About Us – SDF Corp

Amanda van der Merwe, MD

Helping people has always been my passion. Through SDF Corp I can achieve my goals ensuring that companies fully benefit by doing business with us. My business model ensures maximum points and I believe that information and knowledge is free. It is what you do with it, that matters.

SDF Corp. has over 20 years’ of providing our clients with the best strategic business solutions to help them navigate complicated and often cumbersome legislation in order to get the most out of Skills Development.
We have over 70 years’ combined experience that we use to help South African SMMEs to grow and take their business to the next level of professionalism, compliance, and development.
As a sustainable Exempted Micro Black Beneficiary Enterprise, we understand the challenges of running a business in South African development legislation and we can provide strategic solutions that serves to the benefit of every client’s business.
Our vision is to create a business solution for Skills Development that provides service excellence in all client dealings, the highest customer satisfaction, and a 100% success rate on our clients’ outcomes.
We believe that providing Skills Development in the workplace will make our business and economic landscape soar and we want to see each of our clients and their people succeed and benefit from South African legislation.

Client Testimonials

SDF Corp has been assisting ICH with Skills Development for many years. During this time their team has assisted us with WSP and ATR submissions to ensure our legislative compliance as well as claiming mandatory and discretionary grants in order for us to better invest in Skills Development programmes and re-invest in our employees. The team also advises and assists us with Employment Equity compliance to ensure that our EE approach is strategically implemented with fairness to all our entire workforce.

We have been working with SDF Corp since 2017 to assist us with Skills Development. Their services for us includes submitting Workplace Skills Plans and Annual Training Reports with our SETA. Thanks to their Skills Development services we have been able to claim discretionary grant funding from our SETA, as well as claim back Tax Rebates from SARS with IT180 Tax claims. In addition to these services, their team also conducts the project management of our learnerships. They also assist us with Employment Equity and BEE implementation and within three years we were verified as a BEE Level 3 Generic Entity.

This letter is in support of the services that SDF Corp has provided Louis Group, in particular in the area of Skills Development and Training as well as Employment Equity. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Amanda and her team on her effective and efficient work that they have done for the Group.There assistance and direction has been greatly needed and appreciated. The following are areas where SDFCorp have assisted us most prominently: Communication with the 5 different SETAs n which context we operate; Completion of the paperwork and documentation equired; Direction with regards to training and development within the Group; Assistance in completing our WSPs and ATRs for each company; Channelling grant levies from the different SETAS; Assistance in Employment Equity Plans and Reports. The professionalism and availability of the personnel of SDF Corp has made it a pleasure to deal with them and they have continuously made life very easy, in certain areas, for the Group.

“Working with SDF Corp on Skills Development has been a wonderful experience. They are proficient and knowledgeable. They have a wide range of skills and ideas in handling our Skills programme, which has helped uplift and equip our staff. They are an invaluable link between us and the Seta’s and other role players. We whole-heartedly recommend them because they are both passionate and easy to work with.”

SDF Corp has been assisting us with our BEE structuring across all the BBBEE pillars for going on ten years now and have been instrumental in helping us design our BEE implementation plan. Their business structure allows us to maximise every BEE intervention we undertake. We view our partnership with SDF Corp as an extension of our transformation team.

We have been working with SDF Corp for years now and it has been nothing but a pleasure. Their friendly service has always been efficient and it is great to work with people to whom service delivery is still a priority in this day and age. SDF Corp goes the extra mile and I have never had any queries about the submissions made by SDF Corp to our service SETA. Furthermore we can rely on claims being paid by the SETA on a regular basis and SDF handling the liaising with the SETA in all aspects. This saves me a lot of time as HR Manager. Thank you for making my life a lot easier SDF Corp!

Amanda and her team at S.D.F Corp are a text-book example of what Customer Service entails. S.D.F Corp went beyond what is normal to ensure that we obtain our BEE verification. From Skills Development to Preferential Procurement to Employment Equity plans – even following up with my existing client base to obtain these ratings. S.D.F Corp has enabled H&T Labels to get an acceptable rating, and through them we have landed a couple of worthwhile contracts. They also assisted our company with training courses for our staff and the courses attended by staff members have reflected on our sales and morale within the company. I am exceptionally grateful for what SDF Corp has done for us at H&T Labels.

Each unit in the SDF Corp Group was created to complement all other aspects of our service delivery, making us an integrated and comprehensive solution for South African clients and multinationals trading in South Africa. Our units developed as a result from addressing specific problems that we could not otherwise solve, which means that synergy is at our core and smooth dealings come naturally.