Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform
Sign on to the People's #ECDManifesto which calls on political parties to invest in early learning ➡️ https://t.co/frnqW78hHP ecdreform.org.za South Africa Joined October 2020-
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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
@CityofCT , Love to see a municipality removing barriers to compliance for #ECD centres. More of this, please! And let's pair it with real cuts to red tape. @CityofJoburgZA , @CityTshwane, @eThekwiniM @NMandelaBaymuni … your move. What are you doing to push #ECDreform?
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
@SAfmRadio TONIGHT | 8PM Cabinet has approved the #ChildrensAmendmentBill we will unpack what this means for ECD. Join Thozama Njobe with: Dr David Harrison @DGMurrayTrust Tatiana Kazim @EqCollectiveSA Tshepo Mantje @EcdReform listen.safm.co.za/listensafm/#li…
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/2026-0…
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
“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/2026-0…
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/ff4eaf860354e8…
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
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
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/sahrc-… #RightToFood #EndChildHunger #FoodJustice #HungerHearings
FNB ECD 🇿🇦 @EcdFnb
932 Followers 2K Following Join our #CareCommunity platforms supporting ECD, GBV and Elderly Care. 📩 [email protected] |📱 WhatsApp +27 (0)72 617 5518 #FNBCare #FNBECD
Centre for Early Chil... @CECD_online
4K Followers 1K Following An Early Childhood Development Non-Profit Organisation. Committed to putting young children first.
Equal Education Law C... @EElawcentre
8K Followers 800 Following The Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) is a public interest law centre working to advance the right to basic education in South Africa.
Giuliana Bland 🍉 @GiulesB65
3K Followers 3K Following #ECD. Child rights activist. Fierce lover of my country in spite of her flaws. This is my fiesty alter ego space. PS facts don't care about your opinions.❤🇿🇦
Equal Education @equal_education
60K Followers 964 Following A movement striving for quality and equality in South Africa's education system. Every generation has its struggle! #FixOurSchools Legal support: @EELawCentre
Noncedo Madubedube @CedoMadubedube
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Grow Great Campaign @growgreatza
3K Followers 316 Following Grow Great is a campaign with the aim to galvanise South Africa towards a national commitment to achieving zero stunting by 2030.
Jason Brickhill @Jason_Brickhill
4K Followers 2K Following Advocate, academic | @JSAdvs | Adjunct Associate Prof @UctLaw, Research Associate @ClsUct | IHRL faculty @OxfordLawFac,@BonaveroIHR,@OxHRH | Ed-in-Chf @SAConLaw
Melissa Fourie @melissafourie
3K Followers 1K Following No longer posting on X for all the reasons. Keeping this account for record purposes only. Find me at @melissafourie.bsky.social
Penreach @penreach
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Centre for Child Law @UPChildLaw
5K Followers 823 Following The Centre contributes towards establishing & promoting the best interests of children through litigation, advocacy & research. Retweets are not endorsements.
Catherine Draper @DrCathD
1K Followers 885 Following Public health & social scientist. A/Prof @WitsUniversity @DPHRU_SA Passionate about early childhood development. Follower of Jesus 🇿🇦
RISE Mzansi @Rise_Mzansi
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Lorenzo Davids @UrbanLo
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Baleni ntomboxolo @BNtomboxolo
30 Followers 733 Following I am a loving person ❤️❤️ i like to communicate with people
Uwimana Eric Willy @uwewilly3
667 Followers 2K Following Head of Resources Mobilization, Partnership and Compliance at Rwanda Interfaith Council on Health(RICH)@InterfaithRda
Union Against Hunger @UAH_za
81 Followers 47 Following A dynamic alliance dedicated to eradicating hunger and malnutrition as urgent social justice issues.
nkhumeleng @nkhumeleng63862
77 Followers 2K Following
Khanya Peacock @KhanyaPeacock
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Matilda Malope @Tildy992
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We The 99% @wethe99percent
132 Followers 102 Following We The 99%: 20–22 Nov, Johannesburg. A 3-day People’s Summit with 10k+ activists to confront injustice, unite the Global South & build a just future.
Lesedi Educare Associ... @LesediEducare
6 Followers 153 Following Lesedi Educare is based in Bloemfontein and works in ECD throughout Free State and Eastern Cape.
Mobilize @Mobilize_ZA
3K Followers 597 Following Mobilize is a non-profit communications agency that mobilises communities for change through our Climate Comms and Energy Comms campaigns.
Ngobeni Mafoko Founda... @_nmfoundation
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Bubende-bekhaya Madon... @Sisipho_M1
7 Followers 77 Following Ambition.Solitude.Prayer.Harmony.Focus🖤 °•°Coffee.Nature°•°Photography.Arts°•° °•°Humanitarian Aid Worker °•° °•°Early_childhood_Development°•°
MyPressportal 🇿�... @mypressportal
1K Followers 8K Following ⭐ VERIFIED FREE PLATFORM (since 2002) distributing press releases ✍️ to Southern Africa https://t.co/3Mn8JsSXw1 🇿🇦
Mmakaipeya @Unity_peya
298 Followers 643 Following Aspiring Philanthropist ::Time is Life Consistency is Bliss:: BA Politics and BAHons Public Management & Governance graduate•
Mugagga Solomon Kevin @mugag8294
11 Followers 114 Following
Noam Peleg @NoamPeleg
3K Followers 764 Following Academic; children's rights, human rights and family law; Author: "The Child's Right to Development" (CUP 2019); Views are personal
eric lubisi @ErLubisi
38 Followers 201 Following Currently work as a Producer/Presenter at the SABC News, Ligwalagwala FM.
Shekinah Lodge South ... @lee_yvonne69136
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Thandekile Ngema @tandingema
51 Followers 397 Following
ERNEST FOUNDATION @ernest_npo
160 Followers 2K Following Ernest Foundation is committed to providing essential care and support to those in need.
Andisiwe Pikisa @AndisiwePikisa
301 Followers 685 Following 1. Yahuah. 🙏🏾 2. Online English Teacher. 3. Mom.
Tshikazi Foundation @Tshikazi_NPC
1 Followers 6 Following Tshikazi Foundation bridges the education gap in South Africa with a focus on early childhood development offering a custom curriculum to empower young minds.
NairoBits Trust @NairoBitsTrust
4K Followers 2K Following Changing lives through Tech. NairoBits equips African youth with essential digital skills, paving the way for brighter futures and stronger communities.
SinQ @SinQ_KTK
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Siviwe Gwarube @Siviwe_G
32K Followers 2K Following Minister of Basic Education (@DBE_SA) in the Republic of South Africa. 🇿🇦 Former @Our_DA Chief Whip in Parliament. Unrepentant feminist. An eternal optimist.
Afrikaner Communist @KommieBoer
281 Followers 3K Following How can you call yourself an "Afrikaner" and NOT be loyal to Africa? There is no such thing as an "illegal" African in Africa. Xenophobia=Afrophobia
thabo @thabo496933
240 Followers 1K Following In the absence of the Great,The Weak became the Greatest
Anne Canham @AnneCanham
38 Followers 439 Following
The Property Man @artfusion_joe
165 Followers 535 Following Real estate specialist Helping families & investors secure their dream homes & smart property investments Unlocking potential with care & compliance
Dr Rethabile Mashale @DrMashale
1K Followers 3K Following In the business of making my own luck. Just doing me right now.
Nomfundo @xolonomfundo
670 Followers 1K Following Intatheli yabaNtu. Feminist. Unapologetically Black. Wild cat spirit. Mother. Eldest daughter. Your sister.
Afesis @Afesis1983
5K Followers 5K Following Afesis is a non-governmental organisation that has contributed to community-driven development and good local governance in the Eastern Cape since 1983.
Just Lizz @ElizabethBiney
89 Followers 62 Following citizen of the world, emerging researcher, social commentator
MANGALISO MDLALO @mangalisot
152 Followers 685 Following Advocate of change for Small,Medium and Micro Enterprise Development.
TechSoup in Southern ... @TechSoupSAfrica
3K Followers 4K Following Connecting mission-based & community-based organizations to mission-critical tech resources, knowledge and community for change-makers | #SouthernAfrica
clickndonate.com @ClickndonateCom
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Loo Afrique @LooAfrique
2K Followers 5K Following An award winning Manufacturer of improved water&Sanitation solutions that improve hygiene&save water. For Inquiries:[email protected] / 061 419 1516
Boss @Boss_Dikobe
2K Followers 7K Following @Radio2000 listener||@KaizerChiefs fan|| Lutheran|| Novice farmer || Against Women & Child Abuse|| Educator|| Black man, you are on your own|| 🌹||🌻||
Bonamy Parkin @BonamyParkin
85 Followers 808 Following Former FET Educator, Homeschooling parent, nature lover.
Innocent Lesedi @ILesedi87313
2 Followers 10 Following
FNB ECD 🇿🇦 @EcdFnb
932 Followers 2K Following Join our #CareCommunity platforms supporting ECD, GBV and Elderly Care. 📩 [email protected] |📱 WhatsApp +27 (0)72 617 5518 #FNBCare #FNBECD
Roné McFarlane @Rownsterr
1K Followers 2K Following Education PhD candidate @KingsECS | Education activist | Policy nerd | Teacher at heart | Undercover journo | Astrant | Roné not Rone |
Nic Spaull @NicSpaull
8K Followers 977 Following Global Education at the Gates Foundation focusing on all things reading & maths in Africa. Digital repository - https://t.co/PFgrzdoFRm
Centre for Early Chil... @CECD_online
4K Followers 1K Following An Early Childhood Development Non-Profit Organisation. Committed to putting young children first.
Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405
930K Followers 767 Following Newzroom Afrika is a premier 24-hour TV news channel broadcasting in Southern, East and West Africa live on @DStv and DStv Now Channel 405.
Equal Education Law C... @EElawcentre
8K Followers 800 Following The Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) is a public interest law centre working to advance the right to basic education in South Africa.
Daily Maverick @dailymaverick
572K Followers 2K Following The need to Defend Truth has never been greater. Support free, fair, fearless reporting. Become a Maverick Insider: https://t.co/ifFGQCBOOD
Giuliana Bland 🍉 @GiulesB65
3K Followers 3K Following #ECD. Child rights activist. Fierce lover of my country in spite of her flaws. This is my fiesty alter ego space. PS facts don't care about your opinions.❤🇿🇦
Equal Education @equal_education
60K Followers 964 Following A movement striving for quality and equality in South Africa's education system. Every generation has its struggle! #FixOurSchools Legal support: @EELawCentre
Noncedo Madubedube @CedoMadubedube
2K Followers 2K Following Views are my own || If the structure does not permit dialogue; the structure must change || People's Power ✊🏾 || End Apartheid 🍉
SAfmRadio 📻 @SAfmRadio
265K Followers 3K Following SA's only national news and talk radio station. Leading the nation's conversation. The more you listen, the more you'll know. 104-107 FM Across Mzansi
TrialogueSA @TrialogueSA
4K Followers 1K Following Corporate social investment and sustainability consultancy and publisher of the Trialogue Business in Society Handbook. https://t.co/JJD8WTRSvT
Penreach @penreach
1K Followers 631 Following NGO with a vision of educational excellence for one and all South Africans
Ndifuna Ukwazi @NdifunaUkwazi
15K Followers 3K Following NU provides legal, research and organising support to communities in struggles for urban land justice, affordable housing and tenure security.
Centre for Child Law @UPChildLaw
5K Followers 823 Following The Centre contributes towards establishing & promoting the best interests of children through litigation, advocacy & research. Retweets are not endorsements.
RISE Mzansi @Rise_Mzansi
15K Followers 889 Following #RISEMzansi is an inclusive, people-driven political movement, represented in both Parliament and the Gauteng Legislature. #RISEInParliament #RISEInGovernment
Lorenzo Davids @UrbanLo
39K Followers 6K Following Helping to build a just, inclusive, safe, and prosperous democracy with thriving cities, creative spaces and safe learning, business and recreational spaces.
Deputy Mayor Eddie An... @AndrewsEddie
3K Followers 899 Following Deputy Mayor of Cape Town | MMC for Spatial Planning & Environment | Husband and Father | Former Springbok | Mitchell's Plain boytjie | @CityofCT
Publer @publer
74K Followers 180 Following Your ultimate social media management platform 💚 Plan, Schedule, Collaborate, Analyse & Report Explore Publer for free: https://t.co/7mwhUROkS5
Community Keepers @communitykeeper
688 Followers 872 Following We listen. We're concerned about the mental well-being of learners & teachers so we convert classrooms into a child-friendly safe space, on-site, at schools.
Mobilize @Mobilize_ZA
3K Followers 597 Following Mobilize is a non-profit communications agency that mobilises communities for change through our Climate Comms and Energy Comms campaigns.
Constitutional Court @ConCourtSA
124K Followers 0 Following Official profile for the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
amaBhungane @amaBhungane
144K Followers 1K Following Investigative journalism in the public interest. Digging dung, fertilising democracyhttp://www.amabhungane.org https://t.co/AO4Tw88qTi
Open Secrets ZA @OpenSecretsZA
25K Followers 840 Following Open Secrets holds the profiteers of economic crime, human rights abuses, and war to account. We go where it’s hard to disrupt networks of power.
Institute for Economi... @IEJ_SA
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The Centre for Social... @csda_uj
1K Followers 888 Following The Centre for Social Development in Africa at UJ is dedicated to basic, applied and strategic research in social development and developmental welfare.
Kthrn Sthrlnd @_kthrnsthrlnd
188 Followers 536 Following Head of Research and Advocacy @EElawcentre (She/her)
Basic Concepts Founda... @basicconcepts1
703 Followers 3K Following An innovative teaching approach that empowers educators to promote brighter futures! https://t.co/U3zyDXC0ZD
AfricanNGOs @africanngos
10K Followers 8K Following News and information for NGOs in Africa / Nouvelles et informations pour les ONG en Afrique, curated by @david_barnard
Siviwe Gwarube @Siviwe_G
32K Followers 2K Following Minister of Basic Education (@DBE_SA) in the Republic of South Africa. 🇿🇦 Former @Our_DA Chief Whip in Parliament. Unrepentant feminist. An eternal optimist.
Book Dash @bookdash
4K Followers 5K Following "Every child should own 100 books by the age of five" Owning books supports learning. #BookDash is a social impact model to create & share African picturebooks
UDM @UDmRevolution
10K Followers 205 Following The UDM is the political home of all South Africans. United in the spirit of South Africanism by our common passion for our Country into a winning nation.
#VoteIFP @vote_ifp
16K Followers 2K Following This is the Official Account of South Africa's 4th largest political party | Follow us for the latest news, campaigns & info: Media Alerts & Statements.
Democratic Alliance @Our_DA
743K Followers 24K Following SA's second-largest political party. Committed to building one nation with one future. 🇿🇦
John Steenhuisen MP @jsteenhuisen
256K Followers 4K Following Minister of Agriculture in the Republic of South Africa 🇿🇦 and the former Leader of the Democratic Alliance
Tanzania ECD Network @ECDNETWORK
741 Followers 4K Following A National Umbrella Network advancing Early Childhood Development in Tanzania through advocacy, knowledge, and collaboration.
PARI - Public Affairs... @PARInstitute
5K Followers 1K Following We generate new and original research to better understand the drivers of institutional performance in the public sector and improve policy implementation.
Budget Justice Coalit... @budgetjusticesa
3K Followers 2K Following Collaboratively building people's participation in and understanding of South Africa's budget. Retweet not an endorsement.
Cell4Change @Cell4Change
44 Followers 76 Following Reinventing Education Through Technology - WE ARE GENERATIONAL THINKERS
Tatiana Kazim @TatianaAisha
227 Followers 578 Following Legal advisor on reform of early childhood development laws @SmartStartSA. Research associate @CLSUCT. Doctoral candidate @StellenboschUni. She/her.
SAHRCommission @SAHRCommission
114K Followers 2K Following Official account of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). Instagram: @sahrcommission Facebook: SA Human Rights Commission
OPBP @OPBPatOxford
278 Followers 185 Following Oxford Pro Bono Publico at @OxfordLawFac provides pro bono, high quality legal research for lawyers and organisations on important public interest matters.
CALS @CALS_ZA
14K Followers 679 Following The Centre for Applied Legal Studies is a human rights organisation that has been reshaping justice since 1978 https://t.co/1zuOylNrQk
Civics Academy @civicsacademyZA
2K Followers 1K Following Creating a generation of active South African citizens through civic education
Tsakani Maluleke @tsakanimspice
9K Followers 1K Following
Auditor-General South... @AuditorGen_SA
23K Followers 135 Following Official Twitter account of the Auditor-General South Africa. Auditing to build public confidence!
Black Sash @black_sash
12K Followers 3K Following Black Sash is a 70 year old veteran human rights organisation advocating for social justice in South Africa. (RTs are not necessarily endorsements)
Leanne Jansen-Thomas @JansenLeanne
1K Followers 344 Following Dresses with pockets. A little odd, a lot awkward. Listening to a tennis podcast. Comms for social change.
Angie Motshekga @AngieMotshekga
8K Followers 65 Following The Minister of Basic Education and mud schools. I'm not responsible for the delivery of textbooks. #notafeminist #notangiemotshekga
Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook
390 Followers 411 Following PhD | Researcher in early childhood development and in low- and middle-income country settings. Love being on a mountain or in the ocean. Proudly South African.
Equality Collective @EqCollectiveSA
153 Followers 123 Following Advocacy and community-centred law project in rural Eastern Cape.
Shannon van Wyk-Khosa @shannonvanwyk
747 Followers 853 Following Strategist | civic tech & inclusive governance | @futurelectorg alum | @afrobarometer Digital Portfolio Manager. From the river to the sea 🇵🇸
Tad @TadKhosa
525 Followers 1K Following He/him. Associate Director at Collective Change Lab Inc. | Campaigns Consultant l Systems Storyteller — IG: tad_khosa l Views are my own
RIG HUMAN DEVELOPMENT... @RigHuman
44 Followers 98 Following Advocating for the promotion and creation of enabling environments for persons with disabilities within their communities, families and the workplace.
Newly Qualified Teach... @nqt_sa
138 Followers 169 Following We are an online community to support newly qualified teachers in their first teaching job.
sikunye @sikunye
95 Followers 53 Following We inspire, mobilise & equip churches to support families with children in the First Thousand Days. Join us to see all children thrive. @commongoodsa initiative
Chris Ndou @Ccchris_SA
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SABC News TV @SABCNews_TV
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The Citizen News @TheCitizen_News
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Kamva Education @MyKamva
771 Followers 1K Following OS for Success™ in #education 🏫📱💻🎮📊| #schoolconnectedness| #schoolclimate
Mmusi Maimane MP @MmusiMaimane
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