Equity

Shivani Ranchod | August 2022 Women’s Month. Eliciting so many feelings. Feelings of rage at the violence that women are still subjected to. An embodied feeling of the unexpressed NO – the trans-generational encoding of experiences [...]

July 2022 By By Rose Tuyeni Peter, Beth Vale and Daryl Swanepoel For current and future generations to flourish, we need to build and harness multi-dimensional forms of intergenerational wealth: the health, education, financial security and social [...]

April 2022 By Beth Vale and Emma Finestone Our health systems are often blind to households – they only see individual patients. However, one thing is plain: the future of healthcare (particularly for non-communicable diseases) will [...]

February 2022 By Anja Smith, Dave Strugnell and Daryl Swanepoel Ensuring a high-quality education system is the single most important thing that can be done to reduce inequality. The country has made significant strides in increasing [...]

April 2022 By Anja Smith, Jodi Wishnia, Carmen Christian and Daryl Swanepoel Creative solutions in the areas we now know that matter most for inequality — education and labour market access and progression — are urgently [...]

Perceptors | August 2020 This is a collection of our reflections during Women’s Month. They reflect our diversity of experiences and views and styles (satire, poetry, advocacy), but also share a common grappling with the [...]

Covid-19 does not arrive to a blank canvas. Instead, it snakes through pre-existing queues, igniting sites of vulnerability. As it does, it teaches us that we cannot have a narrow, disease-specific approach to health. Sickness is systemic. And health is about the whole person, not just a single infection.

Perceptors | June 2020 The events of the last few weeks have resonated deeply with the Percept team – we’ve been saddened and enraged, we’ve turned inward to engage our compassion and turned outward to [...]

Beth Vale | May 2020 In 1971, epidemiologist Abdel Omran, published an influential article in which he declared that humanity was undergoing an ‘epidemiological transition.’ The world was no longer living in an age of [...]

Yageshree Moodley | August 2019 I drifted through the hall, moving through time. It had been almost two years since I opted out of a full-time actuarial career. Now I was surrounded by over a [...]

Shivani Ranchod | May 2018 I spent Mother’s Day this year in silence, on a meditation retreat, at the beautiful Temenos in McGregor. […]

Kelly Chennells | February 2018 When I typed the title to this article I had a twinge of guilt. Guilt is one of the certainties of being a part-time working mom. Guilt about working too [...]