Yakha Sakhe Kasi Innovation

02/08/2018

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16/07/2018

On thinking differently and quirky

London agency SomeOne has created a surprisingly cheerful identity for funeral comparison service Beyond - one that avoids clichés and sympathy in favour of a bold colour palette and a friendly mascot

04/07/2018

Indlela entsha yokwenza into endala, so here is good resource for those working to preserve umlando wethu emphakathini

The new Archivist in a Backpack project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill equips community partners with tools to start material and oral history archives.

16/06/2018

The Yakha Sakhe first meet up to set up.....

16/06/2018

Yakha Sakhe Kasi Innovation

16/06/2018

What is Yakha Sakhe Kasi Innovation?

Yakha Sakhe is an innovation programme engaging youth from various townships of eThekwini. The programme works with a group of 15 young catalysts by ways of immersing these fervent men and women across a range of fields such as science, urban design, leadership, entrepreneurship, systems mapping, design thinking and media amongst other fields that are driving the future of our world.

The programme dispels the notion of the so-called expert or the teacher as the custodian of knowledge, it rather etches and draws on novel methods of consuming knowledge in a personalised manner whilst working in groups. Yakha Sakhe is speculative in the sense that it is not prescriptive and avoids the ''tried and tested'' method, well, because the future will outplay the solutions of today. So Yakha Sakhe is pretty much the safe space to speculate ways that we might influence that change.

Equally important for the programme is that it places responsibility in the hands of the individual, so to say, ''the individual ought to act first instead of expecting others to act''. It can also be understood to mean, ''you should build, in order for the rest of us to build''. Therefore urging black youth to invent their own solutions for their contexts instead of expert solutions being imposed onto communities. Image no.2 copyright IWT2