Sasol CSI Contact Details

Sasol CSI is the corporate social investment arm of Sasol, covering community and social development spending as distinct from sponsorships and from enterprise and supplier development. Sasol publishes a separate mailbox for each of those three, and sending a proposal to the wrong one is the usual reason it goes unanswered.

Sasol CSI and related contacts

• Corporate social investment: csr@sasol.com
• Group sponsorships: sponsorships@sasol.com
• Enterprise and supplier development: info.esd@sasol.com
• Group switchboard: 010 344 5000
• Media relations: media@sasol.com

All of these are departmental mailboxes rather than named individuals, so they survive staff changes. Sasol does not publish a direct telephone line for the CSI team; the switchboard is the only voice route.

CSI, sponsorship or supplier development

Which mailbox you want depends on what you are asking for, not on how big the request is.

• Corporate social investment is grant funding for community, education, health, skills and environmental projects, usually near Sasol operations. It expects a non-profit or public benefit organisation on the other side
• Sponsorship is a commercial exchange: Sasol pays and receives brand exposure. Sports, arts and events proposals belong here, not with CSI
• Enterprise and supplier development supports small businesses that want to supply Sasol or grow within its value chain. It is not a grant programme

What a CSI proposal needs

Corporate funders screen on compliance before they ever read the project narrative, so assemble that first. Expect to need your registration as a non-profit company, non-profit organisation or public benefit organisation, your section 18A tax status if you are claiming it, audited financial statements, the identity of your board, a project budget with clear line items, and a statement of how you measure outcomes rather than activities. Say plainly which Sasol operating area your beneficiaries live in, because proximity to operations drives most industrial CSI allocations.

Procurement is a separate route

• Supplier management: 086 010 4777
• Supplier and shared services queries: contact.sasolsharedservices@sasol.com
• A supplier registration is not a CSI or ESD application and is handled through the Sasol supplier portal

Escalation

• If a proposal has had no response, follow up through the same mailbox with the original date and reference rather than opening a new thread
• For anything that looks like solicitation of a bribe or facilitation fee in exchange for funding, use the Sasol group switchboard on 010 344 5000 and ask for the ethics line
• Sasol does not charge a fee to consider a funding application; anyone asking for one is not Sasol