Funding that gets you deal-ready.
Sasol Enterprise and Supplier Development uses targeted funding pathways to help qualifying SMEs overcome barriers to growth, strengthen resilience, and participate more meaningfully in value chains and the broader economy.
Through grants, development finance, tailored solutions, and post-investment support, we enable businesses to invest in capability, unlock opportunity, and build long term sustainability.
Funding growth with purpose.
Our funding approach combines catalytic grant support, development finance, and specialist funding solutions to respond to different SME needs across the growth journey.
Enable
Unlock access to capital and opportunity.
Invest
Support growth through fit-for-purpose funding.
Sustain
Strengthen resilience through post-investment support.
Funding Pathways
Our funding instruments are designed to address different business requirements, stages of growth, and commercial realities.
Grant Funding
Catalytic grant support for targeted development interventions, capability building, and specialist business needs.
Loans
Repayable funding to support asset finance, working capital, and business growth requirements.
Tailored Solutions
Structured finance solutions designed around specific business challenges, sectors, and opportunity pathways.
Post-Investment Support
Ongoing guidance and support to strengthen financial management, business sustainability, and growth outcomes.
SME Funding Benefits
Access to capital
Funding that supports investment and growth.
Competitive rates
Funding structures designed to improve affordability.
Jobs and livelihoods
Supporting business growth that can sustain employment.
Business resilience
Helping SMEs strengthen long-term sustainability.
Opportunity readiness
Improving the ability to respond to opportunities.
Embedded support
Post-investment support that helps businesses succeed.
Giving enterprise owners access to more market opportunities while guiding them through business challenges.
The Sasol Siyakha Enterprise and Supplier Development Trust acts as an all-inclusive funding support vehicle dedicated to the empowerment of black suppliers within the Sasol value chain. Every milestone the Trust achieves help transform the South African economic landscape by delivering successful black enterprises to local economies.
Funding Offering
Grant Funding
Grants
Up to 100k, Non-Sasol supplier (ED)
Grant Fund Offering
Grant fund as part of ED development: Acquire Tools, Equipment; Technical Accreditation and Software Management Programmes.
Access
As part of ESD development journey
Siyakha Fund Offering
Loans
Repayable funds disbursed to beneficiaries
Standard Interest-bearing term loan.
▪ Asset financing
▪ Working capital financing
▪ Debt consolidation
Interest free loans
▪ PO funding up to R5m
▪ Low value loans up to R2m
Tailored Solutions
Tailored funding to target specific SME challenges.
▪ Women empowerment finance
▪ Township development finance
▪ Transporter development finance
▪ Retail fuel station solution
▪ Property developer finance
▪ Franchisee finance
Post Investment
Funded entities received post investment support.
▪ Dedicated one-one mentors / advisory boards
▪ Compliance support
▪ SARS
▪ CIPC
▪ AFS
▪ Business Marketing support
▪ Financial management support
▪ Embedding good governance
▪ Competitive interest rates
▪ Ease cash flow burden for SMEs
▪ Reduce entity indebtedness
▪ Growing SMEs with a cash injection to scale up and create jobs
▪ Facilitate growth of entities through post investment support to ensure sustainability
Giving enterprise owners access to more market opportunities while guiding them through business challenges.
The Sasol Siyakha Enterprise and Supplier Development Trust acts as an all-inclusive funding support vehicle dedicated to the empowerment of black suppliers within the Sasol value chain. Every milestone the Trust achieves help transform the South African economic landscape by delivering successful black enterprises to local economies.