Tshiamo Foundation

Social entrepreneurship &
gender equality

Tshiamo Foundation aims to actively enhance social entrepreneurship and address gender equality by supporting and investing into projects and initiatives that demonstrate progressive social impact on addressing poverty and inequality. This will be achieved by providing access to quality higher education and access to social enterprise finance to underprivileged South Africans primarily women.

This vision shall be achieved by, inter alia: Creating interventions that will address inequality through supporting women in making demonstrable change in the fields of education and social entrepreneurship.

The Tshiamo Foundation uses two main interventions/vehicles to achieve this, the MM Bursary Scheme (MMBS) for qualifying women seeking finance related qualifications and the Tshiamo Social Enterprise Fund for qualifying social entrepreneurs.

The MMBS

Providing a holistic educational bursary programme that provides end-to-end support to students throughout their educational journey; this includes full financial resources support, mentorship, on the job exposure and psycho-social support.

Providing support for students pursuing higher education qualifications in all finance related fields, ensuring the growth of women in the finance sector, specifically the asset management industry.

The Social Enterprise Fund for women

Enabling social entrepreneurs (predominantly black women) to access the right platforms, services, mentorship and catalytic capital support to build thriving social enterprises that actively participate in the economy. The capital will enable entrepreneurs to continue their focus on making big social change. The catalytic capital support will be provided as a (recoverable grant facility) that will require awardees to repay their grant stipend should the organisation become financially successful.

Essentially, the Tshiamo Foundation will create an ecosystem of women social entrepreneurs that contribute to problem solving in South Africa through thriving and scalable businesses will contribute to job creation and economic growth.

Delivering positive change

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Non Executive DirectorKARABO MATHIBELA

Financial Management and Corporate Governance specialist

Karabo Mathibela is an independent accounting consultant with a specialised focus on Enterprise Supplier Development, along with Finance and operational support. She leverage her skills and expertise to support various businesses and foundations with capacity, accounting and financial management, strengthening the operational environment, improving systems, audit readiness and understanding how to manage their cash flow and articulate their funding need and finally develop the trading history and track record to secure funding.

In addition, she provide governance advisory and secretariat services to support all types of organisations.

Karabo is an BComm (Accounting) Honours and is registered with SAICA as an AGA (SA) and the South African Institute of Tax as a Tax Practictioner.

Executive DirectorSHILUBA MAWELA

Tshiamo Impact Partner Managing Partner, Impact investor

Shiluba is a chartered accountant who leads Tshiamo Impact Partners, and impact advisory and impact investment firm.

Her corporate finance experience includes mergers and acquisitions, valuations, commercial due diligences and transaction structuring gained at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and a boutique corporate finance firm. She also served as Senior Project Manager on the Youth Employment Service (YES), a national business-led initiative supported by Government through the office of the Presidency. If that wasn’t enough, she s worked at Ernst & Young (EY) in their banking and capital markets division in both the Johannesburg and New York office.

She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper Alumni and a Mandela Washington Fellow. Furthermore, she sat on the FirstRand Foundation Board.