The Bernard Mnguni Sports Foundation believes every young person has the potential to do great things. We believe that through sports, youths are given the tools to explore, learn, invent, and develop. Spearheaded by its ambassador and chairperson of the foundation Mr. Bernard Mnguni a former Mamelodi Sundowns FC middle fielder and South African national team and international footballer, the mission of our non-profit generating organization is to help the youth to develop their cognitive and social skills through sports and education.

Using sports and education as our instruments, the organization aims to identify and nurture talent in youths from poverty stricken homes; where young people are forced to drop out of school due to financial constraints and even lack the basic human needs, negatively exposing such youths to crime and drug abuse.

Majority of the families in south African townships and rural areas have an average number of five children per household and are struggling to survive by doing odd jobs. All the family’s small income is therefore basically for feeding the family (hand-to-mouth) and many of these households cannot afford the cost of educating their children and supporting them up to the level where they can sustain themselves.

As a result, children from these less privileged families attend schools that are highly congested and poorly equipped with no facilities for extracurricular education and development. Yet, these very same children are evaluated equally with the rest from better off families who have access to good schools with all the necessary facilities and better conditions. The irony of this is that the needy children that are in dare need of scholarships to further their studies, are the ones without any possibilities of achieving in order to benefit from it.

The opposite is true; that children from well off families who after attending very good schools perform well and are therefore eligible for free higher education at both secondary and tertiary levels. Unfortunately, parent from middle and low level families care very little about the size of their families thereby creating a vicious circle of poor and needy families transmitted from generation to generation.

Through identifying, nurturing and promoting talent, this project aims to give a concrete possibility of social and economic empowerment to the adults of tomorrow and to all their families and dependents.

Our Mission

• To create a better future for young people by improving their employability and key life skills, through our sports and education-themed personal development programs

Our Vision

• To create a level playing field where every young person has the opportunity to create a better future for

•       Vision

Success without a successor is failure.