Company Information
Incorporation Date: June 01, 2016
BEE: BEE Level 1
Woman-Owned: Yes - 50%+ Woman Owned
Company Size: 10 – 20
Distribution: HORECA/Hospitality: Hotels, Restuarants, Catering
Company Overview: Isivivana Centre is home to numerous modern and well-managed facilities that can be enjoyed by Khayelitsha residents and the surrounding communities, including our Library, Movie House, Classroom, Hall, Café, and Outdoor Amphitheatre. The Movie House, Classroom and Hall can be booked by members of the public to host special events. The state-of-the-art Isivivana Centre was built with the support of Atlantic Philanthropies and is owned and managed by Khayelitsha Youth & Community Centre (KYCC) Trust. The top three floors of the Centre provide offices for community and social justice organisations that are registered Public Benefit Organisations (PBOs).
The journey to a completed Isivivana Centre is a six-year story, from 2010 to 2016. All those years ago, the activist organisation Equal Education began investigating the possibility of acquiring land for a new, permanent home in Khayelitsha. On 9 November 2010, EE’s Operations Manager of EE, Michelle Adler, wrote to a contact seeking advice:
“We are a small NGO but are growing fast into a social movement and want to look into the possibilities of buying and developing some land into an office and community centre in Khayelitsha that could possibly house a number of community organizations based here including TAC, the Social Justice Coalition and possibly one other.”
