Equity

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 childhood development in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life have the potential to radically shift South Africa’s current inequality crisis.   By Michelle Flowers and Daryl Swanepoel | February 2023 There are [...]

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 [...]

Youth inequality accumulates over a life course, but there are critical moments where policy and programming can intervene to alleviate inequality and safeguard more just futures for young people.  By Beth Vale and Daryl Swanepoel | February [...]

Percept | February 2023 Young South Africans make up over a third of the country’s total population. They should be the engine of the economy, society, and democracy. But instead, nearly half of these young [...]

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 [...]

Percept | July 2022 South Africa is widely regarded as the most unequal country in the world, ranking at the top of the global Gini index. The fact that South Africa’s population growth has outpaced [...]

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 [...]