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Africa Cosmos Education Trust

The Africa Cosmos Education Trust funds first-year students across an unusually wide list of commercial, technology and engineering qualifications, from…

Closes 31 July 2025

Africa Wetu Foundation

The Africa Wetu Foundation is a South African non-profit that funds disadvantaged young people through a short, specific list of…

Closes 30 April 2026

African Global Skills Academy

The African Global Skills Academy, with its partner Solarpop, funds something most bursaries will not touch: the fees a student…

Closes 30 November 2025

African Leadership Academy

African Leadership Academy (ALA) is a two-year residential pre-university school in Honeydew, Johannesburg, that admits about 130 young people from…

Closes 15 January 2027

African Rainbow Minerals ARM Bursary 2027

African Rainbow Minerals

African Rainbow Minerals, the group founded by Patrice Motsepe, funds students at just two universities: the University of Pretoria and…

Closes 6 March 2026

African Rainbow Minerals Bursary 2027

African Rainbow Minerals

African Rainbow Minerals, the group founded by Patrice Motsepe, funds engineering, science, technology and commerce students at two universities: the…

Closes 6 March 2026

African Scholars Fund

The African Scholars Fund works on a simple premise: many bright learners drop out of school not because they cannot…

Afrimat Bursary 2027, Requirements & Application

Afrimat

Afrimat is a JSE-listed open-pit mining and materials group supplying aggregates, industrial minerals, iron ore and anthracite. It does not…

Closes 27 April 2026

Afrimat Nkomati Anthracite Bursary 2027

Afrimat

Nkomati Anthracite is an Afrimat mine in Mpumalanga near Komatipoort, and its bursary is a social and labour plan commitment:…

Closes 23 August 2026

AfriSam

AfriSam makes the cement, aggregate and readymix concrete that goes into South African construction, and its bursary is tied directly…

Closes 11 September 2026

Afrox Bursary 2027, Requirements & Application

Afrox

African Oxygen Limited (Afrox), founded in 1927 and now part of the Linde group, is South Africa's largest supplier of…

Agar-Hamilton Trust

The Agar-Hamilton Trust is one of South Africa's older private study trusts, administered by Nedbank trustees. Its deed sets conditions…

Agbiz Centenary

The Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, known as Agbiz, represents the country's agribusinesses, and its centenary bursary funds the…

Closes 1 December 2025

AgriSETA Bursary 2027, Requirements & Application

AgriSETA

The Agricultural Sector Education and Training Authority (AgriSETA) uses the skills levies paid by farms, food processors and agri-businesses to…

Closes 15 September 2026

AGSA Trainee Auditor Programme and LEAP Vacation Work

Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA)

The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) audits national, provincial and municipal government, and it trains its own chartered accountants to…

AIMS

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences began in a converted hotel in Muizenberg in 2003 and has grown into a…

Air Products

Air Products South Africa makes and distributes the industrial gases that keep steel mills, hospitals and food plants running: oxygen,…

American International School of Cape Town

The American International School of Cape Town offers an American curriculum and the International Baccalaureate from its campus in Constantia.…

Closes 12 February 2026

AJ Foundation

The AJ Foundation was started in 2016 by the professional footballer Cole Alexander and the business mentor Jessie Julius, to…

Akademia

Akademia, a private Afrikaans-language higher education institution registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training, rewards Matric distinctions with…

Open, no closing date published

Alexander Forbes

Alexander Forbes, now branded Alexforbes, is a Johannesburg-listed financial services group that administers retirement funds, investments and employee benefits. It…

Closes 28 July 2020

Alfeco

The Alfeco Foundation is the social investment arm of Alfeco Holdings, a South African industrial and engineering group. Its bursary…

Alfred Duma Local Municipality

Alfred Duma Local Municipality, the municipality centred on Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal's uThukela district, is hiring two unemployed civil engineering graduates…

Closes 2 October 2026

Alfred Nzo District Municipality Bursary 2027

Alfred Nzo District Municipality

Alfred Nzo District Municipality covers the rural north-east of the Eastern Cape, from Matatiele to Mbizana, and its bursary is…

Closes 6 February 2026