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Top 24 Social enterprises job creation companies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 99 social enterprises job creation companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 817 professional contacts across them, including 238 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers social enterprises job creation companies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 24 largest social enterprises job creation companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Avo Vision is a proudly African social enterprise that equips individuals with the tools, confidence and skills needed to lead change in their families and communities through the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “It’s simple really, we grow the economy and create jobs, by building businesses that last.” Catherine Wijnberg Fetola CEO A thriving small business sector is a national imperative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Signa, we do more than work, we make a meaningful impact!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A South African Impact Investor providing funding and end-to-end business support to high-growth businesses, early-stage founders and social enterprises focused on youth…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Progression was founded on the values of social entrepreneurship and the desire to influence transformation and effect positive and meaningful change in South African society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a Non-Profit organisation working to address youth unemployment in South Africa by preparing young people for the world beyond the classroom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BEULAH AFRICA is a dynamic group of social enterprises focused on the socio-economic development of Africa to facilitate sustainable change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Makers Valley Partnership (MVP) is a non-profit company established to support the Vision of Makers Valley as Jozi’s Heart of Social and Creative Enterprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Angels Resource Centres is a professional Rural Economic Development Implementation Centre, focused on economic development and entrepreneurial empowerment in under-resourced…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WORK 4 A LIVING is a registered NPO in the United States and South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Driving impact through Just Energy Transition (JET), ESG Advisory, Energy & Water Security, Green Skills Development, Enterprise Development, and Inclusive Industrialisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ARCH is a social impact business that originates opportunities for the private & public sectors to create economic advancement for the communities in which they operate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Township Fleva is a registered Pty (Ltd) credited with Level 1 B-BBEE rating.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What has started in 2014 as a “Graduate World Connect” service, linking university and college students in the employment world, has grown into a talent incubation environment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “In December 2016, three commercial farm enterprises, the Landman Group, Blydevallei Boerdery, and Bavaria Fruit Estates, registered a social enterprise, the Hoedspruit Hub.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seeds of Africa is a Non Profit and Public Benefits Organisation based in Muldersdrift on the West Rand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Learning to change the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We find innovative ways to create sustainable jobs for youth while solving the country's pressing social problems, like skills shortage, entrepreneur support and sanitation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In answer to South Africa’s need for change and growth, Africa Upskill is an organisation that focuses on developing the skills of our disadvantaged communities, uplifting the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Accendio is a Cape Town-based economic development consultancy that focuses on entrepreneurial ecosystem development, innovative finance for social enterprises and product…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Seed, we get inspired by ideas that create sustainable change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Linkup Youth is a social enterprise, dedicated to provide black unemployed youth with training, skills and a first time opportunity to gain quality work experience, in a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Love Business and Entrepreneurship, Ideas and Idealists, Pioneers and Visionaries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The first iteration, called Peaches Apparel, was aimed at the equestrian community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: social enterprises job creation companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names social enterprises job creation companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of social enterprises job creation companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name social enterprises job creation companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Social enterprises job creation companies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 99 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among social enterprises job creation companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “social enterprises job creation companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names social enterprises job creation companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among social enterprises job creation companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 238 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names social enterprises job creation companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many social enterprises job creation companies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 99 social enterprises job creation companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
AVO Vision, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most social enterprises job creation companies?
Johannesburg leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (17) and Pretoria (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 238 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 99 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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