Welcome!

Breaking fences - in our generation

Everyday, ordinary peacemakers

We believe that, in our generation, ordinary people will build a nation free from prejudice, poverty and inequality. We will break the boundaries to live together; work together; worship together. We will be human, together.

Join the #unfenceSA tribe by sharing your story on our socials, use our tools, attend our events and invite us to yours.

What We Do

Mission

We yearn for a South Africa where its residents have removed spatial, social and economic barriers.

We yearn for South Africans to live, work, play and pray together. We yearn for the lingering legacy of apartheid to be dismantled and replaced with life-giving, open and accessible social and economic spaces.

UNFENCE SA sets up self-funded, community-owned incubation hubs – hubs that help communities to relate across the fences in our society. These hubs enable us to ideate local solutions to local problems.

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Projects that are
making a difference

Projects

Way back in 2010, Johan de Meyer was invited to visit Macassar. The visit turned into a long-term process of finding ways to make restitution - to do sorry - in the aftermath of apartheid.

What are helpful ways for South Africans to deal with our history? How do I respond to need given my privilege? Well, these initiatives are the result of seeking answers to these hard questions.

Stories for Freedom

Idea Activation

Volunteer, apprentice, or take a GAP year

If you are young and as desperate as we are to #unfenceSA, but not sure how, read on

Stories for Freedom

Unfence SA can help you host a storytelling event in your home, business or community. Stories can heal. Stories can inspire. This is the foundation of history – the interaction

Social Innovation Experiences

It is no small task to build an empowerment process from the ground up. It has taken our founder 11 years to get to where we are today! That is

Idea
Activation

There is a solution to every, single problem. Book Unfence SA to help you turn your story into an asset that can provide an income. Our design thinking workshops are

Speaking / facilitating at your event

How did we grow Macassar Pottery from a small community project to a centre of ceramic design and manufacture? What were our secret ingredients? What changes are we implementing to

From Our Blog

Note, these are opinions of the writers, and not necessarily of Unfence SA NPC.

Read on for writings from our partners. We hope they challenge you to think outside of the box, to put yourself in the shoes of others and, most of all, to give you tools to unfence yourself and your community.

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Restoring the commons in South Africa

28th June 2022 No Comments

The story that brought us here Our new, democratic government has had almost no success of reversing apartheids’ spatial legacy. The township of Macassar is ...

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Apartheid’s gift that keeps on giving

28th June 2022 No Comments

Between me and you there lies so much. There are misunderstandings, emotions, experiences and stories; histories and opinions, reasons and reasonings. If only that was ...

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