Vision & Mission matrix of Cometsa Group:

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 learnings/earnings, and search for new opportunities
The Destiny: productivity & profitability, social responsibility & staff caring, growth & sustainability, and renewal & survival
Goal: to be the leading development organization in Southern Africa.
Approach: working in partnership with the communities and like minded sports, recreation, arts and culture organizations.

Member organizations:

Cometsa Development Agencies Consolidated: an association incorporated under section 21 with the main focus on providing guidance, leadership, governance and control to the chairpersons, boards of directors and managing directors of all Cometsa development agencies including Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club (NPO) in a democratic and consultative manner.

Cometsa Development Agencies Central Administration: an association incorporated under section 21 with the purpose of providing centrally coordinated administration functions for all the Cometsa development agencies including Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club (NPO) on a nominal fee. Cometsa Development Agencies Central Administration is operated as a shared service centre, and provides these services beyond Cometsa, i.e. it services external clients on a market related fees.

Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club: a non-profit making organisation (NPO) serving the interests of the members and friends of Cometsa development organizations.

Cometsa Friends & Supporters Agency: a non-profit making club, serving the interests of the friends and supporters of all Cometsa organizations.

Cometsa Sports Development Agency: non-profit making sport development association incorporated under section 21.

Cometsa Mafrika Development Agency: non-profit making art, music & culture development association incorporated under section 21.

Cometsa Capacity Development Agency: non-profit making capacity/education/professional development association incorporated under section 21.

Sam Tsima Foundation 2007: a non-profit making section 21 organization, aimed at preserving Sam Tsima's Cometsa legacy

1. FC Cometsa Goldstones 1997: a football club to absorb the graduates from the development football clubs under the collective structure of Cometsa Olympia Development Football Club, a division of Cometsa Sports Development Agency.

“RELEASE” Concept:

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. Hence we have organizations that are delivering services in the recreation area.

E = Entertainment (incl. Music). Cometsa Mafrika Development Agency develops 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. Our organization, Cometsa Capacity Development Agency, focuses on the commercialization of the leisure projects as part of the entrepreneurship development programme for our members. This will help in the creation of jobs and poverty alleviation in South Africa.

E = Education. All our projects and programmes are done to support the education of our members and the people of South Africa. 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. Our sportsmen and women need education to be able to participate in global sports and be employable beyond their sports days.

A = Arts (inc. Culture). Africans are naturally gifted in arts. We would like to make sure that this gift is enhanced and preserved. This is the focus of Cometsa Legacy & Heritage Institute (a division of Cometsa Capacity Development Agency). We also believe in exchanging our cultural knowledge with the rest of the world. Cometsa International Exchange Institute (also a division of Cometsa Capacity Development Agency) will be developing annual exchange programmes with other organizations of the world to meet this objective.

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. Cometsa Sports Development Agency makes sure that we grow our activities in all the sporting codes. This is be done through the following Operating Units of Cometsa Sports Development Agency: Cometsa Sports Development Academy, Cometsa Development Sports Clubs, Cometsa Development Football Clubs, Cometsa Sports Development Volunteers, and Cometsa Sports Development Forum.

E = Environment (incl. Community). We teach our members to learn to take care of their environments and the surroundings. Participation in the community development projects of their local municipalities is a requirement by the management of Cometsa. We believe in working together with all the Local Municipalities in the country. As a result the management of Cometsa is writing to all the local municipalities, introducing the organization and inviting them to partner us in the development of our communities. So far the letters have gone out to all the municipalities in Gauteng Province, Limpopo Province, North West Province and Mpumalanga Province. The other provinces will be contacted later. We have also written to all the Provincial Local Government and the Provincial Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Departments. We see the Government as a key partner in the implementation of our RELEASE concept.

Objectives:

To run practical training programmes
To organize friendly and demonstration programmes
To organize volunteer programmes
To organize competitive programmes
To participate in national and provincial programmes

Expertise:

Scientific knowledge of the programmes and projects
Theoretical and practical approach to development and business operations
Holistic approach to the development of the members
Systematic programme evaluation

Values:

Promotion of diversity
Creation of harmony
Inter-cultural understanding
Entrenchment of Professionalism
Encouragement of Creativity
Commitment to Efficiency

The individual membership benefits at Cometsa Friends & Supporters Club are contained within the elements of the “RELEASE” Concept, as defined above:

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 of Cometsa identify with 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. The 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 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 of 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.

Learning of global languages: Cometsa Global Languages Institute 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.

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:

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.

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.