One Young World, Chartered Accountants Worldwide and SAICA launched Finbiz2030, an initiative to unite and mobilise the finance and business community to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The launch was be held at Investec, in Sandton on 6 February 2020 with participation of professionals with finance and business skills across industries.
‘If you don’t speak up about what your doing and take action, then it doesn’t matter.’
Tracey Davies Executive Director at Just Share
‘What have you done to stamp out corruption? Lead and act in everything, every day.’
Kate Robertson Co-founder of One Young World
‘Everything starts and falls with leadership.’
Chantyl Mulder CA(SA) Senior Executive Nation Building SAICA
Finbiz 2030: Video Highlights
‘Finbiz2030 is such an important initiative to create awareness around the challenges that we face globally. We sometimes get so consumed and wrapped up in our daily lives, that it’s good and refreshing to have a different perspective of what we need to do.’
Lyle Malander CA(SA) Co-founder & Director of the Malander Group of Companies and One Yong World Ambassador
‘As business and finance people we have a massive responsibility.’
Shirley Machaba CA(SA) CEO of PwC South Africa
‘I think we are still one of the most unequal societies in the world.’
Andile Khumalo CA(SA)
Lyle Malander CA(SA) at Finbix 2030
‘At the current pace of changes, skills inequality is not going to be solved anytime soon. According to research, it will take approximately 1 century for children in poor countries to catch up to today’s education standards of children in rich countries.’
Sizwe Nxasana CA(SA) Founder of Future Nations Schools
‘The purpose of the event is to raise awareness of the SDGs and most importantly the role of chartered accountants in finance and business and in particular the opportunity to tackle the SDGs taking a leading position to address these SDG goals.’
Ruth Hidalgo Head of Operations at Chartered Accountants Worldwide
‘Every youth that you shift, you shift another ten in their network.’
Tashmia Ismail-Saville CEO of Yes4Youth
Nathaniel Japhta CA(SA)
Top-35-under-35 Alumni at Finbiz2030
Mpho Mookapele CA(SA)