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Wilmore’s dream was but a click away…

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 [...]

By |2022-07-29T10:11:51+00:00July 29th, 2022|News, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Alungile helps people find new homes

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 [...]

By |2022-01-27T13:10:06+00:00January 27th, 2022|News|0 Comments

The Vulamathuba Empumelelo Bursary Fund

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 [...]

By |2022-10-04T09:41:51+00:00August 31st, 2021|News|0 Comments

The Zerilda Steyn Bursary Fund paves the way to success

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 [...]

By |2021-09-10T07:03:18+00:00August 23rd, 2021|News|0 Comments

Apply for our credit-bearing skills programmes

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 [...]

By |2021-01-15T10:49:49+00:00October 22nd, 2020|News|0 Comments

Mbali found her passion at Vulamathuba

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, [...]

By |2021-06-29T09:49:18+00:00April 24th, 2020|News|Comments Off on Mbali found her passion at Vulamathuba

What our Bursary Recipients have to say

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, [...]

By |2020-04-28T09:19:14+00:00March 16th, 2020|News|0 Comments

Stories from tenants we’ve helped along the way

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 [...]

By |2020-04-29T08:50:15+00:00March 16th, 2020|News|0 Comments
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