Who We Are
Global Certification Solutions is a boutique Local Content Verification, management, and product systems certification organisation providing end to end systems solutions to its clients.
Our solutions consist of the following areas:
- Management & Product Systems: Implementation including software
- Management & Product Systems Training and Development for practitioners
- Skills Development, Mentoring, and Coaching
- Local Content Verification
GC Solutions has developed over the years specialised methodologies and toolkits that are focused on driving bottom line benefits to organisations.
OUR APPROACH
Competence, Capability, Credibility are key contributors to building a world-class Management and Product System within organisation.
This is our aim:
- The sustainable impact is our focus and how we measure our success.
Management system within Supplier development is often the most significant and easily instituted source of immediate and long-term value creation available to an organisation. - We design approaches to provide immediate impact but also believe that to ensure sustainability, a formal performance program—that includes organizational and cultural changes.
- Skill transfer and talent management capability building are equally important ingredients in executing a holistic and integrated business management system.
- Our clear, consistent, but tailored approaches are what makes us distinctive in building our clients into world-class leaders.
Listen to Desmond Govender on KAYA FM on Local Content Verification Officer at the SABS:

Desmond Govender
CEO and Founder of Global Certification Solutions
Diploma Engineering | MBA – Edinburgh, UK
Experience
- Over 20 years Management system, product certification, and supplier development experience
- Former Head of Local Content and Automotive Certification Division ( General Manager of South African Bureau of Standards) – 14 years
- Head of IATF 16949 Certification, representing SABS in the International Automotive Task Force Veto Meetings in Europe
- Participated in the development of the new IATF 16949 in Rome 2016 prior to the launch
- One out of a handful of ISO/TS 16949 & IATF 16949 Third-Party Automotive Auditors in South Africa
- Program Lead for the development and Implementation of a Local Content verification program for the Department of Trade and Industry in Public Procurement.
- Presented to Parliamentary Committees the status of Local Content Verification for products in RSA such as solar water heaters, rolling stock and buses.
- Initiated, designed and implemented an SMME Division within SABS, with the aim to support SMMEs in management systems and product certification.
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