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Yet last September, the 30th anniversary of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) was left to pass unmarked.

There are lessons to be learned here from Canada's debt-reduction programme in the mid 1990s, when the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) bore a disproportionate burden of departmental cuts (a three-year reduction of 20.5%) compared with foreign affairs and national defence.

CIDA remains intimately associated with its founder and chief executive, and there are questions about whether it would survive without him.

Many teachers are professionals who offer their services free.Today about 1,500 students are enrolled at CIDA.

Mr Blecher describes CIDA as "a whole ecosystem created to support kids".

As well as adding further specialist courses, CIDA hopes to open new schools elsewhere in South Africa.

He made partnerships with Canadian firms and universities, and, more successfully, with Canadian non-governmental organisations, whose contributions CIDA matched, sometimes four times over.

The former actuary points out that CIDA's graduates will collectively earn 150m rand in salaries this year, which by his calculations amounts to a net present value of 5 billion rand over their 40-year careers.Mr Blecher's odd mixture of new-age earnestness and hard work has made CIDA a beacon of hope, both at home and abroad.

CIDA City Campus opened its doors in 2000.

He and three partners then started CIDA City Campus, an almost-free business university for students who cannot afford mainstream higher education.

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