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The full Saffa Skills learning platform is currently being built.

Saffa SkillsSkills for South Africans, everywhere.

For South Africans worldwide

Practical education and training for South Africans who want to become more confident with technology, use AI properly, improve their work, change careers, build something new or prepare for better opportunities.

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  • Core learning intended to stay free
  • For South Africans at home and abroad
  • Skills shown through practical work

Today’s Mission

Organise your files and folders

Digital Foundations · about 20 minutes

Why it matters: finding the right document quickly saves time at work and at home.

Skills Passport

  • Using emailCapable
  • Spotting online scamsCapable
An early design of the learner’s main screen. Illustrative only.

What is Saffa Skills?

Useful learning, real practice and proof of what you can do

Saffa Skills is being built as a free learning platform for South Africans around the world. Whether you’re new to computers or developing advanced technical skills, the goal is simple: help you learn useful things, practise them properly and prove what you can do.

  1. Learn

    Understand something properly.

  2. Build

    Practise through real tasks and projects.

  3. Prove

    Demonstrate what you can actually do.

  4. Progress

    Use those skills to improve your work, career, business or future.

More about Saffa Skills

Built for different starting points

Wherever you’re starting from

No one is labelled or rushed. The platform will start from what you already know.

  • New to technology

    For people who use WhatsApp or Facebook but aren’t yet comfortable with computers, files, email, online forms, cloud tools or staying safe online.

  • Working professionals

    For people who already use email, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace or business systems and want to become far more capable with AI and technology.

  • Career changers

    For South Africans with real-world experience in one field who want to move into something new.

  • Business owners & executives

    For people who want to understand AI, software, data, automation, cybersecurity or digital marketing without being treated like developers.

  • Technical professionals

    For people who already work with technology and want deeper or more specialised skills.

  • Farmers, tradespeople & operators

    For people who run farms, workshops, sites and equipment and want practical digital and AI skills that fit real, hands-on work.

Where the platform starts

Two learning pathways first, built properly

Each is practical, step by step and assessed through real tasks.

Pathway 1Building now

Digital Foundations

Everyday digital confidence and safety

Learn to use:

  • Devices, confidently
  • Browsers and search
  • Email
  • Files and folders
  • Cloud storage
  • Passwords and two-step verification
  • Online forms
  • Video meetings
  • Online safety

Pathway 2Building now

AI for Work

Using AI properly, carefully and well

Learn to use AI for:

  • Research
  • Drafting
  • Rewriting
  • Summarising
  • Analysing information
  • Working with structured data
  • Verifying claims
  • Protecting confidential information
  • Responsible workplace use

More pathways will be added after the first platform release. See the full training roadmap.

Explore the plan

See what’s being built, and where it leads

Training roadmap

What can I learn here?

20 training areas, each marked honestly with where it stands.

  • Building nowDigital Foundations, AI & Automation
  • Launching nextHuman & Workplace Skills, Business & Entrepreneurship, Customer Service & Retail
  • Planned8 training areas
  • Coming later7 training areas
Explore the training areas

Skills Passport

Show what you can actually do

A private record of skills proven through practical evidence, not a pile of certificates.

  • Organising files and foldersCapable
  • Verifying AI-generated claimsStarter
  • Calculating a marginProficient

Illustrative example only.

How the Skills Passport works

For Businesses

Practical skills for your team

Plans for employers, industry bodies and community organisations.

  • PlannedTeam digital-skills training
  • PlannedAI literacy for staff
  • Coming laterPractical skills assessment
See plans for businesses

Launch updates

Get notified when we launch

Leave your first name and email and we’ll let you know when Saffa Skills opens. No learner account is needed.

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