Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation launched a three-week art exhibition, On Main Road, at the historic Constitutional Hill Women’s Jail in Braamfontein on Wednesday night. The exhibition is one of the Foundation’s activities to commemorate its 15th anniversary. On Main Road...
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Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation Empowers 300 Youth with solution-based thinking skills
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation held a youth empowerment workshop on Saturday, 16 November with 300 youth in Mamelodi, east of of Tshwane. The youth empowerment workshop is one of the Foundation’s activities to commemorate its 15th anniversary this year. Mamelodi, like...
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation launches three-week art exhibition
On Wednesday 20 November 2019, Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation opened the doors to its public art exhibition, titled “On Main Road”, to contribute uniquely to the national discussion on inequality. The exhibition is part of the 15th anniversary commemoration activities of...
Fezile Dabi District Primary School Learners Receive Spectacles
407 learners from 12 primary schools in Villiers, Sasolburg, Vredefort, Tweeling, Steynsrus have received spectacles after the learners eyes were screened and tested. The project, which was part of raising awareness about the importance of eye health, took place from...
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation beneficiaries say what 15 years of the Foundation has meant
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Back-to-School Party raises millions for needy schools
Adopt-a-School held its highly successful annual Back-to-School fundraising party on 5 October. Sponsored this year by Channel Vas, the event raised over R4.5 million for Whole School Development projects in disadvantaged schools. Guests, kitted out in school uniforms...
Black Umbrellas Agricultural Workshop
The Black Umbrellas Lephalale incubator recently held an Agri-Expo Workshop to promote and empower emergent Black farmers through access to markets, finance, networking and mentorship. The workshop provided farmers with a unique opportunity to engage with the national...
Health, sanitation and sexual awareness campaign
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation partner entity, Adopt-a-School, together with Afrocentric, an investment holding company, hosted a health, sanitation and sexual awareness campaign at Dutyini Junior Secondary School in the Eastern Cape. The campaign equips Grade 5-7...
CRET Career Guidance and Mentorship Days
Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust is working with a number of schools in Johannesburg to provide learners with career guidance and mentorship. These include St John’s College, St Stithians College, Waverly Girls High School and Sandown High School. Learners are exposed...
Schools in Fezile Dabi district receive infrastructure
KST in partnership with the Free State Department of Education provided incentive infrastructure to a number of achieving schools in the Fezile Dabi district. Phitshana Primary school benefited from Grade R Classrooms. Nkgopoleng Secondary School, which achieved a...
Foundation hosts 1st Biennial Thari Conference
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation hosted the 1st Biennial Conference of the Thari Programme in partnership with the National Department of Basic Education and Free State Department of Education in Bloemfontein, Free State on 6 September. The conference was aimed at...
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...
Career guidance for Diepsloot learners
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, through its Thari programme, recently hosted its third annual Career Expo in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. “The Career Expo was conceptualised and established in response to concerns raised by the stakeholders forum that learners in...
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...
Milestones In Our Journey – 2018
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Women Lead Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation
Since being established 15 years ago,Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation has had a woman Chief Executive Officer at the helm, and many are employed at executive level. Current CEO, Mmabatho Maboya, comments on the high representation of women in the Foundation in a recent...
Milestones In Our Journey – 2017
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SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS FOR MANDELA DAY
Adopt-a-School conducted a full renovation of a Childhood Development Centre at Olifantsvlei Primary, a school it has long supported, on Mandela Day. In line with the changing strategy of Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) for organisations to invest in projects that...
STUDENTS HONOURED AT CRET AWARDS
Students who excelled academically and personified outstanding leadership skills and social commitment, were celebrated at Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust’s (CRET) Student Awards. It was hosted at the Foundation Chair’s farm in Bela Bela on 6 July. CRET’s bursary...
Celebrating 15 Years of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation
15 years of passion and performance, inspiration, innovation and integrity. Staff of the Foundation and its partner entities say what 15 years of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation means to them. Watch the five-part video series here.
MENTORSHIP IN HOLISTIC STUDENT SUPPORT
Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) hosted a mentorship breakfast on 5 July. The event aimed at encouraging an enriching dialogue on mentorship. Mentorship is about building a relationship that will take the mentor and the student on a journey that will benefit...
RECOGNISING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF BLACK ENTREPRENEURS
“The SMEs in our programme have performed admirably over the past year and have changed thousands of lives through job creation and economic contribution to the country,” Black Umbrellas CEO, Seapei Mafoyane, said at the organisation’s recent National Enterprise...
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...
Child Protection Week – We all have a role to play!
“Children need special protection because they are among the most vulnerable members of our society.” For Child Protection Week Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, through its partner entity Adopt-a-School Foundation, hosted a series of events through its Thari Programme to...
Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust Pilots Student Driver Training Programme
Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust (CRET) is piloting a Learner/Driver Training Project in partnership with Drivio to support senior students in acquiring a legitimate driver’s license by the time they graduate. CRET is committed to road safety and the empowerment of...
Four Secondary Schools in the Fezile Dabi District Receive Infrastructure
Four schools in Parys and Koppies within the Fezile Dabi district in the Free State province received infrastructure as part of the District Whole School Development (DWSD) programme. The partnership between KST and the Free State Department of Education (FSDoE) spans...
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...
From Mud huts to Smartboards: President Ramaphosa hands over schools in KwaZulu-Natal
On 17 April President Cyril Ramaphosa officiated the handover of three new primary schools, namely Enhlanhleni, Lembe and Ingweni Phaphama, respectively located in Dannhauser, Utrecht and Vryheid in the Amajuba and Zululand District municipalities, KwaZulu-Natal. The...
Earn your B-BBEE points and make a real difference
Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation can be the means by which to comprehensively, effectively and efficiently fulfil Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) compliance. B-BBEE helps redress the race- and gender-based economic and social inequities of apartheid. It...
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...
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