Education offers a way out of poverty, but Covid-19’s disruption to the nation’s schooling system risks undoing much recent progress
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Posted inGeneral
Youth Month: To reform or to abolish?
The paradox of Theseus’ ship could give some clues on institutional identity and food for thought for schools looking to ‘transform’
Posted inGeneral
Youth Day: Meet your presidential hopefuls for 2031
Thought Leader and Activate! Change Drivers went on the campaign trail to find young people doing it for themselves
Posted inGeneral
To succeed, learners need help in making the right subject choices
Every year an average of 300 000 learners leave school before reaching matric. Rather than waiting for young people to become disengaged, there are easy ways we can set them up for success
Posted inGeneral
Online learning, a mandatory alternative
We should be obsessed with how we can help our young South Africans access and utilise systems of secondary and tertiary entry education
Posted inHealth
Mass education campaign needed to counter vaccine hesitancy
Misinformation and a lack of government trust threaten SA’s vaccine programme
Posted inEquality
The struggle of being young in South Africa
Our aspirations are left high and dry, but we should take ownership of our efforts to get there
Posted inEquality, Media, News/Politics
Freedom@27: Layered, elusive, and personal
Four psychologists reflect on what liberty means to them, their patients and the country
Posted inMedia
Social media is a valuable tool for improving health awareness in Africa
The combination of flexible targetability, low cost and direct communication make for an effective way to improve education and address individual needs
Posted inEquality
Racism – the greatest virus of our time
This essay came third in the 2020 Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s Youth Essay Writing Competition Against Racism Close your eyes and picture this, you’re running an everyday errand. This errand can be whatever you wish, collecting mail, buying groceries, paying bills etc. The one minute you’re paying for the bread your wife asked you to buy, […]
Posted inEquality
Are our schools as accommodating as our constitution?
School is the first place where children get to interact with the diversity of this country, let us not let them go there narrow-minded
Posted inEquality, General
The recklessness of relative truths
Democracy isn’t possible without some consensus on what constitutes valid knowledge