Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD)

Sign on to the People's #ECDManifesto which calls on political parties to invest in early learning ➡️

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

watch livestream: https://t.co/fspR3S7Rzv

[Union Against Hunger @UAH_za]

📢 #WorldHungerDay MEDIA BRIEFING

🗓 Tuesday, 26 May 2026
⏰ 11:00 – 12:30
📍 Nelson Mandela Foundation Offices, Houghton, Johannesburg. PLEASE NOTE SPACE IS LIMITED

Featuring voices from SERI, @TAC, https://t.co/HCCuxEl17l, Abahlali baseMjondolo, @SAFTU_media, @fawu_media

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

@CityofCT , Love to see a municipality removing barriers to compliance for #ECD centres. More of this, please! And let's pair it with real cuts to red tape.

@CityofJoburgZA , @CityTshwane, @eThekwiniM @NMandelaBaymuni … your move. What are you doing to push #ECDreform?

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

Cabinet has approved the Children's Amendment Bill. Next step is Parliament. Tonight on @SAfmRadio we unpack what this means for ECD.

Join Thozama Njobe in conversation with:
Dr David Harrison @DGMurrayTrust
Tatiana Kazim @EqCollectiveSA
Tshepo Mantje @EcdReform

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

@SAfmRadio TONIGHT | 8PM
Cabinet has approved the #ChildrensAmendmentBill we will unpack what this means for ECD.

Join Thozama Njobe with:
Dr David Harrison @DGMurrayTrust
Tatiana Kazim @EqCollectiveSA
Tshepo Mantje @EcdReform
https://t.co/d6pHH9wsDQ

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

About 1.15 million children aged 3–5 in SA are not enrolled in an ECD programme. The #ChildrensAmendmentBill, now approved by Cabinet, is designed to fix the broken system keeping them out. Parliament, #PassTheBill.

Learn more: https://t.co/kjVEHsFe4q

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

BREAKING: Cabinet has approved the Children's Amendment Bill! But we're not done. Parliament must recognise how important this Bill is for young children and process it without delay.

Learn more: https://t.co/6sCpUl7OcR

#RealReformForECD #PassTheBill #ChildrensAmendmentBill

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

We are in Kigali this week for the Investing in the Early Years Global Technical Financing Forum, convened by the @ECDAction in partnership with the Government of Rwanda, @UNICEF , @UNESCO , the @WHO , and @af_ecn

#ECDFinancingForum

[Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) @ECDAction]

At the #ECDFinancingForum in Kigali, leaders called for action over commitments: turn evidence into practical solutions, act with urgency, and ensure every financing tool reaches every child everywhere—in the home, community, and earliest years. #InvestingInTheEarlyYears

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

TOMORROW!

📅Tuesday 5 May
⏰13:00 - 14:30
📍https://t.co/lXJBMmnPp5

Failure to pay ECD subsidies regularly and on time forces under-resourced programmes to choose between feeding children & paying staff, and threatens their survival.

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

Yesterday, Tess from @EqCollectiveSA & @EcdReform joined a panel discussing what it really takes to build a coherent, scalable and durable #ECD system.

Held alongside the @SkollFoundation World Forum 2026,

Ilifa Labantwana | @SmartStartSA | @DBE_SA | @coimpactcollab

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

Yesterday, we attended the Xhora ECD Forum meeting.

The aim was to introduce the @EqCollectiveSA and @EcdReform, build trust, and learn how the forum operates and what matters most to its practitioners.

#ECD #RealReformForECD #EqualityCollective #Xhora

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

Huge congratulations to our partner @SmartStartSA on being awarded the @SkollFoundation Award for Social Innovation 2026! 🎉

This global recognition celebrates a powerful model that’s expanding access to quality early learning for hundreds of thousands of children.

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

Tshepo Mantjé called for municipalities to shift from being gatekeepers to enabling partners through better coordination, embedding ECD in IDPs, and aligning with Bana Pele while recognising the ECD workforce as both a social justice and local economic development priority.

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

The KZN ECD Strategic Dialogue, hosted by @TREEecd with the Office of the Premier, brought together provincial and local government to align on ECD reform and priorities for the 2026–2030 Implementation Compact.

#RR4ECD

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

Season 3 of the What's Eating Us? podcast travels to Bulungula, speaking to Real Reform For ECD’s Tshepo Mantjé to expose the stark gap between policy and reality for our youngest and most vulnerable.

Read: https://t.co/sLs2SBvs6Q
@dailymaverick

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

“The time for talking about it is long gone... We have to mark the success of the DBE [Department of Basic Education] by what they do and not what they say. And money that is allocated to young children means nothing unless it reaches the young child.”
https://t.co/f9qbiPUUPg

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

The 2026 Medium Term Budget Speech should increase the ECD subsidy value to at least R27 per-child per-day, and provide funding to boost the Bana Pele Mass Registration. drive efforts to bring more ECD programmes into the registration net

Statement: https://t.co/orIhrXQYCX

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

The Hunger Hearings will investigate these deeper causes and help chart a path toward a more just and equitable food system.

online and in-person
Date: 12 to 20 March 2026
Venue: Nelson Mandela Foundation, Houghton, JHB
Online: https://t.co/zj92OhgalE
Time: 08h00 Daily

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

The National Investigative Hearing into the #RightToFood starts TODAY!

Follow online and in-person
Date: 12 - 20 Mar 2026
Venue: Nelson Mandela Foundation, JHB
Online: https://t.co/zj92OhgalE
Time: 08h00 Daily

@SAHRCommission #EndChildHunger #FoodJustice #HungerHearings

[Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD) @EcdReform]

The @SAHRCommission National Investigative Hearing into the Right to Food will examine why this crisis persists, and what must change.

Read the Real Reform for ECD Submission here: https://t.co/hpvTnet09Y

#RightToFood #EndChildHunger #FoodJustice #HungerHearings