Through the Fellowship, Tekano is growing health equity leadership to tackle the deep social and economic inequities that characterise South Africa; contributing to building leaders and engaging communities across sectors and disciplines to address barriers that prevent people from leading healthy and productive lives. We create a space for Fellows to connect with a deeper understanding of the systemic causes of injustice; fostering dynamic, visionary, value-based health equity leaders both individually and in catalytic communities for social action. Tekano works to promote leadership development through Fellowship. The Fellowship is the core of a catalytic community working together in a variety of inter-connected networks to enable social change that supports health equity.