2006
Year's Review
2006-12-15
It is a sincere pleasure to present our progress report for the year 2006.
Once again, when you read all the achievements below, please know that we express our deepest and heartfelt gratitude to you for your support. It takes huge visionaries like you to support a young but highly inn (...)
CIDA IGNITE!
2006-07-12
CIDA City Campus launched its UK membership scheme, CIDA IGNITE!, this month at a function at South Africa House in Trafalgar Square. The members' scheme was started to give people living in the UK a means to sponsor a financially disadvantaged student at CIDA – and make a real difference i (...)
Inauguration
2006-08-12
Mrs Mbeki was inaugurated as the first chancellor of CIDA City Campus in the same day that 253 students graduated with an accredited Bachelor of Business Administration degree. The First Lady accepted the chancellorship at CIDA with which she has been associated since 2002. She praised CIDA's effort (...)
CIDA Students flown to Edinburgh by Virgin for Make Poverty History Event
2005-07-13
Two CIDA City Campus students were flown by Virgin Atlantic to London and then Edinburgh courtesy of Sir Richard Branson. Aminah Khoza, Tukiso Mokoena and CIDA Foundation UK Development Director Nadia Ammar boarded this historic flight on 4 July, bound for Edinburgh to make their voices heard in the (...)
CIDA CEO receives Skoll Foundation Award
2006-03-20
Dr Taddy Blecher, CEO and Co-Founder of CIDA City Campus, was one of 16 social entrepreneurs worldwide to receive a prestigious award from The Skoll Foundation for social entrepreneurship. The award also comes with funding of $1,015,000 (approximately £578,000) over three years to establish a replic (...)
Branson and Sara Blakely support young women in South Africa
2006-10-25
Richard Branson and Sara Blakely have joined forces with the launch of a
fund to support young women around the world. They want to ensure that
young women get the same chances that they had to be entrepreneurial and
build successful futures. The first grant of $200k (US) (R1.5 million) is
bei (...)