What changed, and what it costs you.
Codes amendments, SETA deadlines, and the audit details that cost companies points — in plain English.
Skills Development Act: Extension of appointment of the Administrator of Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority
Skills Development Act: Extension of appointment of the Administrator of Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority Vuyelwa Wed, 08/19/2026 - 13:11 Files Attachment Size 55213gon7836.pdf…
Read article Employment EquityEmployment Equity targets and B-BBEE Management Control are measured differently
Different statute, different regulator, different benchmark, different consequence — and one is measured on a single date. The sector target is also not the employer's own target.
Read article Employment EquityThe 2026 Employment Equity reporting season
Deregistration notifications by 31 August, reporting opens 1 September, manual submissions close 1 October and online 15 January 2027 — and the Department has said 2026 is the first year of assessment.
Read article VerificationWho is allowed to issue your B-BBEE certificate
A SANAS-accredited agency, or for an EME an affidavit or a CIPC certificate. The registered-auditor route closed at the end of 2016, and the paperwork that says otherwise is still online.
Read article GeneralMoney 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.
Read article Codes & legislationTransformation and Economic Inclusion are Moral and Economic Imperatives – Minister Tau
The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Mr Parks Tau has categorically reiterated that transformation and economic inclusion are moral and economic imperatives central to South Africa’s democ…
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