On 18 July, thousands of us pull on a branded T-shirt, drive out to a school somewhere on the Cape Flats, paint a wall, ladle soup into polystyrene cups, take the photograph and drive home again. The wall needed painting. The soup was hot, and the children were glad of it. The
Walk through any shopping centre in Cape Town on a Saturday morning, and you will find a stand selling the future to parents. Coding for kids. Robotics club. An AI workshop, six weeks, certificate at the end. The logic feels airtight. Technology is eating the world of work, so buy your child
There is a particular silence in a school staffroom when another good teacher hands in their notice. Everyone nods, someone mentions the salary, someone else the paperwork, and the real reason goes unspoken because it is harder to name. Today, in Daily Maverick, the journalist Takudzwa Pongweni put a number to that
There is a script most of us grew up with. Learn until your early twenties. Work until sixty. Retire with a braai, a gold watch and a garden. Three neat chapters, in one fixed order. Leadership author Dan Pontefract has news for us: the script is finished. In his new book, The
A US state’s exhaustive search for the secret to social-emotional learning ended in a truth African communities have carried for generations. In 2015, the State of Washington set out to answer a question that should keep every education decision-maker awake at night: how do we deliberately grow young people who can manage
What if the habits your child practises at fourteen are not phases they will grow out of, but wiring they will carry for life? Every parent and teacher has watched it happen. The learner who promises to stop leaving homework until the night before means it sincerely, and by Thursday, is back