Equity

Percept | April 2022 At this current crucial point in South Africa's history, multidimensional inequality remains high. In this follow-up to our first inequality report, we unpack and assess potential levers for change that could [...]

Percept | February 2022 Almost three decades have passed since the fall of apartheid, and income inequality persists. Economic growth, equity and social cohesion in South Africa are generally considered poor or regressive despite considerable [...]

Percept | August 2021 To promote knowledge sharing and mutual learning on inequality measurement and the inequality context in South Africa, the Inclusive Society Institute (ISI) and the Swedish Institute for Future Studies (IFFS) hosted [...]

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 [...]