Thari Programme raises awareness on children’s rights
1 – 7 June 2020 marks Child Protection Week, an initiative aimed to raise awareness on the rights of children as articulated in the Children’s Act of 2005. Thari, a programme of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation that is implemented by its partner entity, Adopt-a-School, aims to continue to raise awareness of the rights of children. Thari…
Exciting campaign to equip classrooms in schools across the country
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Adopt-a-School , has partnered with ChairClub to help equip classrooms in schools across the country. Throughout 2020 ChairClub will donate a locally manufactured school chair to an adopted school for every office chair sold as part of the “Buy One, Give One” campaign. To support in the campaign and for…
From a one-man business to employment for the community
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Black Umbrellas, has empowered Black-owned SMEs through its businesses development and incubation programmes to generate over R3 billion in turnover. Bathale Media is a 100% Black-owned multimedia and digital content distributing agency. After four years operating in a small flat in Pretoria, founder Oscar Segane joined the Black Umbrellas programme….
First Lady launches Kanana Early Childhood Development Centre
First Lady, Dr Tshepo Motsepe, launched a radically transformed Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD) in the North West township of Kanana on 12 March. What were once tiny, decrepit shacks that packed 200 preschool children, now is a brick and mortar facility that boasts furnished classrooms, an ablution block with running water, a fully equipped…
Adopt-a-School commemorates School Health Week at Meriti Secondary School
School Health Week, always the first week of March, highlights the importance of healthcare and learner well-being in education. Adopt-a-School tackles a wide range of health and well being issues facing our schools, including hygiene and sanitation, sexual education, audio and visual support; this with the aim of ensuring our learners are healthy and equipped…
Art exhibition provokes thought on inequality
16 December 2020 Well on 2000 people passed through the doors of the Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg to view Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s public art exhibition, On Main Road, held from 21 November till 15 December 2019 in commemoration of the Foundation’s 15th anniversary. Themed with relevance to the purpose of the Foundation, which…
Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Presidential Golf Challenge Fundraising Dinner
Speaking at the 2020 Presidential Golf Challenge Fundraising Dinner, President Cyril Ramaphosa said: “Last year the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation was the beneficiary of the Presidential Golf Challenge, where over R5.3 million was raised. The funds that were raised were allocated to the work of the Foundation as well as for the construction of ablution facilities…
School sanitation benefits from Presidential Golf Challenge
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation was nominated as the beneficiary of the 2019 Presidential Golf Challenge. As a partner entity of the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, Adopt-a-School Foundation was appointed to implement sanitation projects at four schools in 2019. Through funds received, new ablution facilities have been constructed at four schools. The four schools include two schools in…
Celebrating excellence in schools
Congratulations to Gertrude Joalane Phirimana, a mathematics educator at Zamokuhle Junior Secondary School near Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, who won third place in the award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics in the GET phase at the 20th National Teachers Awards in February. The awards ceremony was held at Soshanguve East Secondary School by the…