Toyota Empowerment Trust works with Toyota South Africa Motors to turn selected ESG priorities into practical, measurable outcomes in surrounding communities and across the supplier ecosystem.
We focus on three connected outcomes: future STEM talent, cleaner energy and stronger emerging suppliers.
People.Clean energy.Supplier scale-ups.
We help young people build the mathematics, science and wider capabilities needed to access technical, engineering and professional careers.
The work begins in communities around Toyota and creates pathways from school into further study, technical training and future employment.
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We help companies across the automotive sector access renewable-energy infrastructure that can reduce energy costs, improve resilience and lower emissions.
The objective is a stronger, more competitive and increasingly lower-carbon supplier ecosystem.
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We help emerging suppliers build the strategy, team, systems and money disciplines to grow responsibly.
AI-enabled coaching keeps execution on track. Better business systems are the outcome.
Explore Supplier Scale-Ups
Long-term industrial resilience depends on the communities from which future talent is drawn and the suppliers that support the business every day.
Toyota Empowerment Trust provides a dedicated implementation platform for selected initiatives that are best delivered through focused, specialist capability outside Toyota’s day-to-day operating structures.
TET brings together programme design, implementation, governance and measurement so that ESG intent can become visible, practical outcomes.
Defined problems. Defined beneficiaries. Defined outcomes.
Education, renewable energy, supplier development and impact measurement brought together through dedicated delivery capability.
Budgets, deliverables, programme decisions and evidence managed through structured governance.
Success is not the amount spent. It is what changed because the programme existed.
A learner developing strong mathematics and science capability today may become part of tomorrow’s technical workforce.
A supplier with cleaner, more resilient energy is better positioned to compete.
A growing business with disciplined management systems can become a more credible and responsible participant in sophisticated supply chains.
Together, these interventions strengthen the ecosystem around Toyota.
2 659+ learners reached through the training platform since inception.
1 504 learners reached in 2026.
136 young people in structured Toyota-linked STEM pathways across employment, university and TVET.
Live Renewable Energy Fund — first installation active and running.
TET was established in 2016 with an initial focus on Enterprise and Supplier Development.
That first chapter demonstrated that a dedicated external platform can do more than fund activity. It can build operating capability, create businesses, support young people, develop suppliers and generate measurable outcomes over time.
Toyota Empowerment Trust is the next evolution of that experience.
Today the platform is focused on three practical challenges already visible across Toyota’s ecosystem:
B-BBEE remains relevant where programmes legitimately support its objectives. It does not define why Toyota Empowerment Trust exists.
Toyota Empowerment Trust is a non-profit vehicle focused on long-term ESG impact.
Specialist delivery is supported by three for-profit operating ventures under the Inqubeko brand.
This structure allows TET to retain a clear impact mandate while drawing on commercially disciplined delivery capability that can operate in the market, build specialist expertise and execute programmes at scale.
Non-profit impact platform
Market-neutral commercial delivery brand
Delivering programmes and services aligned to the Trust’s impact objectives
Toyota Empowerment Trust connects community opportunity, cleaner energy and responsible growth.
