COMETSA Group in brief

PART A	COMETSA GROUP PROFILE
Definition	Cometsa Group is a company that specializes in human capital training & development, leadership & management consultancy, mentoring & coaching, and related services.
Vision	Innovative Solutions, Superior Quality Products, and Professional Service Delivery
Mission	By: ·         Winning with our customers and all other stakeholders ·         Holistic Human Capital Development & Retention ·         Technical & Administrative Competence ·         Individual & Organizational Accountability ·         Ethical & Inclusive Management Practices ·         Progressive & Transformational Leadership
Motto	HERITAGE to HERITAGE: We take care of our heritage from generations to generations.
Philosophy	The Mind, The Journey, The Destiny (We apply our MINDS to the JOURNEY that takes us to our DESTINY) —  The Mind:  plugged & active mind, sharing mind, futuristic mind, and inquiring mind. —  The Journey:  aggressive promotion & selling of our ideas, give as we learn & earn, retain & invest our learning/earnings, and search for new opportunities —  The Destiny: productivity & profitability, social responsibility & staff caring, growth & sustainability, and renewal & survival
Values	Promotion of diversity:  ·         We are made of different cultures, backgrounds, ethnic groups, religions, gender, and beliefs. We value our diversity. Creation of harmony: ·         We create the environment that is harmonious to our members, staff, management, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. Inter-cultural understanding:  ·         Our culture and traditional beliefs and practices form the corner stone’s of our beings. Entrenchment of professionalism:  ·         Everything we do, we do with absolute professionalism. We do not believe in mediocrity. Encouragement of creativity:  ·         In order to ensure that our organization and its staff continue to grow, we encourage creativity at all times. Commitment to efficiency: ·         We do not perform tasks just to meet the deadlines, but to be economical in doing so.
Cometsa “RELEASE” Concept: Our Foundation	R = Recreation. At Cometsa we believe in the slogan “Body, Mind and Soul”. That means that a healthy mind in a healthy body will results in a healthy soul. E = Entertainment (incl. Music).  We develop talent in modern, traditional, and global entertainment and music. L = Leisure. Our country, South Africa, has got the best weather in the world. As a result the leisure industry holds great future for the country. E = Education. Education is the central part of our programmes. We have realized that the level of literacy in our country is not sufficient to improve our competitiveness level in the world. It cannot be ignored. A = Arts (inc. Culture). Africans are naturally gifted in art. We would like to make sure that this gift is enhanced and preserved. We also believe in exchanging our cultural heritage with the rest of the world. S = Sport. Cometsa was founded through sport, soccer to be specific, and grew into areas of the RELEASE concept. Sport will remain key mobilization instrument for our organization. E = Environment (incl. Community). We teach and motivate our staff, members and clients to take care of their environment and use renewable and environmentally friendly sources of energy.
PART B	COMETSA GROUP COMPANIES & BUSINESS UNITS
Cometsa Group Business Units	Cometsa Development Enterprises; Cometsa Shared Services; Cometsa Human Capital Enterprises (Human Capital Investments; Talent Mobility Consultants; Recruitment Consultants; Leadership & Management Consultants) Cometsa Mafrika Creative & Music Enterprises;
PART C	COMETSA FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS CLUB
Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club	Type: a non-profit making organisation (NPO) serving the interests of the members and friends of Cometsa development organizations. Vision: to provide development and social life opportunities for all the friends and supporters of Cometsa organizations Mission: by organizing networking functions, events, special offers and development programmes for the members. Individual Membership Benefits: Cometsa Discounted Services:  Cometsa Friends & Supporters Agency negotiates special rates with service and product suppliers for the members of Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club. Cometsa Life Counselling: Cometsa Friends & Supporters Agency in partnership with Cometsa Capacity Development Agency offers life counselling programmes and services to the members of Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club at preferential rates. Cometsa Life Coaching: Cometsa Friends & Supporters Agency in partnership with Cometsa Capacity Development Agency offers life coaching programmes and services to the members of Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club at preferential rates. Cometsa Sport Mentoring: Cometsa Friends & Supporters Agency in partnership with Cometsa Sports Development Agency offers sport mentoring programmes to the children of the members of Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club at preferential rates. Cometsa Sport Careers Programmes: Cometsa Friends & Supporters Agency in partnership with Cometsa Sports Development Agency runs campaigns and programmes to promote professionalism in sports. We promote sport careers and would like to encourage the youth to enter the sports industry with relevant sport qualifications. Cometsa Career Guidance: Cometsa Friends & Supporters Agency in partnership with Cometsa Capacity Development Agency offers career guidance programmes to the members of Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club. Corporate Membership Benefits: Access to youth talent pool: the corporate members of Cometsa are guaranteed to have access to the well groomed youth that forms part of the future talent pool. Development projects identification: Cometsa programmes and projects are spread all over the country, especially in the rural areas. Some of these areas are not easily accessible for most companies and organizations, and yet are designated the priority areas for economic development by the Government. This means that they are the future growth markets. Cometsa is well positioned to take its corporate members to these regions and contribute jointly to their development. Creation of employment brand: Cometsa corporate members have the opportunity to partner with Cometsa and achieve the pre-emptive advantage in the communities of Cometsa. When the youth and Cometsa identify of the company, they will want to work for this company when they become ready to join the world of work. Corporate brand positioning: the company is also able to use its association with Cometsa in promoting its brand and that way makes it easy for its sales teams to sell the products and services in the Cometsa communities. The members of Cometsa are already a captive market for the corporate members. Thy data base becomes freely available to the fully paid up corporate members of Cometsa. Realization of Corporate Social Investment objectives: this is one of the elements of the score card in the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment. By contributing in the form of a corporate membership and supporting community development projects of Cometsa the company is able to add its contribution to the scores. The corporate members who do not have the capacity to run their own CSI projects are welcome to finance some of the projects of Cometsa and count this as their CSI projects. Creation of globally oriented culture: the members of Cometsa are very much globally oriented. Cometsa runs a number of international culture and language programmes. The Cometsa Global Languages Institute is a division of Cometsa Capacity Development Agency with the main objective to promote global languages and culture, including South African languages and cultures. Cometsa corporate members benefit by inviting Cometsa members to its programmes and interact with the employees their employees. This contributes toward creating a culture that is receptive to other people’s cultures.  The concept of global diversity and inclusion becomes a practical reality. Access to international development programmes: Cometsa helps its corporate members in accessing international development programmes. Cometsa has partnerships with global organizations, especially with the German and Italian origin. These programmes are run both in South Africa and abroad. The programmes range from culture, music, art and culture to business and sport. Leadership development for future needs: Cometsa concerns itself with the future of the individuals, organizations, communities, the country and the nations of the world. Our vision: The Mind - The Journey - The Destiny says it all. We apply our minds to the journey that takes us to our destiny. We are also concerned about leaving a lasting legacy for the generations to come. By joining Cometsa the company is making its own contribution to the future of the world. Cometsa is proud to be a facilitator of this worthy course. Cultural awareness: The nation that is not aware of its diverse cultures suffers many unnecessary tensions among its citizens. Unfortunately this has become a matter that must also be dealt with at the work place. Recruiting staff from the Cometsa members brings benefits to the corporate members of Cometsa since our members are already culturally aware and respect their and other people’s cultures. Cometsa Global Languages Institute will partner with other multinational institutes in the teaching and learning of global and local languages. We are proud of this tradition. We would like to share this experience and tradition with our corporate members, and even offer some of our programmes to our corporate members. Our partner institutes are more than willing to design tailor made programmes for our corporate members. Positive legacy: Cometsa believes that we all owe it to our future generations and therefore should invest our resources in projects that will help in sustaining our country. Not all companies will be able to address this on their own. Over the past ten years, since 1st August 1997, Cometsa has developed an insight into the areas that are vulnerable due to the actions of mankind, especially environmental issues like renewable energies and can help our corporate members in conceptualizing programmes to address these areas. This will ensure that our corporate members leave positive legacy for the future generations. Openness to continuous learning: our corporate members support believe and commitment to the continuous learning. Our organization is a learning organization and rubs positively on our corporate members.  Capacity building: Cometsa Capacity Development Agency is our unit responsible for developing capacity among our individuals (members), communities, organizations and the country. It has a number of institutes that are addressing the various elements of Cometsa “RELEASE” Concept: R = Recreation. E = Entertainment (incl. Music). L = Leisure. E = Education. A = Arts (inc. Culture). S = Sport. E = Environment (incl. Community). Service excellence: Cometsa is thinking ahead in terms of the future needs. As our country becomes a key player in the world and deals directly with the challenges of globalisation, we must make available services to our corporate members. Cometsa Development Agencies Central Administration is planning to run internal and external shared services to help the corporate members who do not want to worry about administrative work of the development work. This is the benefit that will certainly justify the yearly corporate membership payable to Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club. Ability to adapt to new environments: we help our corporate members in adapting to new environments that we expose them to. Through Cometsa Mafrika Development Agency and Cometsa Sports Development Agency we bring fun to this complex issue. Should our corporate members want to run art, culture, music and sport programmes, we are always ready to make the members of our Sports Development Academy, and Cometsa Mafrika Band available to facilitate the projects for them.
PART D	ABOUT COMETSA GROUP FOUNDER
Sam Tsima President & Chairman	Sam Tsima is the President & Chairperson: Cometsa Group, www.cometsa.co.za , Programme Manager: Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE), Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria, www.gibs.co.za; and Vice-President: Stakeholder Relations, Institute of People Management (IPM), South Africa, www.ipm.co.za . Before Sam went full time on Cometsa Group in July 2009, he was Regional Human Resources Director: Sub-Sahara Africa at Motorola SA (Pty) Ltd, reporting into the Middle East Africa Region in Dubai. He is the former Manager: Centre of Expertise-Group Diversity Management at Sasol Group, responsible for Employment Equity, Global Diversity & Inclusion, Black Economic Empowerment (from HR perspective), Accelerated Leadership Development Programme (ALDP), and Sasol HIV/Aids Response Programme (SHARP). Before joining Sasol, on the 1st December 2002, Sam was with ABSA Group for seven years (10/1995-11/2002) as the Group Consultant: Employment Equity. He worked for Siemens AG (Cologne, Germany) as Corporate Trainee for two years, and Siemens Ltd (Johannesburg, South Africa) as Commercial Administrator, and later Head of Commercial Training for three years. Sam has a strong Commercial Administration background after training and working in Germany over four years (1988 – 1992). He did his training at Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (Cologne), Kuehne & Nagel Luftfracht GmbH (Frankfurt International Airport), Lufthansa German Airlines Aircargo Centre (Frankfurt International Airport) and Siemens AG (Cologne) in Germany. Sam is fluent in German Language and has the following German Language qualifications: Diplom Deutsch (Studiengemeintschaft Darmstadt) and Zertifikat Deutsch Stufe 5 (Carl Duisberg Centre Cologne) He is also qualified in Industriekaufmann (IHK, Germany), Certificate in Commercial Administration (CATS – South Africa German Training Services), Bachelor of Commerce - Transport Economics & Business Management (UNISA), Certificate in Sport Management (Allenby), Certificate in Sport Psychology (Intec), and Level 1 Soccer Coaching Certificate (South African Football Association) Professional Membership: Institute of People Management (IPM), Southern African Society for Cooperative Education (SASCE), Arterial Network, SA-German Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club, and Institute of Directors (IOD) Board Membership: Institute of People Management (IPM); Central Johannesburg College (CJC), South Africa German Training Service - SAGTS (training arm of SA-German Chamber of Commerce & Industry), Southern African Society for Cooperative Education (SASCE) Committees Membership: Chairperson Audit Committee Central Johannesburg College, Human Resources Advisory Committee Durban University of Technology, Annual Convention Organizing Committee Institute of People Management., and Europe Middle East Africa Advisory Committee Worldwide Employee Relocation Council
PART E	COMETSA CONTACT DETAILS
	Sam Tsima, President & Chairman, Cometsa Group Attention: Ms Tsumbedzo Luvhimbi, Managing Director: Sam Tsima Cometsa Brands (STC Brands) COMETSA CLUB HOUSE, 13 Somer Street, Klopper Park, ISANDO, 1601, Gauteng Province, RSA P.O. Box 31429, Braamfontein, 2017, RSA Tel. +27 11 974 9308; Cell: 072 555 4799; email: tsumbedzo.luvhimbi@cometsa.co.za or callcentre@cometsa.co.za Website: www.cometsa.co.za or www.samtsima.com