The National Certificate: New Venture Creation (SMME) is designed for aspiring and existing entrepreneurs who want to start, manage, and grow sustainable small businesses. The programme equips learners with the practical business skills needed to identify opportunities, develop business plans, manage finances, market products and services, and operate successful enterprises.
The Occupational Certificate: Safety, Health and Quality Practitioner prepares learners to implement, monitor and improve occupational health and safety (OHS) systems within the workplace. The qualification equips learners to identify hazards, assess risks, investigate incidents, ensure legal compliance, and support management in creating safer working environments.
Occupational Health and Safety Practitioners play a vital role in protecting employees, reducing workplace risks, ensuring compliance with legislation, and promoting a strong safety culture across all industries.
The Occupational Certificate: Quality Manager equips learners with the knowledge, practical skills, and workplace experience required to plan, implement, monitor, and continuously improve quality management systems across a wide range of industries. Learners will develop expertise in quality assurance, regulatory compliance, process improvement, auditing, risk management, and leadership to ensure products and services consistently meet customer and organisational standards.
This qualification prepares learners for management roles responsible for driving quality excellence, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement within manufacturing, services, government, and other sectors.
The Occupational Certificate: Public Service Administrator equips learners with the knowledge, practical skills, and workplace experience required to provide efficient administrative support within South Africa's public sector. Learners develop competencies in government administration, human resources, financial administration, supply chain management, communication, records management, and public service ethics to support effective service delivery across all spheres of government.
This qualification prepares learners for administrative careers in national, provincial, and local government departments, public entities, and state institutions.
This qualification builds the knowledge, practical skills, and workplace experience needed to manage projects effectively — initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects in line with organisational objectives. Benchmarked against PMBOK and PRINCE2 methodologies.
NQF Level 5 | 240 Credits | Quality Assured by QCTO
The Occupational Certificate: Customs Compliance Manager prepares experienced customs and international trade professionals to lead customs compliance functions within organisations engaged in global trade. The programme develops advanced expertise in managing customs legislation, regulatory compliance, supply chain security, organisational risk, and international trade best practices.
Learners gain the strategic knowledge and practical skills required to develop compliance frameworks, manage customs operations, mitigate risks, and ensure adherence to national and international customs regulations across complex supply chain environments.
The Occupational Certificate: Supply Chain Practitioner equips learners with the knowledge, practical skills, and workplace experience to coordinate and monitor supply chain operations across procurement, logistics, warehousing, transportation, inventory, and customer service.
This qualification prepares learners to develop operational schedules, coordinate supply chain activities, manage supplier and customer relationships, and monitor performance to ensure efficient service delivery throughout the supply chain.
The Occupational Certificate: Shipping Agent equips learners with the knowledge, practical skills, and workplace experience required to coordinate and manage vessel operations at ports on behalf of ship owners, managers, and charterers. Learners will gain expertise in port operations, maritime documentation, cargo coordination, stakeholder communication, ship husbandry, and regulatory compliance to ensure the efficient movement of vessels and cargo through ports.
This qualification prepares learners for careers in the maritime, shipping, logistics, and port operations sectors, where they play a vital role in facilitating international trade and ensuring smooth vessel turnaround.
This qualification builds the competencies needed to work as a Clearing and Forwarding Agent, covering customs clearing procedures, freight forwarding, warehousing operations, and cargo distribution across South Africa's international logistics environment. Learners who complete it will be able to forward cargo locally and internationally, ensure compliance with customs and statutory requirements, manage warehousing operations, and coordinate cargo distribution.
NQF Level 5 | 120 Credits | Quality Assured by QCTO
The Occupational Certificate: Freight Handler equips learners with the knowledge, practical skills, and workplace experience required to safely receive, store, handle, pick, reconcile, and dispatch freight across a variety of transport and logistics environments. Learners gain hands-on experience in warehouse operations, freight handling procedures, stock control, and legislative compliance to ensure the efficient movement of goods throughout the supply chain.
This qualification prepares learners for careers in freight handling, warehousing, distribution, ports, airports, courier services, and other logistics operations within the transport sector.
The Occupational Certificate: Internet-of-Things (IoT) Developer prepares learners to design, deploy, and manage Internet of Things (IoT) solutions by connecting sensors, devices, networks, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems.
Learners develop practical skills in deploying IoT infrastructure, configuring connected devices, collecting and managing structured and unstructured data, integrating IoT platforms with existing business systems, and implementing cybersecurity measures. The qualification also introduces concepts such as cloud computing, data visualisation, design thinking, and Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies.
The Occupational Certificate: Software Engineer equips learners with the knowledge, practical skills, and workplace experience required to design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software applications. Learners will gain hands-on experience in software engineering principles, programming, database design, software testing, and application deployment while working on real-world software development projects.
This qualification prepares learners for careers in software development, application engineering, systems development, database development, and software testing across a wide range of industries.
The Occupational Certificate: Cybersecurity Analyst equips learners with the knowledge, technical skills, and workplace experience required to protect organisational digital assets from cyber threats and attacks. Learners are trained to identify vulnerabilities, assess risks, implement security controls, and respond effectively to cybersecurity incidents across networks, systems, and information environments.
This qualification prepares learners for high-demand careers in cybersecurity, information security, and IT risk management within both the public and private sectors.
The Occupational Certificate: Cybersecurity Analyst equips learners with the knowledge, technical skills, and workplace experience required to protect organisational digital assets from cyber threats and attacks. Learners are trained to identify vulnerabilities, assess risks, implement security controls, and respond effectively to cybersecurity incidents across networks, systems, and information environments.
This qualification prepares learners for high-demand careers in cybersecurity, information security, and IT risk management within both the public and private sectors.