2026 National Employment Equity roadshows debuts in Kimberley and Polokwane this week

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20 July 2026

The joint national employment equity roadshows/workshops by the Department of Employment and Labour, Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) and the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) to deal with equity issues, ending workplace discrimination, and enforcing the Employment Equity Act begins this week.

The first 2026 Employment Equity (EE) workshops/roadshows will be held on Tuesday (21 July 2026) in Kimberley, Northern Cape at Horseshoe Inn 101 Memorial Road, Royldene. The second workshop will be held on Thursday (23 July 2026) in Polokwane, Limpopo Province at – Meropa Casino 59 Prov Roodepoort Street, Ivy Park X14.

Held under the theme: “Bridging the Equity Gap Through Diversity & Inclusion” – the national workshops will end in September 2026.

The 2026 workshops will focus on:

• Presentation on the Draft Amended Code of Good Practice on the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the EE Plan;

• Presentation on practical demonstration of how to utilise the EE System online facilities to capture EE Reports and request EE Certificate of Compliance;

• Presentation on sharing of all types of unfair discrimination cases by the CCMA; and

• Presentation on labour law amendments – Labour Relations Act (LRA), Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), Employment Equity Act (EEA), National Minimum Wage Act (NMWA)

This year’s national EE workshops/roadshows come a year following the implementation of the Employment Equity Amendment Act, No 4 of 2022 which came into force on 1 January 2025. The new amendments and regulations introduced the setting of five-year sector EE targets, the enhancement of EE System, how to request EE Certificate of Compliance to be able to conduct business with the State.

The rest of the schedule of 2026 national workshops is as follows:

Mpumalanga

• Mbombela Khayalami Hotel 29 Van Wijk Street (28 July 2026)

North West

• Rustenburg – Orion Safari Hotel, 1 Donkerhoek Road (30 July 2026)

KwaZulu-Natal

• Durban (04 August 2026)

• Pietermaritzburg (06 August 2026)

Western Cape

• Cape Town (11 August 2026)

Eastern Cape

• KuGompo (18 August 2026)

• Gqeberha (20 August 2026)

Gauteng

• Pretoria (25 August 2026)

• Johannesburg (27 August 2026)

Free State

• Bloemfontein (01 September 2026)

The EE workshops are targeted at Employers or Heads of organisations, employees and trade unions, Assigned Senior EE Managers, Consultative EE forum members, Human Resource Managers and Practitioners, Academics, Civil society, and interested stakeholders.

NB: All the workshops will be held from 09:00 to 16:00 and members of the media are invited.

More information on the EE workshops, including updates on the venues to be used, will be available on department’s and the CCMA's social media platform as well as the Department’s website: www.labour.gov.za

For media inquiries, please contact:

Teboho Thejane

Departmental Spokesperson

082 697 0694/ teboho.thejane@labour.gov.za

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Issued by: Department of Employment and Labour