PRESS ARTICLES

The Tiger Brands Foundation celebrates serving up 100m meals to learners

Published: Mon 20 December 2021

The Tiger Brands Foundation (TBF) will celebrate serving its 100th million in-school meal in December 2021, achieving this milestone in about a decade since launching its in-school breakfast programme.

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Foundation vows to keep nutrition model with broader socio-economic impact

Published: Mon 27 July 2020

Around the world Covid-19 induced lockdowns have severely limited the full socio-economic impact of nutrition models at schools, says Eugene Absolom-director of the Tiger Brands Foundation.

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We have to make better food choices during this time

Published: Thu 21 May 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the severity of food insecurity the world over, says Karl Muller, Operations Manager at The Tiger Brands Foundation (TBF).

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In times of crisis, izandla ziyagezana and Tiger Brands Foundation staff are an example of this

Published: Thu 23 April 2020

After a successful nationwide food hamper drive to vulnerable families during the lockdown period, the Tiger Brands Foundation (TBF) is embarking on a second run of food hamper distributions.

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Food security for vulnerable families in the lockdown calls for coordinated action

Published: Sat 18 April 2020

Companies and individuals who want to make sure that children don’t go hungry during the national lockdown are being asked to add their support to an initiative that already feeds thousands of youngsters every day.

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The Tiger Brand Foundation takes meals to its beneficiaries during lockdown

Published: Tue 31 March 2020

Earlier this week the Tiger Brands Foundation distributed thousands of food hampers in communities where their beneficiary schools are located throughout the country.

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Tiger Brands Foundation ready to take decisive steps should Covid19 threat escalate

Published: Thu 12 March 2020

Tiger Brands Foundation, an organisation dedicated to providing nutritious meals to learners in several schools in all nine provinces throughout the country, is monitoring developments around Corona Virus (Covid19) with the view to take immediate steps to

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No challenge could have stood in the way of Ndlovu’s dream of equipping young minds for a great future

Published: Fri 22 November 2019

It was a humble aptitude test – provided to all learners within the class as a means to ascertain which direction they should take for their future careers – which changed the lives of hundreds of learner’s lives’ for the better.

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Mokoma: A principal whose love for his school pumps through his veins

Published: Thu 24 October 2019

"If there is anyone who is in a position to bring positive change every day, it is a teacher."
When Khojane Mokoma, headmaster of Masaleng Primary School in Ficksburg, came across this Japanese quote, he decided to align these words with his vision as a

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Let’s not cut breakfast in tough times

Published: Mon 30 September 2019

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/opinion/lets-not-cut-breakfast-in-tough-times-33651797

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SA may suffer from food wastage, not insecurity - Tiger Brands Foundation

Published: Mon 09 September 2019

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/sa-may-suffer-from-food-wastage-not-insecurity-tiger-brands-foundation-32618624

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South Africa wastes 10m tonnes of food annually

Published: Mon 09 September 2019

https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/457/195340.html

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Is South Africa food insecure or do we have an acute case of food wastage?

Published: Sun 08 September 2019

https://www.cbn.co.za/featured/is-south-africa-food-insecure-or-do-we-have-an-acute-case-of-food-wastage/

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Tiger Brands Foundation calls for review of food sell-by date legislation

Published: Sat 07 September 2019

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/tiger-brands-foundation-calls-for-review-of-food-sell-by-date-legislation/

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Kathu educator and community builder believes food is a love language

Published: Mon 02 September 2019

A strong attachment to the town where she was born and raised, saw Dineo Moagi returning to her roots in Kathu, a small town in Northern Cape, and taking up a position as principal at Laerskool Sishen in 2017.

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Teaching is a calling meant for the advancement of the child

Published: Tue 30 July 2019

As a young man Peter Buis had to leave his hometown in Ashton in the Western Cape to a neighbouring town to complete his matric because there were no high schools in Ashton at the time.

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Education works best when educators are passionate and the community is involved

Published: Mon 29 July 2019

Teaching was passed on to us by the women in our family. Even my grandmother was a teacher

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100 principals to “occupy” Sandton for two days to showcase impact of good learner nutrition

Published: Tue 18 June 2019

About 100 principals from some of the underserviced areas of South Africa will descend on Sandton next week for a two-day intensive conference hosted by the Tiger Brands Foundation (TBF).

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Feed the hunger disaster

Published: Fri 07 June 2019

Despite what we’ve been told about money, it does have the potential to fix a number of the world’s ills and injustices. Money has the potential to restore and pave a better life for those in need.

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Education has the power to improve your circumstances

Published: Tue 04 June 2019

Born at a time when education seemed wasted on a girl-child, Yolisa Mvunyiswa’s father, a Reverend in the Methodist Church, had to answer as to why he was bothering to send his daughters to school.

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Education has the power to improve your circumstances

Published: Mon 03 June 2019

Born at a time when education seemed wasted on a girl-child, Yolisa Mvunyiswa’s father, a Reverend in the Methodist Church, had to answer as to why he was bothering to send his daughters to school.

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Are PPP’s the secret ingredient to effective and efficient service delivery?

Published: Tue 28 May 2019

Hold the white dress, cheesy music, expensive, but rather tasteless entrées nobody cares to eat and the dull fruit cake heavy with icing and you reveal the truth: marriage is not just a glamorous ceremony to entertain bored throngs but rather the union o

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Food for thought... and better education

Published: Fri 12 April 2019

She is a social worker, psychologist, provider, spirited leader and, perhaps most importantly, a teacher.
These are just some of the roles played by Kgabo Mopeli, the principal of Mehopung Primary School in the Free State.

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The Tiger Brands Foundation continues to champion the positive effects of private-public partnerships in South African schools

Published: Thu 04 April 2019

The Tiger Brands Foundation, in partnership with the National Department of Basic Education will be handing over a “state-of-the-art” kitchen facility to a school in Heidelberg this week.

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To be a change agent, you must walk the talk

Published: Thu 28 February 2019

His is a story much like that of the iconic social activist Martin Luther King Jr who, back in the 1960s, nurtured a dream of a united America free of discrimination and social ills.

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Intellidex endorses Tiger Brands Foundation model

Published: Tue 13 November 2018

During 2018, researchers into capital markets and financial services, Intellidex, issued the findings of their research into the charitable and community components of empowerment deals entered into since 2002 by the 100 largest JSE-listed companies.

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High SROI returns for nutritional programmes

Published: Tue 13 November 2018

Independent studies show a social return on investment of between R8 and R10 for every R1 invested.
Education is the broad field that attracts about half of all social investment in private sector community development work. It is therefore particularly

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Did you know?

Published: Tue 13 November 2018

2018 Tiger Brands Foundation at a glance:

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Walking alongside young South Africa

Published: Tue 13 November 2018

Tiger Brands Foundation Director Eugene Absolom says that if South Africa is to maximise
the benefits of her large and sustained investment in education, then well thought-through PPPs are needed. The benefits of school nutrition programmes are demonstr

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A country at her best

Published: Tue 13 November 2018

In her Chairperson’s Statement to the Tiger Brands Foundation 2018 annual report, Ambassador Sheila Sisulu says that South Africans are answering their country’s call right across the country.

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A relevant example to emulate

Published: Tue 13 November 2018

(Message from Angie Motshekga MP, Minister of Basic Education)

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2018 Annual Report: “Beyond the Meal”

Published: Tue 13 November 2018

Published in November 2018, and available for download, the 2018 Annual Report of the Tiger Brands Foundation covers the period of the Foundation’s financial year of 1 March 2017 to 28 February 2018.

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Teach, learn and have no regrets!

Published: Mon 27 August 2018

Through the eyes of Sheila Sisulu, chairperson of the Tiger Brands Foundation, teaching is not really a career… it is a lifestyle. For someone whose career has spanned several decades across a few continents in different yet connected spheres, it is ref

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Coverage in The Star Newspaper

Published: Mon 27 August 2018

More than seven years ago, the Tiger Brands Foundation’s in-school breakfast programme started serving a hot, cooked nutritious breakfast meal to learners in no-fee paying schools.

The programme is a public private partnership with the Department of

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Tiger Brands Foundation augments breakfast programme through school holiday food hampers

Published: Wed 20 June 2018

The Tiger Brands Foundation will provide food hampers at Leokeng Primary School in Brits, North West on June 20, 2018. “It is our mission to contribute towards education by providing good nutrition to school going learners in vulnerable communities arou

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Hungry children can’t concentrate in class

Published: Thu 15 March 2018

Breakfast remains the most important meal of the day. In a nation constantly plagued by lifestyle related illnesses such as obesity, heart disease, malnutrition and diabetes; the importance of proper nutrition can no longer be ignored.

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The Tiger Brands Foundation breakfast programme not affected by processed food recall

Published: Mon 05 March 2018

We are aware of the developments around certain processed food products with regards to the outbreak of listeriosis.

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Virginia Vraagom–Principal of Steenburg’s Cove Primary School

Published: Tue 16 January 2018

By the end of 2017, Virginia will have spent a cumulative total of 40 years at Steenberg’s Cove Primary School. That’s dedication!

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CSDA study shows TBF breakfast initiative contributes to socio-economic development

Published: Tue 22 August 2017

Programmes that aim to look after the nutritional wellbeing of learners as their core mandate have a far-reaching and significant impact that goes beyond just filling empty stomachs. One such programme is the Tiger Brands Foundation's (TBF) in-school brea

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Tiger Brands Foundation in-school breakfast programme serves 50 millionth meal

Published: Mon 03 July 2017

More than five years ago, Tiger Brands Foundation's in-school breakfast programme started serving a nutritious breakfast meal to learners in no-fee paying schools.

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School principal's conference to highlight the role of nutrition in the classroom

Published: Mon 24 April 2017

Just under 100 principals from some of the country’s under-resourced primary schools are meeting this week to discuss the urgent need for learners to receive better nutrition.

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Principal's Conference

Published: Mon 24 April 2017

The second Tiger Brands Foundation Principals Conference was held at Emperor’s Palace in Johannesburg from 4 – 6 April 2017.

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Tiger Brand Foundation gives hungry pupils a roaring start

Published: Thu 16 March 2017

Through its countrywide nutrition programme, the Tiger Brands Foundation serves breakfast to 63,500 pupils every day

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Tiger Brands hands over school kitchen

Published: Fri 10 February 2017

It was joy and excitement for pupils of Seithati Intermediate Primary School when Tiger Brands Foundation donated a R450000 fully furnished kitchen.

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R450000 kitchen for school

Published: Fri 10 February 2017

As part of celebrating National Nutrition Week, Tiger Brands Foundation will hand over a R450000 kitchen to Seithati Intermediate School in Botshabelo tomorrow for being named the best Nutrition Schools National Programme in the country.

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For poor children, two healthy meals a day can keep obesity away

Published: Fri 10 February 2017

Schoolchildren who receive a nutritious lunchtime meal are less likely to be overweight or suffer from childhood obesity. And those who receive both breakfast and lunch are three times less likely to suffer this fate.

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Tiger Brands year end financial results

Published: Fri 10 February 2017

The Tiger Brands Foundation, whose primary focus is taking nutrition and nutrition education to the country’s most under-resourced schools, supports more than 60 000 learners in 83 non-fee paying schools across all nine provinces with a nutritious break

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