Three institutions.
Three ways to build it.
GIFS, GPHEI and CIAFS share a mission but not a platform. We have mapped three routes forward — from a clean, unified web presence through to the full learner platform. Pick the one that matches your appetite.
Shared across all three
We audited all three before writing a word.
107 pages crawled, every asset weighed, each site loaded on a real phone. Four things stood out.
On GPHEI and CIAFS the login is coded href="#". It goes nowhere.
Learners still sign in at online.mtc.co.za — the name you retired.
The gifs.africa homepage renders an empty void on a phone, plus sideways scroll.
Not one page describes itself to Google. CIAFS has no sitemap at all.
Ask the assistant for the full audit — it knows every finding, with the evidence.
You already own
the hard part.
Accreditation takes years. Content takes decades. GIFS has SAQA and FSCA recognition, 26 programmes, 171 articles and a 14-year lineage through Masifunde. Your competitors are building that from scratch — and out-ranking you anyway, because they got the easy part right.
Three avenues, one foundation.
Each avenue contains everything in the one before it. Nothing is rebuilt twice — you move up the ladder when you are ready.
The Presence
Three sites rebuilt on one design system. Fast, findable, and finally consistent.
The Commerce
Everything in one, plus learners who can browse, pay and enrol themselves at 9pm on a Sunday.
The Platform
Everything in one and two, plus the learner portal, staff intranet, database and integrations.
A web presence that finally looks like one group.
Three sites rebuilt on a single design system. Same components, same rules, three distinct identities. This is the foundation everything else is built on.
Built once. Used everywhere.
Your team gets a documented kit — so new pages look right without calling us.
Colour
Your existing brand colours, pulled from your live CSS — kept, then given a proper scale and contrast rules.
Typography
Buttons & actions
Enquiry form
Accreditation markers
The credentials competitors cannot claim, made visible on every course.
Named for what people search.
Today your courses are titled "SAQA 49649". Nobody searches that. They search for the exam they have to pass.
RE5 Regulatory Exam Preparation
For FAIS representatives sitting the RE5. Six weeks, fully online, with mock exams.
Class of Business — Long & Short Term
Meet your FSCA Class of Business requirement across all product categories.
BMM in Business Administration
A three-year accredited degree through GIFS Private Higher Education.
Fourteen ways to build a page.
Variety without chaos. Every section below is built from the same system, so pages look different without ever looking off-brand.
Split hero
Headline, copy, call to action
Full-bleed hero
For campaigns and launches
Course grid
Filterable, three across
Feature row
Alternating image and copy
Stat band
Numbers that prove the claim
Long-form article
For the 171 migrated posts
Testimonial
Graduate and employer voices
Comparison table
Programme against programme
FAQ accordion
Structured for AI answers
Accreditation wall
SAQA, FSCA, QCTO marks
Application form
Multi-step, with uploads
Events & RSVP
Graduations and summits
Dark CTA band
End-of-page conversion
Team & faculty
Profiles with credentials
Imagery with a point of view.
Your current sites lean on generic stock — much of it not even African, on a brand built around building a better Africa. We shoot and art-direct to fix that.
Graduates photographed at your own ceremonies, credited by name and qualification.
Teaching in progress, not smiling models at a boardroom table.
The firms your graduates join — proof the qualification travels.
A half-day shoot at a graduation covers most of a year's imagery. We direct it, edit it and build the library into the design system.
What you receive.
- Design system & documented component library
- All three sites rebuilt and unified
- Every critical failure fixed, including the dead login
- 171 articles and 26 courses migrated
- SEO rebuilt — titles, descriptions, schema, sitemaps
- GEO — structured so AI assistants quote you correctly
- Mobile rebuilt and tested on real devices
- One analytics view across the whole group
Let learners enrol themselves. At any hour.
Everything in avenue 1, plus a real store. Browse, pay, and get instant access — no consultant call-back on Tuesday, no learner lost to a competitor in the meantime.
Four steps, no phone call.
Discover
Finds the RE5 course through search
Choose
Compares dates and payment options
Pay
PayFast, Ozow, card or EFT
Start
Access granted the moment payment clears
Instant access on payment
Payment clears, enrolment is created, the welcome email goes out and the learner is inside the course. No staff step in the middle.
Employer and bursary rules
Discount codes, SETA funding, bulk seats and instalment plans — enforced at checkout instead of negotiated over email.
Dollar pricing for CIAFS
The US programmes priced and paid in USD through a separate route, on the same platform.
Revenue you can actually see.
| Course | Enrolments | Revenue | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| RE5 Regulatory Exam Prep | 38 | R188,100 | ▲ 14% |
| Class of Business | 27 | R86,400 | ▲ 9% |
| CPD — Private Learners | 19 | R71,250 | — 0% |
| Wealth Management | 10 | R67,150 | ▼ 4% |
Illustrative figures — the real dashboard is built on your enrolment data.
One course, end to end.
What a learner actually sees, from the search result to the welcome email.
Accredited RE5 preparation for FAIS representatives. Six weeks online, mock exams, 94% pass rate. From R4,950.
RE5 Regulatory Exam Prep
You're in. Start whenever you like.
Your RE5 course is unlocked and your invoice is attached. Module 1 takes about 40 minutes.
Open my courseSearch result to first module, with no one at GIFS touching it.
Corporate buyers get their own door.
| Course | Seats | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| RE5 Prep | 25 | R4,208 |
| Class of Business | 40 | R2,720 |
Invoice, not credit card
Employers buy on account with a PO reference, and finance gets a proper invoice.
Seats they allocate themselves
HR assigns and reassigns staff to seats without emailing you a spreadsheet.
SETA-ready records
Completion and competency exported in the format the grant claim needs.
What you receive.
- Full course store with cart and checkout
- PayFast, Ozow, card, EFT and invoicing
- Automatic enrolment the moment payment clears
- Discount codes, bursaries and instalments
- Corporate bulk seats and employer invoicing
- USD pricing route for CIAFS
- Sales and revenue dashboard
- Abandoned-cart recovery and automated email
The whole institution, running on one system.
Everything in avenues 1 and 2, plus the learner portal, the staff intranet, the database and the integrations. Your learners stop logging into a brand you retired in 2019.
One login. On your own domain.
Progress, certificates, results, invoices and support — under the GIFS name, for every division.
A real database underneath.
Not spreadsheets and inboxes. Structured records you can report on, audit and hand to the regulator.
- id uuid
- id_number text
- division enum
- status enum
- learner_id fk
- course_id fk
- cohort date
- progress int
- saqa_id text
- nqf_level int
- credits int
- price money
- enrolment_id fk
- score int
- outcome enum
- assessor fk
- enrolment_id fk
- issued_at date
- serial text
- verify_url text
- company text
- seats int
- seta text
- invoice_ref text
The intranet and the admin console.
Staff intranet
Admin console
| Learner | Course | Progress | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| T. Mokoena | RE5 | 68% | Active |
| S. Naidoo | COB | 100% | Certified |
| J. van Wyk | CPD | 12% | At risk |
Talking to the systems you already run.
Accounting
Invoices and payments into Xero or Sage.
SETA & regulator
Learner records exported in the required format.
Existing LMS
Course delivery stays where it works, behind your portal.
Email & CRM
Enquiries and campaigns from one contact record.
Who can see what.
Learner records are regulated data. Roles are enforced by the system, not by trust.
| Capability | Learner | Facilitator | Assessor | Admin | Employer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View own progress | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| View cohort progress | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Capture assessment marks | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Issue certificates | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
| See own staff only | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export regulator reports | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
RE5 Regulatory Examination · NQF Level 5
Issued 12 September 2026
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Certificates anyone can verify
Every certificate carries a serial and a public verification URL. An employer checking a CV confirms it in seconds, without phoning your office.
- Issued automatically on assessment sign-off
- Downloadable by the learner, any time
- Revocable if a result is later corrected
- Cuts the "can you confirm this qualification" emails to zero
One board pack. Three divisions.
The number management asks for every month, assembled by the system instead of by hand.
Illustrative. Built on your real records once the platform is live.
What you receive.
- Learner portal on your own domain, one login
- Progress, results, certificates and invoices
- Staff intranet — policies, announcements, onboarding
- Admin console for staff, with roles and permissions
- Structured database of learners and enrolments
- Accounting, SETA, LMS and CRM integrations
- Corporate client dashboards with sub-accounts
- Group reporting across all three divisions