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Bench Marks Foundation Annual Conference

Jul 23, 2026 | Conference

SAVE THE DATE The Bench Marks Foundation Annual Conference is coming soon! Join us for an inspiring gathering of thought leaders, community voices, industry experts and change-makers as we come together to engage, connect and explore the issues shaping our...

16 June 1976, 50 Years After: Fight Unemployment

June 2026 Friendly and comradely greetings,We are pleased to share the latest edition of the Bench Marks Foundation Bulletin (Issue 41/ June 2026), titled "16 June 1976, 50 Years After: Fight Unemployment!" reflects on the enduring legacy of the 1976 Youth...

Freedom, Fragility & Accountability

May 2026 Friendly and comradely greetings, We are pleased to share the latest edition of the Bench Marks Foundation Bulletin (Issue 40 / May 2026), titled “Freedom, Fragility & Accountability.” This edition reflects on workers’ struggles, migration and xenophobia,...

Building Capacity, Advancing Justice in Times of Crisis

April 2026 Friendly and comradely greetings,We are pleased to share the latest edition of the Bench Marks Foundation Bulletin (Issue 39 / April 2026), titled “Building Capacity, Advancing Justice in Times of Crisis.” This edition reflects on the growing pressures...

Economic life starts …with communities

March 2026 Editor’s Note – March 2026 Friendly and Comradely greetings, Communities are grappling with multiple crises that are deeply economic in nature. The Bench Marks Foundation Principles points out that “Economic life starts ...with communities.” Current...

Justice Across Borders , Voices from the Ground

FEBRUARY 2026 ‘Not an era of change, but a change of era’ - Pope Leo XIV, 9 January 2026 Dear Comrades and Friends, Happy New Year and welcome to the first edition of 2026. We are not okay; and so are many of the world's dispossessed, working class and poor. Across...

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2025

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2025 Dear colleagues, partners, and changemakers.Welcome to this special edition of our Bulletin, reflecting on our Annual Conference held from 30 September to 01 October 2025 at the Riverlea Community Empowerment Center. Under the theme “(Un)just...

From extraction to empowerment reclaiming community power in the age of critical minerals

JULY/AUGUST 2025 Dear Friends and Comrades.Welcome to our July/August EditionIn Women's month commemorated in August and what should be a celebration of the historic Women's march we are faced with unprecedented levels of gender based violence visited on women and...

Echoes of 1976 mining resistance and the fight for dignity

JUNE 2025 Welcome Back to the Bench Marks Foundation Bulletin Dear Friends and Comrades. We’re back and we've missed you. Thank you for your patience and unwavering solidarity during our pause in publication. This Bulletin returns not only as a platform for updates...

The race to net zero clean energy cannot trample over the poor?

July 2024 Dear comrade, this edition includes a focus on Critical Raw Materials, suggesting that a failure to understand what is happening and how to respond may be a serious setback for the justice movement. Given Africa’s resources, how do we ensure that the looting...

1955: The people shall govern. 2024: Do they?

June 2024 Dear Comrades, June 16 has been squeezed out of the story by the tremor of law passing and the elections and its aftermath. POLITICS AND ELECTIONS DO NOT change - or state power does not change - all, there is a need for cultural and social movement by what...