Meet some of the key players on the Tshikululu team as they unpack what Tshikululu is all about, our values, and why we do what we do.
Tshikululu is South Africa’s leading social investment fund manager and advisor, working alongside investors and other development partners to achieve sustainable social impact.
We define social investment as any financial commitment – from grant making to impact investing – that seeks to drive and measure social impact.
Our service offering is holistic and unique, offering end-to-end fund management and advisory services underpinned by a deep and hands-on understanding of the complexities of development and social investment.
As agents of social change, we partner with our many clients throughout South Africa to realise their social investment goals. Over the past two decades we have operated in every province in the country, covering urban and rural areas, and collaborated with social investors in various sectors including mining, financial services, renewable energy, property development, banking, insurance, healthcare and logistics.
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LATEST INSIGHT PIECES
Unveiling Insights: Tshikululu’s 2024 Thought Leadership Round-Up
In 2024 our thought leadership explored major themes around what it means to create sustainable social impact in a changing world. Strengthening our approach to social investment involves applying and sharing lessons learnt and using them to develop evidence-based approaches to creating and measuring social impact over time. This year, we have worked to document […]
Beyond compliance: enhancing the impact of community trusts in South Africa
For decades, the mining sector has recognised the need to invest in the development of its host communities, both from a regulatory perspective and in recognition of the historical inequities that continue to create socioeconomic challenges in communities across South Africa. Community trusts (and similar broad-based community ownership schemes) are one vehicle through which companies […]
Broadening our ESG focus: Successful integration of the “S” into ESG in the South African context.
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is increasingly being adopted by businesses in South Africa as a framework to measure and report on sustainability. Globally, ESG is considered by some to have a bias towards the environmental, with frameworks and reporting prioritising the “E”. However, the need for a Just Transition puts the relationship between the […]
Beyond “one-size-fits-all”: Fit-for-purpose M&E in the South African context
Measurement of performance and impact is essential for all development stakeholders looking to bring about meaningful social change. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) or impact management and measurement (IMM) provides us with a structured way of understanding what a social investment is achieving. However, our efforts to measure success are meaningful only if they are appropriate […]
In The News
SAFM
SAFM
Graeme Wilkinson, our Senior Social Investment Specialist, recently joined the Jet Set Breakfast show on SAfm. He shared expert insights into the evolving landscape of business social investments in 2024. […]
Mostshegwa More on Newzroom Afrika
Mostshegwa More, our Social Investment Specialist at Tshikululu Social Investments, recently shared insights on corporate social investors and the just energy transition with Newzroom Afrika. Dive into the conversation on […]
PowerFM
Senior Social Investment Specialist, Graeme Wilkinson discusses the critical role of social investors in addressing South Africa’s escalating unemployment crisis, with PowerFM’s Thabiso Tema.