Metro Lives: What can municipalities do for children?
Children don’t vote — but local government decisions shape their lives every day. Whether a child has a safe place to play, a park worth walking through, clean water, a registered early learning programme nearby, or a neighbourhood with more libraries than liquor outlets: these are municipal choices. Metro Lives is a series of public […]
Why mentorship must be at the heart of South Africa’s agricultural revival
The are fewer households involved in agricultural production today than there were in 2011, down from nearly 2.9 million to 2.4 million at the last count. This is driven by a combination of factors, such as limited access to capital and the expensive inputs needed to farm, environmental stressors like soil fertility and extreme weather, […]
MEDIA STATEMENT: The role of municipalities in the mission to end stunting — how service delivery and regulations affect child health
South Africa is officially on a mission to end stunting by 2030, but progress will depend on decisive action across every sphere of government. With Local Government Elections set to take place this year, leaders should be positioning their municipalities as places where children can grow and thrive. Stunting means that children are abnormally short-for-age […]
MEDIA STATEMENT: Northern Cape liquor trading hours case moves to Constitutional Court
After a partial win in the Northern Cape High Court, the DG Murray Trust (DGMT) has turned to the highest court in the land for the final say in a case about extended liquor trading hours in that province. DGMT has filed papers in the Constitutional Court just weeks after the Northern Cape High Court […]
MEDIA STATEMENT: Northern Cape High Court hands down judgment declaring longer liquor trading hours unconstitutional
The Northern Cape High Court has ruled in favour of DGMT in a case about the constitutional responsibility of provinces to protect public health and safety by limiting when alcohol can be sold. DGMT’s landmark case challenges parts of the Northern Cape Gambling and Liquor Act of 2024, a law that extended liquor trading hours […]
Mentorship, masculinity and change: A township programme rewriting boys’ futures
In 2021, as South Africa emerged from the strictest grip of Covid-19 restrictions, with some limits in place, Kolping Mbumba sat down for lunch to meet the woman who would later employ him. They spoke about gender-based violence (GBV), an issue that grew in urgency during the pandemic amid high levels of economic stress, social […]
Stopping violence before it starts
The Learning Lunch podcast explores ideas, approaches and social innovations – creating opportunity for non-profit organisations’ teams to discover what others are learning and space to reflect on what these insights might mean for their own strategy and programme implementation. Download takeaway instructions Gender-based violence is a national disaster in South Africa, reflecting the scale […]
Cape Talk Interview: Investing in women farmers could bridge the gap between inadequate grants and child nutrition
Following the publication of an op-ed in the Daily Maverick, Angela Larkan, co-founder and Executive Director of Thanda, spoke to Cape Talk about what it actually takes to close the gap between inadequate social grants and the nutritious food South African children need. Drawing on Thanda’s work with women farmers in KwaZulu-Natal, she made the […]
Daily Maverick Article: A national disaster. What GBV survivors in SA say they actually need
Research released months before SA’s historic national disaster declaration of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) reveals a gap between what the justice system offers and what survivors say they actually need. What justice looks like Ask a gender-based violence (GBV) survivor what justice means to them, and the answer is probably not what you would […]
Investing in women farmers could bridge the gap between inadequate grants and child nutrition
Bonisile Hadebe has eight people to feed. As a subsistence farmer in rural KwaZulu-Natal – and breadwinner in a multigenerational household – growing her own vegetables makes this possible. She also sells surplus produce to earn money, supplementing the social grants her family relies on. Across South Africa, more than a fifth of households depend […]