Who Owns Training Force?

Training Force was established in 2003 in Johannesburg, five years after South Africa's Skills Development Act created the SETA system. The new framework introduced a levy-and-grant model that effectively subsidized accredited workplace training, and a generation of private providers emerged to serve it.

The company positioned itself on the compliance side of the market from the start. Its founding insight was that employers needed training that simultaneously developed workers and generated levy rebates and B-BBEE scorecard points, and that accreditation coverage was the barrier to entry that would decide which providers won the business.

Through its first decade, Training Force built accreditation across multiple SETA Quality Assurance departments and developed the industry-aligned course catalog covering construction, transport, engineering, safety, hospitality, and corporate soft skills that still defines the offering.

The company expanded nationally, opening branches beyond Gauteng and investing in its Learner Management System, which became a differentiator for large clients needing audit-ready records for labour inspections and B-BBEE verification.

The sector's qualifications framework migration to the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations required Training Force to re-accredit its programs under the occupational model, a transition it completed while retaining its SETA coverage. By the mid-2020s the company reported cumulative milestones of more than 3,000 client companies and more than 55,000 workers trained.