Investing in South Africa's potential

Our Goal

DGMT’s ultimate goal is to create an ethical and enabling environment where human needs and aspirations are met; and every person is given the proper opportunity to fulfil his or her potential, for both personal benefit and for that of the wider community.

By investing in South Africa’s potential we aim to:

  • Create opportunity for personal growth and development that will encourage people to achieve their potential.
  • Help reduce the gradients that people face in trying to seize those opportunities.
  • Affirm the value and dignity of those who feel most marginalised and devalued by society.

Focus areas

Early childhood development. We aim to support the compelling case for early childhood development as a critical foundation for the new South Africa by showing how ECD provision can be extended and linking it to other key strategies for childhood development and protection. Education to read and write. We aim to build demand for a high-quality national literacy strategy that starts at birth and continues through childhood, laying the basis for active learning and education. Connection to opportunity. We aim to continue to build community demand for schooling to prevent early drop-out and to help expand post-school connections to educational and economic opportunity.
Leadership for a winning nation. We aim to develop a new national cohort of entrepreneurial young leaders committed to public innovation – a process of continuing improvement of policies, programmes, systems and institutions for public benefit. Inclusion of those most left out. We aim to find new ways of systematically including those who are most left out of South African society, building their networks and access to resources.

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