Masego Bosoga joined the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) family in 2016, receiving both financial and emotional support throughout her studies. Her teacher training, particularly the practical experience, provided valuable insight into the daily realities of a...
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Champions in the Classroom: The story of Tshidiso Chiloane
Tshidiso Chiloane joined the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) family in 2018 after matriculating from Makgome Secondary School. He describes CRET as a true blessing in his life. “After matric, you are often confused and worried about your future, but with CRET...
CRET Celebrates 25 Years of Empowering Youth Through Education at Annual Graduate Awards
The Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) honoured the remarkable achievements of its bursary students at the annual Graduate Awards ceremony held on Thursday evening at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Sandton. This year’s celebration was...
Ntsundeni Ndou, an inspiring role model
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...
Pamuka – A Black Umbrellas Success Story
Pamuka co-founders, Nathi Pasiya and Dalitso Mukumbe, reveal the challenges they have faced as entrepreneurs and discuss the support they received through Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity Black Umbrellas’ incubation programme. Pamuka specialises in industrial...
Eco Equittal – A Black Umbrellas Success Story
Meet Joslyn Silwana and Shella Mfisa, directors at Eco Acquittal. The company manufactures and distributes environmentally friendly treatment solutions for pit latrines, portable toilets and septic tanks. As a product mainly geared towards rural communities, the Pit...
Adopt-a-School supported learner tops Olympiad
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation is pleased to report that the top learner of the Free State in the South African National Geography Olympiad (SANGO) was Oratilwe Letsie from Kgabareng Secondary School, a school supported by Adopt-a-School. Adopt-a-School is a Cyril...
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...
Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust Graduates Video
“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
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....
Princess Shabalala
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...
Lethabo Lekhele
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...
Mamoratehi Modise
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...
Visky Moroleke
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...
Busisiwe Buthelezi
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...
Impact Through Partnership
#ImpactThroughPartnership is the cornerstone to building development models that have meaningful long-term impact for an inclusive, empowered society. Listen to scholars, students and entrepreneurs on how the Foundation’s partner entity programs have positively...
Exceptional graduates honoured at CRET Student Awards
Graduates who excelled academically and personified outstanding leadership skills and social commitment, were celebrated at the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust’s (CRET) Student Awards hosted at the FNB Conference Centre in Johannesburg on Friday evening, 26...
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