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Cayleigh Bright

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Cayleigh Bright

Journalist, author, copywriter. Full-time freelance.

New normal: Cape Town Opera’s producer, Mari Stimie, will have to figure out if the company’s next performance can have a live audience. (David Harrison/M&G)

Q&A Sessions: Mari Stimie and opera’s next act

The producer spoke to Cayleigh Bright on the day the Cape Town Opera returned to rehearsals after almost six months of lockdown about the future-proof transcendence, resilience…

Vodacom’s “Be the light” campaign enlists men who have themselves been perpetrators of gender-based violence, an essential part of ending the cycle of abuse. (Photo: Courtesy of Vodacom)

A South African Solution

A tech-based approach with a human touch is reaching victims of gender-based violence – and, critically, its perpetrators

Play in a purpose-designed virtual space can teach children multiple subjects at the same time

Lessons for our future

Tech-enabled education is more than just replicating classrooms online, and Africa needs to embrace the power of tech urgently

A number of interventions are required to enable all students to access online learning, but universities are stepping up to the challenge. (Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Immediate challenges for long-term learning

Implemented as emergency measures, some changes to higher education such as increased online learning seem to be worth keeping

Professor Salim Abdool Karim says that the lockdown has brought South Africans some time to prepare for the fight against the Coronavirus. (Madelene Cronjé)

Small fires and flattened curves

A co-ordinated response and collaboration are key to minimising Covid-19’s effects, say experts

Thanks to supportive suppliers, Know Scrubs is able to provide their premium custom scrubs at cost price, and hopes to make some free — if enough donors pledge their support

Private preparation = public protection

There are now several South African initiatives that have stepped up to the plate to support our healthcare workers’ needs

artfull founder Kholisa Thomas envisions a world transformed by art

Can you picture this?

Present Tense

Nzeka Biyela has an innovative

Early birds

Present Tense

Africa’s first sleep rooms are designed for better sleep

Let’s get some rest

Wander List

In today’s world, access to nutritional food is not interrupted by famine but by poor planning and by periods of high household expenditure

More than you can chew

Food inequality is a complex issue – to achieve food security, we need complex interventions from various sectors of society

Teachers must take care to not keep selflessly giving and learn to take care of their own emotional and physical needs

How do we support teachers’ mental health?

It’s vital for those who safeguard the wellbeing of learners at every level to be happy and healthy themselves

With most corporates effectively having their staff work remotely, educators will need to match and exceed this if they are to do more than just survive

Building your own business

We need to become perpetual students, and the range of training offerings just keeps increasing

Creating appealing incentives for the public, such as giving people deposits when they return glass bottles, is more effective than punishing people for littering. (Photo: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Carrots work better than sticks

Can the right incentives close the gap between idea and execution in sustainability policy?

Starting a formal business in South Africa is arduous, time-consuming, and expensive. (File photo)

Is social entrepreneurship the new charity?

Imagine if the NGO sector became a large employer of manpower

The Sozo Foundation Building in Vrygrond

Brimstone provides the necessary backing

NGOs often struggle with funding, which is where BEST fits in

The Yabonga Children’s Project was one of the first nongovernmental organisations to be offered shares by Brimstone, and has now achieved sustainability.

The Brimstone Investment Corporation’s story

BEST shareholders support at least 3.5-million beneficiaries across South Africa

Mergers and acquisitions are directly affected by business confidence, which is influenced by, among many other things, who is the president of the country

Mergers and acquisitions in a tough economic time

Often, owners of struggling businesses agree gladly to being bought out

In an increasingly multi-connected global world, UbuntuLab connects Africa to the world and to itself. (Photo: Moshopyadi Heil)

Transparency in the age of oversharing

Chief executives can make or break a brand

Moshopyadi Hannah Heil of Reputation House

Q&A with Moshopyadi Hannah Heil of Reputation House

It’s absolutely vital to know what drives the reputation of the industry one is in

The Listeriosis crisis affected not only Tiger Brands, but the industry as a whole

South Africa’s reputation leaders

Mr Price had a significant rise, while Tiger Brands had a phenomenal drop