Join the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust in investing in the future

Join the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) in investing in the future. Send forth skilled and talented visionaries into the world; eradicate youth unemployment; break the cycle of generational poverty; build a culture of paying it forward; change the futures of individuals, communities and the nation. Read more here. To support or partner with CRET…

Celebrating 20 years of changing schools and changing lives

Celebrating 20 years of changing schools and changing lives

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s partner entity, Adopt-a-School. Established in 2002, Adopt-a-School, implements a Whole School Development model that aims at improving the governance, academic, infrastructural, social and security environment in schools. Adopt-a-School motivates the private sector to partner with it to develop optimally conducive teaching and learning environments. It…

Help develop Black-owned businesses

Help develop Black-owned businesses

In South Africa more than 60% of employment opportunities come from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Black Umbrellas, has launched a drive to raise R750 000 and provide 12 SMEs with skills development and resources for their development. With your help this will enable 12 carefully chosen small businesses the…

Spotlight on Black Umbrellas Gauteng Regional Manager, Nthonyana Kitsa

Spotlight on Black Umbrellas Gauteng Regional Manager, Nthonyana Kitsa

Regional Manager for Black Umbrellas Gauteng, Nthonyana Kitsa, was recently interviewed by Impact SA. She discusses what the intent of ESD and CSI initiatives are, the value of having programmes that support communities and small businesses, and the importance of developing SMEs to enhance job creation. As the article so aptly puts it, “In a…

Black Umbrellas launches Siyafunda Portal

Black Umbrellas launches Siyafunda Portal

Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s partner entity Black Umbrellas has launched the Siyafunda Portal, an exciting portal which aims to provide holistic entrepreneurial development by extending learning interventions to entrepreneurs and employees. By signing up to the Siyafunda Portal, you will gain access to a wealth of learning materials, including: Learning to be resilient; Measuring your startup’s…

Providing job opportunities through our programmes

Providing job opportunities through our programmes

01 May 2022 Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation is committed to fostering an inclusive and empowered society through improving education and growing small Black businesses. The Foundation believes that progress in education and enterprise development are the most direct means to fostering an inclusive and empowered society, which is its purpose. This is in…

Expanding and deepening the indices of our freedom through partnership

Expanding and deepening the indices of our freedom through partnership

26 April 2022 South Africa’s Bill of Rights enshrines the rights of people in the country and affirms the values of human dignity, equality and freedom. Among these rights are those to basic and further education, children’s rights like protection from neglect or abuse, and the right to freely choose one’s trade, occupation or profession….

Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation donates R1 million to the Solidarity Fund for flood relief

19 April 2022 The Board of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation has announced a R1 million donation to the Solidarity Fund for flood relief. The donation is the Foundation’s contribution towards humanitarian relief efforts currently underway and assisting communities that have suffered the devastating effects of the recent heavy rains and floods. Joining the relief efforts of…

Mohloli Secondary School receives 213 school chairs donation

Mohloli Secondary School receives 213 school chairs donation

Adopt-a-School Foundation announced an exciting partnership with ChairClub, a proudly South African and local chair manufacturer, in May 2020. The campaign Buy One, Give One, committed that every chair sold from its office chair range, a school chair was donated to disadvantaged schools in rural and urban communities across the country. On Friday, 8 April,…

Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust and Funzi expanding opportunities for South African students

Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust and Funzi expanding opportunities for South African students

Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) has recently announced an exciting partnership with Funzi, an international online platform that helps people learn the most important skills for their careers and aims to ensure that learning is accessible to everyone. Students supported by CRET have the opportunity to learn 21st-century soft skills via Funzi courses on their mobile phones….