Thirty-six year old, Wilmore Choto’s life-changing opportunity quite literally started with a click. He read about the Vulamathuba Empumelelo Bursary in Communicare’s monthly tenant newsletter and seized the moment to apply to further his studies and better his life and that of his wife and son. With the assistance of the bursary, Wilmore is studying [...]
Meet Alungile, a Junior Administrator for goodfind Properties. His goal is to become a Property Manager. This is a giant's strides for a young man, who started out as a Community Development intern at Communicare in 2019! Alungile Ntshongela: Junior Administrator Background Growing up in Flagstaff, in the Eastern Cape, Alungile always dreamt [...]
From a young age, Kenalemang Mamello Tlholagae, knew she wanted to make a difference in the community. Growing up in the Northern Cape, her dream was to become a Social Worker, but the road has had its challenges. However, that hasn't given her a reason to stop. With Vulamathuba's support, she is steadily working towards [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT Vulamathuba Empumelelo, the community and social development arm of Communicare, was established to deliver developmental interventions to Communicare tenants. Vulamathuba’s overall objective is to create opportunities for the economic growth of residents in fostering the principle of Economic Mobility through skills, training, and development. Vulamathuba administers the Vulamathuba Empumelelo Bursary Fund (VEBF). Through the [...]
In the industrial town of Kariega in the Eastern Cape, a young girl watched as her mother obtained her teacher's training certificate when she was in her late thirties and her degree in her fifties. It took many sacrifices, including giving up her job to pursue her studies, but she never gave up. For Phumelela [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT Vulamathuba, the community and social development division of Communicare, was established to deliver developmental interventions to Communicare tenants. Vulamathuba’s overall objective is to create opportunities for the economic growth of residents in fostering the principle of Economic Mobility through skills, training, and development. Vulamathuba administers Credit Bearing Skills Programmes in Customer Management and [...]
Communicare in partnership with Vulamathuba runs the Compass internship programme, to give young people work experience as well as the necessary skills, to empower them in their career paths. Mbali Buthelezi found her passion whilst an intern. Mbali's story is one of Vulamathuba's celebrated success stories. At the beginning of 2019, she began her internship, [...]
Communicare has also been providing bursaries to tenants and their children for the last 30 years. This is one of the services that are available to families who need the support to get a post matric qualification at higher education institutions. Over the years, students have qualified in a diverse range of skills and [...]
Enoch Bangeni Final year student at CPUT "I received an SMS on my phone in 2016 and thought it was another bill to pay. I few days later I read it again. To my surprise, it offered residents of Communicare properties the opportunity to study further. As a tenant in Reyger Court in Brooklyn, [...]
John Mafwa who resides at Brooklyn was one of the participants in the Entrepreneurship Programme, the Programme is aimed at empowering those that have interest in Entrepreneurship with skills and training that would add value to their business interest. John said he really appreciates the efforts by Vulamathuba to assist Communicare tenants. Some of [...]