Open Society Foundation for South Africa

The Open Society Foundation for South Africa is a South African non-profit grant-making organisation that supports the civil society sector.

Its mission is to "promote the values, institutions and practices of an open, non-racial and non-sexist, democratic civil society.

"[1] The foundation was established by George Soros in 1993, just prior to the dismantling of apartheid and South Africa's transition to democracy.

[2] From 2013 to 2019, its Executive Director was Fatima Hassan a human rights lawyer and social justice activist.

[3] The organisation is connected to the Open Society Foundations.