Application for the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship Programme
Scholarship Application Forms
Application Pack
Application Guidelines (brochure)
MRF Poster
Documents to accompany your application for scholarship
1.1. Certified copy of birth certificate
It is a requirement of the Mandela Rhodes Scholarships that all applicants are citizens of African countries. All applicants must provide a certified copy of their birth certificate, passport or residency certificate attached to the application form. If this is not included the application will be ineligible. To obtain a certified copy, you will need to take the original document and a photocopy to someone who is authorised to make a certified copy.
1.2. Confirmed Academic Qualifications
Please provide a transcript of your confirmed academic qualifications (these are modules or qualifications that you have completed and have had conferred), or certified copies of your degree.
1.3. Awards, prizes or scholarships you have received and/or are still receiving
Please provide a summary list of any awards, prizes, fellowships or scholarships that you have received and/or are still receiving. This information is viewed as part of your academic curriculum vitae. You should also note that the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship holders may not hold concurrently any other scholarships, which provide the student with stipend. Therefore any such scholarship must be relinquished prior to the commencement of a Mandela Rhodes Scholarship.
1.4. Scholarship Application Essays
These will be sent to shortlisted candidates.
1.5. Working History
Please list your recent employment history if you have been employed. Include contract work and permanent work. Please list leadership positions held, if any.
1.6. Institutional endorsement
Please include a letter endorsing your application from the Dean of Students in your university.
1.7. Letter of recommendation form
Please give the letter of recommendation form to your referees. Kindly ask them to fax it to us.
1.8 Photograph
Our selectors request you send us a photograph of yourself. We require a high resolution (1-2MB), colour, digital, head and shoulders image of yourself. We will print this out to accompany your application forms that we receive.
