SANAS Bursary Contact Details

SANAS is the South African National Accreditation System, the national body that accredits laboratories, certification and inspection bodies. Its website advertises a bursaries, vacancies and internships section, but that link currently has no destination page behind it, so the switchboard is the working route.

Task scope

This covers asking SANAS directly about bursary, internship and vacancy opportunities. SANAS is a public entity rather than a university or a funding agency, so any bursary or internship it offers relates to its own accreditation and technical work, not to general study funding.

Route

• SANAS switchboard: 012 740 8400 (published as +27 (0) 12 740 8400)
• Website: sanas.co.za
• Corruption reporting hotline: thehotline.co.za

Requirements

Before calling, be clear about which of the three you are asking about, because bursaries, internships and advertised vacancies are usually handled by different people. SANAS publishes no email address and no direct human resources number on its website, and the Feedback and Complaints control in the site footer is disabled, so the switchboard is the only published voice route. Ask to be put through to human resources and request that any opportunity be confirmed in writing.

Steps

Call the switchboard on 012 740 8400 and ask for human resources. Check the SANAS quick access links again before calling, since the bursaries, vacancies and internships item is rendered as a plain link with no destination and may be populated later. If a role is advertised elsewhere, confirm with SANAS that the advertisement is genuine before submitting personal documents to any third party.

Escalation

SANAS is a public entity, so an unanswered or mishandled request can be escalated internally through its office in Pretoria. Complaints about corruption or improper conduct in a recruitment process go to its independent reporting hotline, which SANAS operates through the external service thehotline.co.za rather than in house. As a public body it is also subject to the Public Protector for maladministration complaints.

Sources

• SANAS home page and quick access links: sanas.co.za
• SANAS company information block: sanas.co.za/Pages/index.aspx