Training Force (Pty) Ltd

Is Training Force accredited?
Yes. Training Force holds accreditation with multiple SETA Quality Assurance departments and the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations, and its programs align with SAQA and the National Qualifications Framework. Accreditation is what allows clients to claim levy rebates and B-BBEE points.

Is Training Force publicly traded?
No. Training Force (Pty) Ltd is a private South African company with no listed shares and no public financial reporting.

Where is Training Force headquartered?
The head office is at 11 Wellington Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, with additional branches across the country including KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State.

What does Training Force sell?
It sells accredited workplace training: learnerships, apprenticeships, short courses, full qualifications, skills assessments, and large training project management, primarily to employers rather than individual students.

When was Training Force founded?
The company was established in 2003 in Johannesburg. It reports having partnered with more than 3,000 companies and trained more than 55,000 workers since then.

Who competes with Training Force?
Its competitors are other South African accredited training providers such as iFundi, Optimi Workplace, MSC Education Holdings, and numerous smaller SETA-accredited companies competing for corporate skills development budgets.

Training Force was established in 2003 in Johannesburg, in the early years of South Africa's National Skills Development Strategy. The SETA system, created under the Skills Development Act of 1998, had just introduced a levy-and-grant structure that effectively subsidized employer-provided training. Companies like Training Force emerged to serve the compliance and capability demand that the new system created.

Through its first decade, the company built accreditation coverage across multiple SETAs and developed the industry-aligned course catalog that remains its core. It positioned itself on the compliance side of the market: its selling point to corporate clients was that accredited training simultaneously develops workers and generates levy rebates and B-BBEE points.

The company expanded nationally, opening branches beyond Gauteng into KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape, and the Free State, including an established presence in Westville near Durban and Sasolburg. Its Learner Management System became a differentiator for large clients who needed audit-ready records for Department of Employment and Labour inspections.

By the mid-2020s, Training Force reported cumulative figures of more than 3,000 client companies and over 55,000 workers trained. The company added QCTO accreditation as the qualifications system migrated from the older SETA-based model toward the occupational qualifications framework, maintaining its status as a recognized provider through the transition.