Bursaries By Study Field : Construction

The GCR Academy is a branch within Gauteng Department of Education set up to build relevant knowledge, skills and talent in order to reduce the high unemployment rate. One of the key focus areas is in the management of bursaries, learnerships and internships for young people. The bursaries are targeted matriculants from non fee paying schools within Gauteng.

The National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) is a development finance institution that funds and facilitates the development of affordable housing for the benefit of the low- and middle-income South African households. The NHFC has a tertiary bursary fund to help bolster capacity, expertise and work opportunities related to the housing finance sector. Tertiary students, from second year and postgraduate study levelsare invited to submit applications for consideration for the NHFC Bursary Fund.

Aveng is a South African conglomerate company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange founded in the 1880s. Originally working on construction, it is engaged in steel, engineering, manufacturing, mining, concessions, public infrastructure and water treatment activities. It is active in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and the Middle East. Aveng has designed and built many of the iconic building, bridges and mega-structures across Southern Africa and in 30 countries across the globe from medical centres, school building and dams that sustain communities to rail infrastructure, mining infrastructure, ports, roads, bridges and airports that connect people.

Basil Read is one of the most successful construction companies in South Africa, with operations in 7 countries. Basil Read is active in the building, civil engineering, roads construction, mixed-use integrated housing developments and mining over the last 60 years. Every South African has been touched by Basil Read in some form or another. Either by the roads they travel on, the houses they live in or the schools their children go to.