03 September 2022 According to government estimates, load shedding can cost the country’s economy about R500 million per day. The effects of South Africa’s struggles with blackouts, especially impact micro to medium-sized enterprises that play such a significant role in the economy. The country has had load shedding since 2008. It is important for small…
21 September 2022 In the storeroom of a school in Soweto, draped in cloth to protect it over the years from the dust, is a fax machine. Many may not to know what a fax machine is. At its height in the 1980s through to the early 1990s, it was a technological marvel for the…
13 September 2022 Psychosocial and care support services for learners was in the spotlight at the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s Thari Programme’s Second Biennial Conference in Botshabelo township in the Free State on 9 September. Held in partnership with the National Department of Basic Education and Free State Department of Education, the event was attended by…
On the 09th of September 2022, The Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation hosted its second biennial Thari Programme conference at Seemahale Secondary School in Botshabelo in the Free State. The Thari Programme is a five-year pilot programme, implemented by the Foundation’s partner entity, Adopt-a-School, in Botshabelo in the Free State and Diepsloot in Gauteng, to address a…
The Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) hosted its annual Career Guidance Day for learners at the Diepsloot Combined School on Tuesday, 23 August 2022. The event was held in collaboration with Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Adopt-a-School, and the Foundation’s Thari Programme which supports vulnerable children. This year’s career guidance day was themed, ‘Providing guidance…
KwaZulu-Natal start-up entrepreneurs will have easy access to assistance to grow their business with the launch of the Black Umbrellas incubation lounge at Regent Business School at the Durban campus. A partner entity of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, this is the second of three incubation lounges to be run nationally with Regent employment arm RedHUB which…
09 August 2022 By Mmabatho Maboya, CEO, Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation On 09 August 2022, we mark National Women’s Day, and extend the commemoration campaign to boost awareness of and mobilisation against gender inequality and its consequences for the entire month. August 9 commemorates the march on Pretoria on this day in 1956 by some 20…
In recent years, South Africa’s disheartened youths seem to be growing weary of an unnerving predilection by the public and private sectors to theoretically position young people as the drivers of economic transformation. In reality, the country still hasn’t managed to create a progressive, business ecosystem that enables youth entrepreneurship. In positioning entrepreneurs as change-makers,…
By Chantelle Oosthuizen, Executive Director, Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust As we close Mandela Month, which motivates volunteerism for community good, the young student beneficiaries of the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) inspire with their ongoing giving. CRET provides bursaries along with a host of other support provisions for its beneficiaries, and also instils an ethos…
From her home in Soweto to the bright lights of New York city, Siphesihle Sitole, a beneficiary of the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET), proves the organisation’s selection of students based on potential. This vibrant graduate has been selected to participate in the Fordham University Emerging Markets and Country Risk Analysis programme and spent six…
