The Flagstaff Community Advice Centre serves both Flagstaff and villages in the broader Ingquza Hill municipality, in the Eastern Cape close to Kokstad. A vibrant local development agency, the team... read more →
Adelaide is a small rural town which lies at the foot of the Great Winterberg Mountain range in the central part of the Eastern Cape. This is where we find... read more →
Food and health are two important focus areas for the local development agencies that receive support from our shareholder, the Social Change Assistance Trust. One of these agencies is based... read more →
Louisa Mojela, co-founder and group CEO of pioneer women's empowerment vehicle Women Investment Portfolio Holdings (Wiphold), says attacks on their legitimacy by the broad-based BEE commissioner are threatening BBBEE. Commissioner... read more →
In every community, we find individuals doing good deeds and sometimes we do not get to hear these great stories. Here is a good story of Noxolo Ntamo, one of... read more →
NYAMEKA GONIWE (nee PUWANI) 3 June 1951 - 29 August 2020 It is Heritage Day 2020. My thoughts turn to the legacy of a remarkable South African woman, Nyameka Goniwe... read more →
The broad-based BEE commissioner is abusing her power and only minister Ebrahim Patel can stop her. Zodwa Ntuli, who was appointed when the commission was set up in 2019, has... read more →
Some of SA’s oldest and most respected empowerment vehicles say they are fighting for survival after the commission tasked with monitoring empowerment transactions indicated that it regarded them as ownership... read more →
This is a story of empowerment, and an example of community members taking ownership of the solutions to their problems. It is the story of the Kgatelopele Social Development Forum,... read more →
As South African business and society unite to deal with the economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus – correctly -- is increasingly on the need for new investment... read more →