An engineer by training, a consultant by profession, a speaker by passion, an author by calling, and an entrepreneur by force. Ntsundeni Ndou hails from a village in Limpopo who matriculated from Tshivhase Secondary School in Limpopo in 2013. He is currently the Deputy Chairperson of the CRET Alumni Advisory Board. In addition to its…
25 July 2021 At the recent Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) graduate awards ceremony, the First Lady of South Africa and Chairperson of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, Dr Tshepo Motsepe, reflected upon the challenges the pandemic presented for students. Dr Motsepe said that inequalities were laid bare due to lack of access to essential resources and…
“The three words I would use to describe CRET are education, future and youth!” Watch what Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) beneficiaries had to say about their CRET journey on the occasion of the CRET Annual Student Awards on 1 July.
Mokgadi Mashapu is from Diepkloof in Soweto. She works as a baker with Hadasha Enterprises. The company has been supported by the Foundation’s partner entity, Black Umbrellas, which develops small Black-owned businesses. This helps create employment in South Africa. “I have gained a lot of skills whilst working at Hadasha Enterprises,” Mokgadi says, “not just…
Princess Shabalala, from Soshanguve near Tshwane, works for Mbhuduma Business Solutions as a Marketing Officer. The company has been supported by the Foundation’s partner entity, Black Umbrellas, which develops small Black-owned businesses. This helps create employment in South Africa. “As a communications graduate, this was the first company to give me a job, so I…
Lethabo Lekhele is from Munsieville township near Krugersdorp. In 2020 she sent an email to Foundation partner entity Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) for study support. “Today I am working as a Ground Hostess,” Lethabo says. This is as a result of CRET’s partnership with the Academy of Aviation to put candidates through a five-month…
Mamoratehi Modise lives in Maokeng in Kroonstad. In 2019 she saw a poster at the Phuleng Primary School advertising a position for a Safety Health Environment (SHE) representative. The SHE representative was needed for a building project at the school that Foundation partner entity KST was implementing. KST is a partnership between Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation…
Visky Moroleke is from Kraaipan village in the North West. He owns a local bricklaying and maintenance company. When Foundation partner entity Adopt-a-School began to build a dining and nutrition centre at the Boithaopo Secondary School in the village in 2019, Visky was identified by the school to be the team leader for the project….
Busisiwe Buthelezi, a mother of two, schooled at Ingweni Phaphama Primary School in Lenjani village, which is east of Vryheid. Nearly 12 years later, in 2002, she was involved with the community in building mud structures for the school when the school needed to accommodate a growing number of learners. In 2014, the school became…
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