ETS Global is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Educational Testing Service (ETS), a non-profit organisation that provides a range of products and services to advance quality and equity in education for all people across the globe. These products and services fall into 5 broad categories: research, assessment development, test administration, test scoring, and instructional products and services. A wide variety of clients, including individuals, schools, businesses, governments, measurement specialists and researchers, benefit from the ETS products. These products can be tailored made by the ETS experts who are qualified to design, develop and implement customised assessment systems and support services. The ETS tools measure knowledge and skills, promote learning and educational performance, and support education and professional development. In short, as ETS puts it, they "help teachers to teach, students learn and parents measure the educational and intellectual progress of their children".

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. HP explores how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. Their vision is to apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way customers and consumers live and work.

HP strives to be an economic, social and intellectual asset to each country and community in which it does business, supporting social investment, especially in the field of education and economic development. To this end, HP South Africa helps fund the HP Business Institute, an independently run enterprise and skills development programme with the aim of increasing the pool of Black IT talent in the country. HP also subscribes and promotes Broad-based Black economic empowerment and believes that this is the key to realising its full potential as a company. They are also involved in environmental initiatives and has linked up with the WWF in a joint initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from HP's worldwide operating facilities.

Levi's® SA, a subsidiary of the world famous jeans manufacturer and retailer, has been actively involved in the fight against HIV and AIDS since the early 80's. The Levi's Red for Life campaign leverages the social influence this well loved global brand has with its South African consumers to help them better navigate a world where HIV is a daily reality.  Levi's® world first co-branded voluntary counselling and testing programme with partner New Start, allowing over 55,000 individuals learn their status and work out their plan to live and love safe in the age of AIDS. Working hand in hand with many of SA's top musical artists, Levi's® has created high profile events (Rage For The Revolution: in partnership with 5fm), TV documentaries (Unzipped in partnership with SABC1) and Red For Life adverts (together with SABC Education) which connect with Levi's® consumers about important HIV issues. Levi's®/New Start Mobile testing centres are now offered nationwide. And free Levi's® condoms area popular addition to the Levi's® retail stores.  "Work it out for yourself!" is the basis for Red For Life; the campaign encourages responsibility and individual action, offers facts and knowledge, seeks to stimulate self-awareness and self-empowerment. By breaking through the confusion and ignorance, Levi's® are not only educating but helping to overcome the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS.

Matchboxology PTY Ltd is a creative incubator.  The company guides organizations, companies and brands through a unique process that unlocks socially positive products, services and marketing initiatives. These add significant value to the both the brand/organization as well as society.  Four years ago, Matchboxology began working with Levi's® to fight the spread of HIV via the innovative Red For Life project. Together with many of SA’s top musical artists, Red For Life has widened the conversations about HIV & AIDS via TV documentaries & adverts (UNZIPPED, Work it Out For Yourself), via events (RAGE FOR THE REVOLUTION in partnership with SABC and 5fm) and via branded mobile counselling and testing at malls, schools, bus stations and busy public places (together with partner New Start). Over 55,000 young people now know their status thanks to the Red For Life/New Start VCT tents.  Together with Levi's® stores nationwide, Matchboxology has helped distribute over 1 million free Levi's® branded condoms to young people and has launched a Red For Life clothing range. Matchboxology is now working with the South African government and global HIV experts to launch a revolutionary animation series shedding light on the complicated risks facing young people from alcohol, multiple partners and lack of faithfulness.  Matchboxology has been working with Shout-It-Now since its inception, and produced and directed Shout-It-Now’s premiere video.

Xepa is an ICT Solutions Provider focusing on Infrastructure Solutions based on the Novell, Linux and Microsoft platforms. Xepa has skilled and certified resources in the related solutions and has the necessary consulting experience and expertise to deliver professional services and support. Xepa is a Novell Gold Solutions Provider, as well as a VMWare Enterprise Partner. In addition, Xepa has partnerships with other leading hardware and software vendors, including HP, IBM, Juniper, and Symantec to supply systems and licenses at very competitive costs.

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• ICT Infrastructure Design and Architecture
• Implementation, Deployment, Support and Maintenance
• Server Migrations and Upgrades
• Supply of hardware and software licenses
• Supply of SSL Certificates
• Server Virtualisation and Server Consolidation
• Server and Application Hosting
• High Availability and Clustering
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans
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Our mission is to improve the way leaders and their organizations engage stakeholders to achieve their strategic goals: customers, employees, sales organizations, partner ecosystems, and investors. Applying our philosophy of OneVoice™, our customers successfully combine communication strategy, message development, leadership training and media production to insure that effective communication is one of their core competencies. Based in San Francisco, with key staff in Seattle, Austin, New York City, Paris and Shanghai, SNP has served the diverse and challenging needs of multinational companies since 1992.

Mandela Rhodes Place Hotel & Spa offers premium accommodation in a lifestyle centre where you can MEET, SHOP, TASTE, EXPLORE, STAY and are perfectly located within the cultural quarter of the city. Modern, yet rooted in heritage, it is from here that you truly get a sense of Cape Town at its best. Your stay will be filled with endless choices to enjoy the myriad of cultural land marks, gourmet restaurants, fashion and jewellery houses, antiques, and ‘art and crafts’ markets. Just a distance away is either the Indian or Atlantic Oceans where the magnificent beaches rank amongst the world’s best and for those who enjoy the fruits of the vine, there are a multitude of award winning wine estates to visit on a day trip into the country.

Our the luxurious apartment style hotel rooms offer the versatility of either rustling up a homed cooked meal in a well appointed kitchen or, the option to kick back and enjoy delicious dishes off our room service menu. The expansive sundrenched pool and terrace elevated above the city is just the perfect place to take time out after enjoying a pampering treatment at the resident Camelot Spa or enjoying a social eating experience at our signature restaurant, Synergy.

Guests enjoy the close proximity to the V & A Waterfront (within 2 km) and the Cape Town International Convention Centre (within 2 km) and which is host to many world class events attended by worldwide visitors to Cape Town. Our ability to facilitate larger groups or provide cost effective packages to small groups makes us a popular choice for those visiting Cape Town and wanting the privacy of apartment style accommodation and yet the convenience of a four star hotel offering with all modern conveniences.

Celebrating the privileged association to our ‘namesake’, Mr Nelson Mandela, we ensure that our service and staff embody the spirit of ‘ubuntu’ treating our guests the way they would choose to be treated, with a warm sense of generosity, caring and friendliness. All our resident restaurants and retail stores contribute toward the Mandela Rhodes Foundation which is Mr Mandela’s chosen legacy - to create outstanding leadership on the African continent. To this end, we strive to create sustainable opportunities and experiences for all our visitors to share in his vision.

Vodacom is a leading African communications group providing mobile communications and related services to 39.6 million customers as at 31 March 2009. Its mobile network covers a total population of approximately 182 million people across five countries: South Africa, Tanzania, the DRC, Lesotho and Mozambique. Vodacom's presence in Africa was strengthened with the acquisition of Gateway on 30 December 2008, which has customers in 40 countries in Africa, providing communications services to multi-national companies and telecommunications network operators

The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is a human rights organisation that seeks to influence, develop and use the law to address the human rights implications of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, regionally and internationally. In particular, it uses legal and policy processes and litigation to protect, promote and advance the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as to change the socio-economic and other conditions that lead to the spread of infectious diseases and their disproportionate impact on the poor. In addition, it conducts and publishes research in order to assist with policy formulation and the development of appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks needed to respect, protect, promote and fulfil human rights.

Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF)

The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF) is an experienced and dedicated team of over 150 doctors, nurses, researchers and community trained field workers all working together to provide a holistic approach to the HIV epidemic in South Africa.  The Foundation’s purpose is to lessen the impact of the HIV epidemic on individuals, families and communities, through innovation and our passion for humanity.  Established in 2003, the DTHF is based in Cape Town, South Africa and has various community sites in the Nyanga and Masiphumelele districts. Specifically, DTHF is involved in a number of initiatives, some of which include: 

• the provision of antiretroviral therapy
• studies into adherence strategies and adherence research
• the training and equipping of health care professionals
• preparing communities for HIV vaccine clinical trials
• provision of preventative education to communities and, especially, adolescents

Finally, in addition to its prevention, treatment, and community training programs, the DTHF maintains an imperative to impact policy and practice, particularly through relevant research and providing feedback to the government, civil society, and the community at large.

• At the current rate of infection, South African teenagers have a 50% chance of contracting HIV over the course of their lives. Half of SA’s new HIV infections occur before the age of 25. Relatively modest changes in adolescent sexual behaviour could substantially curtail the HIV epidemic.
• loveLife, South Africa’s national HIV prevention programme for youth, was launched in September 1999, by a consortium of leading SA public health organisations in partnership with a coalition of community-based organisations, the South African government, major South African media groups and private foundations.
• loveLife combines a highly visible sustained national multi-media HIV education and awareness campaign with countrywide youth friendly service development in government clinics, and a national network of outreach and support programmes for youth.
• loveLife is a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to youth behaviour change that implements, on an unprecedented scale, the international experience of the past 20 years--combining well-established public health techniques with innovative marketing approaches to promote healthy Aids-free living among South African teenagers.

Key programme elements of loveLife include -

“Y-Centres”, providing recreation and skills training, as well as sexual health education and care in non-clinical settings.

loveLife builds on the innate optimism of young South Africans promoting a holistic lifestyle approach aimed at encouraging young people to maintain an Aids-free lifestyle and to achieve their dreams and aspirations through self-motivation and leadership.

loveLife stands for…
Most South Africans under 16 years of age have not had sex and are not HIV positive. loveLife promotes: Abstinence, Delayed initiation of sexual activity, Reduction of sexual partners among already sexually active teenagers and condom usage.

New Start is the brand name for HIV counselling and testing services provided by Society for Family Health (SFH), a section 21 non-profit company. New Start is South Africa's first HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) social marketing programme. Its mission is to improve the health of its clients "by providing the highest quality HIV counselling, testing and referral services". Its goal is to complement government's HIV testing services by targeting those least likely to visit government testing services i.e. men and couples. New Start has centres in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein, Musina, Mthatha, Pietermaritzburg, Middledrift, East London and Mafikeng. Each site can bring the same VCT services to communities, companies, shopping centres, organisations and churches. Pre-and post-counselling is provided. Blood from a finger prick is tested on two HIV rapid test kits and test results are available within 15 minutes. All information is confidential. Levi's and New Start have joined forces in an initiative called Levi's Red for Life campaign. Through events, the media and other initiatives, young people are encouraged to practise safer sex and to know their HIV status by getting tested.

The PHRU is amongst the largest AIDS research centres in Africa. Established in 1996, it is directed by Prof. Glenda Gray and Prof. James McIntyre and is based at one of the world's biggest hospitals, the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. 

Initially the research focus was on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, but the unit now leads studies on various aspects of HIV prevention, treatment and care including medical and social research.
PHRU has a close relationship with HIVSA, a not-for profit organisation, that runs several projects that support HIV positive people and their families.

Established in 1992, SC IHDC is a non-governmental health promotion organisation. Its aim is to improve people's health and quality of life by impacting all levels of society - .individuals, communities and the socio-political arena- through the use of educational entertainment. SC IHDC labels itself 'SA's premier edutainment project'; it engages mass audiences through prime time educational television, radio dramas and easy to read booklets . Drama is able to teach through identification with characters, positive role models and its ability to give a human face to issues such as HIV/AIDS. SC IHDC places emphasis on the research of material by getting input from experts but also by engaging its target audience so that it can develop material that is both relevant, appropriate, meaningful and effective. It also partners with organisations that are active in these issues. The two media projects currently being run by SC IHDC are Soul City (aimed at the general public) and Soul Buddyz (aimed at 8 to 12 year old children, their teachers and care givers). Both these projects consist of TV and radio dramas as well as parallel print material. Soul City also engages in face to face education and social mobilization which work together with the mass media to effect social change. Currently Soul City has 18 NGO partners who train using the Soul City materials and over 4000 Soul Buddyz Clubs based at schools and libraries.

The UCLA Program in Global Health (PGH) works with academic institutions in developing countries to advance prevention, policy and research for HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Its focus is on four main areas: scientific research, policy research and advocacy, training, and dissemination of information. They work with their partners to implement innovative prevention and treatment HIV programmes. Their office in Johannesburg, South Africa, is lead by Agnès Fiamma. Collaborators in SA include Aurum Institute for Health Research, Centre for AIDS development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the Perinatal Research Unit (PHRU) and Reproductive Health & HIV AIDS Research Unit (RHRU) of the University of the Witwatersrand. PGH is currently working on a number of major research projects in SA. The largest, Project Accept, headed by Tom Coates, is an NMIH-funded HIV prevention trial with sites in SA, Tanzania, Thailand and Zimbabwe. This is in collaboration with the PHRU and the HSRC. Their most recent endeavour is Positive Prevention, a formative research project on prevention needs of positive people in care, in partnership with RHRU in Johannesburg.

The WCED is the official government department for all education matters pertaining to public schools and Further Education and Training colleges (FETs) in the Western Cape. The WCED recognises that HIV/AIDS requires top priority in education. It is committed to dealing with this emergency by raising awareness and disseminating knowledge about HIV and its transmission to learners and educators. It also aims to inculcate values and attitudes so that learners adopt behaviour that prevents HIV infection. Part of its strategy is to demystify the disease, tackle discrimination and support those infected and affected. Age appropriate sexuality and HIV/AIDS education is a mandatory part of the lifeskills programme in schools. Educators are being constantly trained in HIV. In its view, peer education (learner -to -learner) is a positive adjunct to curriculum-based education and has been implemented in many schools in the Western Cape.