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Khulisa Social Solutions continues to strengthen safer, more resilient communities through its Victim Empowerment Programme (VEP).
The problem across all four communities is not an absence of organisations or goodwill — it is the absence of a system that connects them.
At Khulisa Social Solutions, we believe that tackling deep-seated social challenges—such as violence, substance abuse, and social exclusion—requires a collective, ecosystem-led approach
Over the past 12 months, the Khulisa School Holiday Programme has reached 1,404 children in high-risk communities across the West Rand, with detailed impact data from 647 participants aged 9–17. Alarmingly, 72% of these children reported witnessing crime in their communities—underscoring the harsh reality that many young people are growing up in environments defined by violence, instability, and risk.
In the latest SHIFT Magazine feature, Lesley Ann van Selm, founder of Khulisa Social Solutions, speaks to the kind of work most people don’t see.
The slow work. The difficult work. The work that doesn’t always make noise, but changes everything.
Recent stakeholder engagements and dialogue processes facilitated by Khulisa Social Solutions in Danielskuil and Postmasburg have revealed a clear and important truth: these are not communities lacking effort, resources, or commitment.
Over the past 2.5 years, two Northern Cape mining-linked towns — Danielskuil and Tsantsabane (Postmasburg) — have quietly become structured demonstration sites for prevention-led, technology-enabled ecosystem stabilisation within South Africa’s mining and renewable energy corridors.
In November 2025, Khulisa carried out a national staff wellness survey across Khulisa Social Solutions’ programmes and regional operations.
This report presents a consolidated body of narrative evidence and strategic learning generated through sustained community engagement in Postmasburg and Danielskuil between 2023 and 2025.
As South Africa concludes another year of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, new insights shared today at the Joburg Theatre reveal a vital truth: violence is not just physical — it is emotional, cultural, and often marked by persistent generational patterns of taboo and silence.
Something powerful happened in Wynberg last week. Over three days, from 3–5 December, a diverse group of government officials, social workers, community practitioners, and NGO partners came together for a Conflict Resolution and Mediation Training Programme run by Khulisa Social Solutions, the Society of Mediators (UK), and the Department of Social Development (DSD).
South Africa is living through a violence epidemic so deeply woven into daily life that many people no longer recognise its weight. We see the posters, the awareness campaigns, the public statements of commitment from leaders.
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