Dear Fellows, I've received a very warm welcome to the foundation and have had the pleasure of meeting up with a few you over the past weeks. It's a privilege to be working with the foundation and to be part of a community of current and...
Loretta is originally born from eMalahleni in Mpumalanga and raised in Swaziland where she grew up and later moved to Johannesburg to start her university studies. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in BSc specialising in biochemistry, physiology and cellular...
The inaugural 16-week Validation Program has come to an end. It was a gruelling program but ultimately rewarding, with the graduates doing big things! Two Candidate fellow businesses, ISPANI and NISA got selected for the Alpha Code Accelerator and received R2,000,000 in grant funding and...
All around the country – once a month – different groups of Fellows meet over good food and drink to unravel life’s mysteries in ways only a fellow can. These informal meetings aren’t magical occurrences nor are they just a gathering to catch up but...
Rama Raphalalani is currently studying his Economics Honours degree at the University of Cape Town. He is on the dual-track program of the AGOF, working his way into the Association. The name of the business Rama entered into IVC is Free Minds Consulting. The business is...
The success of the Association lies in how it advances community This week we encounter a Vintage Fellow who studied a Bachelor of Accounting at Rhodes and eight years later completed her Masters in Publishing Studies at Wits. She spends most of her time studying astrology...
Lonwabo studied mechanical engineering at UCT. He is part of the 2017 graduating cohort. Lonwabo entered IVC for the first time this year. His reason for entering is a lack of structure in the process he was following in an attempt to start his business. Prior...
Daniel Ndima, MSc Biochemistry Nanoscience, AGOF fellow and serial entrepreneur. He was part of the graduating class of 2013. Since graduating into the fellowship, Daniel has worked relentlessly toward becoming a high impact entrepreneur. Daniel joined the IVC (ideation, validation and creation) program at the beginning...
Melvyn is a 2011 Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Fellow who graduated from UCT with a Bsc in Actuarial Science and Statistics. Having studied abroad, co-founded Go1, featured in Destiny Magazine and won business awards since, we went out to find out more about Go1 and...