Badge check
Verified Organisation: ProLend
Badge PLA-B-VO-0001, issued by the Private Lending Association of South Africa and recorded on 17 September 2026. This page is the record behind the badge — what it covers, what it does not, and where to look next.
- Status of this badge
- Withdrawn. This badge is no longer issued and must not be displayed.
- Held by
- ProLend
- Badge family
- Recognition
- Recorded
- 17 September 2026
- Code
- PLA-B-VO-0001
What this badge meant while it was issued
The organisation has completed the Association's published checks for organisations, and the record below shows what was checked and when.
What it does not mean
A badge issued by the Association is a statement about a record it keeps, not a permission granted by anybody with authority to grant one.
The three things a badge can record
The constitution keeps membership, partnership and verification apart, and the badge programme mirrors that: there is no combined badge, and holding one says nothing about the other two. This badge records recognition only.
- Founding record. A factual record of who founded the Association and what position they hold, taken from its founding documents. Recognition under the published standards is a separate assessment.
- Membership. Records that the holder participates in the Association. It is a fact about a relationship, not an assessment, and it requires no evidence beyond the membership record itself.
- Partnership. Records a disclosed commercial or supporting relationship with the Association. It is the one badge that money is involved in, which is exactly why it may never be displayed in a way that reads as approval.
- Recognition. Records that an assessment against the published standards was completed, and what it found. It rests on evidence, it expires, and it is the one the Association will withdraw.
The evidence behind it
A verification badge is only worth the record underneath it. That record publishes the scope of the checks, the evidence relied on, the limitations of that evidence, anything still open and the date the record falls due for review — so a reader can disagree with the conclusion on the same facts the Association used to reach it.
Read the full verification record for ProLend →
The record states the methodology version it was assessed under, which is not necessarily the current one — nobody is retrospectively unverified by a rule written after their assessment. Read the verification methodology for what is checked and what is not.
If this badge is being displayed wrongly
If you have seen this badge used to suggest a guaranteed return, regulatory approval, or anything the record above does not support — or if it appears on a site whose holder is not ProLend — tell the Association. Misuse is a ground for withdrawal, and a withdrawn badge stops displaying wherever it is embedded from this domain.
Raise it through the complaints process → or write to complaints@privatelendingassociation.co.za quoting PLA-B-VO-0001.
Check it for yourself
Nothing on this page asks to be taken on trust. The registers are public, the methodology is published, and the record this badge points at states its own limits.
How the badge programme works · The public registers · The methodology