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18/06/2026

In 2020, we built the brand, website and monitor resource file for Ritshidze — a community-led HIV clinic monitoring project tracking what is happening inside more than 450 public health facilities across eight provinces.

The platform supports community monitors, journalists and activists with a members section, media resource area, report library and news section.

Ritshidze was the world's largest community-led monitoring system until the recent gutting of USAID — a devastating blow to accountability in South Africa’s HIV response. A pared-down version continues to run today.

https://ritshidze.org.za/

“Ritshidze” — meaning “Saving Our Lives” in TshiVenda — has been developed by people living with HIV and activists to hold the South African government and international donors accountable, to improve overall HIV and TB service delivery.

16/06/2026

The youth of 1976 weren't waiting for permission to participate. They were speaking truth to power. Nearly fifty years later, young people continue to organise, challenge self-serving systems of power, and demand a say in the future they will inherit.

With AI, climate change, widening inequality and failing political systems reshaping our world, the stakes have never been higher.

The question is not whether young people have something to say. The question is whether those with power will double down or listen.

11/06/2026

Modern ART for South Africa began as a native app and website in 2020.

In 2022, we rebuilt the HIV treatment literacy platform as a progressive web app, making it more affordable to manage across devices and browsers while retaining app-like functionality.

The platform allows users to:
- Create profiles
- Track treatment adherence
- Monitor pill counts
- Record testing dates and results
- Receive reminders
- Access a library of HIV resources

It's the kind of project that draws on software development, information architecture, user experience design and health communication in equal measure.

https://modernartforsouthafrica.co.za/

10/06/2026

We designed the publication for We The 99%, documenting the 2025 People's Summit for Global Economic Justice.

The report captures six months of organising that brought together 300+ organisations across 37 countries to build one of the largest people-led mobilisations for economic justice in recent years.

Read the full report: https://wetheninetynine.com/

05/06/2026

TAC's history is a masterclass in what activism and advocacy should be.

Since 1998, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has been at the centre of some of South Africa's most important public health struggles. Through relentless activism and partnerships with organisations like the AIDS Law Project (now Section27), TAC helped secure access to what became the largest free HIV treatment programme in the world.

When we redesigned the website in 2023, our brief was to bring together an archive that had lived across multiple generations of websites and create a digital home that better reflected both the organisation's legacy and its work today.

TAC is not just part of history. It remains a powerful grassroots organisation with members across South Africa who know what is happening on the ground long before it reaches the headlines.

https://www.tac.org.za/

We work for a unified South African health system that provides accessible, quality and dignified healthcare services to ALL – including people living with HIV & TB

03/06/2026

Economy is Care was a five-part public dialogue series centred on a powerful question: what would the economy look like if it was built around care?

We designed the report series for New Economy Hub.

Read them here: neweconomyhub.org

02/06/2026

We designed and built this website from scratch in 2021 as part of a full rebrand project for Rural Health Advocacy Project SA (RHAP).

The brief called for a clean design and a robust media section with intuitive filtering housing years of advocacy work, research, reporting and policy commentary around rural healthcare in South Africa.

Take a look:
https://rhap.org.za/

28/05/2026

Women are half the population and carry a disproportionate share of the world's disease burden, yet female-specific conditions receive less than 2% of research funding.

The money doesn't follow actual need, it follows old assumptions about whose body is considered the default.

These numbers aren't natural law. They were decided — and they can be undone.

26/05/2026

Conference design needs to do more than look good.

For the PLAAS Land, Life and Society International Conference held in 2025, we developed an emblem and pattern echoing the meaning of land — and conference materials like tote bags and a programme booklet.

25/05/2026

Africa Day feels like a good moment to acknowledge the work happening across African civil society organisations.

Some of the most thoughtful communications work in the world is being done here; often with small teams, tight budgets and high stakes.

Proud to be an African studio working alongside the people doing it.