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Level 1 B-BBEE contributor · 14 years · Sandton

B-BBEE, made simple.strategic.verifiable.profitable.

We turn transformation into a commercial advantage. Clear strategy, programmes run with clinical discipline, and certificates that stand up to every verifier.

Procurement recognition135%
Evidence fileVerification ready
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R0combined revenue of companies serviced
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The B-BBEE dividend

Your level is a sales strategy.

Large buyers score themselves on who they buy from. A better level means more of every rand they spend with you counts in their favour, and that is what wins and keeps contracts.

Set a contract value, choose a level, and see what your customer can claim.

How levels and recognition work
R50m
Your customer can claimR55m
At Level 1 it would beR67.5m

Corporate supply chains

Procurement teams rank suppliers partly on their level. A stronger certificate keeps you on approved supplier lists and ahead at renewal.

Public sector tenders

Organs of state must apply B-BBEE in procurement, so your status can decide whether a bid is competitive at all.

Licences and partnerships

Regulators, licensing bodies and partners weigh transformation credentials when they choose who to work with.

Plain language is our speciality

The subtle art of B-BBEE, in sixty seconds

We explain transformation so plainly that a board can act on it the same day. Open a card to see how.

Did you know?

Facts that change the boardroom conversation

Verification roadmap

Twelve months, not one week

Verification is a year-long journey. Here is how we typically run it. Select a milestone.

The full verification roadmap
Hear the difference

The rulebook, or the BRAW way

Boards act on what they understand. Switch between the Codes as written and the way we say it in your boardroom.

Sector snapshot

Real work, across demanding sectors

We name sectors, never clients. Every tile is a mandate run on our methodology.

Explore every sector
Why BRAW

14 years. Every sector. Every scorecard.

Since 2012 we have worked across the generic and sector codes and every element of the scorecard, for JSE-listed groups, multinationals and international banks.

Why clients choose us

Plain language

Decisions get made in the meeting, not months later.

Clinical method

Five stages, one accountable lead, evidence built to the verifier’s standard.

We run it

We implement and manage programmes, with money and milestones tracked monthly.

Discretion at scale

Trusted with well over R100 billion in combined client revenue, and we never name them.

Executives reviewing a live transformation dashboard in a Sandton boardroom at night
Built for the boardroom

Decisions made in the meeting, not months later.

We bring the scorecard to the board as a live picture: where you stand, what each lever costs, and what the verifier will see. Plain language, clinical evidence, one accountable lead.

Monthly scorecard viewPriority minimums trackedEvidence file live
109points, five elements
Ownership 25Management 19Skills 20ESD 40SED 5
Clinical results

Numbers from programmes we saw through to the end

R28mfully disbursed over a three-year mining programme
R10mdelivered for a JSE-listed industrial group
US$5mbanking sector initiative for cross-border payments
3new enterprises created and funded from scratch
4 yearscontinuous mandate across all five elements
Level 1our own status, held to the standard we set clients
See the work behind the numbers

Most companies meet their scorecard on verification day. Ours read it every month.

Start with a diagnostic: where you stand, what it costs to move, and which levers matter most.

Home/B-BBEE, simply

B-BBEE, simply.

The questions boards ask us most, answered in plain language. No jargon, no hundred-page manuals. Tap anything to explore it.

The scorecard at a glance
Generic Codes points, before bonuses
The five elements

Select an element to see what it measures

Click a segment of the chart or a button. Each element has its own explainer.

25Ownership
Levels and recognition

What each level is worth to your customers

Your total points set your level. Your level sets how much of a customer’s spend with you they can claim. At Level 1, R100 counts as R135. Below Level 8, it counts for nothing.

The basics

Foundations every board should know

Rules that catch companies out

The provisions behind most disappointing results

Fixes we often apply

A taste of how a scorecard improves

The principle is shared here. The detail stays in the engagement.

Knowing the rules is step one. Applying them, month after month, is our methodology.

Want these rules applied to your own scorecard?

A diagnostic reads your data the way a verifier will, and shows you the levers.

Home/Methodology

A clinical method, led by specialists, measured against the verifier.

Five stages take a business from an honest baseline to a defended certificate, and keep it there. Every page of this site points back here, because everything we do runs through it.

The BRAW method

The five stages

Select a stage to see what we do, what you receive and how the verifier will see it.

Specialists, directed

How we guide our specialists to a result

Ownership lawyers, skills practitioners, enterprise developers and verification specialists all work to one playbook, under one accountable BRAW lead.

One accountable lead

Every engagement has a single BRAW owner who answers for the outcome, however many specialists are involved.

Outcomes before activity

Specialists are briefed on the points, level and evidence required, not just the task.

Reviewed before it reaches you

Every deliverable is checked against the Codes and the verifier’s standard first.

Our approach to verification

Designed towards the finish line from day one

Verification is where strategy meets proof. We treat it as the standard we build to, not an event we prepare for in the final month.

See the full verification roadmap
Simple language, maximum effect

Hear the difference

Switch between the Codes as written and the way we explain them to a board.

Every engagement starts at stage one.

A diagnostic gives you the baseline, the gaps and a costed view of the levers.

Home/Verification

Verification, without the surprises.

A certificate lasts twelve months. The work that earns it should run for all twelve. Here is how we plan, evidence and defend the year.

Typical cycle
12months, one certificate
DiagnoseDeployDefendCertify
The roadmap

A twelve-month verification plan

An illustrative cycle. Actual timing depends on your financial year end and the scope of your scorecard.

Milestones

What happens at each point

Select a milestone to see the work and the methodology stage behind it.

Evidence readiness

Is your file ready?

The documents verifiers typically ask for, by element. Tick what you already have in order. Nothing you tick is stored or sent.

Your readiness0%
Tick the items you have in place.
Verification day

How the engagement runs

01

Agency appointed

A SANAS-accredited agency is engaged and the scope and timetable agreed.

02

File submitted

The organised evidence file is handed over in the structure the agency expects.

03

Testing and interviews

The agency samples documents, may interview staff or beneficiaries, and raises queries.

04

Findings and certificate

We answer findings in writing, then the certificate is issued for twelve months.

Common findings

Where points are usually lost

Open a finding to see why it happens and how a proper process prevents it.

Arrive at verification with proof, not explanations.

Stage four of our methodology exists for exactly this.

Home/Sectors

Big business, handled with discretion.

We name sectors, never clients. Discretion is part of the service. Here is the work, sector by sector, and the methodology behind each result.

Sector explorer

Choose a sector

Each mandate ran on the same five-stage method. The stages used are shown with every example.

Programmes delivered

Enterprise Development, fully disbursed

Two outsourced programmes, run end to end by BRAW over three years each. Every rand placed, monitored and reported.

Our journey

From first mandate to the next horizon

2012BRAW begins advising South African business on B-BBEE strategy.
2013First mandates in licence-dependent gaming and lotteries.
2022Three-year mining Enterprise Development programme launches.
2025R28m fully disbursed. A further R10m delivered in chemicals.
2026Level 1, 14 years, well over R100bn in client revenue serviced.
NextLive compliance intelligence and programmes at national scale.

Discretion

We name sectors, never clients. Strategies and results stay confidential.

Scale

Companies we have serviced generate well over R100 billion in combined revenue.

Governance

Board-grade reporting, documented decisions and evidence that holds up to audit.

Range

Generic and sector codes, for JSE-listed groups, multinationals and international banks.

Your sector has its own rules. We already know them.

Talk to us about where your business stands under its code.

Home/Why BRAW

14 years. Every sector. Every scorecard.

A team of transformation specialists that explains plainly, runs programmes itself, and stands behind the evidence. That combination is rare, and it is why large organisations stay with us.

What sets us apart

A result, not just a report

How a BRAW engagement differs from advice alone.

Advice alone
A strategy document handed over at the end
Evidence gathered in the weeks before verification
Recommendations written in the language of the Codes
Several advisers, each owning a fragment
The BRAW way
Programmes implemented and managed by our own team
Evidence captured monthly, as the work happens
Plain language that boards can act on immediately
One accountable lead from diagnostic to certificate
5 / 5elements, one partner
Experience in numbers

Measured, delivered, defended

0years in transformation advisory
R0combined revenue of companies serviced
R0placed in enterprises through our programmes
US$5mcross-border payments initiative
Level 1our own B-BBEE status
Since 2013in licence-dependent regulated sectors
The horizon

Where transformation is heading

Compliance is becoming continuous, evidence-led and judged on outcomes. Our next chapter is built for that shift.

Live compliance intelligence

Monthly tracking of actuals against targets, so boards read their scorecard long before the verifier does.

Programmes at national scale

Enterprise and supplier development for larger public and private programmes, where impact must be proven.

Enterprises that outlast funding

Success measured by beneficiaries still trading, hiring and supplying after the programme ends.

Put fourteen years of experience on your scorecard.

Start with a diagnostic, stage one of our methodology.

Home/Contact

Start with an honest read of your scorecard.

Take the two-minute readiness check, then tell us about your business. A diagnostic is always stage one of our methodology.

Readiness check

Are you verification ready?

Five questions we ask every new client. Nothing is stored or sent.

0 of 5 answered

Your readiness result

Answer all five questions to see where you stand and which stage of our methodology fits.

Read about the methodology
Talk to us

We are in Sandton

Office 2202, Atrium on 5th
West Street, Sandton City
Johannesburg, 2196

What happens next

1We contact you to arrange a first conversation.
2We agree the scope of a diagnostic and the data we need.
3You receive your baseline and gap register, stage one of our methodology.
Opens your email app with your enquiry addressed to info@braw.co.za.