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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...
RETURN ON INVESTMENT FOR BURSARIES CALLS FOR HOLISTIC SUPPORT
23 April 2021 By Chantelle Oosthuizen, Executive Director, Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust Many students are supported in their tertiary studies through bursaries provided by private companies. However, university retention and pass rates in South Africa are low. A...
KST at a Glance
19 April 2021 WHAT IS KST? KST is a non-profit organisation established to implement a district-wide whole school development programme in partnership with the Free State Department of Education. It was set up in 2013 by the Shanduka Foundation (now the Cyril...
Holistic schools development mitigates COVID-19 impacts
16 March 2021 By Steven Lebere, Chief Executive Officer of Adopt-a-School Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact in 2020 on South Africa’s schooling system. Schools had to be closed, from the end of March to June, and teaching and learning time was...
Committing to our youth. Committing to our future.
04 August 2020 Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation and its partner entity, Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET), hosted a “Thought Lab Webinar” on 9 July on the value of youth development to society and the challenges programmes may experience in the present economic...
Art exhibition provokes thought on inequality
16 December 2020 Well on 2000 people passed through the doors of the Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg to view Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s public art exhibition, On Main Road, held from 21 November till 15 December 2019 in commemoration of the...
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF CYRIL RAMAPHOSA FOUNDATION
13 December 2019 Trustees of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, Board Members of Adopt-a-School, Black Umbrellas, CRET and KST, Alumni and beneficiaries of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation and its partner entities, Stakeholders, partners and friends of the Foundation,...
WE ARE MODEL BUILDERS
29 August 2019 Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s strategic approach is to pilot and develop effective models that may be replicated to achieve impact of scale and systemic change. The development of models is underpinned by the value propositions of the Foundation. These...
15th anniversary – highlighting our vision, purpose and objectives; our values; impact and achievements
08 August 2019 “This year marks the 15th anniversary of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation. “It is cause to celebrate a meaningful record of programme implementation to improve lives. “May the Foundation have many more years building its legacy for an inclusive and empowered...
Disconnect: The imperative of the 4th Industrial Revolution and enabled local conditions
26 June 2019 Education Innovation Summit 2019 As we know, we are on the cusp of a revolution. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is characterised by technologies that merge the actual, virtual and biological. Well-known current examples of products that derive from...
15th anniversary of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation
25 April 2019 This year marks the 15th anniversary of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation. It is cause to celebrate a solid and sincere track record of programme implementation to better the lives of our people. Some of the work of the Foundation predates its formal...
Women show their mettle despite barriers
16 April 2019 Black Umbrellas, Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation’s partner entity that supports 100% Black-owned businesses in the critical first three years of their existence, has a 40% retention of women-owned businesses at its incubators across the country. This is...