We're not just building good students,
we're building good people

Post Secondary Character Development and
Mentorship programme for young adults


 


 


 

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OUR PROGRAMMES

Pre-School

Seedlings

Primary School

Core/ReCore

High School

Heart Of A Champion

Post Secondary

Heart Of A Champion


 “Intelligence plus Character - that is the goal of true education.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

OUR PARTNERS

We have partnered with the best in the world to develop our uniquely South African programmes.

Heart Of A Champion

Heart of a Champion seeks to transform culture by providing the necessary resources to educate, motivate and empower students, teachers, families and groups in core principles essential to lifetime personal development and maximized performance.

Core Essentials

At Core Essential Values, we believe that the use of a common language of monthly values and their life applications (or bottom lines) within a preschool has the power to change behavior, enhance relationships, and foster academic growth…even with 3-year-olds!

OUR TEAM

Cliff Musamba
Cliff Musamba is inspired by the need to address what he views as a ‘crisis of character’ on the continent. With the support of the Heart of a Champion Foundation (USA) Cliff founded Heart of a Champion Africa (HOCA) a non-profit organisation that offers an education based character development programme for high school students. “Our mission it is to encourage the youth to become men and women of character and integrity.” says Musamba. Musamba comes from a sports background. He coached baseball and softball at Primary School, High School and at senior levels. He has been in sports for more than 15 years as an international baseball player, coach, administrator and sport marketer. It was the more than 12 years spent as a coach that made Musamba conscious of the importance of character education. “Even as a young coach, I knew that most of my kids where not going to become professional baseball or softball players and so I made an effort to help them become better people. I absolutely wanted them to be great athletes but, more than that, I wanted them to be better sportsmen and women.”

Cliff Musamba

Steve Riach
The founder and creator of the Heart of a Champion® program, Steve Riach is a pioneer in bringing virtuous content to people all over the world. As president and founder of SER Media, Steve oversees the Dallas, TX based media company. An award-winning producer, director and writer of films, videos, and television programs, he has become one of the leading character and ethics content creators in America, having developed more than 250 films, television specials, documentaries and home video properties. A best-selling author, Steve has written twelve books, with several others scheduled for release, and has created a series of inspiring educational products and properties under the Heart of a Champion® brand.

Steve Riach

Dione Harley
Dr. Harley is a specialist in ancient philosophy, and her research specifically focuses on character development in the works of Aristotle who is considered the father of virtue ethics. She is primarily interested in applying Aristotle’s conception of moral education to contemporary educational concerns, and firmly believes in the project of providing value-laden education that aims to cultivate virtuous character traits in children from a young age. Dr. Harley joined the Heart of a Champion – Africa organsiation as a member of the Advisory Board in 2018, and hopes to constructively contribute to the development of the organisation by finding ways of generating research about how to implement character education in the South African context. After completing her M.A. at Wits University, Dr. Harley did her MPhil. Stud. degree at UCL, England and then went on to finish in her Ph.D. at Western University, Canada in May 2017.

Dr. Dione Harley

Khuthalani Khumalo
Khuthalani Khumalo (KK to many) is the Executive Director of leading communications firm, GGi Communications. Khuthalani has work with GGi since 2010, although her career in public relations started with the agency in 2006. She has worked on numerous global accounts and serves as the agencies’ lead on crisis communications and on work across the continent.

Khuthalani Khumalo

Glenda Bosha

Joseline Sithole

Margaret M Tshuma

Cynthia Jacobs

Dr Sipho Moyo

WHO WE ARE

Heart of a Champion Africa (HOCA) is a non-profit organisation that offers classroom based character development programmes and resources for schools in South Africa and across the continent. Established in 2013, HOCA Character Education Foundation t/a Heart of a Champion® Africa is a RSA registered NPO and Section 18A Public Benefit Organisation.

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OUR OFFICE

18 Sunset Ave
Pineslopes, 2162
Johannebsurg
011 516 0445
060 338 5002

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