Crtve Development

No connections. No degree required. Just a phone, a bit of nerve, and the willingness to hit record.

In a country that isn't handing young people the jobs they need, this has become the workaround. And it's working.

So, Youth Day question: is content creation a real job? And if it is... what's being done to actually support it? 👀

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Some artists decorate walls. Sindiso Nyoni starts conversations with them.🙌🏾. This week's Hot on the Block is the Bulawayo-born, Johannesburg-based graphic artist — and a friend of the CD family — who has been using design to say what most people leave unsaid, since he was four years old.

Cannes Lions. Clio Awards. Museum walls across the world. And the latest flowers from the inaugural Africa International Design Awards. Swipe through.

Here's a hard pill to swallow: When domestic labour gets framed as "responsibility" rather than contribution, it stops being something you can question or push back on. It just becomes what's expected.

That kind of thinking doesn't just stay in the home. If you can't recognise what your partner does as work, you're probably not recognising it when it's a domestic worker, a nurse, or a carer either. And that's exactly how the care economy stays invisible.

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He makes the ordinary impossible to look away from. Tatenda Chidora is this week's Hot on the Block - a photographer who has spent his career redefining what it means to photograph the African face. From Thebe Magugu to Nike, Adidas to Apple Music, his lens has been behind some of the most recognisable visual moments in South African culture. Swipe through to meet the man behind the work.

Childcare can make or break a woman's ability to show up. The guilt that comes with excelling professionally but falling short personally is something most mothers understand all too well. Women are told they need to be 100% in every area of their lives, all at once. That is not balance. That has never been balance.

Neo Mofokeng is an international civil servant at UN Women, spending her career making sure women and girls are in the rooms where decisions get made. The care economy is not abstract to her. It is the reality she navigates every single day, the same one millions of women across the continent are navigating quietly, without recognition, and without support.

That is exactly what this campaign exists to change. Care is not a personal problem to manage. It is a structural issue that needs a structural response.

Dr Katlego Selikane worked 32 hour shifts, led a mobile health clinic into underserved communities, and built an online community for mothers who had nowhere else to turn. And somewhere in all of that, she watched the system burn through the people trying to hold it together.

She has lived that. And she kept showing up anyway.

When the system doesn't care for its caregivers, it is not just the caregivers who lose. It is every patient who needed more than a diagnosis. Every mother who needed to feel less alone. Every community that deserved better.

If we truly believe care is capital, we have to start by protecting the people who give it.

In celebration of Africa Day, here are 5 creators putting Africa on the map

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