If your company's annual payroll exceeds R500,000, you are required to pay a 1% Skills Development Levy (SDL) to SARS every month. Many business owners view this as just another tax. However, this 1% levy is a strategic investment vehicle, and you are entitled to get a significant portion of it back. The SETA system is designed to give you this money back through two different "pots": Mandatory Grants and Discretionary Grants. Understanding the difference is critical to maxim

For South African businesses, the annual B-BBEE verification cycle is filled with complex targets. But no deadline is more critical, or more dangerous to miss, than the 30 April submission  of your Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) and Annual Training Report (ATR) to your relevant SETA. Failing to meet this single deadline is not a minor administrative slip-up; it is a catastrophic commercial error that triggers a devastating chain of consequences known as the "triple penalty". The