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📢 #WorldHungerDay MEDIA BRIEFING
🗓 Tuesday, 26 May 2026
⏰ 11:00 – 12:30
📍 Nelson Mandela Foundation Offices, Houghton, Johannesburg. PLEASE NOTE SPACE IS LIMITED
Featuring voices from SERI, @TAC, Amandla.mobi, Abahlali baseMjondolo, @SAFTU_media, @fawu_media
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Cabinet has approved the Children's Amendment Bill. Next step is Parliament. Tonight on @SAfmRadio we unpack what this means for ECD.
Join Thozama Njobe in conversation with:
Dr David Harrison @DGMurrayTrust
Tatiana Kazim @EqCollectiveSA
Tshepo Mantje @EcdReform
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About 1.15 million children aged 3–5 in SA are not enrolled in an ECD programme. The #ChildrensAmendmentBill, now approved by Cabinet, is designed to fix the broken system keeping them out. Parliament, #PassTheBill.
Learn more: dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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BREAKING: Cabinet has approved the Children's Amendment Bill! But we're not done. Parliament must recognise how important this Bill is for young children and process it without delay.
Learn more: bit.ly/4nBy7Op
#RealReformForECD #PassTheBill #ChildrensAmendmentBill
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We are in Kigali this week for the Investing in the Early Years Global Technical Financing Forum, convened by the @ECDAction in partnership with the Government of Rwanda, @UNICEF , @UNESCO , the @WHO , and @af_ecn
#ECDFinancingForum
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Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) retweeted
At the #ECDFinancingForum in Kigali, leaders called for action over commitments: turn evidence into practical solutions, act with urgency, and ensure every financing tool reaches every child everywhere—in the home, community, and earliest years. #InvestingInTheEarlyYears
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TOMORROW!
📅Tuesday 5 May
⏰13:00 - 14:30
📍bit.ly/4uvU5Vg
Failure to pay ECD subsidies regularly and on time forces under-resourced programmes to choose between feeding children & paying staff, and threatens their survival.
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Yesterday, Tess from @EqCollectiveSA & @EcdReform joined a panel discussing what it really takes to build a coherent, scalable and durable #ECD system.
Held alongside the @SkollFoundation World Forum 2026,
Ilifa Labantwana | @SmartStartSA | @DBE_SA | @coimpactcollab
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Yesterday, we attended the Xhora ECD Forum meeting.
The aim was to introduce the @EqCollectiveSA and @EcdReform, build trust, and learn how the forum operates and what matters most to its practitioners.
#ECD #RealReformForECD #EqualityCollective #Xhora
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Huge congratulations to our partner @SmartStartSA on being awarded the @SkollFoundation Award for Social Innovation 2026! 🎉
This global recognition celebrates a powerful model that’s expanding access to quality early learning for hundreds of thousands of children.
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Tshepo Mantjé called for municipalities to shift from being gatekeepers to enabling partners through better coordination, embedding ECD in IDPs, and aligning with Bana Pele while recognising the ECD workforce as both a social justice and local economic development priority.
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Season 3 of the What's Eating Us? podcast travels to Bulungula, speaking to Real Reform For ECD’s Tshepo Mantjé to expose the stark gap between policy and reality for our youngest and most vulnerable.
Read: bit.ly/4tlfBuX
@dailymaverick
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“The time for talking about it is long gone... We have to mark the success of the DBE [Department of Basic Education] by what they do and not what they say. And money that is allocated to young children means nothing unless it reaches the young child.”
dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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The 2026 Medium Term Budget Speech should increase the ECD subsidy value to at least R27 per-child per-day, and provide funding to boost the Bana Pele Mass Registration. drive efforts to bring more ECD programmes into the registration net
Statement: mcusercontent.com/ff4eaf8603…
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The Hunger Hearings will investigate these deeper causes and help chart a path toward a more just and equitable food system.
online and in-person
Date: 12 to 20 March 2026
Venue: Nelson Mandela Foundation, Houghton, JHB
Online: youtube.com/@SAHRC1
Time: 08h00 Daily
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The National Investigative Hearing into the #RightToFood starts TODAY!
Follow online and in-person
Date: 12 - 20 Mar 2026
Venue: Nelson Mandela Foundation, JHB
Online: youtube.com/@SAHRC1
Time: 08h00 Daily
@SAHRCommission #EndChildHunger #FoodJustice #HungerHearings
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The @SAHRCommission National Investigative Hearing into the Right to Food will examine why this crisis persists, and what must change.
Read the Real Reform for ECD Submission here: ecdreform.org.za/uploads/sah…
#RightToFood #EndChildHunger #FoodJustice #HungerHearings
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After a historic R10 billion investment in ECD in 2025 helped 100 000 more children access subsidised early learning, the 2026 Budget cuts R800 million from planned ECD subsidies.
Read Statement: mcusercontent.com/.../Real_R…...
#ECD #Budget2026 #InvestInChildren #EarlyLearning
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12 Mar 2025
📢The highly-anticipated #Budget2025 speech has happened. Now, we need to unpack what this means for gov spending on social priorities, incl ECD.
Join our Budget Townhall on Twitter Spaces at 6pm TONIGHT. Let's unpack the #Budget2025, together!
Join: x.com/i/spaces/1lPKqMgPevMKb…
11 Mar 2025
🚨 TOMORROW: #BudgetSpeech2025 🚨
After Minister @EGodongwana delivers the long-awaited budget, join Youth Capital & @budgetjusticesa to break it all down with @IEJ_SA, @equal_education, @IlifaLabantwana, @EcdReform, @AIDC_RSA & @SECTION27news!
Does this budget invest in a future where people can thrive? Let’s discuss!
🔗 bit.ly/4ium7do
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