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Ten years of developing youth skills

The Tiso Foundation is celebrating a decade of changing lives.

Since its inception in 2001, it has partnered with leading educational institutions to create innovative programmes that support and enable talented young people to realise their full potential.

From the start the founders had a vision to establish a self-sustaining developmental organisation focused on youth development, education and leadership.

This was achieved when the founders of the Tiso Group bequeathed a substantial portion of their shares to the foundation.

More than 42000 young students have benefitted since 2005 through the R100m invested in educational and skills development projects.

Today the value of the initial endowment is put at more than R660m.

Professor Chabani Manganyi, chairman of the board of trustees, said: "People without education remain at the fringes of society with little hope of redress, leading to increasing despair which may affect the socio-political stability of our country."

Today the Tiso Foundation runs programmes focused on tertiary education bursaries and broader skills and leadership development. - Sowetan Reporter

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