What changed, and what it costs you.
Codes amendments, SETA deadlines, and the audit details that cost companies points — in plain English.
Money spent in good faith that scores nothing
Caps, exclusions and benefit factors mean a rand spent is not a rand recognised. These are the exclusions written into the Codes, with two figures that changed in 2019 and are still widely quoted wrong.
Read article GeneralThe things you cannot fix in the last month
Some of the scorecard is decided by a date, and after that date there is nothing to be done. Here is which parts, and what the documents say about each.
Read article GeneralChoosing a verification agency: the conflict-of-interest rule most buyers have never read
SANAS R 47-03 prohibits an agency from verifying an entity it has consulted to, for four years. It also gives you several things you can check before you sign anything.
Read article GeneralA draft gazette is not the law — what the B-BBEE Act actually says
Draft amendments to the Codes were published for comment in January 2026 and are still drafts. The Act sets out how a Code comes into being, and the last time round there were eighteen months between the final gazette and the rules biting.
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