Entries by Jef

Safika is helping to provide books to poor African children throughout the continent by supporting Australian books for Children of Africa (ABCA)

Safika is helping to provide books to poor African children throughout the continent by supporting Australian books for Children of Africa (ABCA) So far, ABCA has distributed over 160 000 books to more than 100 schools and institutions in Africa.  The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa was the 100th recipient of ABCA […]

Trakka is going from strength to strength.

Safika partner company, Trakka, is going from strength to strength. It’s searchlights form an essential part of search and rescue missions in this part of the USA. Watch the video.

Safika sponsors educational visits by underprivileged schoolchildren to ArtMode.

Vanessa Holiday, convener of Cape Town’s ArtMode exhibition, has thanked Safika for sponsoring educational visits by underprivileged schoolchildren to ArtMode.  “Sheer joy and wonder is the best way to describe the reaction of the children, most of whom had never been exposed to art before,” she said. Safika sponsored underprivileged children to visit the exhibition […]

Safika sponsors educational art tours for underprivileged kids

Safika is taking art education to underprivileged Cape Town schoolchildren by sponsoring Artmode, an innovative art exhibition in which visitors can see the artists at work. Safika will take children from poor schools that do not offfer art education, to Artmode, where they will get a guided tour of the exhibition and participate in art […]

The Gift of SAR

Story and photos by Skip Robinson Safika partner company Trakka plays an important role in US rescue efforts. Flathead County, in Northwestern Montana, contains some of the most ruggedly beautiful land in the United States. More than 94 percent of its over 5,000 square miles are national or state forest land, wilderness, or used for […]

BEE Manganese Mine in the Northern Cape exports Two Million Tonnes, becomes world’s fifth biggest

Black Economic Empowerment’s Northern Cape manganese mine, Tshipi Borwa, has announced that it exported two million tonnes of manganese ore in 2014 and has become the fifth biggest manganese mine in the world. “This is a very significant achievement, particularly because Tshipi has only been operating for two years,” said Brendan Robinson, Tshipi’s chief executive […]

Safika’s Chairman resigns from Standard Bank Group to develop opportunities at Safika

Safika’s chairman, Mr. Saki Macozoma, has announced he is stepping down as chairman of insurance giant Liberty Holdings and deputy chairman of Standard Bank to develop opportunities available to Safika. Mr. Macozoma is a major shareholder in Safika Holdings, which is in an expansion phase. Through its subsidiary Safika Resources, it has successfully entered the […]