Mthetheleli Boya and Seraj Abrahams are two up and coming mountain bike riders who are set to make their debut at this year’s Absa Cape Epic. The duo, who will ride as Team CPUT PPS, are competing in the Exxarro category. This is a development category reserved for riders who are under the age of 26 and who hail from formally disadvantaged backgrounds.
Their debut is being made possible by the Professional Provident Society (PPS), a financial services company in South Africa that offers financial solutions for graduate professionals.
CPUT’s Niven Maree, who is based at the university’s Advancement Department, says the university is proud to be associated with PPS.
The university and PPS has been collaborating since 2013, with PPS providing much needed partial bursaries for academically deserving disadvantaged students, as well as funding unique year end class activities and class photos.
One of the most recent generous donations resulted in the much needed refurbishment of the Postgraduate Resource Centre that is based in the Department of Emergency Medical Care.
Maree says the PPS sponsorship of a CPUT team participating in the Absa Cape Epic is a first for the institution.
“The sponsorship of the CPUT PPS Team is the pinnacle of a flourishing partnership,” he says.
PPS views the partnership as an ideal vehicle for it to entrench itself in the growing recreational sport sector – wherein which many of its current clients already participate – and wherein which many potential clients participate.
“We believe that as pioneers in many respects in our respective spheres of business we will continue to look toward the future and support one another in ventures beneficial for the other,” says Maree.
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