Nzalo Careers provides coaching services to young school leavers on options for future education and personal development. It’s founder, Sedzani Netshitenze, born and schooled in Limpopo, struggled to find such support for herself. She describes herself as an introvert and never saw herself running a business, but the Black Umbrellas programme helped her to acknowledge…
Chair Club recently handed over 100 school chairs to Bathabile Primary School in Olievenhoutbosch, Centurion as part of the Buy One, Give One campaign. Earlier this year, Chair Club partnered with Adopt-a-School to support disadvantaged schools in rural and urban communities with comfortable world-class school chairs. For every office chair sale, ChairClub donates a locally-manufactured school…
Through a partnership with The Academy of Aviation, Foundation entity Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) supported 11 students to undertake a SAQA-accredited course in Tourism and Aviation. Ten of the students have since graduated and have received their Civil Aviation Authority licenses. The graduates have now begun internships at Lanseria International Airport and with ExecuJet…
“The creation of shared value, in which financial benefit also produces social benefit, has to be a strategic imperative for all companies.” – Dr Tshepo Motsepe, chairperson of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation. Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Black Umbrellas, has incubated over 1 900 small businesses that have achieved R3.2 billion in collective turnover, contributed R260 million…
In an advertorial published in the City Press on 22 November, the Head of Department of the Free State Department of Education, Advocate Tsoarelo Malakoane, says the key highlights of KST’s interventions in the province “are the transfer of effective teaching skills and an improvement in curriculum delivery methodologies, as well as fully resourced specialised…
“The Foundation believes that if we support the education sector to improve the quality of education, we can achieve the most desired development objectives we have as a country.” Listen to Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation CEO, Mmabatho Maboya’s interview with Classic FM as she unpacks the #ImpactThroughPartnership report, an external review of the Foundation’s impact and…
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dr Tshepo Motsepe Impact Through Partnership Webinar 22 October 2020 Our economy was already challenged before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is now even more severely so. Our growth, revenue and employment prospects are bleak. As a result, unemployment, poverty and inequality are likely to increase. This is a scenario South…
Impact Through Partnership – Impact Report webinar launch Opening and Welcome Address Mmabatho Maboya 22 October 2020 Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning Welcome to the launch of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s 15-year Impact Report. We are pleased to have you here and we are looking forward to stimulating engagements throughout today’s programme. This event has been…
Black Umbrellas in partnership with Macsteel is calling all 51% or more black-owned SMEs in the steel sector to join the Usizo Programme and take advantage of the opportunities it presents. Call 08618749628 or email usizo@blackumbrellas.org to join.
For any development endeavour, there is always a need for accountability, and, in most cases, this comes in form of an answer to the question, “Did this make a difference?” For Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, the answer to that question is held in its 15-year Impact Report, which was launched during a reflective and insightful webinar…
