Part 3 in a Rudder4Life Series on the Quiet Crises Shaping South Africa’s Young Where we have been Part 1 asked whether a child knows they matter. Part 2 asked who they are becoming. This final reflection turns the conversation in a direction that is harder to write and, frankly, harder to
Part 2 of a Rudder4Life Series on the Quiet Crises Shaping South Africa’s Young Where Part 1 left us In our last blog, we answered a question drawn from Jennifer Breheny Wallace’s Never Enough and Dr Mark Potterton’s Daily Maverick reflection on it: Does this child know they matter? We made the
Part 1 of a Rudder4Life Series on the Quiet Crises Shaping South Africa’s Young South Africa celebrated the Class of 2025’s record 88% matric pass rate, then, almost in the same breath, returned to its more familiar mood: anxiety. Twenty-five applicants for every seat at UCT or Wits. A youth unemployment rate
There’s a moment most of us know well. You walk into a room, a classroom, a boardroom, or a party, and something inside you shrinks. Not because the room is dangerous, nor because you’re incapable, but because a voice you’ve carried since childhood whispers, “I’m not quite enough for this.“ That voice
Part 4 Throughout this series, we’ve explored why teaching kids about feelings is as important as maths, how to make social, emotional, and academic learning work in practice, and what university engineering programs teach us about whole-child development (Read here). Now we arrive at a deeper question: what happens when our entire
The science of why we do what we do: here’s why anyone who has ever started a diet on Monday or promised themselves this year would be different, and it turned out, not. You have been there. The night before feels full of possibility, the plan is clear, the motivation is real,