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Make the digital world safer, more inclusive, more equal
08 March 2023 The United Nations declared its theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March as “DigitAll: Innovation and Technology for gender equality”. Technology is of profound significance in today's world. It has revolutionised virtually every aspect of...
Don’t Give Up. Options are available for post school study and training
31 January 2023 Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Adopt-a-School, encourages all students who did not succeed in obtaining their matriculation qualification to not give up and to explore available options to continue schooling or training. “Failing matric can...
Taking care of your mental health today, to do better tomorrow
09 November 2022 The stress of exams during this time can strain one’s mental health. As students sit their final exams, Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) helped ease the stress and anxiety of its beneficiary students by convening an advice session with the South...
Effective ways to prepare for the exam season
09 November 2022 Exam season is upon us, and this time can be stressful for a lot of students. Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust has compiled some helpful tips to assist students to revise and prepare for the exam room. Revision tips Make a realistic revision schedule:...
Business in the blackouts: How SMEs can be agile in the face of load shedding
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...
Adopt-a-School Foundation’s Heritage
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...
Psychosocial and care support services for learners in the spotlight at Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s Thari Programme Conference
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...
Inspired by the resilience of women
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...
The plight of SA’s Young Entrepreneurs: A Reflection on Black youth and the realities of growing in business
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...
Learners face a long walk to learning without shoes
14 July 2022 By Steven Lebere, Chief Executive Officer, Adopt-a-School Foundation For Mandela Month and as part of its 20th anniversary commemorations, Adopt-a-School Foundation is tackling the need of many school children for school shoes. School shoes are part of...
Thari Programme aids vulnerable children with the power of play
22 June 2022 How much of a difference can play make in a child’s life? That is the question the Thari Programme is answering successfully with its Safe Park in Botshabelo township in the Free State. Thari is a pilot programme of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation that is...
Our youth are struggling with mental health problems
20 June 2022 By Chantelle Oosthuizen, Executive Director, Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust Young people in South Africa have been struggling with the burden of mental health problems associated with poverty, disrupted learning, unemployment and even the Covid-19...
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...
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...
Contributing to a business incubator is a B-BBEE win-win opportunity
08 April 2022 Thina Hlophe, Black Umbrellas Stakeholder and Engagement Manager When the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act was introduced in 2003, the goal was to meet specific economic transformation goals by creating an environment where more Black...
The right to development is an inalienable human right
22 March 2022 The United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development explicitly frames human rights as equal and indivisible and that people, communities and societies need to enjoy access to these rights for their development. It declares: “The right to...
Benefits, burden and barriers of tax compliance for small businesses
16 August 2021 By Black Umbrellas, a partner entity of the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation Benjamin Franklin, an iconic American president, famously said. “…in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” This past year in South Africa, conversation has circled...
A Circle Of Support: How CRET’s Top Students Give Back
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...
A Stitch In Time Saves SMEs
13 June 2021 Cliched as it may be, the proverb about ‘teaching a man to fish’ still holds water now more than ever, especially for small business owners. The proverb says, ‘If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day but, teach a man to fish, and you feed him for...
Thari Programme spotlights bullying in schools, this Child Protection Week
03 June 2021 30 May to 6 June marks National Child Protection Week in South Africa. The week is commemorated annually to raise awareness of children’s rights as articulated in the Constitution of South Africa and the Children’s Act No. 38 of 2005. South Africa's...