BEE ownership,
simplified.
Tusker designs, structures and manages bespoke B-BBEE ownership transactions for any business operating in South Africa.
100% legit. You retain ultimate ownership & control.
Nine years in the market. No client has ever left us.
Key questions
Is this legitimate?
Yes, 100%.
Our approach has passed scrutiny by the B-BBEE Commission and each client’s verification agents, every year since 2017.
We welcome review by your attorneys, accountants, auditors, tax guys and BEE advisors.
What do I lose?
Nothing.
You maintain ultimate ownership and control but need to invest in great black businesses. It’s tax efficient too.
Cashflows are known in advance. Clear legal agreements, without “gotchas”.
If B-BBEE is ever scrapped, the contract ends and the business remains yours.
Is it a good investment?
Yes.
The BEE ownership requirements of your customers’ (as determined by the procurement/ESD scorecards) ensure that its both unavoidable and valuable.
Most clients recover the cost many times over — through preferential-procurement wins, the ownership premium they retain, and a stronger balance sheet.
Use the ROI calculator to understand what BEE ownership can do for your unique business.
Why Tusker?
No client has ever left us.
Almost all new clients come via referral from our clients or their advisors who’ve seen what we do and how we do it.
We are an FSP (49558) and manage over R1.5 billion of B-BBEE equity
We work with companies of any size.
We scale the same, battle-tested approach from EME’s to QSE’s to Generics to large Multi-nationals. The structural questions are the same whether you are turning over eight figures or eleven. The contours — governance, financing, tax, speed — are not. We will work with you to achieve an unbeatable BEE ownership deal.
For multinationals
An alternative to the Equity Equivalent Investment Programme.
EEIP requires bespoke DTIC negotiation and are available only to foreign-controlled entities. Our approach achieves comparable empowerment outcomes, is open to any business whether local or foreign, and is meaningfully faster and less costly. We work directly with your local and foreign boards, your tax advisors, your legal reviewers and your verification agents.
Generic > R50m
Large corporates with serious governance need two R’s – ROI and rigour.
Our approach withstands board, shareholder and verification-agent scrutiny — modelled cashflows, tax opinion, legal review, scorecard math…it all has to hang together ad we’ll show you how.
We’ll demonstrate the most attractive ROI per scorecard point and walk your committee through it line by line.
QSE · R10–50m
Transforming a compliance headache into strategic advantage
Owner-led. Decisions move faster. Our same core structure — battle-tested with the multinationals — is streamlined for QSEs with materially lower admin overhead.
Reaching 51% ownership automatically lifts a QSE to Level 2 with no further scorecard spend required until you cross R50m. 100% gets your level 1. Your call.
EME · < R10m
Standardised, fast, cost-effective.
Tusker was founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs who had solved B-BBEE ownership inside their own businesses. For EMEs we package our battle-tested structure into standardised legals with fixed, low-overhead pricing.
51% ownership takes an EME to Level 2 automatically — a real growth accelerant. 100% gets you level 1.
Without giving anything away and keeping all your future options open.
Advisors
We help you to help your clients win
Many of our clients arrive via attorneys, accountants, BEE consultants and corporate advisors who have seen our approach work other clients.
If you are an advisor to clients who need BEE ownership help, we’ll work with you to build the best solution for them.
We formalise referral economics, keep you in the loop through the engagement, and never compete with your primary relationship.
Will it even be worth it?
Start with the calculator.
The ROI tool determines your B-BBEE category from your turnover, models the revenue at risk from your current score, and returns a conservative view of the uplift a Tusker solution would deliver.
Three minutes, entirely free. No email required to see the result.
What our client’s really think
All the quotes below are real – named references are available post-NDA if required…but the most important stat? No client has ever left us.
What next?
- Understand the ROI a 51% or 100% ownership deal can bring to your business.
- Learn more via our free news articles, groundbreaking research or the BEE ownership guide.
- Get in touch directly or ask your advisors to explore what we can do.