"South Africa and its people continue to show amazing unity and generosity in the face of adversity and business has an important role to play as corporate citizens," says Brett Morris, CEO of Nahana Communications Group.

"The recent events in South Africa have left many small businesses devastated and our purpose as a group is to help build South Africa. So we will help rebuild our country and rally industry support in any way we can, especially in these difficult times," adds Morris.

The group says that R400 000 of this fund is going to assist community radio stations that were devastated by the looting and violence. Essential radio transmission equipment has already been purchased for Intokozo FM in Kwa-Zulu Natal, which has enabled them to resume broadcasting.  

"We believe that community radio stations form a critical part of the media mix in our country and offer an essential service to the community. So we felt it was important to help these great stations get back on air as soon as possible," concludes Morris.  

The group has asked employees to nominate any businesses that they know in their local communities that were severely affected.  

The Small Business Rescue Fund was made possible partly by using budget previously allocated to enterprise and supplier development, which is a key component of the group's B-BBEE commitments. Nahana has indicated that it will gladly share its learnings in implementing this plan with any other companies that would like to embark on a similar initiative.

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