Sorbet Academy

Sorbet Academy is the accredited training division of the Sorbet Group, South Africa's well-known beauty and grooming franchise, operating training campuses in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. It offers practical, hands-on qualifications in barbering, beauty therapy, hairdressing, nails, skincare and make-up, as well as men's grooming through the Sorbet Man brand, preparing students for entry-level roles in South Africa's salon and spa industry. The Academy's campuses combine theoretical coursework with supervised, hands-on salon-floor practice, mirroring the day-to-day demands of a working beauty therapist or hairstylist.

Sorbet funds bursaries and training places because its national network of franchised salons needs a continuous supply of qualified therapists, nail technicians, hairdressers and groomers, making the Academy as much a workforce pipeline for the brand as a training institution in its own right. The initiative also sits alongside programmes such as Sorbet Empowering Women (SEW), reflecting a broader company focus on skills development and job creation for young people, particularly women, entering the beauty and grooming sector. Applicants need only be South African citizens aged 18 or older who have completed matric.

Graduates are explicitly positioned for employment within the national Sorbet salon network once qualified, giving the training a real, practical employment pathway, though publicly available material does not describe this as a formally bonded or compulsory work-back obligation.