
Explore B-BBEE basics and navigate the B scorecard with practical guidance on interpreting B codes, achieving compliance, and optimizing points through a practical implementation approach.
Explore the bigger picture of B-BBEE, including its legislation, codes, sector-specific scorecards, and how ownership, management, skills, procurement, and socioeconomic development determine points and levels.
Explore the five elements of the B-BBEE scorecard—ownership, management control, skills development, enterprise and supplier development, and socio-economic development—and learn how procurement and beneficiary structures affect points.
Explore the ownership element of B-BBEE, including voting rights, economic interest, and realization points, and learn how to structure ownership through trusts, share schemes, or black-owned entities.
Assess management control in B-BBEE: promote black staff from board to junior management, aligned with economically active population, and verified via employment equity plans and workplace skills plans.
Identify skills development as the most costly V scorecard element and learn to optimize it through formal and informal training, learnerships, internships, and headcount-based and expenditure indicators, plus absorption bonuses.
Learn how procurement in the bee scorecard empowers suppliers by spending with certified entities, qualifying small enterprises, and ownership criteria like 51% black owned and 30% black woman owned.
Explore enterprise development in B-BBEE by investing in 51% black-owned firms under 50 million rand to boost capacity and partner with incubators for supplier development.
Identify supplier development as investing in 51% black-owned suppliers to incubate growth, beyond procurement, using grants or loans to raise capacity and earn scorecard points.
Learn how to drive sustainable socio economic development through charitable investments, NGO partnerships, education of upcoming generations, and 1% net profit contributions, ensuring at least 75% of beneficiaries are black.
Learn practical tips for B-BBEE certification, from planning early and training your own people to tracking procurement and selecting the right partners to maximize scorecard points.
In this course, we cover:
Why B-BBEE exists
Where to obtain information about B-BBEE
The different elements within the B-BBEE codes:
Ownership
Management Control
Skills Development
Procurement
Enterprise Development
Supplier Development
Socio-Economic Development
There are also some tips to use in your business or work, as well as downloadable working papers for your use.
B-BBEE has been around for a very long time. Most of us have heard about it, work with it, or isaverse to it.
B-BBEE is South African-specific legislation to assist in spreading economic activity to the wider community.
The years of Apartheid concentrated power with a select few and excluded most people.
From the onset of democracy, it was important that a shift in power toward previously disadvantaged people take place.
Key portions of legislation exist:
Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act.
General Codes of Good Practice
Sector Codes
The B-BBEE Act is not forced upon us in the same way that for instance tax legislation would be.
A company can elect to take part in B-BBEE or not. What does, however, happen is that companies regulate each other. If your company is not B-BBEE compliant, it affects your client's B-BBEE scorecard, and through that they may weigh up potentially getting a compliant supplier.
In this series, we will take a high-level view of B-BBEE and break it down into all its components.