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Thrive by Five Index

Thrive by Five uses data to drive smarter investment in early childhood

FUTURE INVESTMENT

Thrive by Five uses data to drive smarter investment in early childhood

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

Inside the Presidency’s ambitious drive to end child stunting by 2023

DAILY BREAD

Inside the Presidency’s ambitious drive to end child stunting by 2023

By Andisiwe Makinana

By Monja Boonzaier

Grade 1 at age 5: A policy built on unstable foundations

6 August 2026

Ishrene Davids

By Ishrene Davids

We obsess over matric results, but SA’s education crisis begins long before Grade 12

14 January 2026

Campaign seeks innovative solutions to improve literacy and language in SA’s early learning programmes

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Campaign seeks innovative solutions to improve literacy and language in SA’s early learning programmes

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

The challenges facing Early Childhood Development in Soweto and the children left on the back foot

TSHABA'S EYE

The challenges facing Early Childhood Development in Soweto and the children left on the back foot

By Tshabalira Lebakeng

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Bigger budgets, quality services needed for South African children to ‘thrive by five’

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

World Health Day draws attention to climate crisis as a health threat and IPCC climate mitigation report released

CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH 4 — 8 April

World Health Day draws attention to climate crisis as a health threat and IPCC climate mitigation report released

By Tamsin Metelerkamp