backhousia

CONSULTING

Backhousia Consulting Services is a niche

black woman owned Consulting, Marketing

and Communications Company.

We provide intelligent and innovative

integrated Consulting, Marketing and

Communication, including managing

awareness and educational campaigns.

Our business approach takes into account

the current awareness gap, the level of

educational maturity of our country and

especially in the under privileged and rural

communities.

introduction

Backhousia views the importance of matching

the relevant integrated marketing

interventions with the needs and profile of our

clients.

South Africa is developing rapidly in all areas

of economic activity, despite the current

economic downturn and to maintain its

economic growth, the country needs

awareness in order to improve service

delivery and to respond to the needs of the

communities.

Our BEE status is complemented by our

intimate knowledge of the integrated

marketing and communication business

landscape. We specialise in developing

integrated and communication business

strategies. We operationalize the strategies by

establishing brand trust and developing a

customer centric culture. We also team up

with other stakeholders in the industry such as

traditional leaders, religious organisations and

big corporates. This makes Backhousia

Consulting an ideal choice for your brand

activation solutions.

In addition, we act as an extension of your

human resources department, keeping

channels of communication open between our

clients and their stakeholders

Our client can depend upon excellence and

partnership with our unique specialised and

professional services.

vision

mission

Our Vision

We aim to become the top 10 innovative

black woman owned integrated Consulting,

Marketing and Communications Company by

2015

Our Mission

Our Mission is to provide innovative

Consulting, Marketing and Communications

solutions in order to maintain a growing

economy and our competitive edge.

To create partnerships with our clients in

order to foster long term success through the

provision of customised marketing and

communications strategies.

Honeygirl Mokoena Honeygirl Mokoena is the Managing Principal

of Backhousia Consulting Services. She was

Head of Corporate Affairs at brandhouse

beverages and a member of the Leadership

Team for the same company. Her success

include the implementation on an employee

educational programme called Drink IQ which

was designed to empower employees about

the responsible use of alcohol - for which she

and her team were nominated for the MD’S

Award. The communication campaign for this

project, which she championed, called Phuza

Kahle, won a Gold Loerie Award for the Best

Internal/Employee Communications

programme.

She also pioneered the Brandhouse No1 Taxi

Driver campaign and forged partnerships with

other corporate concerns such as Toyota, to

reduce road carnage in the Taxi Industry. She

represented brandhouse at various stakeholder

forums which includes: serving as a Committee

Member at an Industry Association for

Responsible Alcohol Use (ARA), was part of

drafting the Industry BEE Charter in conjunction

with DTI and other interested groups and sat at

the SED and Enterprise Development Working

Groups. She represented the Company at various

Private Public Partnerships with Government

Stakeholders both at National and Provincial

Department Forums. In 2006, she was part of the

study tour/group to Australia and New Zealand,

comprising of the Alcohol Industry Major Players

and Senior Members of Parliament led by then

Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee of

Treasury Mr N Nene now Deputy Minister of

Treasury, to investigate effective ways of drafting a

National Alcohol Strategy and ways of curbing

alcohol misuse.

Previously she worked as a Training Manager for

Soekor (now called Petro SA) after graduating

from the Wits Business School with a Post

Graduate Diploma (PDM) in Human Resources.

She also studied a Human Resources

Management Diploma with the Institute of

Personnel Management (IPM) achieving a

distinction for Statistics. She did a Management

Development Programme (MDP) with the

Graduate School of Business at the University of

Stellenbosch. She also studied for

various Diplomas with the Public Relations

Institute of Southern Africa (PRISA).

She worked as a teacher for four years at TP Sililo

High School in Witbank after obtaining her B. Ed

Degree from Wits University. Prior to that she

studied for B. Paed Degree at the University of

Zululand. She currently serves on the regional

committee of Association of Personnel Service

Organisation (APSO), and has recently been

elected as a Member of the Institute of Directors in

Southern Africa (IOD). She is also a member of

the Emalahleni Chamber of Commerce and Black

Management Forum respectively. Honeygirl is a

Certified Biometric Officer by MIE.

the ceo

Other

products and

services

Backhousia Consulting also offers recruitment

services and has a database of 48 000

candidates.

We use state-of-the-art technology to enhance

performance and provide swift human capital

solutions. We capture, track and monitor all

projects and can search and find prospective

candidates within minutes, if we already have the

required talent on our database. In addition, to

reduce cycle times through the use of

technology, we follow best practice standards

such as: First-hand communication between

your organisation and ours, and between our

organisation and the candidate. Facilitate

regular follow ups which we believe

are crucial in ‘Talent Warehousing” we use a

state- of- the- art software programme called

Placement Partner.

Double screening to ensure authenticity and verify

credentials of the candidates, thus representing

the client’s best interest at all times. We have

twelve (12) certified Biometric officers by MIE and

we use Smart Screen to search for variety of

items, which include but not limited to: Criminal

Record by AFIS (Fingerprint testing), CCMA

Awards, Qualifications, Deed Search etc.

We also do Skills Assessment, using Proficien C,

market leader in the development of assessment

tools for the South Africa market

Should the need arise; there are partnership

agreements in place with other specialist agencies

in the industry nationally to source candidates

through them. Backhousia Consulting Services

will manage these vendors with the same

attention to detail and quality standards as we

expect from ourselves.

Shorter Cycles

We have shorter sales cycles; we should be able

to arrange interviews with your required

candidates in the first week of you submitting a

request to us.

To partner with client in creating awareness of

service delivery by means of activations,

exhibitions and promotions, including

stakeholder engagements.

Developing a customer-centric culture

through embedding customer centricity

strategies.

Establishing brand equity.

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our objectives

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bee status

Backhousia Consulting Services is a 100%

black female owned company with the

dedication of dynamic and experienced

staff who will guarantee clients 100%

service excellence. We have been officially

accredited by Empowerdex and have an

official certificate which gives an

Empowerdex Level 1 B-BBEE

Accreditation with 100% Black Ownership,

100% Black Woman Owned status and

110% Procurement Recognition.

We are a full member of the Association of

Personnel Service (APSO) and therefore

uphold strict codes of business practice

ethics that can guarantee the quality of our

service. We are also a member of the

Emalahleni (Witbank) Chamber of

Commerce, the Black Management Forum

(BMF) and Emalahleni Employers

Organisation of South Africa (EEOSA) and

lastly Backhousia Consulting is a member

of Steel and Engineering Industries

Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA).

client list

Plan B Holdings FL Smidth Escor Franki Xylem Roshcon Cosira MCC Alstom Hitachi Murray & Roberts Eskom Department of Transport Highveld Steel Exxaro Actom

social responsibility/

corporate investment

Backhousia Consulting Services aims to work

very closely with local communities especially

on their Expanded Public Works Programmes

targeting supporting women and people with

disabilities in the Nkangala Region and

surrounding areas. We also plan to work very

closely with the churches and assist with their

community development endeavours.

We will support previously disadvantaged

people by creating employment opportunities

for them with our company or through a

community development programme that will be

sustainable and measurable.

general

Backhousia Consulting Services has

its Headquarters in Witbank at the

following address:

Physical Address 33 Van Deventer

Emalahleni

(Witbank), 1035

Postal Address P.O. Box 3269

Emalahleni

(Witbank) 1035

Mpumalanga Province Tel No: (013) 690 1823 Fax No: (013) 690 2179 Fax2email: 086 605 2842 Mobile: 082 441 2276 E-mail: Honeygirl.Mokoena@backhousia.co.za Company Reg No: 2009/012272/23 Vat No: 4530253329 PAYE: 7830772879 SDL: L830772879 UIF: U830772879 COID: 2114-749-

1960 UIF: 1959071/1 Our Auditors Octagon Charted Accountants 21 Scott Street, Waverley, 2090 Private Bag X 02, Highlands North, 2037

Tel No: 011 531 7300 Fax No: 011 885 1906

Contact: Mr Clifford S Livingstone CA (SA)