There is a particular kind of energy that fills a space when people gather not just for themselves, but for something larger. On 13 March 2026, that energy settled over the fairways of Pecanwood Golf and Country Club in Hartbeespoort, as the Tseleme Cares Foundation brought together corporates, alumni, community leaders, and purpose-driven organisations for its 7th Annual Dress-A-Schoolchild Charity Par-Tee Golf Day. Lebone Marang and Summer was there, and we would not have had it any other way.
About the Tseleme Cares Foundation and the Day’s Purpose
The Tseleme Cares Foundation (TCF) began as a group of lifelong friends from the North West Province who decided that friendship was not enough if it did not reach beyond their own circle.
Since 2016, TCF has been channelling that conviction into action, providing school uniforms and shoes to learners from disadvantaged communities across South Africa. To date, the Foundation has dressed 809 learners across schools in areas ranging from Maquassi Hills and Rustenburg to Mahikeng, Tswaing, and most recently eMalahleni.
The annual charity golf day is the engine that makes this possible. Every participation fee, every sponsorship, and every watering hole activated on the course feeds directly into the purchase of uniforms for children who would otherwise go without. The 7th edition carried all the weight of that history and all the optimism of a foundation that knows exactly what it is building.
The day drew a strong cross-section of attendees, including corporate representatives, university alumni, small business owners, community leaders, and partner organisations. Registration and breakfast opened at 9:00 AM, a Shotgun Start for 120 golfers got underway at 10:30 AM, and the day closed with a prize-giving dinner at 5:00 PM.
Lebone Marang and Summer at the Heart of the Experience
Lebone Marang and Summer came to the course with more than refreshments. We came with a story to tell and genuine interest in the stories of everyone who stopped by.
Our watering hole was a deliberate space, set up to welcome golfers, offer a moment of rest, and open real conversations about what Lebone Marang and Summer is doing and where we are headed.
From our two-year Integrated Digital Skills, Entrepreneurship and Work Readiness Programme to our IT governance and cybersecurity offerings, every exchange at that hole was an invitation into a mission that we believe resonates with anyone who cares about the future of South African youth.
On the Ground: Lebone Marang and Summer Team
CEO Lebogang Khunou and Operations Manager Mosa Olifant were the faces of Lebone Marang and Summer on the day, and they brought exactly the kind of energy that makes a watering hole more than a pit stop.
Lebo engaged golfers directly, sharing the vision behind Lebone Marang and Summer, the progress being made with current cohorts, and the organisation’s expanding footprint across Gauteng, North West, and the Free State.
Mosa kept the warmth flowing, ensuring that every person who stopped felt welcomed and genuinely heard. Together they modelled something important: that brand presence is most powerful when it is human first.
This was not about putting up a banner. It was about starting conversations that could become collaborations.
Throughout the day, the LMS watering hole became a space for meaningful conversations around youth development, skills training, and future collaboration.
A Collective Effort: The Organisations That Showed Up
Lebone Marang and Summer was one of several organisations that sponsored watering holes across the course, each bringing their own identity and commitment to the day. Taken together, they represent exactly the kind of multi-sector alliance that community impact depends on.
Lebone Marang and Summer | Dirabotle Projects | VUT Ekhaya Alumni | ARB Electrical Wholesalers | Merafe Yotlhe | Literacy for Life
Each of these organisations made a deliberate choice to show up, sponsor, and engage. That choice, multiplied across the course, is what turns a golf day into a movement.
Spotlight: VUT Ekhaya Alumni
One of the most meaningful dimensions of the day was the presence of the VUT Ekhaya Alumni network, graduates of the Vaal University of Technology who have built careers across engineering, business, and community leadership, and who chose to spend a Friday giving back to a cause rooted in the same North West soil many of them come from.
The gathering was led by Mr Lekopane Mokonopi, organiser of the Tseleme Social Club and a VUT alumnus who graduated in 2004 with a Diploma in Electrical Engineering. Today he serves as Head of Plant Engineering for the Tshwane Zone at Eskom. His journey from the electrical laboratories of VUT to senior leadership in one of South Africa’s most critical institutions is exactly the kind of story that inspires the next generation to stay the course.
Fellow alumnus Mr Kgoetseyone Motsamai, who studied Marketing Management at VUT and today balances a corporate career as Customer Care Manager at KIC South Africa with his own entrepreneurial venture, also reflected on how his university years shaped his confidence and ambition.
Their presence at the golf day was a reminder that giving back is not a gesture reserved for the distant future. It is something that can happen on a Thursday afternoon on a golf course in Hartbeespoort.
Atmosphere and Highlights from the Day
The photographs from the day tell a story that words can only approximate. At the LMS stand, laughter and conversation flowed as freely as the refreshments. On the course, golfers in bold, colourful outfits brought the competitive spirit and the camaraderie in equal measure.
The prize giving dinner brought the room together in celebration, with award recipients beaming alongside their trophies and gift bags, surrounded by the community they had spent the day building.
There were handshakes that felt like the beginning of something. There were conversations that spilled beyond the hole and continued into the dinner.
There was the quiet satisfaction of being in a room full of people who had chosen to do something good with their Friday, and who left knowing that a child somewhere would walk into school a little more ready to face the day because they did.
Why Events Like This Matter
South Africa’s most persistent challenges are not solved by any single organisation, government programme, or community initiative working alone. They are solved by the slow, deliberate accumulation of partnerships, each one adding another thread to a net wide enough to catch the people who have been falling through the cracks.
Events like the TCF golf day matter because they create the conditions for those partnerships to form. They bring together people who might never have crossed paths in a boardroom. They put business leaders alongside community builders, alumni alongside emerging entrepreneurs, and established organisations alongside newer ones still finding their footing. And they do all of this in service of something beautifully simple: getting a child into school with a uniform on their back.
For Lebone Marang and Summer, whose entire mission is built on creating access and opportunity for young South Africans, this alignment is not incidental. It is essential. Skills development, youth empowerment, and inclusion are not abstract values. They are most visible in moments like these, where organisations with different names and different models show up for the same reason.
Looking Ahead
Lebone Marang and Summer’s presence at the TCF golf day was not a one-off. It is part of a deliberate commitment to showing up in community spaces where our mission has resonance and where the relationships we build can translate into real outcomes for the young people we serve.
We look forward to deepening our involvement with TCF and with the broader network of organisations that gathered on the Pecanwood fairways this March.
If you are an organisation or individual interested in partnering with us, whether on youth development, IT training, or community-driven initiatives, the conversation that started at the watering hole is still very much open.
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The full photo highlights from the day are available on Flickr. Head there to see the moments, the people, and the energy that made the 7th Annual TCF Charity Golf Day one to remember.
View the TCF Golf Day Photo Album on Flickr
To learn more about Lebone Marang and Summer visit www.lebonemarang.co.za or reach out directly.
And to support the Tseleme Cares Foundation’s ongoing work, contact them at +27 82 803 1929 or follow @tselemesocialclub on Instagram.
