The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation offers the exceptional Allan Gray Fellowship to Southern Africa’s pioneering bright young students. This initiative aims to develop students, known as Allan Gray Candidate Fellows, into Southern Africa’s future high impact responsible entrepreneurs.
Every year, the Foundation selects the best and most ambitious Grade 12, first year and second year university students from Southern Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland to join its vibrant community of Allan Gray Candidate Fellows.
The Fellowship includes comprehensive tertiary education financial support alongside exposure to thought leaders, mentorship and entrepreneurial mindset development. Access to postgraduate funding is available to those who have excelled in their tertiary studies and the Fellowship Programme.
About Allan Gray Orbis Foundation
The Foundation was created in 2005 as part of Allan Gray’s vision to make a sustainable, long-term contribution to Southern Africa by nurturing the emerging entrepreneurial potential from the region.
His entrepreneurial journey has taught him that it takes time, patience and long-term support to build the kind of high-impact entrepreneurs that will make wide-reaching and significant economic and social impacts on a country. It was from this vision that the Foundation was born and now runs in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland.
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Fellowship Programme
Aim and Benefits of Fellowship Programme
The Fellowship provides access to quality tertiary education opportunities as part of our belief, which has been supported by research, that there is an increased possibility of success when entrepreneurs have a concrete foundation in their education.
The Fellowship covers the following:
- Full cost of university tuition
- Full cost of university accommodation plus meals, books and tutor allowances
- A monthly living stipend
- Academic support and access to an entrepreneurial and personal development programme
- Mentorship, both from individually assigned Foundation-employed staff, as well as business mentors
- Access to potential postgraduate funding for graduated Candidate Fellows
- No postgraduate contractual obligation
Requirements for Fellowship Programme Qualification
GRADE 12
- Level 5 in Pure Mathematics for Grade 11 final results
- Level 6 average for your final Grade 11 results (excluding Life Orientation)
- Completion of the National Benchmark Test by 30 October 2021
- Applicants must be under the age of 21 in the year of their application
- South African Citizenship
- Intention to study towards a Commerce, Science, Engineering, Law, Humanities or Health Science(Excluding Medicine, Veterinary Science and Dentistry) degree at the WITS, UJ, UCT, NMU, RU, UWC, SU, UP, UFC, UKZN and TSIBA.
1ST YEAR UNIVERSITY
- Minimum average of 65% for your 2021 mid-year exam results
- Intention to study towards a Commerce, Science, Engineering, Law, Humanities or Health Science(Excluding Medicine, Veterinary Science and Dentistry) degree at the WITS, UJ, UCT, NMU, RU, UWC, SU, UP, UFC, UKZN and TSIBA.
- Applicants must be under the age of 22 in the year of their application
- South African Citizenship
2ND YEAR UNIVERSITY
- Minimum average of 65% for your 2021 year-end exam and 65% in 2021 mid-year exam
- Intention to study towards a Commerce, Science, Engineering, Law, Humanities or Health Science(Excluding Medicine, Veterinary Science and Dentistry) degree at the WITS, UJ, UCT, NMU, RU, UWC, SU, UP, UFC, UKZN and TSIBA.
- Applicants must be under the age of 23 in the year of their application
- South African Citizenship
Selection Criteria: Fellowship Applicants need to be able to show a track record of leadership or being entrepreneurially minded. The Foundation’s framework to measure this as follows:
- Achievement Excellence: The ongoing pursuit of excellence with tangible and specific focus on setting goals. A motivation to make a difference and leave a mark.
- Intellectual Imagination: Demonstrated by an established record of intellectual achievement; an ability to see the unseen, challenge the status quo and suggest that things could be done differently.
- Courageous Commitment: The courage and dedication to continue, realising that applying consistent commitment has a way of overcoming.
- Spirit of Significance: A weight of personality that comes from living a life personified by passion and integrity.
- Personal Initiative: A person who makes things happen and celebrates the satisfaction of bringing new things into being. Independent, proactive and self-starting
Application Deadline
October 30, 2021
How to Apply
Qualified Grade 12 students who meet the basic requirements can apply by registering an account and filling out the online application form. Click here to start the application process.
Download the application form here. After completing the application form, hand-deliver it together with the required documents to:
46 Hof Street, Oranjezicht
Cape Town
Or to
8th Floor, Florum Building
2 Maude Street
Sandton, Johannesburg
Send it by post to:
Allan Gray Orbis Foundation,
Freepost no: CB 11349, Kloof Street
8008
For more details, visit Allan Gray Orbis Foundation website.
Application Deadline:
- The deadline for submission of applications for Grade 12 applicants is on 30th April 2021.
- For 1st-year university students, applications will close 30th October 2021
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