AS the Temba Bavuma Foundation reaches its tenth anniversary, it has deepened its commitment to one of its founding pillars: giving boys and girls from disadvantaged backgrounds access to quality education.
The Temba Bavuma Foundation has enjoyed a successful relationship with St David’s Marist Inanda and the St David’s Marist Foundation over a number of years.
Through this partnership, talented youngsters have been awarded scholarships to attend St David’s. This relationship extended to the St David’s Marist Inanda Alexandra Campus, with the launch of the Future Founders Challenge.
The Future Founders Challenge: Soap-to-Startup Build a Business in a Box was co-designed by the Temba Bavuma Foundation and Empowered Futures, and launched at the school as a youth entrepreneurship and financial literacy activation delivered as part of Youth Month.
The programme brought together 46 Grade 10 learners for a morning of practical business and financial skills.
St David’s Marist Inanda opened the doors to their satellite campus in Alexandra in 2023, increasing access to quality education within Alexandra, a vastly under resourced, yet vibrant community brimming with potential.
The story continues on 18 July 2026, when the teams will return to pitch their finished concepts to judges.
Awards will recognise the strongest work across five categories: Best Business Idea, Best Packaging, Most Creative Product, Best Pitch and Most Sustainable Idea.
For the Foundation, this continued partnership with St David’s is a continuation of a decade of work and a cementing of the vision that has guided it since 2016.
Over the past ten years, the Temba Bavuma Foundation has awarded 12 scholarships at leading South African schools, including St David’s, and supported three University of Pretoria graduates now working in law, corporate services, and coaching.
It has upgraded cricket facilities at three Gauteng schools, distributed more than 3,000 food parcels and meals to vulnerable communities, and placed its first professional cricket mentorship with a player now competing at senior level.
Temba Bavuma, Founder of the Temba Bavuma Foundation, said it was meaningful to see, and be a part of the work being done in communities like Alexandra.
“Ten years ago, this Foundation started with a belief that talent is everywhere, but access is not. Seeing that belief come to life in a classroom in Alexandra, watching these young people discover what they can build, is exactly what we set out to do,” he said.
From the cricket pitch to the classroom, the Foundation’s through line has remained the same. It finds talented young people in places the world tends to overlook, and it builds the bridge between their ability and their opportunity.
Image supplied (Proteas captain Temba Bavuma recorded with St David’s Marist Inanda School boys at last weeks event, held in Sandton).
