Guide to Skills Development

Qualifying employers pay a Skills Development Levy, a small percentage of payroll, into a national fund that supports training and development, and understanding this obligation matters for any business that crosses the applicable payroll threshold.

The South African Revenue Service administers the collection of this levy alongside other payroll-related tax obligations.

Sector Education and Training Authorities administer grants that can partially offset training costs for a compliant business, effectively returning some of the levy paid as usable training support.

Our guide to how SETA funding actually works for employers covers accessing this specific support in more depth.

Learnerships combine structured workplace training with a formal qualification, offering a genuine way to develop staff skills while also potentially qualifying the business for additional B-BBEE scorecard points under skills development.

This dual benefit, developing real capability while also supporting compliance, makes learnerships worth considering beyond only their direct training value.

For many small, common business problems, inconsistent service quality, avoidable errors, slow processes, proper staff training is often a considerably cheaper and more durable fix than hiring additional staff or replacing existing ones.

Our guide to finding in-demand SETA-accredited training courses covers accessing this kind of practical, accredited training properly.