Nyeleti

Nyeleti supports the Nyeleti Children's Home in Benoni, a home for approximately 40 homeless children. Apart from an annual financial contribution by the company staff also contributes in their personal capacity. This is being done by means of personal donations in the form of food and clothes, through their skills by assisting with maintenance work, and by arranging and attending special functions such as the annual Christmas Tree-Function.

Nyeleti also sponsors the development of disadvantaged amateur wrestlers by means of an annual contribution to the Zenzele Development Programme of the Gauteng North Wrestling Association. This Programme facilitates the establishment of the Olympic Wrestling Code clubs in communities where the sport is not available to participants.

Ownership of the Company

A total percentage of 55% of Nyeleti's shareholding is being held by previously disadvantaged and female South Africans.

Black management and control

Representation of black management amongst top management amounts to 71%.

Black employment equity statistics

Black employment equity statistics are as follows:

Management level (adjusted for gender):59%
All employees (adjusted for gender):71%

The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act (BBBEE Act), Act no 53 of 2003, establishes a legislative framework for the promotion of BBBEE, provides for the gazetting of transformation charters and empowers the Minister of Trade and Industry to issue codes of good practice. These codes in general supports all the objectives of the construction transformation charter and in particular aims to:

Achieve a substantial change in the racial and gender composition of ownership, control and management in the sector.
Promote the effective advancement of employment equity in the sector and adherence to principles of non-racialism and non-sexism.
Provide to the construction sector the first quantitative method for monitoring and evaluating the progress of an enterprise towards BBBEE and thereby contribute to ending the malpractice of fronting.
Address skills development in a manner that accelerates the advancement of black people, black women and designated groups with a particular emphasis on learnerships, technical and management training.

Nyeleti has been rated by BEE Verification Agency on an annual basis. The company has recently been certified as a Level Two Contributor. A copy of the rating certificate is available on request.

Description	No. of staff	Black %	Female %
Board of directors	6	67%	17%
Top management	8	50%	25%
Middle management	10	60%	40%
Technical Staff	42	71%	21%
Support Staff	22	77%	77%
Total:	88	69%	38%

BBBEE contribution level

Nyeleti has been rated as a level two contributor with a rating of AAA+. A copy of the rating report is available below.

View BEE Certificate

Skills Development

Nyeleti Consulting has implemented a skills development framework and supports the concept of improving the skills of the company's workforce. Skill levies are paid on a monthly basis to support the financing of the levy grant scheme as well as ensure that all training reflects current requirements of the construction sector. The company has a registered skills development plan which includes a facilitator with CETA (Construction Education and Training Authority) to facilitate this process. Nyeleti currently supports:

Five full-time civil engineering students at university, three of them black
Seven staff members enrolled for post graduate/diploma courses, five of them black of which two are female
Three learnerships, two of them black.

Nyeleti's expenditure on training and development of staff exceeds the targets set by BBBEE legislation.

Continued Professional Development

Nyeleti Consulting encourages staff to increase their skills as well as promote their careers by means of further study, attending conferences and seminars and holding in-house discussions to contribute towards empowerment.

Continued professional development plays an intergral role in transforming the workplace and establishing a culture of lifelong learning at Nyeleti Consulting.

Enterprise development

Nyeleti formed an association with black owned companies, R & R Consulting Engineers, Masana Engineering Consultants and Rupee Consulting. The firm has an enterprise development agreement with this company and provide it with technical and business management support on a continuous basis.

Professional registration mentorship program

Nyeleti has a formal mentorship program in place. This mentorship program has been set up with the objective of guiding the training and development of engineers, technologists and technicians as to enable them to register professionally.