Out of the Mouths of Babes
While Laaiqah Taliep, a Grade 12 learner at St Cyprian’s School for Girls and Allan Gray Scholar, is technically no longer a babe, she’s sharing wisdom that is well beyond her years. A video she...
View ArticleNo Turning Back
Carol Nonhlanhla Gajana accepted the position of Events and Logistics Coordinator at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation because of her passion for managing events and her love for working with young...
View ArticleGEW 2016: Becoming an entrepreneurial explorer in our own cities | By Dinika...
Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job-creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. The...
View ArticleAllan Gray Orbis Foundation and E² launch their inaugural accelerator programme
August 2016: The Foundation is of the firm belief that high impact, responsible entrepreneurs will contribute to a positive economic, social and political change by providing access to education and...
View ArticleThe State of Global Entrepreneurship Education By Phumlani Nkontwana
What is the state of entrepreneurship education in the world today? To answer this question would be straight forward if the field of entrepreneurship education was in harmony about what content needs...
View ArticleA Passion for Mentorship by Mbali Mncwabe
Over the years I have started leaning towards the philosophy that dictates, “if it does not have meaning, it is not worth doing”. The more I exercise this, the more I find that I experience greater...
View ArticleLessons learned from a week in the Valley By Benjamin Shaw
Benjamin Shaw meeting Roelof Botha The aim of the trip was to expose South African entrepreneurs to the most cutting-edge companies, incubators, venture capital investors (VCs) and hi-tech startups...
View ArticleBYM 2016 Summit Reflections by Daniel Ndima
The Brightest Young Minds (BYM) experience was one of the highlights of my year. The brand “Brightest Young Minds” triggered anxieties in me as I anticipated a crowd of lively and robust young people...
View ArticleAspiring to be the Average by Nicole Dunn
There are very few spaces in which I can be myself and in which I am understood. There are very few people who dream as outrageously and courageously as I do. There are very few places I call home. The...
View ArticleDiary of Some Scholars at Development Camp
Every year the Foundation holds a Scholars Development Camp is a development camp where Scholars in the same grades from across the country meet in one place for a few days to enrich ourselves by...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 Years
The Foundation celebrated its 10-year anniversary at the end of 2015. To mark this achievement we hosted a celebratory dinner.. The event was held in Johannesburg, with the Foundation’s beneficiaries,...
View ArticleLeaving Her Footprint in the African Soil
Kholofelo Mashego grew up with a desire to see people not being defined by their past struggles. Her passion for social justice started at a very young age – even though she didn’t quite know that it...
View ArticleLearning from Older and Wiser Versions of Themselves
A Scholars’ Development Camp was held from the 1st to the 4th of April this year. Both the Grade 8s and 9s within the Scholarship Programme spent the weekend together at Haboniem Campsite in Hermanus....
View ArticleThe End of A Decade and The End of An Era – Bidding our Chairman Farewell
It is with some sadness and almost disbelief that we come to the end of an era with our Chairman of the Board, Futhi Mtoba, finishing her final allowed term as a trustee. She was one of the founding...
View ArticleDiary of an Admitted Fellow – The 2016 Admission to the Association of Allan...
Packed like a sardine on a Mango aeroplane, I awaited take off with a childlike excitement for the Association Admissions Event that was taking place on Saturday the 23rd of April. My eager...
View ArticleMore Than Just A Weekend Away
What happens when you take a couple of 20-year-olds in their second year of university to Hermanus and ask them to talk about two things: significance and community? You get a mixed bag of cold...
View ArticleWorld Debating Champions Credit Their Diversity for Success
One’s body can do strange things when you have just received news that you are a World Debating Champion. This is what Candidate Allan Gray Fellow, Fenelesibonge Maswhama, realised soon after being...
View ArticleAn immersion in international entrepreneurial excellence
Stepping into her new role as Fellowship Director, Dr Nontobeko Mabizela, decided to immerse herself in entrepreneurial knowledge by learning from international counterparts and exposing herself to as...
View ArticleFoundation’s Global Significance a Priority By Fredell Jacobs
It is not often that one has the pleasure of doing what you love for a living. Joining the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation allows me to extend that pleasure beyond working with startups to making a small...
View ArticleNew Beneficiaries Join the Foundation
33 new Allan Gray Scholars and 105 new Candidate Allan Gray Fellows have been inducted into the Scholarship and Fellowship Programmes respectively. They were welcomed and introduced to the Foundation,...
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