22 Jul South Africa is turning on itself
The mass looting over the past few days is not a sign of revolution in our streets and on television. ...
22 Jul South Africa unrest: We are not a failed state, but a failed global system
South Africa encapsulates global inequalities – and the kinds of tumult we’ll see more and more of worldwide – inside national borders....
22 Jul The Crisis in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng with Mervyn Abrahams
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22 Jun Streamlining Governance challenges in Civil Society Organisations – how not to scare funders?
In early 2021, Seriti Institute, through one of its programmes, Seriti PARTNER, identified good governance and financial management as a serious challenge in NGOs, CBOs and CSOs. Seriti PARTNER was designed with an intention of strengthening CSOs contributions to the communities they work with and...
04 Mar A child-centred food system
The 2020 Child Gauge contends that the current food system is driving the double burden of malnutrition and damaging both children’s health and the environment. This is because it does not consider children or their health and is increasingly flooded by cheap, unhealthy food....
28 Jan Strengthening local food networks for food systems transformation
The objective of the Strengthening local food networks for food systems transformation Project is to reconnect and recalibrate local food systems in eThekwini Municipality and iLembe District Municipality. Much of the initial groundwork of this project has been based on dialogue, but in order to transition...
05 Dec Turning Short-Term Crisis Relief Into Longer-Term Social Innovation
Civil society responses to COVID-19 in South Africa have shown remarkable agility, scope, and impact in the last nine months, especially in responding to the most-pressing problem in many vulnerable communities: hunger. However, these civil society efforts are now facing new challenges....
24 Nov Covid-19 Roundup | Food and water shortages
22 May 2020: Graffiti reminds residents of the Matharea settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, to sanitise during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rich countries have already secured more than a billion doses of vaccines. (Photograph by Reuters/ Baz Ratner) Food aid not distributed The KwaZulu-Natal department of social development has...
24 Nov South Africa’s children are too short and too fat, going against the global trend
A Lancet article reporting on children’s height and weight changes over the past 30 years makes for grim reading when it comes to South Africa. ...
24 Nov The Eastern Cape is South Africa’s land of hunger
Jobless people in the country’s most impoverished province join the growing social grant queues before dawn on empty stomachs, having run out of food for the month....