KST at a Glance

KST at a Glance

19 April 2021 WHAT IS KST? KST is a non-profit organisation established to implement a district-wide whole school development programme in partnership with the Free State Department of Education. It was set up in 2013 by the Shanduka Foundation (now the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation) and Kagiso Trust. In December 2017, FirstRand Empowerment Foundation joined the…

ChairClub and Adopt-a-School donate 100 school chairs

ChairClub and Adopt-a-School donate 100 school chairs

Adopt-a-School in partnership with Chair Club, an office chair manufacturing company, recently visited Diepsloot Combined School to donate 100 chairs for foundation-phase classes. ChairClub managing director, Travers Hathrill, said one of the biggest demands in South Africa’s economy is to ensure South Africa’s youth are looked after and given every opportunity to grow and blossom….

Bursary Return On Investment calls for holistic offerings

Bursary Return On Investment calls for holistic offerings

“Returns on Investment for bursary support must address the high drop-out rate of first years through offerings of holistic student support, including psychosocial support and mentorship.” So said Executive Director of the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET), Chantelle Oosthuizen, at a Top Empowerment Masterclass discussion on 30 March. The theme for the discussion was  “CSI…

Holistic schools development mitigates COVID-19 impacts

Holistic schools development mitigates COVID-19 impacts

16 March 2021 By Steven Lebere, Chief Executive Officer of Adopt-a-School Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact in 2020 on South Africa’s schooling system.  Schools had to be closed, from the end of March to June, and teaching and learning time was lost. Despite this and other impacts, the matric class of 2020…

KST Helps Free State to Top Matric Results Again

The Free State province was again the top performing province in the country with a matric pass rate of 85.1%. The province has consistently achieved among the best pass rates nationally. The Foundation’s partner entity, KST, which combines the best practices of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s and Kagiso Trust’s Whole School Development programmes, contributed in no…

Whole School Development helps 100% pass in science

Whole School Development helps 100% pass in science

The Foundation congratulates Eketsang Secondary School educator, Ms Patricia Kamusoko, on achieving a 100% pass rate by her learners in physical science in the 2020 matric examinations. The result surpasses even the high pass rates achieved in 2018 and 2019. Eketsang Secondary, in Katlehong, Gauteng, has been under Adopt-a-School’s Whole School Development programme for the…

Proof of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s R402 million investment is in the pudding

Proof of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s R402 million investment is in the pudding

Since its inception in 2004 and to date, the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation has committed R402 million and raised R1.2 billion for education and small business development through its partner entities. Over a million learners, students and emerging entrepreneurs have benefitted through the programmes of the Foundation. To evaluate the efficacy of its programmes, the Foundation…

An inclusive, empowered society: Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation is working to get it right

An inclusive, empowered society: Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation is working to get it right

As South Africa closes out a difficult 2020, the struggle of the year is clearly evident with the unemployment rate hitting a record 30.8 percent, millions of families battling food insecurity and learners who had no access to digital education resources during lockdown facing uncertain results. It’s a bleak picture, not made prettier with the…

KST’s extra classrooms improves school’s Covid-19 safety

KST’s extra classrooms improves school’s Covid-19 safety

Towards the end of 2020, KST Fezile Dabi District Manager, Nathan Pillay, officially handed over a block of four classrooms to the Sandersville Combined School’s SGB. The principal of the school, Ms Ruiters, extended her “heartfelt gratitude’ on behalf of the school and the SGB. She thanked KST “for not only playing an active, stabilising…