institute (NPI) and it focused on;

• Providing assistance to individual companies in their productivity improvement programs.
• Creating productivity awareness through information services, general seminars, study missions, publicity, etc.
• Conducting research in the field of productivity and related matters.
• Promoting training and education through specific programs and by assisting the relevant authorities to ensure that the final products of training are productive people who match the needs of the job market.

Productivity SA has grown to develop various tools and models that includes measurement tools that determines to what extent an organisation’s financial performance is influenced by price recovery and productivity.

The National Productivity Awards were launched in 1979 and since then the awards have grown to become one of the most prestigious awards for business endeavors in South Africa.  Through showcasing the productivity successes of the represented companies, Productivity SA is striving to encourage other organisations to increase their productivity thereby contributing to the country‘s economic growth.

The winners in the awards are:

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