6 years ago GrowZA made a bet on a capability, not a cause. We are proudly cause agnostic. We believed that in a world increasingly shaped by interconnected challenges, the ability to connect people, ideas, institutions and resources would become as valuable as subject matter expertise itself. We believed that translation is valuable and that convening power = market influence. We bet that the capacity to move between sectors, disciplines and communities would become a strate

How to spot the passengers at the top, and make more room for the people doing the work. We don’t believe the development sector has a talent problem. We think there's a passenger problem. In almost every room we're in, we meet smart, grounded people who care deeply about communities and who are willing to do slow, unglamorous work. The talent is there. The commitment is there. What's we’re missing is oxygen at the top. Too many key seats are occupied by what could be called

Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI, lands squarely in South Africa’s townships, server rooms and grant queues. This article explores what “human dignity, truth and freedom” mean in an age where communities are wired into digital infrastructures they didn’t design, can’t see and rarely get to question – and highlights concrete examples like the Absa–Maharishi Cybersecurity Academy and blind cyber graduates as signs of a different, community‑centred digita