While this was my third postgraduate qualification, it certainly is the best in terms of content and lecturer quality. I have many years of experience in lecturing, tutoring, coaching and facilitation in the entrepreneurial space, and through the PGDBA have been able to significantly improve all these aspects. As an example, I have been consulting and coaching for a long …
Purpose-Lived – Elixir to a Meaningful Life!
What is the value of one’s heartbeat? What is the meaning of life? Do I matter? These are existential questions that people increasingly reflect on in light of the covid pandemic and the rising number of existential threats facing humanity. Placing a value on life is a poignant ontological question, nearly impossible to answer, yet profound enough to drive many …
Graduation 2021
A clear highlight of this year’s first semester was the TSIBA Graduation ceremony which took place on Saturday 20th March on campus at TSIBA House. The ceremony was also live-streamed to include family members,faculty and other key stakeholders who were unable to attend for social distancing health requirements. The event combined graduation ceremonies for the graduates of both 2020 and …
TSIBA mourns the recent passing of Abduraghmaan Vollenhoven
TSIBA mourns the recent passing of Abduraghmaan Vollenhoven. We knew Abduraghmaan as a dedicated Mentor to our students, a father to students who studied with us, a generous financial contributor over many years and a committed human to the service of others, young people in particular. The piece written by Abduraghmaan, and which appeared in a past TSIBA Annual report reflects his values and …
TSIBA Journey Through the Covid-19 Pandemic: A TSIBA Guide for Health and Healing.
This “Tips for health and healing” is the final product in the TSIBA: Journey through the pandemic event. The brainchild of TSIBA safety team, this booklet contains thoughts, COVID advice and tips, all generously shared by TSIBA students and staff as they encountered the reality of the Coronavirus for themselves. Although they have all fought a common enemy, their experiences …
TSIBA Business School – Announcement of New Board Chair
Dear Friends of TSIBA Following seventeen years of service as the TSIBA Education (now TSIBA Business School) Board Chairperson, the tenure of Professor Fatima Abrahams will end in June of this year. We are delighted and proud to announce that TSIBA Co-Founder, Gia Whitehead, will succeed Professor Abrahams in the role of TSIBA Board Chair. “I have been a …
How to gain financial freedom
Going back to more than 11 years ago, when I was a student in your position, made me think, “What would I have liked to hear when it comes to finance?” A lot, to be quite honest, but I will focus on just a few. Given that we are wrapping up freedom month, cliché, as it may be, not talking …
TSIBA Woodstock’s Street Art Walk – An AHA! Experience
Vibrant, colourful and evocative, is how street and installation art tells the stories of Woodstock’s urban soul. Like the thousands of years that art captured our imaginations, expressed our yearnings, vented our outrage and released our creative spirits, the TSIBA Woodstock Street Art Walk in collaboration with Juma Art Tours, aims to achieve these and more. With its campus in …
Graduation Ceremony 2020
Congratulations on reaching a significant milestone in your life! Graduation is a time to celebrate your hard work, dedication and achievements throughout your time spent at TSIBA Business School. It is a fantastic opportunity to come together with family, colleagues and your lecturers to recognise your wonderful accomplishment and also to look forward to what the future holds. Due to …
Alumna: Zikhona Ngumbela
It was a challenge studying at a different institution after graduating. It was a new environment, larger classes and change is support systems. I took it as an opportunity to apply all the tools I had learnt about to cope in the new environment. When I was overwhelmed with being in a new environment, I remembered that I learnt a …
The Mandela Rhodes Charm
My experience as a TSIBA Business School student was about family, growth, and exposure. Even today, ten years after graduating, TSIBA continues to open doors for me. Getting on a plane and traveling abroad was something completely foreign to me, but because of the privilege of studying at TSIBA, it is now normal. I also built long-lasting friendships that carried …
The Marina Garden at TSIBA House
Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) once quoted “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow”. One can only be inspired by the life and legacy of this remarkable person, most notably for her considerable work for the international children’s relief organization UNICEF. It is however the spirit of this particular Audrey Hepburn quotation that captures the beautiful garden that …