The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) is a South African-based agency established primarily to address challenges faced by the nation’s youth. 

NYDA Products and Services 

Educational Business Services was established in November 2017 and is an autonomous company body aiming at building and developing educational services, sales, and marketing in the private and public sectors.

Our mission is to develop quality authorship and publishing personnel in Lesotho and Eswatini. Improve sales and marketing strategies through proper research, training, and consultancy.

Our Services

EBS sells and develops learning material in the African context. Since its inception, EBS has managed to produce  Basotho charts( Basotho Games, Basotho Clans and totems, Basotho Clothing

Globally Empowered strives to provide educators and students with opportunities to optimise successful learning nationally and globally. We develop and provide contextualised programmes and services for borderless collaboration to create and ultimately overcome challenges in education.

We provides educational programmes and services to disadvantaged communities, unemployed youth and adults and learners aged 4 - 18.

welding with ARC and CO2

The objective of the Jobs Fund is to co-finance projects by public, private and non-governmental organisations that will significantly contribute to job creation. This involves the use of public money to catalyse innovation and investment on behalf of a range of economic stakeholders in activities that contribute directly to enhanced employment creation in South Africa.

To address the challenge of unemployment, South Africa requires high rates of sustained economic growth. South Africa’s macro-economic policy environment, infrastructure asset base, schooling system and regulatory frameworks

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth in South Africa.  The IDC funding promotes regional development and integration, economic empowerment of communities and growing black industrialists. 

IDC funds the following sectors; 

  • Energy 
  • Automotive & Transport Equipment
  • Chemicals, Medical & Industrial Mineral Products
  • Machinery, Equipment & Electronics
  • Mining & Metals
  • Media & Audio-Visual
  • Textiles & Wood Products
  • Tourism & Services

Drone Operator, Tourism, Agri, Filmmaking, and Training and Development

The mandate of One-Stop Business Facilitation Centre (OBFC) is to promote investment through efficient and effective trade facilitation through the following current and potential future services:

  • Traders Licences

  • Manufacturing Licences

  • Small scale manufacturing licences

  • Export Permits/ documents

  • Import permits

  • Rebates

  • Work Permits

  • Residence Permits

  • Company Registration

  • Tax Registration and Clearances

  • Utilities Payments

  • Investment Information

  • Business Statistics

  • Advocacy for regulatory reform

  • Tariff investigations and

The Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) is mandated to register businesses and protect intellectual property rights through the administration of four (4) pieces of legislation namely;

  1. The Companies Act (CAP 42:01), provides for the incorporation of companies; registration of post incorporation returns and notices; monitoring of post incorporation returns and reservation of company names.

  2. Registration of Business Names Act (CAP 42:05), provides for the registration of business names and post registration notices such as change of ownership and cessation of businesses

The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) is an agency of the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) in South Africa. 

Functions of the Commission

  • Registration of Companies, Co-operatives and Intellectual Property Rights (trade marks, patents, designs and copyright) and maintenance thereof
  • Disclosure of Information on its business registers
  • Promotion of education and awareness of Company and Intellectual Property Law
  • Promotion of compliance with relevant legislation
  • Efficient and effective enforcement of relevant legislation
  • Monitoring compliance with and