Independent, Credible, Assurance
AQRate Verification Services is the only nationally accredited BEE verification agency with SANAS accreditations obtained in all three major business centres in South Africa namely Gauteng, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
The brand came to be in June 2009 following an unbundling of shareholding in the National Empowerment Rating Agency (NERA) holding entity which saw two of the then three accredited verification agencies in the NERA group re-brand to AQRate (Pty) Ltd (previously NERA - Western Cape) and AQRate KZN (Pty) Ltd (previously NERA - KZN). The previous NERA office in Limpopo also rebranded to AQRate. AQRate Gauteng commenced business during June 2009.
AQRate is a SANAS accredited verification agency
As such, an AQRate rating is official recognition that your organisation is in compliance with the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act and the Codes of Good Practice. The company is the only verification agency that has been accredited to deliver BEE verification services in more than one geographical location in South Africa. Both the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal offices were independently accredited by the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) as part of the very first batch of 11 verification agencies to be accredited in South Africa in February 2009. The Gauteng office has since then also been independently accredited by SANAS. This national presence affords AQRate the market presence associated with a true market leader.