In South Africa, the skills development gap and unemployment figures are a REAL concern for the property sector.

Every year we do nothing the number grows. It’s time we get real.

To realise our potential, we must prepare ourselves for the REAL world… with REAL skills… to face REAL challenges. Introducing the Vukile Academy – a pioneering, career-growth initiative designed to facilitate broader economic empowerment within the property sector.

MISSION & VISION

The Academy offers a REAL opportunity to the most suitable candidates. Our mission is to create a skills development, mentorship and transformation platform that will empower young, black professionals and entrepreneurs by equipping them with the elemental tools and abilities to undertake the ever-changing and challenging world of property investment and property development in South Africa.

Our outlook at the Academy is to impart the Vukile brand DNA. We aim to positively develop and enhance the quality of black professionals and entrepreneurs in the property sector.

Bursaries

Are you looking to further your studies but lack the funding to do so? Are you a well-rounded and driven student with strong group dynamics?

Do you have a strong academic history, which you have maintained throughout the year?

Here’s a REAL opportunity. At the Academy, individuals are selected based on educational performance as well as their unique and ethical approach to life, following basic property studies at university level. The Academy issues around 40 – 45 bursaries each year to 3rd year and Honours level students, after which they could be selected to be part of the Vukile team through our internship programme.

If you are currently pursuing studies in BSC real estate or similar studies in QS or Architecture, BSC Engineering (Electrical), Marketing, Property  Investing or Finance, we would like to hear from you. Currently, the participating universities and organisations are UP, Wits, UKZN, SAIBPP, UJ, SAPOA and WPN.

INTERNSHIPS

Every year, 10 qualified graduands from our bursary programme will be selected and given the opportunity to gain REAL-life experience in a professional working environment as part of the Vukile Team in an industry leading and comprehensive internship programme. The programme will run for a year, divided into 10 modules.

Every year, 10 qualified graduands from our bursary programme will be selected and given the opportunity to gain REAL-life experience in a professional working environment as part of the Vukile Team in an industry leading and comprehensive internship programme. The programme will run for a year, divided into 10 modules.

SUCCESS STORIES

Lesego Segano

Strategic Planning, Projects & Quantity Surveying

"I am blessed with the opportunity of being a custodian of shaping, developing and impacting the environment people occupy."

Nomhle Ngwenya

Property Studies

"Being in the property industry and Vukile Academy means to lead with humility but to be hungry. Having a continuous curiosity about people and how they live and how the industry works."

Thato Mohale

Property Finance & Investments

"The property industry has been one full of transformation and being a young person in the industry means partaking and living this change, while embracing the opportunity of contributing to solutions. Vukile has enabled me to empower myself with great skills, be part of a good culture and possess a mindset of excellence."

Lesedi Mphahlele

Property Studies & Finance

"With the right guidance and the right foundation the top structures will hold until the end of time. There is a proverb whose meaning I have been privileged to experience, “It takes a village to raise a child ”. I believe Vukile has “Raised” many children."

Contact Us

Physical Address
11 Ninth Street
Houghton Estate
2198

Contact Us 

+27 (0)11 288 1000
info@vukileacademy.co.za