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Connecting young people to opportunity. SASDC recently participated in the Soweto Career & Skills Summit, engaging young...
20/08/2026

Connecting young people to opportunity.

SASDC recently participated in the Soweto Career & Skills Summit, engaging young people around skills development, employment and entrepreneurship.

Through Project EMBRACE, we're working to strengthen pathways for young people aged 15–34 to access skills, opportunities and meaningful participation in the economy.

At the Summit, we connected with youth, promoted the SASDC Job Market, engaged training organisations and explored partnerships that can help create more opportunities.

One message was clear: young people are ready to build their futures.

Our role is to help connect their ambition to the skills, networks and opportunities they need to move forward.

Lead Tomorrow. Grow With Grace.Today, we celebrated the women of SASDC who continue to lead, grow and make an impact.Our...
14/08/2026

Lead Tomorrow. Grow With Grace.

Today, we celebrated the women of SASDC who continue to lead, grow and make an impact.

Our Women’s Day celebration connected “Lead Tomorrow” with “Growing With Grace”, reminding us that growth takes time, resilience, support and opportunity.

From building flowers together 🌸 to recognising the incredible women leaders within SASDC, today was about celebrating women and the impact they continue to make.

Here’s to the women who lead today, grow with grace and shape tomorrow. 💜

Supplier diversity starts with visibility. It grows through access.Join the SASDC Supplier Soapbox as an audience member...
14/08/2026

Supplier diversity starts with visibility. It grows through access.

Join the SASDC Supplier Soapbox as an audience member and hear directly from certified Black businesses ready to showcase their capabilities, build valuable connections and contribute to stronger supply chains.

Your next great supplier relationship could begin in this room.

Thursday, 20 August 2026
12:00 to 15:00
Free webinar

Register here: 12134c5c-ef2d-4f9a-afe7-2ce551d8f454@ea3e9a68-5ac8-4fa5-87a2-ec006127f850" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/12134c5c-ef2d-4f9a-afe7-2ce551d8f454@ea3e9a68-5ac8-4fa5-87a2-ec006127f850

Opportunity starts earlier than we think. Before a young person can access a learnership, a placement or a career pathwa...
24/07/2026

Opportunity starts earlier than we think. Before a young person can access a learnership, a placement or a career pathway, they first need safety, care and someone in their corner.

That is why the SASDC returned to The Teddy Bear Foundation for the second year running this Mandela Day, donating clothing, toys for the children and books for the adults who support them. The Foundation does remarkable work protecting South Africa's most vulnerable children, and standing with them is our small contribution to the very beginning of the opportunity journey.

Nelson Mandela believed there could be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children. Creating opportunities together means starting with those who need it most.
We will be back next year.



The Teddy Bear Foundation South Africa

Creating opportunities together sometimes looks like a boardroom. This Mandela Day, it looked like a serving spoon.In th...
24/07/2026

Creating opportunities together sometimes looks like a boardroom. This Mandela Day, it looked like a serving spoon.

In the spirit of Mandela Month, the SASDC partnered with Hope SA Foundation , AA South Africa, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and YFM to serve cooked meals to 300 people at Moffat Hall in the south of Johannesburg. It was collaboration in its purest form, with each partner bringing what they had so that the community received more than any one of us could have offered alone.

That is the same principle that drives our work every other day of the year. Whether we are connecting suppliers to markets or partners to communities, the outcome is always bigger when we create it together.

Madiba said it is in our hands. On the day, it truly was.

Thank you to our partners and every volunteer who turned 67 minutes into 300 full plates.

SASDC certification in plain terms: 51% black owned, managed and controlled, SA-based, statutorily compliant. It takes 3...
13/07/2026

SASDC certification in plain terms: 51% black owned, managed and controlled, SA-based, statutorily compliant. It takes 30 to 60 days from a complete application, costs R1,150 incl VAT in year one and R575 to renew.

What that buys is a spot on a database vetted to the standards corporate procurement teams already use. You become a pre-approved answer to a question buyers were already asking.

Apply at sasdcportal.co.za

Today is World Population Day, and most of what gets written for it treats population growth as a problem to be managed....
11/07/2026

Today is World Population Day, and most of what gets written for it treats population growth as a problem to be managed. We would offer a different reading, because the projection that matters most for this economy points the other way.

United Nations population projections expect Africa to hold the largest working-age population on earth within a generation. Whether that becomes a dividend or a crisis depends entirely on whether our economies can absorb the people arriving into them, and supply chains are among the largest absorption mechanisms any economy has. Every certified supplier brought into a corporate value chain converts population growth into payroll growth, one contract at a time. A business that grows from five employees to fifty does more for that projection than any policy paper will.

This is why we describe supplier development as demographic strategy rather than charity. The countries that understand this first will own the next fifty years of African commerce, and the companies inside those countries will have built their supply chains for the population that is coming, rather than the one that is passing.

On World Population Day, that is the reframe worth carrying into Monday's procurement meeting.

The Friday Plug | Supplier SpotlightMost people see logistics as a rates game. Moses Maboi built a business on a differe...
10/07/2026

The Friday Plug | Supplier Spotlight

Most people see logistics as a rates game. Moses Maboi built a business on a different premise entirely: trust.

"You can always get a good rate, but knowing that there is the security that your cargo will arrive, undamaged too, is a priceless feeling."

That philosophy is Katlego Global Logistics. Founded in 1998 and certified in the SASDC network, this Level 1 B-BBEE company operates across all nine provinces, owns most of its own fleet, and connects clients to agents in over 80 countries.

The calibre of work speaks for itself: the United Nations once entrusted Katlego with exporting security vehicles and landmine detecting equipment, and its courier division has delivered over 280,000 parcels door to door since 2018.

The service range:
👉 Air and sea freight
👉 International freight forwarding
👉 Road freight and transport
👉 Warehousing with 24/7 reporting
👉 SARS-licensed customs handling

If your organisation moves cargo locally or internationally, Katlego Global Logistics deserves serious consideration.

📞 +27 11 315 8125
📧 [email protected]

At SASDC, we certify suppliers so procurement decisions do more than tick a compliance box. Ready to diversify your supply chain? Connect with us.

Two decades. R20 billion a year. The question remains unanswered.At the recent ESDCoP Roundtable, we stopped circling it...
30/06/2026

Two decades. R20 billion a year. The question remains unanswered.

At the recent ESDCoP Roundtable, we stopped circling it. Corporates, government and ESD specialists in one room, talking honestly about what it takes to move from compliance to impact.

The latest blog covers the key debates. Read it, share it. This conversation needs to be bigger than one room.

Read more here: https://sasdc.org.za/index.php/resources/latest-news/105-round-table-from-compliance-to-impact-rethinking-esd

Watch the roundtable: https://youtu.be/JowG17XmgVs

Grown for Global. And it starts in a garage in KZN.Rashmee Ramdeen did not wait for conditions to be perfect. She starte...
25/06/2026

Grown for Global. And it starts in a garage in KZN.

Rashmee Ramdeen did not wait for conditions to be perfect. She started where she was — a garage near Pietermaritzburg — and built Zilon Bulk Bags into a 100% owner-managed manufacturing business employing 26 people, shipping heavy-duty FIBCs, bulk bags and 50kg sacks across South Africa and into Namibia.

The bags carry sand, grain, fertiliser, coal and chrome. The business carries something else — a model that is genuinely circular. Zilon refurbishes and reuses bags, sources every raw material from South African polypropylene weavers, and holds PolyCo membership for responsible plastic manufacturing. That is not a sustainability slide bolted onto a pitch deck. It is how the operation actually runs.

Rashmee is SASDC-certified, a Graça Machel Women Creating Wealth participant, a KZN Top 40 Businesswomen honouree and the PMCB Small Business of the Year for 2024. The SADC export plan — Mozambique and Zambia next — is already in motion.
Locally grown. Locally sourced. Crossing borders.

That is what Grown for Global looks like.

Connect with Zilon Bulk Bags:
🌐 www.zilontrading.co.za
📧 [email protected]
📞 082 777 3232 | 083 610 2764

Project EMBRACE is supported through our partnerships with and IYBA SEED Project, with funding from BMZ, the EU, the French, German and Slovak governments, and implemented by Expertise France, Enabel, GIZ SADC/Botswana, SAIDC and SNV.

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