The 2022 Percept Holiday Reading List
By the Percept Team | December 2022 Perceptors tend to devour books. And podcasts. Often, they seek out books that can teach them things – how to live, how to...
Percept toasts to five years of building a fierce, wholehearted collective
Shivani Ranchod | October 2022 Percept toasts to five years of building a fierce, wholehearted collective Right from the get-go, Percept has had a life force of its own, superseding the...
A call to care: challenging assumptions about telehealth
Beth Vale | September 2022 Like many working in the health sector, we've seen an explosion of telehealth innovation over the past few years, with COVID forcing providers to do...
The beginning of everything
Shivani Ranchod | August 2022 Women’s Month. Eliciting so many feelings. Feelings of rage at the violence that women are still subjected to. An embodied feeling of the unexpressed NO –...
Five ways in which South Africa can advance equity
July 2022 By By Rose Tuyeni Peter, Beth Vale and Daryl Swanepoel For current and future generations to flourish, we need to build and harness multi-dimensional forms of intergenerational wealth: the health, education,...
Home is where the health is – but healthcare systems are blind to households on the edge
April 2022 By Beth Vale and Emma Finestone Our health systems are often blind to households – they only see individual patients. However, one thing is plain: the future of healthcare (particularly...
We have to be creative and harness ideas of hope to reduce inequality in South Africa
April 2022 By Anja Smith, Jodi Wishnia, Carmen Christian and Daryl Swanepoel Creative solutions in the areas we now know that matter most for inequality — education and labour market access and...
Achieving wellbeing equality for South Africans is a dream that should not be deferred
February 2022 By Anja Smith, Dave Strugnell and Daryl Swanepoel Ensuring a high-quality education system is the single most important thing that can be done to reduce inequality. The country has made...
Inequality and demography
Percept | July 2022 South Africa is widely regarded as the most unequal country in the world, ranking at the top of the global Gini index. The fact that South...
Learning lessons for education from the use of results-based financing (RBF) in health
Percept | May 2022 The health sector provides an important knowledge base to draw on, both from the perspective of using RBF and in terms of the challenges it faces...