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DGMT DGMT is a public innovator committed to developing South Africa’s potential through strategic investment. That is why the core of our work is human development.

04/06/2026

When we talk about stunting, we often focus on food. But stunting is about more than nutrition alone.

Children need nutritious food to grow and thrive, but they also need environments that support healthy development. Access to clean water, sanitation and waste removal, as well as healthier neighbourhoods and support for mothers during pregnancy, all play an important role in a child's growth, particularly during the first 1 000 days of life.

The quality and availability of these services vary widely across communities. Poverty and inequality mean that some children face far greater risks to their health and development from the very beginning.

If South Africa is to end stunting by 2030, we need to think not only about nutrition, but also about the broader social, environmental and economic conditions that shape children's growth and development.

Learn more about how service delivery influences child health and development: https://loom.ly/UYybZUM

03/06/2026

Potholes, water outages and uncollected waste. These are some of the issues that come to people's minds when they think about local government's role in functioning communities, towns and cities. But these services do more than keep municipalities running — they also shape the conditions in which children grow up.

Knowing this, what if we measured the success of our municipalities by how well children are able to grow, learn and thrive?

From water, sanitation and waste removal, to neighbourhood safety, nutrition, public spaces and support for families, many of the conditions that influence child health and development are shaped in the neighbourhoods in which they grow up.

Through decisions about basic service delivery, maternal and child health, alcohol regulation and local food production, municipalities help shape healthier environments for children and families.

What would you like to see your municipality do for children and families?

Read more in our media statement: https://loom.ly/UYybZUM

📢 Job Opportunity: The Zero Dropout Campaign is looking for a Communications Support Officer to join its team and suppor...
28/05/2026

📢 Job Opportunity: The Zero Dropout Campaign is looking for a Communications Support Officer to join its team and support day-to-day communications, community engagement, and public-facing coordination.

📝 Type: Contract – 1 Year
📍 Location: Claremont, Cape Town (Hybrid)
📅 Apply by: 19 June 2026

The Zero Dropout Campaign works to prevent school dropout in South Africa by mobilising government, civil society, communities, and families to take collective responsibility for keeping learners in school. Through research, advocacy, and community engagement, the campaign raises awareness of the systemic drivers of dropout and promotes practical solutions.

As the campaign grows its public visibility and engagement, they are looking for a Communications Support Officer who will act as the first line of engagement with the public, manage communication channels, and support broader communications and media coordination.

The role includes managing social media engagement, responding to public queries, supporting media coordination, maintaining safeguarding and consent documentation, and assisting with campaign communications and dissemination.

They’re looking for a communications professional with 1 – 2 years’ experience in community management or public engagement, strong writing skills, excellent organisational ability, and the ability to engage professionally across multiple platforms.

📌 Apply now by submitting your CV and cover letter.
👉 Click here to learn more about this role and to apply: https://loom.ly/8dlhG-o

28/05/2026

It’s World Hunger Day, and in South Africa, both hunger and chronic malnutrition affect far too many young children from their earliest years.

It starts in the womb with babies born too small because their mothers were malnourished while pregnant. Chronic malnutrition results in children being too short for their age, or stunted. In South Africa, more than a quarter of children under the age of five is stunted.

Stunting is not just about a child’s physical development, it is also highly correlated with poor brain development which affects their ability to learn, school performance and future productivity.

Here are key strategies to address stunting:
1. Make protein-rich foods more affordable for families.
2. Reduce the number of babies born too small by ensuring pregnant women have access to nutritious food, antenatal care, nutrition supplementation and support during pregnancy.
3. Help communities grow their own food through community food hubs and local food production initiatives.

Ending stunting means ensuring every child has access to the nutritious food they need to grow, learn and thrive.

Learn more: https://loom.ly/kpqO5Ak

📢 Job Opportunity: We are looking for an Operations Manager to join our team and play a key role in strengthening and op...
27/05/2026

📢 Job Opportunity: We are looking for an Operations Manager to join our team and play a key role in strengthening and optimising our operational systems and infrastructure.

📝 Contract type: Permanent
📍 Location: Claremont, Cape Town
📅 Apply by: 5 June 2026

DG Murray Trust is a public innovator committed to developing South Africa’s potential through strategic investment, working toward a flourishing people, economy and society.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Operations Manager will be responsible for managing DGMT’s operating infrastructure, including information, knowledge, and management systems. The role focuses on strengthening operational efficiency, coordination, and ex*****on across the organisation.

We are looking for a systems-oriented and highly capable operations professional with at least 5 years’ experience managing a medium-sized organisation, strong project management capability, and the ability to translate strategy into practical delivery in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

📌 Apply now by submitting your CV and cover letter.
👉 Click here to learn more about this role and to apply: https://loom.ly/7PZoh94

27/05/2026

🎧 What can we learn about babies’ brains in the first 1 000 days?

In this episode, we unpack how early learning and stimulation is fundamentally about relationships — shaped in the everyday interactions between babies and their caregivers.

While systems like healthcare and social support are essential for creating the conditions that make responsive caregiving possible, the real work of early learning happens in ordinary home moments: through back-and-forth interaction, connection, and care.

Development is shaped not only by biology, but by a child’s environment. Nutrition, healthcare, income support for pregnant women, and responsive caregiving all work together to build the foundations for healthy development.

We explore what this means for how we think about supporting young children to thrive, especially in the earliest years of life when the foundations for development are being built.

We speak with Liezel Engelbrecht, Nutrition Lead, and Mikhaila Steenkamp, Language and Learning Lead, from the Hold My Hand Accelerator, alongside Dr Chantell Witten, Health Systems Strengthening Director at Ilifa Labantwana.

Full episode here: https://loom.ly/CpWyzKU
Or listen now on your favourite podcast platform.

25/05/2026

South Africa is on a mission to end child stunting by 2030 — and municipalities have a critical role to play, especially with Local Government Elections approaching.

Stunting results from chronic malnutrition, compounded by infections linked to poor living conditions. It limits children's physical growth, brain development and long-term wellbeing.

The greatest opportunity to prevent stunting is in the first 1 000 days — from conception to a child's second birthday. During this period, children’s health is shaped not only by clinics and healthcare services, but also by the environments municipalities help manage every day, including access to clean water, sanitation, waste removal, nutritious food and support for pregnant women and caregivers.

Here are a few ways municipalities can help reduce stunting using what they already have:
1. Improve water, sanitation and waste removal services, especially in informal and poorly serviced communities, to help reduce infection risks linked to unhygienic living conditions that contribute to poor gut health and stunting.
2. Prioritise maternal and child health in Integrated Development Plans by strengthening community-based support systems, including community health worker programmes that connect mothers and children to nutrition, care and social services.
3. Reduce alcohol-related harms by limiting the density of liquor outlets and restricting trading hours, helping to reduce heavy drinking and support healthier pregnancies and safer communities.
4. Support urban food production by allocating unused municipal land to community food gardens and small-scale farming initiatives that improve access to nutritious food for households and early childhood development (ECD) centres.

Read our full media statement here: https://loom.ly/UYybZUM

The Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA) works to address hunger among children and young people attending school...
22/05/2026

The Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA) works to address hunger among children and young people attending schools, early childhood development (ECD) centres and other educational institutions across the Western and Eastern Cape.

Recognising that children cannot learn and thrive on an empty stomach, PSFA provides nutritious meals that support learning, attendance, development and wellbeing. To date, the organisation has served more than two billion meals to children from under-resourced communities.

Through DGMT’s support, PSFA is expanding its ECD Nutrition Support Programme to reach children at three unregistered ECD centres in the Saldanha Bay Municipality on the West Coast. Working alongside partner organisation Grassroots Educare, the programme provides daily meals to young children attending these centres.

The support forms part of a broader effort to help stop nutritional stunting among young children during the critical early years of development. With a growing national focus on ending child stunting and the importance of first 1 000 days of life, programmes like these play an important role in helping young children access the nutrition they need to support healthy growth and development.

📢 Opportunity: The Accelerated Learning Project will be hosting a Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Bootcamp in Bloemfo...
21/05/2026

📢 Opportunity: The Accelerated Learning Project will be hosting a Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Bootcamp in Bloemfontein, Free State.

📍 Location: Bloemfontein, Free State
📅 Dates now confirmed: 29 June – 9 July 2026
📅 Apply by: 29 May 2026

The Accelerated Learning Project (ALP) is an initiative of DG Murray Trust working to close foundational learning gaps for learners who have fallen behind. Using evidence-based approaches such as TaRL, ALP supports learners, educators, and communities to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes and strengthen education systems across South Africa.

This TaRL Bootcamp is designed as a Train-the-Trainer programme to build the capacity of organisations and programme teams interested in implementing the TaRL methodology. The 10-day in-person training will equip participants with practical tools and strategies to support learners in catching up on foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

Important to note:

1. Participants are responsible for their own transport and accommodation costs
2. This is not a grant opportunity; organisations must be independently funded
3. ALP will provide training, conferencing, and learning resources for all participants

📌 Apply here: https://loom.ly/HrTMDjg

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