FOUNDATION

  • Financial Aid Helps UKZN Students Realise their Full Potential

  • Empowering Future Doctors Through Compassion and Support

  • Ford Wildlife Foundation Vehicles Enable Ecological Research

  • Foundation Magazine April 2025 Edition

  • Get to know the UKZN FOUNDATION and what we do!

  • Breaking Barriers to becoming a Doctor

  • Driving Conservation Forward for UKZN’s Ecosystem Research

  • CCA Awarded a R1 Million Grant to Boost the Durban International Film Festival

  • Passion for Nursing and Education

  • Mechanical Engineering student benefits from Bursary

  • Pharmacy Student Leads with Hope and Resilience

  • Overcoming Challenges and Pursuing Dreams with the Support of Bursaries

  • Powering Up Through Education

  • UKZN Optometry Expands Community Reach Through International Partnership

  • UKZN Student Brings Eye Care to Rural Communities

  • Accounting Student Empowered by Opportunity and Driven by Purpose

  • SRC Trust Fund Bursary 2025

  • Foundation Magazine December 2024 Edition

  • UKZN Foundation Wins at National MACE Awards

  • Endoscopic Equipment Donation a Boost for Surgical Training at UKZN

  • School of Education Part of BANKSETA Skills for the Future Programme

  • Determined UKZN Honours Student Receives Bursary from Zestcor

  • Huawei Bursary Empowers UKZN Student’s Dreams

  • UKZN Alumnus Pioneers Parkinson’s Research at University of Oxford

  • Cutting-edge Research Unleashes the Power of Zebrafish

  • Cultivating Success with the Support of an ABSA Bursary

  • Centre for Creative Arts Secures National Lottery Commission Funding to Enhance Poetry Africa Festival

  • 17th Annual Golf Day Raises R165 000 for Student Bursaries

  • Support future generations with UKZN foundation

  • Foundation Magazine September 2024 Edition

  • What Will Your Legacy Be?

  • April 2024 Edition

    UKZN Philanthropy

Welcome to the UKZN Foundation’s website.

A hallmark of the University of KwaZulu-Natal is the wonderful sense of community that is made up of individuals doing remarkable things to impact the lives of so many. At the Foundation, we’re leading the charge to build a lifelong culture of engagement and philanthropy that advances the mission of a truly South African University of Choice that is academically excellent, innovative in research, entrepreneurial, while critically engaging with society, and building relationships and connections within and beyond the UKZN community in meaningful ways to maximise the donor impact for the University.

For years, your philanthropic support has provided critical financial resources that have assisted with funds to support students, our colleges and various programmes across the University, creating unique enrichment opportunities for our students to learn and develop critical skills that will strengthen them as they move on to new endeavours. For this, we say “Thank You!”

My colleagues and I consider it an honour and a privilege to work with and alongside you as we continue advancing UKZN. We welcome the opportunity to talk with you about how you can help us ensure a brighter future for our students, our University and the greater global community.

Mr Steve Camp

Executive Director

PA/Secretary

Ms Perine Leonard Leonardp@ukzn.ac.za // 031 260 2389

Get To Know The UKZN Foundation

Donor Testimonials

Student Testimonials

Playlist

5 Videos

Latest News

Supporting Medical Students with Historical Debt

Dean and Head of UKZN’s School of Clinical Medicine Professor Ncoza Dlova has launched a fund to support Medical students…

Gift of the Givers Foundation Donates Optometry Kits to UKZN

The Gift of the Givers Foundation, in collaboration with the Caring Sisters Network…

Foundation Approach

The Foundation establishes and cultivates relationships with prospective donors on behalf of the University and as such serves as a principle conduit for philanthropic donations aimed at supporting the strategic development needs of the University. In its drive to secure donations for the University’s development,