Re-worlding for equitable futures

By Precious Bikitsha | June 2024 In June, South Africa commemorates Youth Month, with a special focus on the 16 of June, the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Uprising. This pivotal day marked a significant [...]

By Precious Bikitsha | August 2023 “Ndiyeke ndilale wetu No Inki/ Andilalanga pezolo kude kwasa/ Ndipetwe ngumva ndedwa/ Wani wetu? Au! We Zibuko.”[1] August marks Women’s Month in South Africa as we commemorate more than [...]

By Antonia Roth | July 2023 To me mothering is creating a space for someone from which they can set out into the world. What that space looks and feels like, what makes it comfortable, [...]

By Shivani Ranchod | July 2023 The word sutra refers to ancient texts which contain observations which point at some sort of truth (akin to a finger pointing at the moon). The word also means [...]

By Michelle Flowers | July 2023 Last week I popped out to lunch and upon returning to my desk, I suddenly realised that I was 20 minutes late for a meeting that I had organised! I was [...]

By Beth Vale | July 2023 My mother is a force. A potent mix of soft and fierce. Growing up, I watched and listened to her work – in adult education, and then in early childhood development, and [...]

Young people’s future chances often begin in early childhood, setting in motion a range of inequities that tend to widen as children move through school and into the workforce – this youth inequality perpetuates unemployment [...]

Without interventions along their life cycle, kids could well become the “disaffected youth” as early inequality gets compounded from birth, through school, and beyond. By Beth Vale and Daryl Swanepoel | February 2023 South African [...]

Interventions that support pregnant women and invest in early childhood development can help disrupt the cyclical effects of racial, class and gender inequalities that show up profoundly in children’s lives, and beyond.  By Nicole Daniels [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]