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Diabetes Is No Longer an Old Person’s Disease
For most of medical history, type 2 diabetes was something you worried about in your 70s. Not anymore.

Some numbers you plan for. This one still catches me off guard.
We’ve just published our 2025 Impact Report, and I’ve spent the days since sitting with what’s inside it. I want to share a few of

Take a Chance on Yourself: Lessons from Women Who Lead
On 6 August 2026, in celebration of Women’s Month in South Africa, our conversation turned to “Leading with Purpose: Women Driving Change through Thought Leadership,

youth@WORK Named an ASEB 2026 Top 5 Finalist
We are proud to share that y@W has been named a Top 5 finalist for Startup Service Provider Champion of the Year at the ASEB

Youth Unemployment Is Not Only a Jobs Problem. It Is a Small Business Growth Problem
South Africa keeps asking the same question: How do we get more young people into work?

AI Won’t Replace Your Thinking. Unless You Let It.
One of the greatest opportunities we can offer young people isn’t simply access to knowledge, it’s access to people who challenge the way they think.

The Story Behind R1 Billion in Motion
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of sharing the youth@WORK story at our Youth in Action – R1 Billion in Motion Youth Day

System change starts with someone’s first job
Gugu Nonjinge’s recent Daily Maverick article – Beyond the bootstrap narrative: Reframing youth entrepreneurship in SA as a social justice imperative – makes an important

Rethinking Youth Employment in South Africa
We’ve been looking at youth unemployment the wrong way.
For a long time, the response has been to build programmes. And to be clear,