Terms & Conditions

Last updated 11 September 2026 · We Aspire NPC · Registration 2026/101143/08

Who we are

This website, weaspire.co.za, is operated by We Aspire NPC, a non-profit company registered in South Africa under registration number 2026/101143/08, based in Midrand, Johannesburg. You can reach us at info@weaspire.co.za.

By using this website or making a donation, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site or give through it.

Donations

Your gift is a donation

A donation is a voluntary gift. You receive no goods or services in return. We Aspire is a non-profit company: we do not distribute profit to anyone, and all income is applied to our purpose of funding the education and well-being of South African students.

How your money is used

Unless you tell us otherwise, your donation supports our work as a whole — registration and tuition, full funding through The We Aspire 100, devices and data, transport and daily costs, placement kit, and the running costs that make that work possible. We apply gifts where the need is greatest at the time.

If you want your gift used for something specific, tell us before or when you give. We will honour a specific request wherever we reasonably can; if we cannot, we will tell you and offer to redirect or return the gift.

Monthly and weekly gifts (The Aspire Circle)

• When you choose Monthly or Weekly, you authorise us, through our payment provider Paystack, to charge the same amount to the same payment method at that interval, starting on the day you sign up.
• The gift repeats until you cancel it. There is no minimum period and no cancellation fee.
• To cancel or change the amount, email info@weaspire.co.za from the address you gave with. We will stop it before the next charge if we receive your request at least two working days before that charge is due. You may also cancel using the link in your Paystack receipt email, where one is provided.
• If a payment fails — for example because a card has expired — Paystack may retry it. If it keeps failing, the gift will stop and we may email you to ask whether you would like to restart it.

Once-off gifts

A once-off gift is charged once. Nothing is stored for future charges and nothing repeats.

Minimum amounts and currency

The minimum card donation is R20. All amounts are in South African rand (ZAR). If you give with a card issued outside South Africa, your bank converts the amount into your own currency and may add its own foreign-exchange fee; that fee is set by your bank, not by us.

Payments are processed by Paystack

Card, bank, EFT and other electronic payments are processed by Paystack Payments South Africa. Your payment details are entered directly into Paystack's secure checkout and are subject to Paystack's terms. We never see, receive or store your card number.

You may also give by direct bank transfer (EFT) using the banking details on our Donate page. Please use your name as the payment reference and email us proof of payment so we can acknowledge your gift.

Refunds

Donations are generally not refundable, because the money is put to work quickly. We will, however, refund:

• a gift made in error — the wrong amount, a duplicate payment, or a recurring gift you meant to make once — if you tell us within 30 days of the charge;
• any charge made after you asked us to cancel a recurring gift in line with these terms; and
• any payment taken without your authorisation.

Email info@weaspire.co.za with the date, amount and payment reference. Approved refunds are returned to the original payment method, normally within 10 working days, although your bank may take longer to show it.

Receipts and tax

You will receive a payment receipt by email for every card donation. We are not currently approved to issue section 18A tax certificates, so donations to We Aspire are not yet tax-deductible in South Africa. When that changes we will update this page and tell our donors.

Reporting to donors

Members of The Aspire Circle receive a monthly impact update showing how donations were used. These updates describe our work in good faith; individual students are referred to by first name only, and only with their consent.

Using this website

Accuracy of information

We take care that the information on this site is accurate, and every statistic we publish names its source. Figures such as the number of students supported and the cost of a year of study are our best current estimates and may change. If you believe something on the site is wrong, please tell us and we will correct it.

Acceptable use

Please do not use this website to break the law, to submit false or misleading information, to send spam through our forms, to attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system, or to interfere with the site's operation. We may block access or ignore submissions that do any of these things.

Our content

The text, images, logo and design of this website belong to We Aspire NPC or are used with permission. You are welcome to share links to our pages and to quote short passages with credit. Please do not copy our logo, images or substantial parts of the site, or present them as your own, without our written permission.

Links to other websites

We link to other websites — for example, the sources behind our statistics and our payment provider. We are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices.

Availability

We aim to keep the site available at all times but cannot promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change or remove any part of it without notice.

Your personal information

How we collect, use and protect personal information is explained in our Privacy & Information Policy, which forms part of these terms.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, We Aspire NPC is not liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of this website. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have that cannot lawfully be limited, including your rights under the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 and the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa. Any dispute will be dealt with by the South African courts, although we would always much rather resolve a concern directly — please write to us first.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time; the date at the top shows the latest version. If a change affects how recurring gifts work, we will email active Circle members before it takes effect.

Contact us

Questions about these terms, or about a donation, go to info@weaspire.co.za · We Aspire NPC, Midrand, Johannesburg.