DRG Outsourcing, established in 1996, is now in its 27th year of operation. David White, founder and CEO always says, “We employ staff for character first, as although skill and experience are important, these attributes can be learned, while individual character and purpose are generally established long before an employment engagement commences. We want our staff and teams to feel that sense of purpose, passion, and common alignment in their work.”

David continues, “Our passion for people and business development must translate into direct value to our clients. There must be a synergistic meeting point between our service offer and our client’s specific needs. The outcome of our interventions must significantly improve the current state of our clients business operations, their sustainability, and their staffing engagement practices.”

The DRG Group is made up of three contributing business entities. Each business operates autonomously, however, holds fast to the theme of contribution to stakeholders, meeting governance and legislative reporting requirements, supporting communities and social challenges, aiding environmental repair and maintenance, and building economic empowerment confidence through reflecting a positive and engaging image of success and sustainability.

DRG, DRG Siyaya and BusinessFit SA are three recognisable brands in KwaZulu-Natal and have over the past years consistently been voted as one of the top 20 best known and supported brands in KwaZulu-Natal. The DRG Group brands are always grouped together in initiatives as their combined influence provides a considerable impact in helping entrepreneurs and business leaders meet administrative, compliance and reporting responsibilities, while also helping to build confidence through human capital development and business knowledge/understanding transfer.

Each of the DRG Group companies are rich in passion and purpose and provide the following human resource and business development services:

DRG Outsourcing, a 16% Black Owned Company:
• Providing Employer of Record services to organisations from across the world who want to ensure that their staff employed in South Africa and Africa are engaged correctly and are compliant in terms of local labour law legislation, employee tax and receiver of revenue compliance and administrative requirements, and in meeting social security contributions.
• DRG Outsourcing’s international focus and services draw foreign currency into South Africa each year and contributes significantly to SARS in employee and company taxes.
• Providing HR Services to companies and individuals from 40 countries around the world with business interest in South Africa, and in 20 countries in Africa.
• DRG Outsourcing has provided services to more than 3000 organisations in KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa.

DRG Siyaya, a 52% Black Women Owned Company:
• DRG Siyaya does absolutely everything in HR, from payroll, employment equity, and skills development administration, reporting and compliance, to helping companies create productive and engaged cultures / work environments, facilitating hearings, managing performance processes, and doing job descriptions, job grading, benchmarking, etc.
• DRG Siyaya in its 18 years of operation continues to provide high levels of administrative and compliance HR service to small, medium, and large organisations.

BusinessFit SA, 52% a Black Owned Company:
• Helping entrepreneurs and business leaders build better businesses through a defined quality assurance and sustainable development process to help support their enterprise foundation, intention, and desired outcome.
• BusinessFit was initially established in 2012.

Contribution to business imperatives, stakeholders and ESG
DRG recognises that business success is the outcome of meeting not only business imperatives, but also in the contributions made to stakeholders, which include sustainability considerations within communities and society as a whole, and ensuring environmental rights and protection are achieved.

DRG is involved in Social and Community initiatives:
• Working with orphanages in the Botha’s Hill and Inanda areas through Sibanye Africa – a DRG initiative set up for this purpose.
• Being an Exco member and the SA Chapter Leader for the SA Chamber United Kingdom, whose primary mission is the support and development of South Africans and South African business.
• Being involved in the Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club, as President SA, whose primary mission is in networking and creating opportunity for SMEs to access and leverage opportunities across the entire Commonwealth chain of 56 countries.
• DRG and BusinessFit sponsored the KZN Top Business Women initiative in 2023, and will continue to do so in the years ahead.

DRG is involved in Environmental initiatives:
• Chairman of the Human Elephant Foundation, an organisation founded in 2008 to help guide conservation activities, and to ensure that the animal kingdom has a voice.
• Co-Founder of Rewilding Africa CIC, a UK based organisation raising funds to help maintain and manage conservation projects in Africa.
• Supporting local activities as restoring and maintaining the Everton Conservancy.

DRG is involved in Governance initiatives as:
• Founder of BusinessFit, a group of 3 organisations providing business development services:
 BusinessFit SA – providing a 5-Stage quality assurance process, using the BusinessFit App as a support tool to guide business development. The BusinessFit App is a South African invention, which is also growing popularity in the United Kingdom.
 BusinessFit International – situated in the United Kingdom, and providing a “trade conduit service” for South African organisations to meet with and gain local networking and business support services in the United Kingdom.
 Bizhealth t/as BusinessFit – providing incubator training and Stage 1 business development services.
• Founder of The Africa Marketing Initiative (TAMI), an inward bound business portal, making it easy for international organisation to contact service providers in South Africa in each functional and business support focus areas such as banking, human resources, financial services, black economic empowerment, legal, marketing, etc, and to connect with professional facilitators, able to support research, networking and localisation services.
• Co-Founder of Green Lights Sustainability Initiative (GLSI), an organisation focused on supporting the transfer of knowledge and understanding of matters sustainability and ESG transformation, and providing organisations with a formal GLSI sustainability accreditation.
• Transferring knowledge and understanding of business best practice, governance, sustainability, engagement, organisation culture design, etc, through being a columnist in Business Sense.

Summary
DRG’s purpose is to be a pillar of strength to small, medium, and large organisations, helping them meet their administrative, compliance and reporting responsibilities, and supporting them in their creation of productive, sustainable, and engaged business and work environments.