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FC Kapstadt, one of Cape Town’s most promising and formidable amateur football clubs, has joined forces with TSIBA Business School for a unique holistic youth development collaboration.
The partnership brings a new dimension to youth development: talented and ambitious young FC Kapstadt soccer players gain a pathway to education while TSIBA spans its community outreach where investments in education have an incredible multiplier effect providing returns for generations.
The partnership, launched on Thursday 2 March 2022, involves skills development of young people in both sporting and academic fields. TSIBA offered FC Kapstadt two full academic scholarships for the 2023 TSIBA Business School qualifications. These include the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree and the Higher Certificate and will be offered to registered FC Kapstadt players who have completed Grade 12 and met the TSIBA Grade 12 academic entrance requirements.
The collaboration seeks to leverage both organisations’ decades-long commitment to youth development: TSIBA has provided access to high-quality accredited tertiary education since 2004 and FC Kapstadt has done likewise, providing access to coaching excellence and support for talented young soccer players dreaming of taking their love for the game to the highest levels.
“This partnership creates a platform to realize the incredible potential of investing in ambitious and talented young people, intellectually and physically, and brings the energy of soccer, the beautiful game into our education ecosystem,” says Graham Moore, Sustainability Director of TSIBA.
FC Kapstadt Founder and Chairperson, Zaid Omar, said the club is proud to form a partnership with TISBA Business School on its 20th anniversary. “At FC Kapstadt, we are passionate about sports, but equally so about education. We have always regarded the football club as a vehicle to develop talented youth through sport.
“This strategic partnership is the next step in our mission to further develop the future of the country through excellence. Through TSIBA Business School, talented FC Kapstadt players with academic ambitions will have the opportunity to develop holistically. We are grateful to TSIBA Business School and are so excited about this initiative”.
SAFA Vice President and SAFA Cape Town President Bennet Bailey said the collaboration brings to life the values and mottos of Olympism. “The partnership between TSIBA and FC Kapstadt will do justice to the wishes of the founding fathers of the modern Olympic games”.
Dr Rudi Kimmie, CEO TSIBA, noted that TSIBA’s role in the partnership will be to provide educational opportunities through access and scholarships to deserving FC Kapstadt members who meet TSIBA’s academic criteria.
“A healthy mind, healthy body, and healthy spirit are fundamental to a healthy nation. It is for this reason that TSIBA Business School established its RISE (Resilience Inspiration through Sport and Education) initiative: to forge a stronger symbiotic relationship between sports and education.
“The same formulae for success in sports – discipline, commitment, training, and aspiration, apply to business and many other endeavors in life. Hence it was for these reasons that TSIBA extended its social impact outreach by establishing a partnership with FC Kapstadt.”
