The keyboard on my PC has redesignated keys and I can't find the hashtag thing (known as a sharp in music). Back to the hashtag #Standardswillfall. This refers to the incredible likelihood that verification standards that were never particularly high anyway are going to plummet. The BEE commissioner will attempt to prevent this with her […]
#Standardswillfall – the IRBA, SANAS conundrum. Watch the birdies drop Read More »
This is an email from the procurement department of a big company that was sent to me. I forwarded it onto Gerhardus Burger, IRBA's BEE guy, because the company wanted SANAS-accredited certificates and not IRBA ones. The italicised paragraphs are Gerhardus' responses. Please be informed that as one of OUR supplier (sic), I request you
Less than R10m turnover and an EME, I don’t think so Read More »
IN HIS keynote address at the Sunday Times Literary Awards last month, Judge Edwin Cameron expressed the view that judges generally "take certain fundamentals for granted". Among those mentioned are "the vital significance of the rule of law and the supremacy of the constitution". A critical element of the rule of law is that there
The PPPFA requires verified BEE certificates and seeing that I am presenting another PPPFA conference this week I thought it would be interesting to see where the verification agencies reside. These same agencies are going to have to service suppliers that service municipalities in almost every corner of South Africa (not forgetting parastatals, national departments
Distribution of verification agencies in RSA Read More »
The IRBA published a notice last week. They are telling their members (who wish to become verification agents) not to jump the gun too early. registered auditors, other than those already accredited by SANAS as Verification Agencies, are not permitted to issue B-BBEE Rating Certificates until the dti has published the Code of Good Practice
IRBA and issuing BEE certificates – and an ABACUS warning Read More »
