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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What does tomorrow’s workforce look like?
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 In South Africa, over 3 million young people are not in employment, […]
Cape Talk Interview: Demand-led skills training for young people
Bridget Hannah, Innovation Director at the DG Murray Trust discusses the importance of demand-led skills training for young people and why it should be a top priority for our new government. Demand-led skilling is an approach to skills development in which training and education programmes are designed based on the current and future needs of […]
MEDIA STATEMENT: Demand-led skills training for young people must be high on our new government’s to-do list
Before the recent watershed elections, political parties promised to create new jobs in various ways when voted into government. However, a third of young people between 15 and 24 are unlikely to access these opportunities because they don’t have matric qualifications or even basic post-secondary skills training. They are locked out of earning and learning […]
SAFM Interview: Demand-led skills training for young people
“We need to create a sense of energy and excitement among young people so that they feel like the skills they’re getting will make them employable and increase their chances of finding work”. So says Bridget Hannah, DGMT Innovation Director during a recent interview on SAFM. She was talking about the importance of demand-led skills […]
Hands-on Learning Issue 27
Through the newly rebranded edition of our Hands-on Learning publication developed in June 2023, 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. Putting children first: What can […]
