MEDIA INSIGHTS
Trialogue contributes insights on CSI and sustainability to print and online publications. In our media section you’ll find these articles as well as press releases related to our own product offerings such as The Trialogue CSI Handbook and Trialogue CSI Conference.
Tracey Webster, CEO, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust
Tracey Webster is CEO at the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, where she works across education, social justice, and arts and culture. She has over 25 years of experience in social development, having previously served as executive director of the African Leadership Institute and CEO at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship. [...]
Walking the talk of sustainability
While sustainability is firmly on the corporate agenda, many organisations are still struggling to translate intent into action, particularly at board level, where decisions about strategy, risk and long-term value creation are made. In March, Trialogue held a webinar exploring how organisations can meaningfully embed sustainability across strategy, governance, processes, [...]
Nick Rockey, Managing Director, Trialogue
Nick Rockey is the founder and managing director of Trialogue. He has over 30 years of consulting and research experience across many market and industry sectors. Nick has played a lead consulting role in the fields of sustainable business and corporate social investment. He has been instrumental in the conceptualisation [...]
Zeph Nhleko, Chief economist and GE: Strategy & Sustainability, DBSA
Dr Zeph Nhleko is chief economist and Strategy & Sustainability group executive at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). An adjunct professor in the College of Economics and Management Sciences at UNISA, he previously served as DDG in the Economic Development Department, where he oversaw economic policy and [...]
Embedment Of Sustainability – Self-Assessment Tool
Trialogue is proud to announce the launch of our Sustainable Business Self-Assessment Tool: a practical, executive-level diagnostic designed to help organisations move from sustainability intent to embedment. The tool enables leaders responsible for integrating sustainable practices across their organisations to assess performance across five critical pillars: strategy, governance, processes, targets and reporting. It [...]
Senzo Hlope, Acting CEO, Ilifa Labantwana
Senzo Hlophe is acting CEO and Partnerships and Impact director at Ilifa Labantwana, an early childhood development (ECD) organisation. He previously held several roles at the DG Murray Trust, including Partnerships lead, where his work spanned ECD, community beneficiation in the renewable energy sector, and improving financing for nonprofit organisations. [...]
Kone Gugushe, FirstRand
Kone Gugushe is head of social investing at FirstRand. A chartered accountant with more than 20 years’ experience spanning the financial services sector and development finance, she has worked at various banks and financial services companies, including JP Morgan and Nedbank, gaining experience in credit risk management, investment analysis [...]
Cathy Duff, Director, Trialogue
Cathy Duff is a director at Trialogue, one of only a few consultancies in South Africa that focuses exclusively on corporate responsibility issues. She joined Trialogue in 2008 and has subsequently worked with many large corporates on their sustainability and CSI strategies, implementation, reporting and project reviews. Prior to Trialogue, [...]
JSE Magazine, January 2026 – Giving with purpose
In the January/March 2026 edition of the JSE Magazine, the publication turns the spotlight on employee volunteering programmes. The magazine looks at how corporate social investment and employee volunteering, more specifically, have matured. The article references data from the Trialogue Business in Society Handbook 2025. Read the full article.
CNBC Africa – 3 December 2025
As Trialogue released the findings of its research into corporate social investment (CSI) in South Africa in 2025, Director Cathy Duff spoke to CNBC Africa on Wednesday, 3 March, 2025, about the latest data. The latest research on CSI and social impact in South Africa is published in the Trialogue [...]
Moky Makura, Executive Director, Africa No Filter
Moky Makura is the executive director of Africa No Filter, an advocacy organisation dedicated to reshaping Africa perceptions. Moky has worked as a TV anchor, actor, producer, author and publisher. She authored Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs, created mass-market fiction series Nollybooks and was the African anchor for the news show Carte Blanche. She previously served as the African head of [...]
Global corporate social investment trends in 2026
In 2025, geopolitical shifts and Western policy changes disrupted development and corporate giving in the Global South. Macroeconomic pressures led many companies to cut or rethink CSI budgets, even as expectations for meaningful social impact grew. With nonprofits stretched to deliver more with fewer resources, tracking emerging trends has become [...]