Podcast Topic: Sustainability

In this episode of Ziwani’s RISK series, host Doreen Zaki interviews Elizabeth Ntege, CEO of NFT Consult – a highly regarded HR firm that has grown over the past 20 years to offer specialist recruitment and skills training services across 12 African countries. Elizabeth shares how NFT’s journey has been shaped by taking meaningful risks, from moving across industries to expanding into new markets. How do you build a business rooted in integrity when corruption is widespread? How do you scale operations sustainably across borders while safeguarding culture and values? And how do you turn risk into resilience, ensuring not just jobs, but livelihoods across the continent?   Tune in for practical lessons and fresh inspiration on how wise risk-taking can grow not just a business, but a legacy of sustainable impact.

In this episode, Sibs Sibanda and Paul Kim discuss Dorothy Sayer’s third proposition, which is that the worker’s first duty is to serve the work, not the community. Her view is that whenever man is made the centre of things, trouble follows – and that is the problem with making ‘serving the community’ the purpose of work. Please send any questions or suggestions about this podcast series to [email protected]

In this episode of Why Work?, Sibs Sibanda and Paul Kim discuss Dorothy Sayer’s second proposition, which is that when a man or woman is called to a particular job of secular work, it is as true a vocation as though he or she were called to specifically religious work.

In the previous episode of Why Work? Sibs Sibanda and Paul Kim discussed Dorothy Sayer’s first proposition that work is what we were created to do, not just something we have to do. In this episode they explore its implications for integrating work and rest, and taking pride in producing quality work.

Why Work: Work and Dorothy Sayers – Paul Kim and Sibs Sibanda have reunited for this exciting new podcast series entitled Why Work? based on Dorothy Sayers’ well-known essay. In this introductory episode, they compare Sayers’ World War II context with our post-Covid reality – as two watershed moments in the history of work.

‘Why Work?’ is an influential essay by Dorothy L. Sayers outlining a robust and practical theology of work against the background of World War II, that still challenges and inspires today. This is a dictation of the essay.
Read the full essay here

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