Golden Night Awards – SAADP Celebrates Excellence, Resilience, and Transformation in Actuarial Science
The South African Actuarial Development Programme (SAADP) organised a Golden Night Student Awards Ceremony on 26 September 2025. The function was held at the elegant Wanooka Place, Old Mutual Insure, in Parktown, Johannesburg. Guests walked in to the steady rhythm of live drumming, which immediately gave the evening a warm, almost electric energy. Instead of […]
SAADP Hosts Inspiring Pre35 Alumni Legacy Evening
The South African Actuarial Development Programme (SAADP) hosted its Pre35 Alumni Legacy Evening. The function was organised at The Venue Greenpark, Morningside, on 19 June 2025. It felt less like a formal function but more like a reunion of young professionals who share both a history and a future in the actuarial space. Since its […]
Back to School – SAADP Staff Celebrate Youth Day in Style
On 16 June 2025, SAADP marked Youth Day in a way that caught everyone a little off guard. The staff showed up dressed like they were on their way back to high school. Ties slightly askew, socks pulled up higher than necessary, backpacks hanging loosely off one shoulder. Someone even carried in a battered old […]
SAADP Media Networking Event Reignites Drive for Transformation in the Actuarial Profession
Johannesburg, 12 June 2025 – The South African Actuarial Development Programme (SAADP) opened its doors in Illovo, Sandton, for a Media Networking Event that brought together journalists from various media houses, actuarial industry professionals, students, alumni, as well as corporate partners. The gathering was more than just another formal evening – it was meant to […]
Dikeledi Matsimela – Inspiring the Next Generation of Actuaries
SAADP alumna Dikeledi Matsimela recently spoke to a hall full of Grade 9 learners at the Future of Tomorrow Expo in her home town Mokopane, Limpopo. She didn’t just rattle off facts about actuarial science; she told a story – her own story. That way, she made the subject feel less like an abstract career […]
Empowering Futures, One Woman at a Time
Every success story within SAADP carries a trace of a strong belief in possibility. Think of the actuarial graduate who now heads a team, the student who fought her way through exams that many find intimidating. Think of the young woman who dared to step into spaces that once felt completely off-limits. None of those […]
Celebrating 22 Years of Impact (2003–2025)
Over twenty years in, SAADP looks back not just with pride, but also with a sense of how unlikely and hard-won this journey has been. Since 2003, we’ve walked alongside hundreds of young people who wanted to become actuaries – sometimes mentoring, sometimes pushing, always opening doors. Along the way, we built development programmes that […]