Down to 72 VAs
Now that Empowerdex and honeycomb are out of the picture. This is about 100 too few VAs. SANAS?
Now that Empowerdex and honeycomb are out of the picture. This is about 100 too few VAs. SANAS?
This is conflicting. I have had one experience with Honeycomb when I referred (now an ex) client to them. The director of Honeycomb, a Mrs Mitchell, referred her husband to the client as a BEE consultant, whilst copying me. The email itself to the client was very damning of me and I was the one
SANAS on the warpath – Honeycomb the next statistic Read More »
This is conflicting. I have had one experience with Honeycomb when I referred (now an ex) client to them. The director of Honeycomb, a Mrs Mitchell, referred her husband to the client as a BEE consultant, whilst copying me. The email itself to the client was very damning of me and I was the one
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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
A bit more on the trusts and the commissioner and that thorn called catastrophes Read More »
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
SANAS must be brought in line. Please send me your anonymous stories Read More »
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
The empowerdeck chairs are no longer to be rearranged Read More »
Allegations are pouring forth about SANAS. I'm not referring to SANAS as a whole, just the BEE department. I have a few sources and I found it necessary to call them to hear the issues. A very reliable source told me that Mokgadi Rameetse the Accreditation Manager of the BBBEE department or division is a
SANASicide or SANASter or SANASinister Read More »
It seems that there has been a flurry or SANAS accreditation activity. My last post showed there were 72 agencies at the beginning of the year. We lost BEE Matrix due to a ridiculous witch hunt but we seem to have gained about ten more. Here's the list in order of location. If you click
SANAS update, we are up to 78 BEE Verification Agencies Read More »
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
Where are the BEE verification agencies – SANAS ones that is Read More »
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
They call them QSFIs in FSC speak and use the old codes, awdozn’t that sound nice Read More »