Article: Community trusts are greening the future
Community trusts linked to renewable energy projects are designed to ensure a portion of profits benefits the locals. Otsile Bokamoso is an after-school educational organisation whose name means “The future is bright”. Based in Dealesville, a small mixed-farming town in Free State province, it provides academic support to learners in the foundation phase (grades one […]
Cape Town TV Interview: The connection between nature and mental health
Smangaliso Mbili and Mbuyiselo Yanta, Innovation Managers at DGMT, discussed the connection between nature and mental health with Cape Town TV. Watch the full interview below.
ENCA Interview: Social Employment Fund – The work that the market misses
Government says it has created over R2 million jobs and livelihood support opportunities for unemployed South Africans since October 2020. This was done through the presidential employment stimulus. A social policy specialist, Zak Essa, argues that these programmes alongside social employment funds are important. He argues that public employment should be seen as an investment, […]
PowerFM Interview: The importance of the Social Employment Fund
As we examine unemployment in South Africa, some jobs often go unrecognised. One example is the Social Employment Fund, which receives little attention despite supporting projects that directly benefit communities in areas such as nutrition, education, and gender-based violence prevention. To delve deeper into this, Bridget Hannah, Innovation Director at the DG Murray Trust, spoke […]
SABC News Interview: Social Employment Fund opportunities
As we examine unemployment in South Africa, some jobs often go unrecognised. One example is the Social Employment Fund, which receives little attention despite supporting projects that directly benefit communities in areas such as nutrition, education, and gender-based violence prevention. To delve deeper into this, Bridget Hannah, Innovation Director at the DG Murray Trust, spoke […]
Hands-on Learning Issue 29
Through the Hands-on Learning publication, we hope to play a helpful role in synthesising information from innovators and implementers in civil society, supporting them to share what they have learnt so that others can draw from and build on their experiences. Data-informed arguments for investment in children In 2024, analysis of routine data revealed that […]
Learning Brief – Setting up public school partnerships in the Northern Cape
The Lesedi Solar Park Trust in the Northern Cape has a mandate to invest in communities within a 50-kilometre radius of the Lesedi Power Project over an extended period of time. DGMT’s place-based synergies (PBS) team is responsible for managing community development funds for the trust and facilitates supportive developmental pathways for people in the […]
Op-ed: The work that markets miss — and why it’s so important to employ people to do this work
GDP-linked growth will rise with every rand spent on barbed wire, every lit cigarette, every tree turned into paper, every violent car crash that demands repairs. Yet it is care work, environmental stewardship and other ‘valueless’ work that makes all other economic activity possible. In 2024, the budget for the Presidential Employment Stimulus plummeted by […]
Learning Brief – Spotlight on obstetric violence: Building a compelling argument for social change
Obstetric violence (OV) refers to rights violations and abuses experienced by pregnant women and birthing people while accessing healthcare during pregnancy, labour, childbirth and in the postpartum period. This form of gender-based violence presents a significant threat to the global health of women and children. Embrace, South Africa’s first social movement for supported and celebrated […]
Op-ed: Equal education doesn’t have to mean government employs all teachers
The authors of the Daily Maverick article, The vultures are circling South Africa’s starved education system, are right to assert that despite education being a public good, parents’ ability to pay is the main reason why some schools continue to perform much better than others. We will only have an equal education system when all children can succeed, […]
