Posts

Showing posts from August, 2026

How to apply for your tax return

Image
Here's is how to apply for your tax return. The person who qualifies for SARS tax return is someone who have overpaid a total tax liability through PAYE deductions or provisional payments during a tax year. For example, When your employer deducts too much PAYE because your income changed or you only worked part of the tax year. Or when you contribute to a registered retirement annuity or it can even be your pension fund that reduced your taxable income.  Ensure you have all required documents that will be required from you. Like IRP5 or IT3(a) which is to be given to you by your employer.  Sometimes even medical aid certificate and Retirement annuity fund certificate. Once you have all documents necessary, you can log into your profile on SARS efiling or the official mobile app. When you're into the portal, navigate to  "Returns" and choose 'Returns issued", then click on personal income tax (ITR12). Select the year you're applying for your tax return for...

Make money for promoting brands

 Make money the affiliating program in South Africa. The affiliate marketing is one of the biggest growing business opportunity in South Africa. Even though you might not make much when starting, but when you have lot of people that buys things you recommend to them, you can actually make a lot of money. For example, The global affiliate marketing platform on market is valued at the value of almost $24 billion. To someone who might not know what affiliating market is, A affiliate marketing is when you market other people's products and gets commission every time when someone buys through your link. Their many brands and even big brands involved in affiliating program that you can actually join and start making money by just marketing their products. This includes brands like Shopify, Amazon associates, Shein, Click bank, HubSpot, Ebay Partner Network and many more. Each brand differs on how much they offer per commission, So you may want to check different brands and how much their...

How to renew PSiRA certificate

Image
 This is how to renew your Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) certificate online. A lot of security guards struggle with how to renew their psira online. We will show step by step on how to renew your psira. Log into your psira or online Psira digital services portal, select - Service Request. Inside Service Request go to Certificate renewal. You will be given the option to pay the required fee (which is typically around R64). You don't need to wait for your certificate to expire before you can apply for the renewal, You can start the renewal for up to 90 days before the certificate expire. Before payment you'll need to accept the terms and fill in your details to make payment. The time takes for your certificate to be available after payment is typically processed immediately or within hours from the time payment is made. Unless if they're any background queries or if it requires manual office processing.  The PSIRA Certificate must be renewed after eve...

Great News for capitec bank customers

Image
 Great news for capitec bank users You can now create a business account with capitec bank. You don't even need to go to a branch, You can do it all through the app. Here are the steps Log into your capitec app, go to explore, then go to entrepreneur business account, you'll be able to open your own personal business account which will be separate from your personal account. With zero monthly fees, at this point, It's only available for South African ID holders only. You don't need CIPC to open this account.  It must be clear that these capitec business account are two different types. There's a formal business account and informal entrepreneur account. The informal entrepreneur account is free cost monthly while the formal is R50. The formal needs minimum of R150 to remain active while the informal needs only R30.  The CIPC documents will be required for formal business account.  To open the formal business account, you must update your app to the latest version. O...

How to apply for your UIF funds

Image
 How to apply for UIF online. Applying for UIF online is pretty much simple. You just need to set up your profile and their profile, Then upload required documents and apply, Results will be given in few days, some a week or even two weeks depending on document correctness. After approval is a payment request is submitted, The payment usually takes about 3 to 15 working days to reflect into the applicant's bank account. Here's how to apply step by step Get to their official portal  https://uifonline.labour.gov.za/uifOnline/ Register, Once your done with registering. Select "apply for benefits," Then complete all required information like your banking details, personal info, employment details and accept the terms. They gonna require from you documents like South African ID or passport, Form UI-19(Which clearly filled by your employer to indicate you no longer working), Form UI-2.8, Sometimes even service certificate from your employer If you got these documents, then ...

AVAILABLE JOBS AT SARS

Image
 Sars hires people through their official site. For you to be able to apply on their official Job portal, You must visit their official vacancies portal Create a digital profile on their e-recruitment system, Once you have created a profile, you'll see all job listing under Sars and you can apply for any job that meets your qualifications. And submit all the necessary documents before closing date. You'll have to upload your CV and certified documents, so when you apply you wouldn't have to upload them again.  Here's their Job listing official site  https://career2.successfactors.eu/career?company=southafr01 When you get to their Job listing site, It might be a bit confusing, Since it's different from others but in search bar, you just put in, The Job title you want to apply after pressing search, The available Jobs in that category will appear. In posted within the last, Make it at least 20 days, You'll see jobs which were posted on sars job listing within the ...

Government funding for Spaza Shops

Image
 There's a South African spaza grant, that supports small spaza shops to upgrade. It's called The Spaza Shop Support Fund (SSSF). The business opportunity is available to all South Africans regardless of age.  The fund usually offers qualifying businesses funding of up to R100 000.  The employees must be at least 70% South African citizen. Must be willing to be registered with SARS, CIPC, And UIF.  To apply for this grant must be a South African citizen or naturalized before 1994, Your spaza must be operating within a township or rural community. Your shop must be registered and have a trading permit or license from your local municipality. When you apply, A municipal team will to your shop for inspection and to verify health, safety, and trading compliance. To apply, Go to this offial portal of Spaza Shop Fund website. Here's link  https://www.spazashopfund.co.za/ When you get there, You'll be given more details and steps to follow for application.

Apply for government jobs

Image
 Apply for government Jobs You can apply for government jobs on their offial job advertising portals. You can actually check every week if there's any new Job, As jobs are always posted whenever theirs an vacancy. When you apply on for a job on this government vacancies, you have to make sure you include the reference number of the job you're applying for. You need to fill a Z83, pdf form. In case you don't know about the Z83 form, This form is the official, mandotary application for employment form used when applying for jobs within the South African public services, This includes, All government department like national, provincial and local government department. This form when applying for government jobs is important as application without it are rejected before even CV is even considered. The Z83 is just to make sure you fill in correctly, The position title, name of government department and the particular reference number on advertised job. It also includes filing i...

Get funding for your business through a South African agency

Image
NYDA (National Youth Development Agency) is a South African youth empowerment. It funds young people between the age of 18 to 35 and must be a South African citizen. Your business must be 100% age required ownership (not under the ownership of someone above the required age)  Gives money from 1000 up to R200,000 (and more for agriculture or tech) to help young people start or grow their business.  Notice that people above the age of 35 do not qualify for this program. This program supports differse stages of business development, NYDA Business Management Training (BMT) Programme supports young entrepreneurs at including Pre-start Up, Survivalist, Start Up, Early Development, and Growth and Expansion, with internationally recognised entrepreneurship training courses accredited by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The opportunity is available only to youth which are unemployed, if you were working before you applied, They require proof that shows you resigned or no l...

Browse daily Jobs on woolworths Job listing portal

Image
 Apply for Jobs on Woolworths official Job portal. All woolworths around South Africa, They advertise available Jobs on their official Job platform. All you need to do is to click on the link, I'll drop here that will lead you straight to their Job portal. While there, you gonna see all their available Jobs and their locations of where exactly their hiring. You'll need to upload your cv on their system, so that every time you apply, you won't be asked for cv. Every time when there's an available Job, you gonna see also requirements needed for the advertised Job, Some Jobs don't need any special requirements, just your high school qualification while others need tertiary qualification. Let me advise you that most times while applying for Jobs, Look for their official website, that way is easier and safer. Here's link to their official Job portal  https://woolworths.erecruit.co/candidateapp/Jobs/Categories/Gauteng/6cdafbb0f66b403c951a92a0c0b6f424

Get hired through Blu Adcorp Agency

Image
Blu Adcorp is an agency that helps people to get a Job. They not only register on their data, People looking for Jobs but they also have employers come to them looking for qualified candidates for their work. Blu Adcorp has helped many South Africans find Job. You have to be registered in their system, so they can help you find Job. You can also visit their local branch or register online. In-Person Applications: You can find exact branch locations using the BLU Recruitment Centers page to locate an office in your province. Email: You can submit your CV directly to their central database via email at bluperecruitment@adcorpgroup.com.Job Listings: This agency is completely free, throughout the whole process, you don't pay anything. To apply and view available Jobs visit  https://www.careerjunction.co.za/companies/35584/adcorp-blu You'll have to create your profile on their website, where you upload your CV, So every time you see a Job you're qualified for, you just apply by ...