Since its founding in 2013, 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day has grown from an idea into a national movement. Thousands of volunteers have contributed their time, skill and care to produce blankets for hospitals, shelters, schools and communities in need
21 April marks World Creativity and Innovation Day — a day recognised by the UN to celebrate creation. In light of this, Sara Grobbelaar highlights a recurring pattern in the healthcare system. South Africa spends billions on imported health technology while broken equipment sits idle in public wards. The cycle is not inevitable but breaking it will take more than good intentions
America’s scale of its invented narratives are hard to match. Trump has normalised the idea that rhetorical bombast matters more than accuracy
We must ponder how we might be inspired by Africa Day to use creativity techniques in, and after, this election to create a better South Africa.
Traditional innovation often relies heavily on large-scale investments in infrastructure and trained workers, two factors that are often lacking in economically depressed areas
African tertiary institutions have a role to play in generating the knowledge and inventions which will allow the continent to solve its unique problems
Although destruction tends to dominate headlines, we engage in thousands of acts of creation every single day