Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) 2025 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: April 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) 2025. The Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) was established in 1979 by Harvard President Derek Bok to deal with the wants of South Africans denied entry to superior training beneath Apartheid. The program was a direct response to the robust motion by Harvard college students and college through the transnational divestment campaigns of the Seventies.

The Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) continues to function a robust bridge-builder and mental OPPORTUNITY for proficient South Africans, with the aim of offering a “transformational experience” at Harvard University throughout recipients’ fellowship 12 months and past. 

Fellowships are as much as one 12 months of study at choose Harvard faculties, together with Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Business School govt education schemes (i) Program for Leadership Development (PLD), ii) General Management Program (GMP), iii) Advanced Management Program (AMP)).  The recruitment and choice course of for the HSAFP happen yearly, with interviews facilitated by the Africa Office in Johannesburg. 

Funding

• The fellowship gives for cost of all tuition for the total interval of enrollment at Harvard.
• The fellowship additionally funds spherical-journey airfare between the guy’s metropolis of residence and Boston.
• A month-to-month stipend is offered to fellows, except for these enrolled within the Executive Education Programs, to cowl the price of housing and different residing bills. Housing is often in college graduate dormitories. Please be aware that housing prices within the Boston/Cambridge space are extraordinarily excessive, and the stipend solely covers naked requirements. The month-to-month stipend should even be used to pay different bills similar to medical and dental insurance coverage, drugs, taxes, meals, winter clothes, books, and provides. Fellows are held personally chargeable for the cost of all payments aside from tuition charges and airfare. Fellows also needs to remember that their stipends could have a big quantity of taxes taken out earlier than they obtain the funds.

Eligibility

• Applicants should maintain a bachelors diploma or 4-12 months equal. 
• Applicants should be capable to conduct spoken and written tutorial work of the best normal in Harvard’s language of instruction (English). 
• Applicants have to be South African residents (or authorized everlasting residents of South Africa); precedence will likely be given to these at present working in Africa.  
• Applicants should have at the very least 5 years of postgraduate work expertise; precedence will likely be given to these with a demonstrated dedication to the general public good.

Expectations

• Ideal candidates are those that search to mannequin moral management, data sharing, and function a useful resource to enhance and remodel their communities and South Africa.
• Priority will likely be prolonged to mid-profession candidates who’ve been educationally deprived by previous legal guidelines and useful resource allocations in South Africa, or whose households have been harmed by discriminatory legal guidelines and exclusionary insurance policies beneath apartheid.
• Applicants whose curiosity in this system is simply in in search of a complicated diploma or skilled certification to advance their very own profession pursuits should not excellent candidates. 
• Alumni of this system are anticipated to stay concerned after the completion of their fellowship and function ambassadors for the fellowship and sources to at least one one other.

Application

The application contains the next classes: 

• General Information 
• Contact Details 
• Education 
• Employment History 
• Upload of recordsdata: CV, transcripts, private assertion, and tutorial essay 
• Recommendation Letters 
• Consent & Electronic Signature

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For extra info, go to Harvard South Africa Fellowship.