Registration Benefits
Empowermentsa strives to be the best platform to capacitate BEEs. By being the communication platform for Black Empowerment, we ensure that information is shared as much as possible.
Why should you list with Empowermentsa?
Access to tenders: So far we have published in excess of 13 000 tenders. You get access to these tenders in the comfort of your office and/or home;
You get access to finance for your tender. This is in light of many BEE that have bridging finance problems and is meant to ensure that you service your contract as easily and profitably as possible. However it is critical to understand the finance criteria;
Listing on big buyers’ database:Your information is shared with over 100 companies like: ABI, Coca Cola canners of SA, ABB South Africa, Adcock Ingram, ARMGold, Anglogold, Barloworld, etc. This exposure ensures that you are within reach whenever these companies require your service. However, they may still call and verify certain of your more specific details further;
Post tender training: Once you have won a tender/contract we link you with service providers who will offer you management training for free in order to cope with the tender requirements;
Discounts for networking sessions hosted by Empowermentsa or associated organizations like the success club.
Access to public & private tenders for entrepreneurs
Since its establishment in 2002, Empowermentsa has published in excess of 30 000 tenders. These are tenders from both the private and public sectors as well as international groups. Having joined Empowermentsa, entrepreneurs get access to tenders in the comfort of their offices, internet cafés, and/or homes through the internet as well as e-mail.
Formation of BEE Consortium and Joint Ventures
Empowermentsa is the perfect source of information for many white companies in search of Black executives to lead new partnerships for contracts. Similarly, we are used by Black companies in search of White companies which might have more expertise, contracts and contacts to offer to BEEs.
Empowermentsa is also contacted by companies, Black and White, local and international, who are in search of Black people with: skills; constituencies; bigger markets to offer for new projects; with disabilities, as consortium beneficiaries. Therefore, Empowermentsa is ideal for people putting together a BEE consortium for opportunities in South Africa, especially from government departments and parastatals.
Empowermentsa is also contacted by companies, Black and White, local and international, who are in search of Black people with: skills; constituencies; bigger markets to offer for new projects; with disabilities, as consortium beneficiaries.
Therefore, Empowermentsa is ideal for people putting together a BEE consortium for opportunities in South Africa, especially from government departments and parastatals.
Black Executive search
Empowermentsa lists over 3000 Black decision-makers.
The purpose of our listing is to ensure that Black decision makers are within easy reach for people that are in search for them. These would be:
You get access to finance for your tender. This is in light of many BEE that have bridging finance problems and is meant to ensure that you service your contract as easily and profitably as possible. However it is critical to understand the finance criteria;
prospective business partners;
researchers seeking alternative views and opinions;
prospective employers;
top executives in search of Black industry leaders who can join their companies at boardroom and/or executive level.
BEE Accreditation and Listing on big buyers’ database:
Entrepreneurs who register with Empowermentsa as BEE companies have their company profiles and particulars shared with top 100 in the country, including: Coca-cola canners of SA, ABB South Africa, Harmony, Barloworld, etc. This exposure ensures that these BEEs are within easy reach whenever these big companies require their goods and services.
Even though these companies may use Empowermentsa to search for BEEs, the final selection still rests with the corporate buyers.
Also, because of our links with chambers of commerce and foreign diplomats, members get invitations to: local and international exhibitions and trade missions visiting and leaving South Africa. This is ideal for BEE manufacturers
Empowermentsa Strengths
Empowermentsa takes out the middlemen who slow down BEE;
All registered South Africans are able to access BEE information and opportunities as quick as possible;
The flow of BEE information is not dependent on any particular individual. Systems are such that those with information can paste it ASAP, just as those in search can access it easily.
Tenders are sourced from different companies, and not the government only;
Some companies prefer that certain tenders be exposed to BEE companies based on the BEE’s capacity to deliver;
Information is placed from various parts of the country, not just Gauteng.
