Forging distinctive African partnerships
We develop, negotiate and maintain partnerships and programmes that strengthen UCT’s integration with other African institutions with a focus on providing opportunities for the benefit of students and universities in Africa.
We manage a number of existing African partnership programmes as well as implementing strategic donor funded programmes including:
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
In December 2013, the University of Cape Town partnered with The Mastercard Foundation in its Global Scholars Program; an initiative that will provide academically talented yet economically disadvantaged young people from developing countries – particularly from Africa – with access to quality and relevant secondary and university education. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cape Town will facilitate the development of the next generation of transformative leaders by enabling 444 young leaders to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UCT over a period of ten years.
To date, the programme has awarded 252 scholarships and 50 scholars have graduated from UCT.