English Demo Video
Posted by Ayanda Khuzwayo on 13 August 2018, 10:20 SAST
Some striking charts show how non-profit institutions (NPIs) in South Africa keep themselves afloat. Stats SA’s latest statistics of the non-profit sector for South Africa report, released in March last year, provides a range of data on the non-profit sector, including data on where NPIs source their income.
For civil society, it's getting tougher and tougher to make an impact. Alot of civil society objectives tend to overlap, for example, an anti-corruption civil society organisation and an education civil society may have an overlap where a corruption civil society is addressing corruption in education. For this reason, collaboration is important because they have these overlaps and by joining forces there is so much that can be achieved.
We live in a world of major geopolitical shifts and life-changing technological innovations. It’s fair to wonder, then, what our biggest hopes are for society in the coming decades.
It’s certain that the world has become a better place, according to nearly every measure of human well-being, and yet there is a need to acknowledge that new and looming challenges are looming. From the rise of nationalism, to increased demands for privacy, following widespread data leaks; from balancing growing human needs with planetary and environmental limits, to the impacts of sophisticated automation on people’s lives.