Capitec provided immediate support for screening, testing and preventing the spread of Covid-19. 'We donated R15 million towards the Solidarity Fund and R5 million towards Gift of the Givers.' 'We also set aside R6.6 million towards humanitarian relief initiatives to support communities and NGOs.' These initiatives included: Education With the major disruption in education over the last few months, private sector educational support has become more important than ever. 'The Capitec Foundation aims to improve maths in a sustainable manner, so that South Africa's youth will have access to career choices after they matriculate. We do this by focusing on maths tutoring, math teacher development and school management development.' During the pandemic, hundreds of learners continued to benefit from the Capitec Foundation's own online maths tutoring programme and by a Capitec-sponsored maths programme run by Nelson Mandela University and Ikamva Youth.