Verification

A bit more on the trusts and the commissioner and that thorn called catastrophes

There is a genuine concern that the commissioner's issue with trusts will end up at SANAS.  Not that that in itself should be a problem.  SANAS is required to be cognisant of opinions but not waver from the prescripts of the BEE codes.  I cannot see SANAS  sending out a notice saying that broad-based trusts

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SANAS must be brought in line. Please send me your anonymous stories

Something needs to be done about SANAS.  The Empowerdex issue has highlighted the SANAS stranglehold.   SANAS is not doing the industry any favours.  I think these are the problems They are slowing the business process down completely because of the length of time it takes to issue a BEE certificate.  The processes are onerous on the

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The empowerdeck chairs are no longer to be rearranged

Like the reader is supposed to understand what this means! I was informed on Friday that Empowerdex has been suspended.  The reason behind this suspension is on Empowerdex's homepage    We refer to the testimony of Mr. Angelo Agrizzi (“Mr. Agrizzi”), the former Chief Operations Officer of BOSASA dated 28 March 2019 at the Judicial

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Where are the BEE verification agencies – SANAS ones that is

With the removal of IRBA the number of VAs have dropped from about 450 to 72 (this figure is exact and comes from SANAS' website).  The two graphs below show the split between provinces and which cities they operate in.  I've lumped places like Belville into Cape Town, Benoni into JHB and Centurion into Pretoria

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They call them QSFIs in FSC speak and use the old codes, awdozn’t that sound nice

It's a strange business this BEE business, we all keep our little schlenters to ourselves and leave the rest of the world in the dark.  I can assure you dear reader that there are a number of schlenters that I have devised and still use – in spite of SANAS' best intentions to close them

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