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B-BBEE consulting services to assess compliance, identify scorecard gaps, and develop practical strategies across Ownership and Management Control.
Okiru’s B-BBEE consulting services provide specialised, practical guidance to help businesses navigate and comply with South Africa’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) legislation with confidence.
We work with organisations to assess their current B-BBEE status, interpret their verification outcomes, and identify material gaps across the relevant B-BBEE scorecard elements. Our approach goes beyond surface-level compliance, focusing on commercially sound strategies that are aligned to your business model, sector code, and growth objectives.
Our consultants develop clear, actionable B-BBEE strategies to improve performance across the core pillars of the scorecard, including Ownership and Management Control, ensuring that interventions are both compliant and sustainable. Each strategy is prioritised based on impact, cost efficiency, and implementation feasibility, allowing businesses to make informed decisions rather than reactive compliance moves.
Importantly, our B-BBEE advisory model is designed to build internal understanding and capability. We equip leadership teams with a practical grasp of the compliance landscape, enabling them to manage their B-BBEE journey proactively, reduce regulatory risk, and free up time to focus on their core operations. Where required, we can also support execution through trusted delivery partners, ensuring continuity from strategy to implementation.
An AI consultant helps businesses identify AI use cases, integrate AI into workflows, manage risk, and drive adoption for real business impact.
An artificial intelligence consultant helps businesses use AI in practical ways that deliver real value. The focus is not on tools or hype, but on solving real problems and improving how work gets done.
An AI consultant starts by identifying high-value use cases. This means looking at your processes, data, and decision points to understand where AI can reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, or support better decision-making. The goal is to apply AI where it will have the greatest impact.
Once the use cases are clear, the consultant designs the data, models, and systems needed to support them. This includes preparing data, selecting the right type of AI model, and embedding AI directly into existing workflows and business systems. AI should support day-to-day work, not sit alongside it as a separate tool.
A key part of the role is governance and risk management. An AI consultant puts controls in place to manage data privacy, security, and compliance requirements. This ensures AI is used responsibly and can be trusted in regulated or high-risk environments.
Most importantly, effective AI consulting recognises that technology alone does not create results. The greatest impact comes from how people use AI and how processes change around it. This is why the 10–20–70 rule applies:
10% technology
20% data and models
70% process change, skills, and adoption
When done well, AI consulting leads to better decisions, lower operational effort, and stronger internal capability, enabling organisations to continue using and scaling AI long after the initial implementation.
An ESG consultant assesses ESG risks, sets goals, develops action plans, and prepares reports to measure environmental, social, and governance impact.
An ESG consultant helps organisations understand, manage, and improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance in a practical and structured way. The focus is on turning ESG requirements into clear actions that support both compliance and long-term business value.
An ESG consultant begins by assessing the organisation’s current position. This includes reviewing policies, operations, data, and existing reporting to identify ESG risks, gaps, and priorities. The assessment helps the business understand how ESG issues affect its operations, stakeholders, and regulatory exposure.
Based on this assessment, the consultant supports the development of realistic ESG goals and a clear action plan. These actions are aligned to the organisation’s strategy, industry context, and reporting obligations, ensuring ESG efforts are focused and achievable rather than symbolic.
A key part of the role is measurement and reporting. An ESG consultant prepares frameworks and reports that track progress, demonstrate impact, and support disclosure requirements. This allows organisations to evidence their ESG performance to investors, clients, regulators, and other stakeholders.
Ultimately, effective ESG consulting helps organisations streamline ESG efforts, reduce risk, improve transparency, and embed responsible practices into everyday decision-making, rather than treating ESG as a standalone or administrative exercise.
An employment equity consultant helps employers comply with South Africa’s Employment Equity Act by assessing workforce demographics, identifying gaps, and developing compliant employment equity plans.
SDL is compulsory in South Africa for employers with annual payroll above R500,000. Learn when Skills Development Levy applies and how to stay compliant.
Yes. Skills Development Levy (SDL) is compulsory in South Africa for most employers once certain thresholds are met.
If your total annual employee remuneration exceeds R500,000, you are legally required to pay SDL. This applies regardless of whether the business is profitable. SDL is a statutory obligation and forms part of your payroll tax responsibilities.
The requirement applies to a wide range of employers, including companies, close corporations, non-profit organisations, and certain public entities. Where the threshold is exceeded, SDL must be calculated and paid as part of your regular submissions to SARS.
SDL is intended to support national skills development initiatives. While the levy itself is mandatory, employers can often recover a portion of their SDL through mandatory and discretionary grants, provided they meet the relevant compliance requirements.
Failing to register for or pay SDL can result in penalties, interest, and compliance risk, particularly during audits or due diligence processes. For this reason, it is important for employers to understand when SDL applies and how to manage it correctly.
An ESD consultant assesses environmental performance, supports sustainability compliance, and prepares reports for environmental standards and certifications.
An ESD consultant helps organisations and projects meet environmental sustainability and compliance requirements in a structured and practical way. The role focuses on ensuring that sustainability objectives are clearly defined, measured, and evidenced.
An ESD consultant carries out detailed assessments to evaluate how a project or operation performs against specific environmental standards, regulations, and sustainability criteria. This may include reviewing design decisions, operational practices, resource use, and environmental impact.
Based on these assessments, the consultant prepares clear reports and supporting documentation that demonstrate compliance with the relevant standards or certification requirements. These reports provide stakeholders, regulators, and certifying bodies with confidence that sustainability commitments have been met.
ESD consultants also support project teams by identifying practical improvements that can enhance environmental performance without unnecessary cost or disruption. This ensures sustainability is integrated into decision-making, rather than treated as an afterthought.
Overall, effective ESD consulting helps organisations achieve compliance, reduce environmental risk, and deliver credible sustainability outcomes that align with both regulatory expectations and long-term environmental goals.
