Make today matter

Make today matter by swiping your Tukkie Gold Credit Card. Absa will automatically donate a certain percentage of your annual card spending to the Tukkie Credit Card Fund. This fund is in aid of deserving campus projects such as upgrading the access to campus buildings for people with disabilities or buying books for deserving students. The Tukkie Gold Credit Card provides a simple and convenient way for our valued alumni to support their alma mater with no direct financial cost for the card holder. Your Tukkie Gold Credit Card (with the red card face) makes a proud statement about your academic heritage and your alma mater. Every time you do a transaction with your new Tukkie Credit Card, you will assist UP in its quest to "enable tomorrow", its initiatives to facilitate sustainability for itself, its students and by implication, its community – and it won’t cost you an extra cent!

If you are an existing Absa credit card client, it is simple to switch to a new Tukkie Credit Card. Phone the Absa Card call centre on 0861 GO CARD (i.e. 0861 46 2273) and request the agent to change your existing credit card to a Tukkie Gold Credit Card. If you are not an Absa client, you can easily apply for a new Tukkie Credit Card in addition to your existing banking products – subject to normal credit evaluations – without any need to switch financial service providers.

To apply, simply SMS your name, surname, ID number and ‘Tukkies’ to 33776 (e.g. Bob*Smith*8105055358081*Tukkies). An agent will contact you to complete your application. (Terms and conditions apply. SMS charged at R1,50.)

You can also apply online on the Absa website at www.absa.co.za or visit your nearest Absa branch and complete an application form for the Tukkie Gold Credit Card. You may opt to join the Absa Rewards programme and get rewarded every time you use your Tukkie Gold Credit Card to make purchases or pay for services. You will not earn points, but cold, hard cash where a percentage of your qualifying purchase will be paid straight into your Absa Rewards account. Enjoy all the rewards and benefits you deserve for a low monthly membership fee of R21. And if you would like to stand a chance of winning prizes, please make sure that you enter our competitions, since entry is no longer automatic.    

Ms Jacolinah Makuwa, winner of the second prize, shopping vouchers to the value of R3 000, receives her prize from UP Executive Director, Prof Antonie de Klerk, during the 2014 Laureate dinner. The other two winners could not attend the dinner.