WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
At Excel@Uni, our commitment to scholarship and bursary management doesn’t end when the funds are disbursed. It continues as students transform their funding opportunities into outcomes. This page is dedicated to celebrating the journeys of our alumni, whose success stories are a testament to the power of strategic bursary services that prioritise holistic student success and student development.
Our alumni are now engineers, doctors, accountants, educators, and entrepreneurs each one a living example of how effective student support systems can drive real transformation.
These are students who have benefited from our scholarship and bursary administration, continuous performance monitoring, academic support, structured mentoring and career readiness workshops, all delivered through Excel@Uni’s leading integrated student success ecosystem.
We believe education funding is more than a compliance requirement, it’s a long-term skills development investment. If you're a corporate bursary manager or NGO scholarship manager looking to make a measurable impact, let these stories inspire your next move.
Yuriska Reddy
Excel@Uni Alumni
After graduation, Yuriska joined the graduate programme at Growthpoint Properties. “What I took from Excel@Uni was the lesson on CV preparation. I think that was something that really helped me stand out from the rest when I applied for jobs because as soon as I used the advice I was given, I started receiving invites to interviews. Another thing I appreciated about Excel@Uni was having a mentor. The mentor checked up on me once every month and this was someone I could talk to when I was struggling and ask questions when I needed answers.”
Lance Bartlett
Excel@Uni Alumni
After graduation, Lance joined South32 as a Graduate Engineer. “I am really grateful for having been a part of Excel@Uni, because they showed great support when I came back from abroad during the lockdown. When I came back from Germany, I had to adapt to the new way of learning, e-Learning and at the time I had lost touch with how things were going at home, in South Africa. With schooling being online and being unable to socialise with people, I felt alone. However, with Excel@Uni I was not alone, I had someone to speak to when I struggled with school work and to ask questions when I did not understand. Knowing that you have someone you can trust on your side is what I really appreciated.”
Thapelo Letsoalo
Excel@Uni Alumni
After graduating, Thapelo joined the Investment Banking Graduate programme at Citi group. “The biggest lesson I learnt from Excel@Uni was preparing for the workspace while still at university. I was introduced to Excel@Uni while I was still studying at Wits University. The Mentorship programme was very helpful in a sense that it gave me direction of where I wanted to be. From the beginning of the programme, I was taught about goal setting. I used to set short and long-term goals with my mentor. Short term goals were my studies and achieving attractive marks for all my modules. Whereas Long term goals were regarding the exact companies I wished to work for, if they had internships or graduate programmes, and thinking through what would be required to qualify for placements on those programmes.”
Portia Monaheng
Excel@Uni Alumni
After graduation, Portia joined Abland as a Project Management Intern. “At the time when I was a student, I didn’t find mentorship very useful. It was instead sometimes a nuisance when you (Excel@Uni Mentors) were constantly pushing us to build our LinkedIn profiles, to build a good CV, and all of that. However, when I started working, I started to understand the importance of everything you were teaching us, because I noticed that a lot of the other candidates were not as well prepared in terms of how their career documentation represented their abilities.”
Boikano Monareng
Excel@Uni Alumni
After graduation, Lance joined South32 as a Graduate Engineer. “I am really grateful for having been a part of Excel@Uni, because they showed great support when I came back from abroad during the lockdown. When I came back from Germany, I had to adapt to the new way of learning, e-Learning and at the time I had lost touch with how things were going at home, in South Africa. With schooling being online and being unable to socialise with people, I felt alone. However, with Excel@Uni I was not alone, I had someone to speak to when I struggled with school work and to ask questions when I did not understand. Knowing that you have someone you can trust on your side is what I really appreciated.”
Yulandi Sikidi
Excel@Uni Alumni
After graduating, Yulandi joined Growthpoint Properties as a Sustainability and Utilities Graduate and after being in the working world for 2.5 years, Yulandi is now a Sustainable Finance Analyst at Absa Group. Yulandi has proven her ability to climb the corporate ladder and in reminiscing on her experiences with Excel@Uni she credits her awareness of the demands of the working world to Excel@Uni’s active involvement in getting students to think about their career aspirations constructively, before graduating, not waiting until after. Achieved by Excel@Uni’s orchestrated mentorship program that includes CV and cover letter drafting exercises as well as evaluating and advising students’ constructively on both their LinkedIn profiles and their use of it to intentionally engage relevant professionals and keep abreast of the job market. She fondly recalls that it was the brushing up of her networking with professionals’ skills that assisted her with landing her first role given that she networked.