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Skills Development Facilitator

Your SDF — without adding to your payroll.

You already pay the Skills Development Levy every month. Decoding makes sure you get it back. We act as your appointed SDF: we plan the training, submit the WSP and ATR, chase the grants, and keep your Employment Equity paperwork clean — all of it, all year.

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✓ WSP & ATR drafted and submitted ✓ Mandatory & discretionary grant applications ✓ EE plans, reports and committee guidance ✓ Training that earns B-BBEE points

20%of your levy back as a mandatory grant

49.5%sits in the discretionary pool you can bid for

30 Aprthe deadline that decides both

What an SDF actually does

Every levy-paying employer needs a Skills Development Facilitator to unlock its grants. Most appoint someone internally, and then that person discovers the job is a year-round administrative discipline, not an April scramble.

DUTY 01

Work out what your people actually need

A proper skills audit against your operational plan — not a wish list. What is missing, who needs it, and what it costs.

DUTY 02

Write and submit the WSP and ATR

The Workplace Skills Plan says what you intend to train; the Annual Training Report proves what you did. Both go to your SETA by 30 April.

DUTY 03

Claim the grants you are owed

Mandatory grant on submission, and a real application into the discretionary pool for learnerships, bursaries and apprenticeships.

DUTY 04

Keep the committee and the records straight

Training and Employment Equity committee consultation, minutes, attendance registers and certificates — the evidence trail that survives an audit.

You are already paying for this

If your annual payroll is above R500 000, SARS collects 1% of it every month as the Skills Development Levy. That money does not disappear — it splits, and most of it is claimable. The employers who never see it again are simply the ones who did not submit.

No WSP and ATR by 30 April means no mandatory grant for that year — and no seat at the table when discretionary funding is allocated.

20%

Mandatory grant

Paid back to you for submitting a compliant WSP and ATR on time. This is the easy money.

49.5%

Discretionary pool

Your SETA allocates this to learnerships, apprenticeships and bursaries. You have to apply — and apply well.

20%

National Skills Fund

National priority skills. Not claimable by you directly.

10%

SETA administration

Running costs of the authority itself.

What your retainer covers

One fixed monthly fee, one accountable facilitator, and a phone number that answers. No per-submission surprises in April.

Statutory submissions

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The whole discipline, not just the deadline

Skills development is twelve moving parts that only look like one form in April. Click through them — this is the register we work off, and every line of it is ours to carry.

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The year, mapped

Your compliance calendar

These are the dates that cost money when they slip. We work backwards from all of them so nothing lands on your desk in the last week.

Deadlines and thresholds shift with amendments and SETA rules. We track them so you do not have to — and we tell you when something changes that affects you.

Training on tap

A plan is only worth what gets delivered

Being your SDF and your training provider in one house is the point. What we plan in your WSP, our own academy delivers — accredited, on site or at our centre, with the attendance registers and certificates already formatted for your ATR.

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The double dip

The same training spend can earn scorecard points

Skills Development is one of the heaviest-weighted elements on the B-BBEE scorecard. Planned properly, the training you were going to do anyway pays back twice — grant money in, points on the board.

See how DIS plans it into your scorecard →

Learners, handled

Won discretionary funding? We can staff it

DHC recruits, screens and places learnership candidates at your site and manages the HR, compliance and reporting — so a funded programme does not become an admin burden.

Check out learnership hosting →

Who you will actually deal with

Not a call centre and not a different consultant every quarter. You get a named facilitator who knows your payroll, your SETA and your history.

Divan Vogel

Partner, Director & Senior Consultant

divan@decoding.co.za 076 520 9504

Riaan Augustyn

SDF

riaan@decoding.co.za 082 000 0000

SDF questions, answered plainly

Levy splits, grant conditions and reporting windows are set by legislation and by each SETA, and they change. Nothing on this page is legal or tax advice — we will confirm what applies to your entity before you commit to anything.

Appoint us

Let us take the levy paperwork off your desk

Tell us your payroll size and your SETA and we will come back with exactly what you are leaving on the table — and what it takes to claim it.

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Number of employees

Your SETA — not sure is fine, we will confirm it

What do you need help with?

A facilitator reviews your levy position and comes back — usually within one business day.

Decoding Training Academy — accredited training and Skills Development Facilitation.

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