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QCTO Accredited Online Learnerships
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Bursary Management
Get a delivery partner you can trust for results and long-term ROI. We manage the full process, so your investment supports students studying online with major universities across South Africa.
Learnerships
If your people don’t understand the plan, they can’t deliver results. We help leadership teams align strategy with execution across B-BBEE, ESG and Data Transformation
Your CRM and marketing tools should help you close deals, keep track and not let anything slip through the cracks. We make sure your platforms work the way your business actually operates.
When regulations shift and markets tighten, bad decisions get expensive. We help financial teams navigate financial statements, tax advisory, and integrated reporting
Okiru helps employers comply with South Africa’s Employment Equity Act: sectoral targets, EE Plans (EEA13), Equal Pay, EEA2/EEA4 submissions, and certification.
Higher ED Access Fund
Do you need to achieve the 2 bonus points on the B-BBEE FSC Sector score card? Since the ASISA Fund was closed many companies believe the points are unattainable.
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FAQs
B‑BBEE consulting translates complex legislation into a strategic roadmap that improves your scorecard and unlocks growth opportunities.
Broad‑Based Black Economic Empowerment (B‑BBEE) is South Africa’s framework for increasing the participation of Black South Africans in the economy. To comply, businesses must understand and implement the five pillars of the B‑BBEE scorecard—Ownership, Management Control, Skills Development, Enterprise & Supplier Development (ESD) and Socio‑Economic Development (SED). Okiru’s B‑BBEE consulting service demystifies these requirements by unpacking each pillar, explaining how the legislation works and designing a compliance strategy aligned to your business goals. By investing in skills development, supplier programmes and socio‑economic initiatives, companies can improve their B‑BBEE scorecard, gain access to government tenders, strengthen supplier relationships and create long‑term transformation. Okiru also highlights potential pitfalls—such as financial pressure, operational inefficiencies or fronting risks—and helps businesses navigate them. In short, their advisory service turns compliance into a competitive advantage.
Bursary management is an end‑to‑end service that sources, funds and tracks students to maximise B‑BBEE skills‑development points and deliver measurable ROI.
Many companies provide bursaries to meet B‑BBEE targets or to fill internal skills gaps, but the administrative load—finding candidates, enrolling them at universities, tracking progress and measuring outcomes, can be overwhelming. Okiru’s bursary management service delivers a turnkey solution: they source learners, handle onboarding and registration at major South African universities, provide ongoing support to improve retention, and prepare audit‑ready documentation. Okiru also measures the impact of each bursary, ensuring the investment addresses your organisation’s skills needs and earns B‑BBEE Skills Development points. This service is aimed at HR or transformation managers who want to maximise compliance and social impact without the manual burden. By managing the entire bursary lifecycle, Okiru provides certainty that your spend is compliant and strategically valuable.
Okiru’s learnerships are fully online, AI‑powered programmes that build talent pipelines, earn B‑BBEE points and deliver tax incentives.
A learnership is a structured training programme that combines theoretical learning with practical workplace experience. Okiru offers fully online, QCTO‑accredited learnerships powered by AI. Their service includes a needs analysis and skills planning to align learnerships to business objectives, B‑BBEE requirements and SETA priorities; programme design; end‑to‑end management (recruitment, onboarding, training coordination and progress tracking); compliance and reporting; and impact measurement. The benefits are significant: companies can earn Skills Development points, build a pipeline of skilled candidates, access tax incentives (e.g., Section 12H allowances) and enhance their brand by contributing to youth employment. Okiru’s programmes cover multiple industries and offer courses such as software development, project management and digital marketing. The result is a scalable solution that improves both workforce capability and B‑BBEE compliance.
AI compliance agents are context‑aware digital tools that automate complex compliance tasks, boost productivity and reduce audit risk.
Okiru describes AI agents as intelligent digital tools that understand context, adapt to your data and complete complex business tasks from start to finish. Unlike basic chatbots, these agents handle multi‑step workflows, learn continuously and provide decision support. Okiru emphasises that AI agents do not replace people; they free your team from repetitive work so staff can focus on growth and clients. Benefits include boosted productivity, stronger compliance through audit‑ready processes, time savings and improved engagement. Okiru’s agents are deployed across sales and marketing, skills development, employment equity, and finance operations—automating tasks such as lead scoring, data capture, skills gap analysis, invoice processing and deadline alerts. The agents integrate human oversight with machine precision, giving your business faster execution, fewer mistakes and better compliance.
Okiru’s CRM & martech consulting aligns technology with your sales processes, ensures adoption and turns your CRM into an audit‑ready compliance engine.
Many organisations buy CRM and marketing tools but struggle with user adoption, lead tracking and reporting. Okiru’s CRM & martech consulting helps businesses optimise these platforms by focusing on the strategy, not just the software. They work with tools like Zoho and HubSpot, helping clients choose or fix the right CRM, map their sales process, automate repetitive tasks, build decision‑making reports, integrate email and marketing systems, and train teams to ensure adoption. This service is ideal for organisations that have leads but lack a clear pipeline, pay for unused features or need real help rather than generic webinars. Okiru also leverages CRM functionality for compliance: creating verification pipelines for B‑BBEE scorecard elements, automating employment equity reporting and tracking learnerships and bursary spend. With their consulting, your CRM becomes both a revenue engine and a tool for audit‑ready compliance data.
The Higher‑ED Access Fund finances students from low‑income households to study critical skills, delivering B‑BBEE points and measurable social impact.
The Higher‑ED Access Fund is a national initiative managed by Okiru that unlocks university access for deserving students—particularly those from Living Standards Measure (LSM) 6 or lower households—to study at top South African universities. The fund prioritises critical skills such as AI, digital transformation, data science, finance and engineering. Okiru handles sourcing, onboarding, retention and graduation support, ensuring compliance and reporting requirements are met. For financial services companies, investing in the fund provides bonus points on the FSC sector scorecard and delivers reliable audit‑ready documentation. It also aligns with AI and digital talent pipelines, enhances ESG reporting credibility and demonstrates a genuine commitment to education and transformation. By partnering with Okiru, organisations contribute to South Africa’s education crisis while meeting compliance goals and building a future‑ready workforce.
