About Us.
Scientific Sanitation Solutions (SSS) is a proudly South African, Black-managed and Black-owned enterprise , purpose-built to advance inclusive industrialisation in the chemicals, sanitation, and water-treatment value chains. SSS’s empowerment-led team, offer scientific innovation with tangible socio-economic dividends, positioning the company as a high-impact government partner for resilient supply, local job creation, and transformation at scale.
Our transformation strategy is operationalised across the business:
- Black ownership & management: Control and strategic decision-making rest with Black executives, ensuring that governance, capital allocation, and market expansion decisions are led by South African beneficiaries of transformation.
- Community inclusion: Supplier pipelines prioritise EMEs/QSEs, township-based enterprises, and women- and youth-owned SMMEs. Our procurement model is designed to on-board, mentor, and scale local manufacturers and service providers in packaging, logistics, and technical services.
- Skills development: We invest in accredited training (e.g., learnerships, artisan pathways, internships) and workplace exposure in partnership with relevant SETAs and TVET colleges, building a durable pipeline of Black process technologists, QC analysts, and plant operators.
- Economic growth & localisation: By onshoring production of disinfectants and environmental chemistries, SSS reduces import leakage, improves supply security for government and industry, and catalyses job creation in priority provinces.
- Public-interest alignment: Our product portfolio (medical, veterinary, environmental hygiene and water solutions) supports the state’s health-security mandate and service-delivery objectives, enabling responsive, ethical procurement and measurable impact in communities.
Our Expertise.
Our commitment to excellence is driven by our Research & Development team. They spearhead the development of our cutting-edge technology, ensuring that our products set the highest standards in water sanitisation and hand & surface disinfection.
We take pride in our extensive network of experts, enabling us to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the Medical and Science industry. Through these collaborations, we continuously push the boundaries of innovation and scientific advancements. Our goal is to create life-saving formulas that are not only highly effective but also safe for human use and consumption, while being environmentally friendly and animal-friendly.
Our Vision.
At Scientific Sanitation Solutions (SSS), our vision is to be South Africa’s Black-owned and Black-managed national champion in water and hygiene technologies—delivering universal access to safe water and optimal sanitation while advancing Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) in a measurable, transparent, and enduring way.
We will localise advanced manufacturing and scientific capability to build resilient public-health infrastructure and create equitable opportunities for historically excluded communities. Our innovation agenda is inseparable from transformation: we design, produce, and deploy sanitation solutions with community inclusion, skills development, and shared economic growth at the centre.
Our Mission.
- Deepen ownership and management control by Black South Africans, ensuring leadership, governance, and value creation reflect our nation’s demographics and transformation goals.
- Expand accredited skills development pipelines (learnerships, internships, artisan and technician pathways) that convert training investments into qualifications and sustainable careers in the chemical, sanitation, and water sectors.
- Accelerate enterprise & supplier development (ESD) by integrating EMEs and QSEs—including township, rural, youth- and women-owned businesses—into our supply chain for packaging, logistics, technical services, and component manufacturing.
- Deliver socio-economic development (SED) outcomes tied to our deployments, improving community health, environmental hygiene, and local livelihoods.
- Advance localisation and industrialisation, reducing import dependency, strengthening supply security for the state, and catalysing quality jobs across priority provinces.
"We take a great amount of pride in what we do."
Meet the team.
Mr. Tebogo D. Dipico
Managing Director (RSA)
Leadership & mandate. Mr. Dipico leads SSS South Africa’s localisation programme to manufacture advanced disinfectants, sanitation, and water-treatment chemistries domestically, anchoring Black management at the heart of our industrial operations and public-sector partnerships. His appointment supports SSS’s 51% B-BBEE ownership structure, strengthens state-facing procurement readiness, and deepens stakeholder engagement across priority sectors. Professional profile.. A visionary South African industrialist, entrepreneur, and development strategist, Mr. Dipico brings more than two decades of experience spanning renewable energy, chemical manufacturing, mining, and advanced industrialisation. His track record sits at the intersection of scientific innovation, inclusive growth, and sustainable economic transformation in South Africa’s evolving Fourth Industrial Revolution landscape. As Managing Director of Scientific Sanitation Solutions (Pty) Ltd, he integrates industrial empowerment with technology-led manufacturing to bolster national health security and resilience. He is also the founding force behind ventures in advanced manufacturing, smart agriculture, and energy (including Barzhum Gas Exploration)—demonstrating a consistent focus on Black-empowered industrial capability and regional development.
Victor Adendorff (RSA)
Director
Victor is an expert business strategist with a sound understanding of organisational development, brand value creation, and sales. He has a wealth of new business development and operational experience at an executive management level. In tandem with international key role players, he co-designs and develops cutting-edge disinfectant products for agricultural and domestic use and has developed a ‘Point-Of-Use’ water sanitiser in response to the global water crisis. Victor is fuelled by his ambition to find new and innovative ways in which he can improve upon current products and services, by implementing and using the latest available cutting-edge technologies.
George Erasmus (RSA)
R&D Director
George is an energetic and devoted Chemist with a sound knowledge of microorganisms and chemical elements. He has an extensive comprehension on the scientific fields involved with elements and compounds, their composition, structures, behaviours, and the changes they undertake during reactions with other materials. With his admirable accolade of degrees in BSc. Forensic Sciences, BSc. Hons. Chemistry and MSc. Organic Chemistry, specialising in synthesis he is committed to researching and developing ways to improve and refine our product range, as well developing new disruptive technologies in an effort to eliminate an even wider spectrum of bacteria and viruses in multiple sectors.
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