Our History

Kagiso Trust (KT) was founded in 1985 during a period of intense struggle in South Africa. During this tumultuous time, we strongly opposed apartheid by providing support to development institutions and initiatives across a range of sectors.

After 1994 we broadened our social vision through the establishment of Kagiso Trust Investments and for the next decade focused on uplifting our communities through targeted education and enterprise development programmes. In 2005, we secured our financial stability through a series of strategic investments and partnerships that strengthened and expanded our capacities to develop people and communities.

Kagiso Trust is one of South Africa’s leading development agencies, working towards a prosperous, peaceful, equitable and just society.

We work to overcome poverty by developing and implementing scalable, replicable, sustainable development programme models in the areas of education development, institutional capacity building, socio-economic development and financial sustainability.

Over the past 35 years we have invested over R2 billion in development and implemented over 1,831 programmes.