NOVEMBER - DECEMBER, 2020 LAW: HOW KENYA COURTED A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OVER PARLIAMENT’S FAILURE TO MEET GENDER QUOTAS SPORTS: WHY ENGLAND’S PREMIER LEAGUE SHOULD BAIL OUT THE LOWER LEAGUES HEALTH: COVID-19: EXAMINING THEORIES FOR AFRICA’S LOW DEATH RATES 25th Anniversary REBECCA MBITHI A transformative leader in the banking industry OPINION MOTOR: ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION COVER STORY NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2020 Vol. 15, No 154 Rebecca Mbithi: A transformative leader in the banking industry Rebecca was appointed in mid-2018 and immediately shook the banking industry with her sterling performance. For instance, hardly a year into the job, Family Bank How to keep up social distancing after lockdown registered an historic and mind-boggling growth in profitability of 300% in Q1 of 2019. 18 46 The all new Mercedes Benz GLB compact SUV 52 NEWS FEATURE SECTOR REPORT MOTORING OPINION: 4 Insights into how the US 28 Digital democracy is still 54 The new Mazda CX-9: A abortion gag rule affects health a long way off in Africa: It How social distinction in comfort and quality services in Kenya security could takes more than technology make life better at a competitive price 6 Why are we calling it ‘social in South Africa 60 What to look for when fuelling a car after Covid-19 distancing’? Right now, we need 62 RUBiS Energy Kenya officially launched social connections more than ever COMMENTARY 64 Determining the right loan Covid-19 exposed 10 Unravelling why some a huge gap at the repayment period SECTOR REVIEW: America’s inflection heart of South democracies – but not all – are 34 67 What to know before A contested legacy: Julius point: Four key things Africa’s social better at fighting pandemics replacing your car tyres Nyerere and the 2020 Africa ust watch for security system: the Tanzanian election lack of any form 12 Key insights into land degradation of income support 68 Safe guards when buying a from seven African countries Nyerere’s legacy still looms large over 38 Pharmaceutical manufactur- for low-income or used car from a yard the country’s politics, and not just ing companies must handle unemployed people within Chama Cha Mapinduzi. 16 How Kenya courted a returned drugs better aged 18-59. LAST WORD 30 constitutional crisis over parliament’s failure to 42 70 Covid-19: Examining theories meet gender quotas for Africa’s low death rates 18 Meet Rebecca Mbithi a OPINION SOCIETY transformative leader in the banking industry 44 Where the UK is going wrong 48 Suspension of US aid to in its Covid-19 messaging, Ethiopia is yet another example SPECIAL FEATURE according to a marketing expert of Trump’s disregard for Africa 22 Anxious about speaking in online classes and meetings? 7 tips to make it easier 24 Why England’s Premier COMMENTARY League should bail out the South Africa’s auto industry highlights the social lower leagues and employment cost of innovation There has been an increase in technology in South Africa’s automobile sector Belly fat linked to higher since 2003. Most of the work in vehicle manufacturing has been automated, 26 which makes manufacturing easier, faster, and more productive. 40 Where every issue makes Business Sense... risk of premature death, regardless of your weight 2 BUSINESS MONTHLY | NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2020 BUSINESS MONTHLY | NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2020 3 Publisher’s Note Corporate Responsibility as a business sustainability strategy CR and CS should never be seen as a ‘them and us’ conflict, within which governments find themselves CS becomes a dis-honest approach, and Nothing All Near Anyone) as most books caught in between as the referee by trying to balance the needs of a particular industry and the people, second, the investments to provide a smoke and authors would want to put the dis- both community and customers affected by the operations of that corporation. screen could just as easily be used pro- course. CR and CS is not about compli- PUBLISHER: ductively elsewhere, such as in additional ance or pleasing the public; CR and CS Dr. Hanningtone Gaya research or to lower consumer pricing. is about adapting business approaches [email protected] ate strategies being developed to ensure time span and the reality of developing What stakeholders should recognize is that within commercial framework that does 0722 742287 good principles and practices of corporate long-term corporate sustainable investment if corporations are being open and con- not penalize competitiveness or take from EDITOR: responsibility and corporate sustainability, plans that will give a return on invest- structive then the corporations should be the environment and labour. CR and CS is Martin O’Neil the focus has been and remains to be on ment(ROI) in less than 15-20 years. applauded and not harangued about how about developing forward-looking strate- CONTRIBUTORS: urgent compliance, public relations projects The truth, which seems to get lost in many much they are using or what projects they gies that underpin the business objectives Cathy Mputhia and short-term protectionism. of these discourses, is that there has to are choosing for their CR and CS projects. and provide profitable platforms on which Mike Eldon In addition, the customer or consumer be a balance that recognizes the right of Even worse are those who try to stop to reinforce the longer-term aims of the Scott Bellows Lennox Yieke continue to demand new products, devel- every stakeholder to benefit from corporate corporations going about their legitimate whole community. Anzetse Were opment and innovations provided at com- actions and profitability. This is as a result activities to maintain a CR principle. More so, CS is important to all of us. Jeff Aludo petitive and value enhanced pricing, whilst that what gets voiced is in fact not rhetoric Investigating the many and varied views Applying common sense more widely PUBLISHED BY: the shareholder looks for prompt and rising but plain common sense, and that for the propounded around CR and CS opened up across the range of stakeholders does more The Knowledge Warehouse dividends and security of investment from business community to do what is right, the prospect of seeing that at its core is a than small groups trying to force opinions 020 26504 937 the corporations, while adhering to legal there has to be a foundation of commercial practical benefit for all stakeholders. If CR through. Recognizing that there has to be 0722 742 287 DR HANNINGTONE GAYA and moral codes, with goal posts that con- interest or return. In essence, the business and CS are analyzed, evaluated and devel- a balance between the demands of today DESIGN & LAYOUT: CEO - The Knowledge Warehouse Kenya tinue to move. community creates wealth from which all oped within the overall corporate strategy and the impacts of tomorrow is the only Fontana Creations To achieve the bare minimum, it is prudent others have to benefit. then the prospect of meeting some of the way forward, if we are to guarantee CS. For MIS & ADMINISTRATION: here are leaders or top managers in that corporates embrace the utopia by It is also worth considering that perhaps long-term corporate sustainability chal- business leaders there needs to be a greater Marilene Mercy the business community who have never stopping striving for that goal and much of what is happening in the public lenges may be more readily achieved. focus on the commercial contribution that 0722 420 493 not had to address one aspect or the raising standards and awareness in an space and more so in the media to raise the CR and CS should never be seen as a ‘them effective strategies can provide, whilst the BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT other of sustainability in the last few effort to improve some, if not all aspects profile of corporate sustainability is driven and us’ conflict, within which governments wider community must temper its demands MANAGER: Tyears. It is impossible these days to pick of the interaction of society’s wide-ranging first and foremost by corporate or business find themselves caught in between as the on corporates that may well be in conflict Martin O’Neil up any authoritative business publication demands for responsible and hence sustain- self-interest. In human reality, this is not referee by trying to balance the needs of with the principles they would like to see 0721 989 263 or newspaper and not be faced with an able businesses. necessarily a bad thing. Maybe it does not a particular industry and the people, both enforced. For, and rightly so, CS is both ADVERTISING: article addressing some aspect of corporate It is also a very clear disconnect between really matter why corporations undertake community and customers affected by the corporate sustainability and community Dr. Hanningtone Gaya responsibility (CR) or corporate sustain- the future planning profiles of corpora- CR or CS programs: what is essential is operations of that corporation. sustainability. [email protected] ability (CS). tions focusing on meeting the short-term that they do. The objective is to consider the realities The environment is clearly important to 0722 742287 Numerous scholars and distinguished aca- demands of its owners and share-holders, The conflict or disconnect with the overall of CR and its long-term benefit CS, not us all and the future generations, but it DISTRIBUTED BY: demics posit that the focus of these initia- which is certainly at odds with the medi- aims is when there is artificial compliance the rhetoric of the ‘business for business’ is unrealistic to reverse the Industrial and Nation Marketing & Publishing tives has ranged across wide and diverse um-term focus of governments trying to in order to simply meet the publics aspira- community, the NIMBYs (Not In My Back now the ICT Revolution.