Small Business take note: DTI launches BEE portal on their website
by Claire Stewart on 17/09/08 at 4:28 pm
8 comments
I’m impressed. After years of leaving South African businesses to bumble along trying to figure out how BEE works and more importantly how their organisation rates from a BEE perspective, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has finally pulled it out the bag.
They’ve recently unveiled their new BEE portal on their website (www.dti.gov.za) which is very user friendly and written in manner that simply and clearly explains the process that needs to be followed.
It’s also allows business to do the following extremely useful things:
- Calculate your organisation’s BEE Scorecard (for free).
- Obtain a exemption certificate if your organisation is an Exempt Micro Enterprise (annual turnover of less than R5 million) which means its deemed to be a Level 4 contributor (a good thing)- merely by registering and getting your accountant to complete their downloadable form.
- Search for suppliers with good BEE ratings (essential if you’re seeking to obtain a good score on your own BEE Scorecard)
- List your organisation on their BEE ‘Opportunities Network’ so others will see your organisation when they’re searching for suppliers. A very nice marketing service for a couple of hundred rands.
BEE Scorecards still need to be verified by a certified verification agency but this portal makes all the steps before that so much easier (and cheaper!).
Claire Stewart is the founder of PeopleWise, an HR and Employment consulting service. Like Neo in the Matrix, Claire sees through the convoluted mess of SA employment law and makes sense of it for you, loyal Ideate reader. View more articles by Claire Stewart.
steve
Sep 24th, 2008
BEE is racism in its purest form, down with BEE scorecards! up with true empowerment of all races and creeds!
Rory Wagner
May 19th, 2009
I would like to register my business for opportunities on your website. Please send more information.
Thanks
Rory
Luwella
Jun 18th, 2009
I need to know if the company KZN Enterrpise is registered for bee, ref bee5056473.
Claire
Jun 18th, 2009
You would need to ask KZN Enterprises for their verified BEE Rating Certificate.
Promise
Sep 17th, 2009
Im black and young,nd i want to know your point of view to wards young youth that need a start in a business world,what do u have in your organisation for youth.
john
Mar 9th, 2010
for 18years l have worked for veterinarians and learned a lot. l want to open a co op shop and sell animal remedies but l do not have funds. can someone out there help me start this project.
Xsanga
Feb 16th, 2011
I can not understand or tolerate that white people in SA do not know the damage they caused by apartheid, besides the murdering of innocent people and children. Today the economy is white owned and the government is black while whites still hold on to their past white economic privileges. Africa is black. Colonization is disgusting and sinful. They raped our young girls and created races with were disenfranchised. Now that’s the whole truth ..easy to understand. Give us back our country and economy and eradicate poverty. Apartheid is alive and kicking in the western cape. The government has a separate life to our struggle.. We will have a real revolution where we will rule, not in wealth, but for the poor majority
Errol Smith
Nov 8th, 2011
I do believe that Xsanga and other South Africans should read Moetletsi Mbeki’s book on Poverty in Africa to better understand where we’ve all made horrendous mistakes which he claims are perpetuated by the new “Black Elite” or, as he also calls them, “Black Colonialists”.
It’s a very interesting assessment of things and he does not “rant” about things and gives very specific research details of what has happened to others who have the “give us back our country & economy” view, but have no intention or interest in the poor.