About Kodumela Bokamoso
The future is not found. It is built — learner by learner.
Kodumela Bokamoso Youth Development is a non-profit organisation established in response to the growing need to develop leaders within rural communities.
The name
Kodumela moepathuse, ga go lehumo le le tšwago kgauswi.
Direct English rendering
Persevere; wealth does not come from nearby.
Northern Sotho (Sepedi) proverb
Meaning
Worthwhile achievement requires perseverance, effort and the willingness to go beyond what is immediately within reach.
Bokamoso means the future. Kodumela Bokamoso carries the instruction and the object together: persevere — for the future. It is an unusually accurate name for an organisation whose work is holiday schools, repeated expos and matric results that move a few points a year.
Why we exist
A learner in a rural school can carry every bit of the ability needed for medicine, engineering or actuarial science and still never enter those fields — not through any failure of their own, but because no one in their daily world holds those jobs, the gateway subjects are under-resourced, and the application system assumes a family that has navigated it before.
Kodumela Bokamoso exists to close that distance. Our publicly stated purpose covers leadership development, life-skills training, improving rural-school performance, preparing learners for tertiary education and work, career guidance, learner support, sport and school-development interventions — delivered as one connected journey rather than isolated events.
Origin
A history worth recording properly.
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2008The first school partnership
Kodumela partners with Nakedi Secondary School in Limpopo. It is the first long-term school relationship, and it is still the founding one.
Compiled from Kodumela's own published programme reports.
Mission
To make the future visible, reachable and enterable for learners whom geography has kept from it.
Objectives
- Academic improvement
Lift performance in the gateway subjects that decide tertiary access.
- Career exposure
Make careers visible, concrete and reachable for learners who have never met one.
- Leadership development
Build the character and capability to lead beyond the classroom.
- Life skills
Equip learners for the decisions and pressures that follow school.
- Tertiary readiness
Carry learners through applications, funding and first-year arrival.
- School and community support
Strengthen the institution so change outlasts any single learner.
How Kodumela works
Listen → Design → Deliver → Measure
Each stage feeds the next. Select one to see what it involves and what it produces.
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LISTENListen
Work begins with schools, educators, learners and community structures describing what is actually missing — not with a programme looking for a place to run.
Governance
Board
Peter Sebake
Kabelo Nkoana
Brighton Ravele
The Board office-bearers of Kodumela Bokamoso Youth Development.
Governance
Non-Executive Directors
Bernard Swannepoel
Ps Mosa Sono
Roger Pearce
Leadership and team
The people behind the work.
Thumbha Chabalala
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See the work, not just read about it.
Governance and transparency
Trust is earned in documents, not adjectives.
Partners, funders and schools can request Kodumela's registration documentation, programme reports and policies directly, and we will send them.