Thank you for visiting the B1SA B-BBEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment) website. The site is designed to help you understand all the legal requirements of B-BBEE; contains useful tools to assist you work out your B-BBEE status and is filled with interesting and useful information.

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To view a company's B-BBEE status, look no further than the B1SA B-BBEE Registry. It is a free central national source of the B-BBEE status for all entities. All companies that register with B1SA are allocated a Unique Reference Number (URN) and are assisted to submit their B-BBEE status to B1SA. It is then uploaded to the B1SA B-BBEE Registry. Simply key in a company's URN and you'll be able to view their B-BBEE Status.

If you'd like to market your business to potential clients, join the B1SA B-BBEE Opportunities Network. It's a search engine that's designed to help businesses find B-BBEE compliant entities for ownership, procurement, or enterprise development opportunities.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) all legislation comes with mountains of paperwork! We've put it all together for you and you can view and download all the acts, charters and B-BBEE related documentation right here.

Fronting can be summarised as the intentional misrepresentation of an entity's B-BBEE status - and it's a definite no-go area! To help ensure your company doesn't go there, we've put together a guideline on fronting for you. We've also provided a facility to report fronting if you see someone that is crossing the fronting line.

We're not the last word on B-BBEE - which is why we've put together a comprehensive list of related sites for you.

If you would like to understand more about the requirements of B-BBEE compliance, and how the B-BBEE scorecard applies to your entity, then follow our step-by-step scorecard guide. Where applicable, perform a comprehensive B-BBEE self assessment using our free interactive web-based calculator.