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Hlahlindela Secondary School receives tablets

Hlahlindela Secondary School receives tablets

Adopt-a-School Foundation continues to erect computer labs and media centres and facilitate the donation of devices to marginalised schools. In May, Adopt-a-School showcased one of its digital projects at Hlahlindlela Secondary School in the rural community of Kwa...

RETURN ON INVESTMENT FOR BURSARIES CALLS FOR HOLISTIC SUPPORT

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...

SMEs to benefit from Black Umbrellas partnership with CSIR

SMEs to benefit from Black Umbrellas partnership with CSIR

Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Black Umbrellas, has partnered with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to provide technical and technological support to small Black-owned businesses in South Africa. The partnership aims to provide...

Adopt-a-School strengthens donor relations

On 30 March Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Adopt-a-School, hosted a Donor Engagement Webinar with its partners to discuss the impact that Covid-19 has had on schools; on Adopt-a-School programmes; its donors; and CSI in general. The aim of the webinar was...

KST at a Glance

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...

ChairClub and Adopt-a-School donate 100 school chairs

ChairClub and Adopt-a-School donate 100 school chairs

Adopt-a-School in partnership with Chair Club, an office chair manufacturing company, recently visited Diepsloot Combined School to donate 100 chairs for foundation-phase classes. ChairClub managing director, Travers Hathrill, said one of the biggest demands in South...

Bursary Return On Investment calls for holistic offerings

Bursary Return On Investment calls for holistic offerings

“Returns on Investment for bursary support must address the high drop-out rate of first years through offerings of holistic student support, including psychosocial support and mentorship.” So said Executive Director of the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET),...

Holistic schools development mitigates COVID-19 impacts

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...

Whole School Development helps 100% pass in science

Whole School Development helps 100% pass in science

The Foundation congratulates Eketsang Secondary School educator, Ms Patricia Kamusoko, on achieving a 100% pass rate by her learners in physical science in the 2020 matric examinations. The result surpasses even the high pass rates achieved in 2018 and 2019. Eketsang...

KST’s extra classrooms improves school’s Covid-19 safety

KST’s extra classrooms improves school’s Covid-19 safety

Towards the end of 2020, KST Fezile Dabi District Manager, Nathan Pillay, officially handed over a block of four classrooms to the Sandersville Combined School’s SGB. The principal of the school, Ms Ruiters, extended her “heartfelt gratitude’ on behalf of the school...

Black Umbrellas inspires self-belief

Black Umbrellas inspires self-belief

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...

Buy One, Give One

Buy One, Give One

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...

CRET graduates soaring high

CRET graduates soaring high

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...

KST improves pupil performance says Free State

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...

Impact Through Partnership Webinar: Dr Tshepo Motsepe Keynote Address

Impact Through Partnership Webinar: Dr Tshepo Motsepe Keynote Address

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,...

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...

CRF Impact Report Launch

Impact Through Partnership

Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation launches its 15-year Impact Report today. As part of our celebrations last year Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation commissioned a research report on the impact of our work over the last 15 years. Today, the Foundation held a webinar to launch the...

ADOPT-A-SCHOOL DONATIONS

ADOPT-A-SCHOOL DONATIONS

On 20 October, Adopt-a-School donated Personal Protective Equipment as well as sanitary pads and personal care items for both male and female learners at Ingweni Phaphama Primary School near Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal. The donation was part of a Health, Sanitation and...

KST Mentors support Free State learners

KST Mentors support Free State learners

Grade 12 learners from KST-supported schools in the Motheo and Fezile Dabi districts in the Free State are being assisted with catch-up and revision sessions provided by KST mentors. Using a blended approach of physical and remote support, the mentors undertake...

Adopt-a-School School Days

School-Days Programme Raises Funds for Education

Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Adopt-a-School, is one of the School-Days programme beneficiaries. The School-Days programme enables funds to be simply raised for education by shopping at School-Days Earn Partners. You can choose to support your school,...

Re-building the economy through small business development

In response to the severe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on small businesses, Black Umbrellas, a Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, has developed a sustainability programme to “resuscitate, stabilise and sustain” SMEs during and after the pandemic. In the...

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