Clint le Roux
30+ years of hands-on experience managing people in SMEs, retail and corporate environments across South Africa, including defending employers’ dismissal decisions at the CCMA. Every Breaking Ground product is researched and compiled from that real workplace experience.
Breaking Ground P&L exists because of a pattern seen repeatedly on the ground floor of South African business: capable owners, doing everything right operationally, undone by an HR process they didn't know they'd got wrong. A dismissal handled a day too fast. A disciplinary hearing missing one document. A verbal warning that was never put in writing. None of it malicious — all of it costly.
That gap between good intentions and correct process is exactly what Breaking Ground P&L closes. Everything built into our tools and packages comes from real time spent in the trenches of South African labour law — handling grievances face to face, sitting through CCMA proceedings, and building HR systems for owner-managed businesses that couldn't afford to get it wrong twice.
Practical HR Support, Built for SME Reality
Grounded in What Actually Holds Up
There's a difference between HR advice written by someone who studied labour law and HR advice written by someone who has had to defend a dismissal decision in front of a commissioner. Breaking Ground P&L is built on the latter.
Every checklist, template, and process in our tools has been shaped by what actually holds up under scrutiny — not generic best practice, but the specific documentation, timing, and steps that keep South African SMEs out of avoidable disputes.
The aim is straightforward: cleaner processes, clearer records, and business owners who can act on people issues with confidence instead of guesswork.
We measure ourselves by one thing: whether what we give you helps your business handle its people processes clearly and correctly. Plain-English tools, built on real HR experience and aligned to South African labour law.
Important — Scope of Service
Breaking Ground P&L provides HR documentation and general compliance guidance. We do not chair disciplinary hearings or represent employers at the CCMA. For hearing chairperson services or CCMA representation, clients engage independently qualified practitioners. Nothing in our products constitutes legal advice.