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06/10/2026

Our first AI workshop in Richmond

30/09/2026

🟡🔵⚪🔥🤏🏾💻📲

30/09/2026

🟡🔵⚪🟢 GREAT THINKERS ACADEMY | MONTH END

📅 30 SEPTEMBER 2026

🌍 Campaign 2026 | JUNE–DECEMBER

Yesterday, we paused to reflect on our progress.

Today, we close September by looking ahead.

The work continues.

📚 Education
💼 Skills Development
🤝 Civil Society
🌍 Social Economy
👥 Youth Empowerment
⚽ Sport & Development

These are not just words. They represent the different parts of the journey that have shaped Great Thinkers Academy.

And now, we are asking our community to turn support into action.

💪 HOW YOU CAN

🎓 Sponsor a learner — help provide academic support and learning resources.

📖 Sponsor learning materials — help us put study guides and educational resources into learners' hands.

🤝 Become a partner — connect GTA with your organisation, business, school or community network.

👥 Volunteer your skills — tutoring, mentoring, administration, digital skills, career guidance, sport or other areas where you can contribute.

📣 Share our campaign — introduce to someone who can help, participate or open a door.

💡 Have an opportunity for young people? Send it our way.

Every contribution does not have to be big.

One learner. One resource. One hour. One introduction. One opportunity.

That's how we .

Great Thinkers Academy
Education • Civil Society • Social Economy

🌍 Campaign 2026
June – December

If you want to get involved, send us a message today and tell us how you would like to contribute. 💪🌎🎉👏

29/09/2026

🟡🔵⚪🟢 GREAT THINKERS ACADEMY | GTA TUESDAY
📅 29 SEPTEMBER 2026

🌍 Campaign 2026 | IMPACT PROGRESS SNAPSHOT

June – September 2026

We've spent years building different pieces of Great Thinkers Academy.

📚 Education
💼 Skills Development
🤝 Civil Society
🌍 Social Economy
👥 Youth Empowerment
⚽ Sport & Development
📖 Community Support

Today, we take a moment to look back at the work, the people, the opportunities and the difference made along the way.

This is not the final report.
It is a progress snapshot.

Because sometimes you have to pause and recognise how far you've come before deciding where you're going next.

This is our progress.
This is our journey.
This is GTA.

🌍
Great Thinkers Academy
Education • Civil Society • Social Economy

Join us in building opportunities. 💪🌎🎉👏

27/09/2026

🏆 GREAT THINKERS ACADEMY FOOTBALL CLUB — 2026 HONOURS 🟡🔵⚪🟢⚽

What a year for Great Thinkers Academy Football Club!

Our 2026 honours list so far:

🏆 Richmond Junior Cup — U/13 Champions
🏆 SAPPI Juniors Tournament — U/13 Champions
🏆 Elite Heritage XI Tournament — U/17 Champions 🆕

3 trophies across 2 age groups. 👏⚽

Congratulations to the players, coaches, parents and everyone who continues to support the Academy.

The work continues. The trophy cabinet grows. 🏆

25/09/2026

📍 Richmond Site Visit 🏫📚

Back to where the work is happening.

Today was about observing, listening, gathering evidence and understanding what Great Thinkers Academy is building on the ground.

📖🤝🏽📊

The work continues. 🚀

24/09/2026

🇿🇦 USUKU LWAMAGUGU | UHLANGOTHI LWETHU LWENDABA
🟡 🔵 ⚪ Great Thinkers Academy

Yonke inhlangano inomlando wayo. Wonke umlando unamagugu awo. Futhi amagugu asifundisa lokho esingakuthatha sikuyise phambili. 🌱

Namuhla, i-Great Thinkers Academy ithatha ithuba lokwabelana ngohlangothi lwayo lwendaba — indaba eyakhiwe ukubamba iqhaza, ukuqina, ulwazi, ukuqeqeshana, ukwenza kanye nentuthuko eqhubekayo.

🟡 2015 — UKUBAMBA IQHAZA
Izimpande zesiko le-Academy zingalandelwa emuva esimweni lapho ukubamba iqhaza kwabafundi, ukuziphendulela, impikiswano kanye nokusebenzisana kwakubalulekile.

🔵 2020 — UKUQINA
Isikhathi sokuvalwa kwezwe savivinya indlela ukufunda nokuzibandakanya okungaqhubeka ngayo lapho izindawo ezejwayelekile ziphazamisekile. Kwaba yisikhathi esagcizelela ukubaluleka kokuzivumelanisa nezimo kanye nokuqina kwezemfundo.

⚪ 2023 — UKWEHLUKANISA ULWAZI 🧠
Kwafika isikhathi lapho ukuqonda ulwazi kwaqala khona ukwanda.

Ukufunda kwakungeke kugcine ngokuba ngaphakathi komkhakha owodwa, esikhungweni esisodwa noma endleleni eyodwa yokwazi. Okuhlangenwe nakho, imibono, imiphakathi kanye nezindlela ezahlukene zolwazi kwaba yingxenye yohambo lokufunda.

🟡 2024 — UKUQEQESHA NOKUTHUTHUKISA 🤝
Ukugxila kwaqhubeka ekuthuthukiseni abantu.

Ulwazi lwaba yinto okufanele kwabelwane ngayo. Ukuqeqeshana kwaba yingxenye yesiko. Ukuthuthuka komuntu kwaba yingxenye ebalulekile yokuvulela abanye amathuba okukhula.

🔵 2025 — UNYAKA WOKWENZA ⚡
Imibono kufanele ekugcineni ibonakale kulokho esikwenzayo.

UNyaka Wokwenza waba yisinyathelo esisuka ekucabangeni nasekuthuthukiseni siye ekusebenziseni nasekwenzeni.

⚪ 2026 — UKUFIKA EZINGENI EZIPHEZULU 🚀
Namuhla, i-Great Thinkers Academy iyaqhubeka nokwakha ingqikithi yayo lapho kuhlangana khona ezemfundo, amagugu kanye nentuthuko yasendaweni.

Ukubamba kwethu iqhaza kwiKwaZulu-Natal Social Economy Development Programme kuyingxenye yalolu hambo — kuhlanganisa amagugu esikhungo nentuthuko yabantu abahola intuthuko emiphakathini yabo.

24/09/2026

🇿🇦 HERITAGE DAY | OUR SIDE OF THE STORY
🟡 🔵 ⚪ Great Thinkers Academy

Every institution has a story. Every story has a heritage. And every heritage carries lessons for the future. 🌱

Today, Great Thinkers Academy takes a moment to tell its side of the story — a story shaped by participation, resilience, knowledge, mentorship, action and continued development.

🟡 2015 — PARTICIPATION
The roots of the Academy's culture can be traced to an environment where student participation, accountability, debate and collective engagement were taken seriously.

🔵 2020 — RESILIENCE
The lockdown period tested how learning and engagement could continue when conventional spaces were disrupted. It became a defining period for adaptability and resilience in education.

⚪ 2023 — KNOWLEDGE DIVERSIFICATION 🧠
There came a point where the understanding of knowledge itself began to expand.

Learning could not be confined to one discipline, one institution or one way of knowing. Different experiences, perspectives, communities and forms of knowledge became part of the learning journey.

🟡 2024 — MENTORSHIP & DEVELOPMENT 🤝
The emphasis increasingly moved towards developing people.

Knowledge became something to share. Mentorship became part of the culture. Personal development became an important part of creating opportunities for others to grow.

🔵 2025 — YEAR OF ACTION ⚡
Ideas must eventually find expression in what people do.

The Year of Action represented a movement from reflection and development towards implementation.

⚪ 2026 — REACHING GREATER HEIGHTS 🚀
Today, Great Thinkers Academy continues to develop its identity at the intersection of education, heritage and local development.

Our participation in the KwaZulu-Natal Social Economy Development Programme forms part of this continuing journey — connecting institutional heritage with the development of local champions and the communities in which they operate.

✨ This is our side of the story.

22/09/2026

📚 GREAT THINKERS ACADEMY | 22 SEPTEMBER

GTA TUESDAYS | SYSTEMS

An organisation can have capable people.

It can have resources.

It can have experience.

It can even have capacity.

But if the work depends entirely on individual effort, something is missing.

Systems.

Systems are what help an organisation turn individual effort into consistent practice.

They define how work is done.

Who is responsible.

What information is recorded.

How decisions are made.

How quality is monitored.

How problems are identified.

And how knowledge is carried forward.

Our experience has taught us that good intentions are not systems.

Neither are meetings.

Neither are programmes.

Neither are individual acts of commitment.

Those things matter.

But institutions need structures that allow the work to continue beyond a single person, moment or intervention.

For Great Thinkers Academy, this means strengthening the way we:

Document.

Coordinate.

Communicate.

Monitor.

Evaluate.

Manage.

And learn.

The objective is not bureaucracy for its own sake.

It is consistency.

Because if we can only deliver when a particular person is available, we have activity.

If the organisation can continue delivering because the process is understood, documented and supported, we are building institutional capacity.

That is the difference.

The question therefore becomes:

Can the work continue without depending entirely on the individual who started it?

That is one of the tests of institution-building.

From activity.

To ownership.

To capacity.

To systems.

The story is still being written.

📚 GTA TUESDAYS

🟢 LEARN
What experience teaches us.

🔵 THINK
What those lessons mean.

🟡 GROW
How we develop from them.

⚫ BUILD
What we do with what we have learned.

🌍 GREAT THINKERS ACADEMY

Culture. Identity. Development. Excellence.

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