Empowerdex (Pty) Ltd is a South African company which provides services related to Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) compliance.
Empowerdex was founded in June 2001 by Witwatersrand University classmates Vuyo Jack and Chia-Chao Wu.
[2][4] In 2005 the Department of Trade and Industry announced plans to require accreditation of BEE ratings agencies, and the following year Empowerdex was one of eight founding members of the Association of BEE Verification Agencies (ABVA), an industry association founded to promote accelerate the accreditation process.
[7][8] The following year, it partnered with the Financial Mail to publish the rankings in a special supplement of that newspaper as the Top Empowerment Companies index;[9] the first annual edition, published in April 2004, named Telkom as South Africa's most empowered company and became the Financial Mail's top-selling issue of the year.
[10][11] In later years, Empowerdex compiled the rankings for the Mail & Guardian's Most Empowered Companies index and, most recently, for Sanlam's Transformation Gauge.