Coaching and mentoring are relatively new, still-emerging disciplines in South Africa. Launched in April 2006, Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA) is an inclusive, umbrella professional association for individual and corporate providers, buyers and trainers of coaching and mentoring services:

• COMENSA's Mission is to support professional practice and a learning culture in coaching and mentoring through standards and ethics.
• COMENSA's Vision is to empower people to achieve their full potential in a consciousness of sustainable well-being.