Siyanda Resources is a black-owned mining investment company, founded in 2004 and based in Rosebank, Johannesburg, with interests in platinum group metals, chrome, manganese, energy and industrial minerals. Its best-known operation is Siyanda Bakgatla Platinum Mine (SBPM) in North West and Limpopo. Siyanda Resources runs a corporate bursary from head office as part of its social investment work, separate from SBPM’s own recruitment, and its social investment page says it supports 46 tertiary students in North West.
The bursary list on Siyanda’s website is still the 2025 one
The Siyanda Resources social investment page links to a “Bursary List” and an application form. On 2 October 2026 that list still described bursaries for the 2025 academic year, with a closing date of 20 January 2025. Siyanda Resources has not published a list for 2026 or 2027 on its own site, so there is no open round to apply to now.
Mining-focused priority fields
Siyanda Resources aims the bursary at engineering-faculty students. The 2025 list named these priority fields:
- Mining engineering
- Rock engineering (geophysics or geoscience)
- Metallurgical engineering
- Geology
- Mechanical engineering
- Commerce
Siyanda’s selection rules: 60% and no final-year students
- South African citizens only, studying full time.
- First-, second- or third-year undergraduates; final-year students are excluded.
- At least a 60% average in the latest matric or university results.
- Priority for students from previously disadvantaged backgrounds who need financial help.
What Siyanda Resources pays
The 2025 bursary covered full accommodation, registration and tuition, a textbook allocation, and the learning material and equipment your institution prescribes. Siyanda Resources excludes laptops and cellphones from that equipment, so budget for your own device.
Applying by email with the Siyanda form
Applicants downloaded the four-page form from the social investment page. It asks about your studies, accommodation, family income and why you chose Siyanda Resources as a sponsor. The completed form went by email with:
- Proof of registration
- A certified copy of your ID, certified within the last three months
- Your official academic record and results
- Proof of residence
For 2025, Siyanda Resources routed applications to an external consultancy’s address printed on the list. Use only the address in the newest list on siyandaresources.com, because the handling agent may change. Incorrect or incomplete information disqualifies an application.
SBPM’s portal is a different door
Siyanda Bakgatla Platinum Mine recruits through its own SBPM careers portal, which Siyanda’s group vacancies page links to. In early October 2026 that portal listed graduate programme posts in fields such as mining, metallurgy, geology and mine survey, closing on 7 and 8 October 2026, but no bursary. Graduates in those fields may want to look; matriculants and current students should wait for a bursary listing.
While Siyanda is between rounds, compare the Implats bursary and the Marula Platinum Mine bursary, two other platinum producers that fund mining and engineering students, or the Glencore bursary for mining engineering.