About CR Foundation
We are a registered South African non-profit company, governed by a board of directors, and distinct from the Club Readership publishing house.
Who we are
CR Foundation NPC is a non-profit company registered in South Africa with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC). You may also see us referred to as Club Readership Foundation or CR Foundation. Those names refer to the same organisation.
- Registered name
- CR Foundation NPC
- CIPC registration number
- 2019/196125/08
- Enterprise number
- K2019196125
- Registration date
- 30 April 2019
- CIPC status
- In Business, as of 9 November 2026
- Jurisdiction
- South Africa
- Registered office
- 85 Dube Street, Wattville, Benoni, 1501, South Africa
Our mission
If this is our home, then where are our stories? We exist so that African literature, traditions, customs and wisdom can be chronicled and preserved, and so that children and young people can grow up reading, writing, and recognising themselves in the books they are given.
In practice, that means school-based reading work and learner-author programmes, and a steady insistence that reading and writing belong at the centre of academic triumph. You can read more on our programmes page.
A short history
In 2016, the president of Club Readership started the publishing house to publish his own book and to help other authors who were struggling to publish their writing. From that beginning grew a publishing house with a team that has turned publishing into a craft, and a public purpose: to bring life to stories by African authors.
CR Foundation was registered in 2019 as a non-profit company so that this purpose could also be carried out as non-profit work — especially work with schools, learners and communities — rather than only as a publishing business. The Foundation and the publishing house share a concern for African stories. They are not the same legal entity.
The board of directors
The Foundation is governed by its board of directors, who are the people responsible for the direction and control of the company. The directors on record are:
- Sibusiso Jwanis Gama
- Alpheus Malesela Bopape
- Kananelo Sipho Lekau
- Mafule Morlan Moswane
- Morongwa Nesly Maifo
- Mogale Natalia Tau
- Michelle Ramadimetsa Moswane
- Thabo Andrew Moyo
Enquiries for the Foundation can be sent to sibusiso@clubreadership.co.za.
Governance
As a non-profit company, CR Foundation does not have shareholders. It is registered with CIPC, files the returns and beneficial-ownership information that the law requires, and is answerable to its board. This website is the Foundation’s public home: it sets out our mission, our programmes, our registration details, and how to reach us.
Our registered office, as recorded with CIPC, is 85 Dube Street, Wattville, Benoni, 1501, South Africa. We work in South Africa. For written enquiries, please use the email address above.
How we are funded
CR Foundation is a non-profit company. It does not have shareholders, and it does not exist to make a profit for private owners. Money given to the Foundation is used for its mission: school-based reading work, learner-author programmes (including mentorship, editing, printing and a school launch where that is part of the work), and the modest cost of keeping this public information site available.
This website does not sell books, take card payments, or host advertising. We do not publish bank details on a public page. If you would like to support the work financially, please write to us from the get involved page; we will reply with the proper way to give.
The Foundation was registered on 30 April 2019. As of 9 November 2026 it is recorded by CIPC as In Business, and it files the annual returns required of a South African non-profit company.
Our relationship with Club Readership
Club Readership is an African publishing house. It helps authors turn their writing into books — from manuscript review and editing to ISBN registration, design, printing and launch — and it publishes children’s titles under the CR Kids imprint. The publishing house’s website is clubreadership.co.za.
The Foundation and the publishing house belong to the same domain family: this site is foundation.clubreadership.co.za. That is deliberate. It keeps the Foundation’s work visible next to the publishing house, while giving the Foundation a site of its own, focused on mission rather than commerce.
The two organisations remain separate. This Foundation site does not sell books, does not offer publishing packages, and does not take payments. If you are an author looking to publish, or a reader looking to order a book, you should use the publishing house website.
The publishing house has an active relationship with Faculty of Best Advisory, a community that promotes reading, writing and academic triumph. The Foundation shares that aim.