The National Automobile Dealers’ Association is a professional body representing the interests of owners/operators of new vehicle franchise motor dealerships and qualifying used car only outlets in South Africa.
Continue reading →The Pretoria Master Builders Association was founded in 1903 and the Johannesburg Master Builders Association was founded in 1894 and was formally constituted in 1904. These organisations merged in January 1996 to form the Gauteng Master Builders Association (GMBA). In 2012, the association underwent a name change and is now known as the Master Builders Association North – incorporating the following 4 regions: Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
Continue reading →The Legal Practice Council is mandated to set norms and standards, to provide for the admission and enrolment of legal practitioners and to regulate the professional conduct of legal practitioners to ensure accountability.
Continue reading →The African Institute of the Interior Design Professions (IID) is the only professional body representing the Design Industry in Africa. The IID is dedicated to establishing, promoting and maintaining expertise, professionalism, sound business practice and high standards throughout the industry.
The IID is is a non-statutory, SAQA-recognised professional body.
They have four professional designations:
The LSSA speaks nationally on behalf of the attorneys’ profession;
provides leadership and support to the profession through policy development and stakeholder relations;
publishes De Rebus, the SA attorneys journal in print and digital format, which circulates to all attorneys, and judges as well as subscribers in print and digital format, as well as an app;
interrogates and makes input on policy and draft legislation in the public interest;
provides vocational training to over 1 400 candidate attorneys a year; attendance fees are subvented by the Attorneys Fidelity Fund;
has 10 Centres of the School for Legal Practice: Bloemfontein, Polokwane, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Potchefstroom, East London, Pretoria and Johannesburg as well as a distance training centre in cooperation with Unisa
is accredited as the premier provider of other practical legal training courses (PLT) for candidate attorneys in terms of the Attorneys Act, 1979;
is accredited as the premier provider of subsidised Practice Management Training (PMT) for mandatory practice management in terms of the Judicial Matters Second Amendment Act, 2003;
maintains standards by setting examination papers for the Attorneys Admission, Conveyancing and Notarial professional examinations for attorneys; and
maintains a national database on statistics and trends in the attorneys’ profession.
The MBA is a registered trade association for employers
in the building industry. Our members handle some 70%
of all the building work in Cape Town and employ a similar percentage of the total building industry workforce
APSO – The Federation of African Professional Staffing Organisations is committed to the professionalisation of the Staffing industry of Southern Africa. APSO has been in existence since 1977 and, for the past four decades, has set and managed professional standards for the benefit of Members, their clients, candidates and employees. A proud member of the World Employment Confederation (WEC), APSO is also a founding member of the South African Confederation of Associates in Private Employment Sector (CAPES), the South African Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SACCI), and the Ethics Institute of South Africa.
Continue reading →The Institution of Certificated Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, South Africa (ICMEESA), is the only learning and vocational institution that caters for all certificated electrical and mechanical engineers in South Africa. It is also the only institution for certificated engineers that enjoys statutory recognition in terms of the Engineering Profession of South Africa Act.
Continue reading →The SA Communications Industries Association is a not for profit organisation registered as a Section 21 company in South Africa. It is specifically designed to promote the adoption of professional standards and ethical business practice in the communications industry throughout Southern Africa.
Continue reading →EAPA-SA affiliated as a Branch of EAPA International in 1997 to provide leadership, strategic direction, professional development and oversight of Employee Assistance practice in South Africa through administration of standards and ethics for practice.
EAPA-SA, currently in its 23rd year, is the only officially recognised voice for the E A profession. It is continually growing and expanding in terms of its scope and influence both in the public and private sector. In recent years EAPA-SA’s presence has expanded into other parts of Africa to support the establishment of like structures. There are currently ten active Chapters across the various provinces of South Africa.
EAPASA is a non-statutory, SAQA-recognised professional body. They have four professional designations: