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18 August - The Centre for Civil Society this week prepares for meetings about our future with a new Subcommittee of the Faculty. Last week's 33-1 vote by colleagues to keep the Centre at UKZN is a strong enough signal to reverse an earlier decision by authorities to shut CCS. But our future is to be negotiated in coming days, with a September 12 deadline. We are requesting further testimonials before 1 September, to pbond@mail.ngo.za .
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Media coverage, UKZN announcements |
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University to keep civil society centre
Faculty meeting gives overwhelming support
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Fatima Meer's 80th Birthday |
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Centre for Civil Society report on 2007 activities |
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In a context of dramatic increases in ‘Gatherings Act’ incidents reported by the SA police (10 000 per year in 2005-07, up from 5800 in 2004-05) and worsening inequality, our guiding CCS objective is of even more relevance: the advance of socio-economic and environmental justice through developing critical knowledge about, for and in dialogue with civil society.
Our research work benefits from praxis-based production of knowledge, in which we learn how power relations are challenged by civil society organisations – in the streets, the courts, the media, negotiating fora, theatres and cultural clubs, sportsfields and other sites - thus generating new information about systems and organisational strengths and weaknesses. We then feed back research into the society through both arms-length and participatory analysis, in the forms of books and articles, films and DVDs, tours and lectures.
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CCS UKZN Review 29 February 2008
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Hollow pledges in dealing with refugees |
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Durban has no permanent solution for displaced people
By Carlos Bruen, The Mercury (Eye on Civil Society) 23 July 2008
Human rights continue to take a beating in South Africa, nearly two
months after the wave of xenophobic violence killed dozens and displaced
more than 60 000 immigrants.
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'Photographs by Oliver Meth, from the exhibition 'Breathing Spaces |
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Breathing Spaces exhibition can be viewed at UKZN Centre for Civil Society from 1 August 3 September 2008.
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Banned: Why a South African is Going to Court in the U.S. |
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By Patrick Bond 29 July 2008
In 2006, the United States Department of State branded University of Johannesburg Professor Adam Habib a terrorist and revoked his visa. The article below, by Habib, details the circumstances of Professor Habib’s exclusion from the U.S. and his attempts to challenge it through the courts.
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In the pages that follow, a group of South Africa’s leading political
economists tackle President Thabo Mbeki’s ‘two economies’ thesis, the
framework most popularly invoked for contemporary poverty policy in
South Africa. In short, poverty can be beat if sturdy (market-focused)
ladders are found between the second and first economy, which
unfortunately at present are ‘structurally disconnected’. On at least
two earlier occasions, a critical mass of university-based intellectuals
gathered in various publications to contest ideas of this sort: the
mid-1970s when radicals fought liberals over the relationship between
race and class; and the early 1990s when the South African version of
the Regulation School was established. Both contributions were flawed,
we will see. Since then, there has been a growing sense of the need to
revisit and reconstruct old frameworks, in part because of the
tremendous upsurge in popular social struggles associated with new types
of exploitation.
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Sufian Bukurura on Community Service |
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CCS hosts Durban screenings of Earthnotes Environmental Film Festival, UKZN, 10-14 November |
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Nick Smith Seminar: The Rise in Violent Crime in Post-Third Wave Democracies, 23 October |
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Oliver Meth at the European Commission - Civil Society Forum on Millennium Development Goals, 15 October |
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Dennis Brutus and Patrick Bond at Venezuela political economy/culture conference, 13-19 October |
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Dennis Brutus at the 50th Anniversary of the Non-Racial Sports Movement, October 10-12 |
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Patrick Bond lecture on Zimbabwe and the World Bank, Georgetown Univ Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Washington, 10 October |
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Patrick Bond at 'Is capitalism soon over?' brainstorm, Int'l Forum on Globalization, SF, 6-8 October |
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Patrick Bond Seminar: The US financial crisis, 3 October [Skype] |
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Patrick Bond at Southern Africa Resource Watch workshop, Johannesburg, 30 September |
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SH Bukurura speaks at the 22nd Student Development Conference, 29 September-2 October |
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Dennis Brutus on African debt/reparations at Jubilee USA in Washington, 26 September |
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Muna Lakhani Wolpe Lecture panel, on Wasted Lives, 25 September |
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Dennis Brutus plays Marx in Soweto at Brecht Forum, NYC, 23 September |
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Patrick Bond on capitalism and unsustainable development at UCT Business School workshop, Cape Town, 19 September |
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Sufian Bukurura at workshop on How can Business Promote Human Rights, National Business Initiative, Durban, 12 September |
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Seminar by Oilwatch strategists Nnimmo Bassey, Yvonne Yanez and Claudia Carr, 12 September [skypecast] |
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Patrick Bond at OilWatch/groundWork strategy conference, Durban, 11 September |
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Patrick Bond on climate change and carbon trading at SA Energy Caucus, Johannesburg, 10 September |
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Patrick Bond on the Shock Doctrine at UKZN/Pmb Psychology, 3 September |
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Wolpe Lecture with Patra Sindane, Jackie Dugard and Dale McKinley about Soweto residents defeating Johannesburg Water, 28 August |
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Sufian H Bukurura speaks on Community Service Orders as an Alternative to Imprisonment at the Safety and Security Conference, Windhoek, 27-30 August |
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Devanathan Pather Seminar: Falsification of knowledge and identity in cyberspace, 25 August |
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Shauna Mottiar Seminar: Deepening Democracy Through Local Government, 22 August |
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Dennis Brutus keynote address at Jubilee SA conference, Johannesburg, 21-24 August |
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Carlos Bruen Seminar: Development Aid & Civil Society: Attitudes of Irish Society, 19 August |
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Dennis Brutus poetry at Annual Diakonia Lecture, 14 August |
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Molefi Ndlovu, Orlean Naidoo and Patrick Bond at Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Southern Africa workshop, Durban, 10-16 August |
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Fatima Meer ongoing life-work commemoration and Chatsworth social justice organising celebration, 10 August |
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Dennis Brutus plenary speech to Jubilee South's Africa congress, Nairobi, 5-11 August |
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Sebastiana Etzo Seminar: Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion, 1 August |
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CCS cohosts two DIFF films - by Philippe Diaz and John Pilger - with Ashwin Desai, Dennis Brutus & Patrick Bond panel discussion, KwaSuka Theatre, 27 July |
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Dennis Brutus, Patrick Bond and Ashwin Desai on SA foreign policy to parliamentary committee, 26-27 July |
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Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum joins CCS for Wolpe Lecture panel with Mary Chipende, Joy Mabenge, Richard Smith, Judith Todd, 24 July |
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Patrick Bond on Zimbabwe to SACP provincial council, 25 July |
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Inez McCormack seminar on poverty and rights, 24 July |
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Dennis Brutus at The National Dialogue- African Cultural Practices and Human Rights Conference in Pretoria, 17-18 July |
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Oliver Meth, Orlean Naidoo, and Baruti Amisi facilitate a Xenophobia discussion at Workers College Diploma Course, 16 July |
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Patrick Bond at International Society of Business Economics and Ethics, Cape Town, 15 July |
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Dennis Brutus on Steal This Radio, 15 July |
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Dennis Brutus at TIAA-CREF shareholder meeting, Denver, 15 July |
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Dennis Brutus speaks against sweatshops, Philadelphia, 12 July |
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Baruti Amisi at Int'l Society for Third Sector Research congress, Barcelona, 11 July |
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Dennis Brutus poetry in Philadelphia, 11 July |
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Dennis Brutus at court hearing on apartheid freparations, NYC, 8 July |
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Civil Society and Development Masters Module (Winter School), 8-22 July |
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Ntokozo Mthembu and Patrick Bond at SA Sociological Association congress, Stellenbosch, 7-10 July |
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Erik Swyngedouw seminar: Against H2O privatisation, 3 July [SKYPECAST] |
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Jalal Abdel Latif seminar: On African civil societynetworks, 30 June |
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Communities against Xenophobia: Solidarity for Social Change!, 26 June |
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Patrick Bond, Simphiwe Nojiyeza, Dudu Khumalo and Orlean Naidoo on water rights at Diakonia, 24 June |
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CCS-Osisa Economic justice advocacy, environment and social policy course, 22-29 June |
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Peter Benjamin seminar on reclaiming cellphones for social change, 20 June |
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David Masondo seminar on the Alliance and the Independent Lefts, 19 June |
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Dennis Brutus and Patrick Bond at the CT Book Fair, 14-17 June |
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Patrick Bond at UKZN Minerals-Energy-Complex workshop, 17 June |
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CCS Events: Communities against Xenophobia & Wolpe Lecture, 12 June |
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Patrick Bond at Codesria conference on trade, Addis Ababa, 9-10 June |
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Sufian Bukurura participated in the Anti-Xenophobia Forum, 5 June |
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Sufian Bukurura attended South Africa-Netherlands Programme for Alternative Development (SANPAD), 2 June |
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Patrick Bond at Unisa Africa Environmental Politics conference, 30 May |
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Sufian Bukurura participates in the 10th African Renaissance Conference, 26-27 May |
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CCS takes part in the anti-xenophobia Indaba, 25 May |
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Sufian Bukurura on Extractive industries and destruction of livelihoods in Africa at the ActionAid All Africa Policy Conference, Mombasa, 19-23 May |
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Melanie Samson seminar on feminism & local gov't, 23 May |
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Molefi Ndlovu speaks on 'strategies in fight against multinational water privatisation' in Seoul, 23 May |
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Cindy Blackstock Seminar: Reconcilation - Touchstones of Hope for Indigenous Families, 16 May |
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CCS hosts University of Ottawa research students, 12-30 May |
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Daniel Schechter In Debt we Trust film/discussion on US financial crisis, 8 May [SKYPECAST] |
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CCS & IOLS workers festival, 7 May |
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Evelin Bayer Seminar:Learning in social movements, 5 May |
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Patrick Bond lectures in Massachusetts, 30 April -2 May |
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CCS participates in civil society budget watch debate on public participation in the budget process, 29 April |
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Eunice Sahle Harold Wolpe and ActionAid International Joint Lecture , 26 April |
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ActionAid-CCS African Social Movements workshop, 23-29 April |
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Molefi Ndlovu at Let justice roll down like waters: Faith-based advocacy and water for all, 21-24 April |
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Annsilla Nyar, Brij Maharaj and Deborah Ewing Seminar: Social Giving, 21 April 2008 |
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Jubilee/ActionAid Conference: Extractive Industries and Community Justice, 21-22 April |
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Political Economy of the Welfare State course taught by Patrick Bond, 21 April - 9 June |
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Patrick Bond on climate/social change, poli-econ, water in Sydney, April 11-13 |
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Alexander Aylett Conflict, Compromise and Climate Change: Participatory Democracy and Urban Environmental Struggles in Durban, 11 April |
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CCS at Amandla Colloquium, Cape Town, 4-6 April |
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Eva Range Organising for Change Fighting for Equality and Access to Water, 4 April |
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Carol Thompson seminar on African agriculture and civil society, 3 April [SKYPECAST] |
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John Pilger Wolpe Lecture, 30 March |
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Molefi Ndlovu attends the National Consultation Workshop on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness, 2-3 April |
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Sufian Bukurura involved in International centre on Nonviolence (ICON) strategic planning workshop, 26 March |
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Robert Compton Zimbabwe - A report from the campaign, March 26 [SKYPECAST] |
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Steven Best Total Liberation - Should Civil Society Advocate Rights of Animal Society, 25 March [SKYPECAST] |
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Dennis Brutus at Split the Rock poetry festival, 22 March |
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Mueller, Elsener, Schneider Seminar on Contesting Switzerland's apartheid profits, politics and church ties, 18 March |
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Horman Chitonge Artificial copper pricing and mining contracts in Zambia, 7 March |
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John Pilger Film Festival, 3-24 March |
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Louis Nyiri Renewable Energy in Action: SA Bio-fuel Experience, 29 February |
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Steven Lawry Seminar: Transnational philanthropy: Does it reduce poverty?, 25 February |
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Patrick Bond on N.American tour for Durban Group for Climate Justice, 22 February - 16 March |
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Giuliano Martiniello Agrarian reform in SA, 21 February |
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Xolela Mangcu Wolpe Lecture, 21 February |
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Patrick Bond & Ntokozo Mthembu on Energy and Climate Crises, and Uranium Road documentary film, 18 February |
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Siphiwe Nojiyeza, Baruti Amisi and Dudu Khumalo present to SA Water Caucus sanitation workshop, 15-17 February |
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John Garvey Seminar on the Race Traitor experience, 12 February |
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Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai & Xolani Dube Seminar: 'SA Political Economy Revived: Transcending Two Economies' 4 February [SKYPECAST] |
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Patrick Bond on climate change at Oxfam, Pretoria, 1 February |
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Peter Mckenzie Seminar: Multimedia and Social Movement Representation, 31 January |
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Patrick Bond at Gender and Trade in Africa seminar, Joburg, 29 January |
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Gérard Bueters Seminar: Slum Cinema 28 January |
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Trevor Ngwane Wolpe Lecture on the WSF, 26 January |
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CCS, SMI, Diakonia, TAC & other Durban activists to celebrate the WSF, Durban, 26 January |
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Davie Malungisa & Grace Kwinjeh Seminar: Hot Zimbabwe politics and civil society reactions, 25 January [SKYPECAST] |
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Patrick Bond on resource extraction at Sangoco/SADC conference, Joburg, 24-25 January |
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Seminar with Kiama Kaara & Karanja Mbugua on Kenyan electoral crisis and civil society responses, 23 January [SKYPECAST] |
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Visit by St Catherine’s College / Centre for Global Education 21-24 January |
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Seminar with Sofie Hellberg on water discourses in progressive civil society, 17 January [SKYPECAST] |
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Robert Compton Seminar: American Academic Labour Unions: When the Struggle is Not so Local, 16 January |
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CCS Seminar on ANC politics and progressive civil society:Desai, Ngwane, Naidoo, Bukurura & Nyar 20 December |
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LaDawn Haglund & Edmore Mufema on water and social transformation, 19 December |
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Seminar with Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza on the documentary: Living Broke in Boom Times, 18 December |
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Barak Hoffman Seminar on global/local civil society, 14 December |
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Trevor Ngwane seminar on 'The State of Soweto Social Mobilisations', 12 December |
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CCS cohosts Ben Cashdan's new documentary on the ANC succession race, 7 & 8 December |
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Patrick Bond & Dudu Khumalo Seminar commenting on the constitutional case against Johannesburg Water, 5 December |
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Sufian Bukurura evaluating Namibian Auditor General's office, 5-7 December |
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Dennis Brutus says 'No thanks' to SA Sports Hall of Fame, 5 December |
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Social Movements Indaba meeting with Dennis Brutus, Orlean Naidoo and Molefi Ndlovu , 2-5 December |
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Madiba, Lekalake & Murphy :Seminar on Joburg Operation Khanyisa Movement, 26 November |
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Dennis Brutus is Marx in Nairobi, 25 November |
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Oliver Meth & Joan Van Niekerk Seminar: Male Rape: Proposed Changes in Legislation, 23 November |
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Dennis Brutus at the Ken Saro-Wiwa celebration in CT, 22-23 November |
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Mondli Hlatshwayo, Des D’Sa and Orlean Naidoo Wolpe Lecture Panel: On ‘The State of SA’s Social Movements, 22 November |
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Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond address Climate Change Conference, Joburg, 21 November |
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Molefi Ndlovu at 'Development Dilemmas' workshop, Durban, 16-18 November |
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Hwok-Aun Lee Seminar: Inequality and Affirmative Action in Malaysia and South Africa, 16 November |
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Dennis Brutus at the Ilrig conference on the G20, 15 November |
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Patrick Bond in N.America to debate carbon trading, 13-19 November |
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Dennis Brutus on SABC's Encounters, 11 November |
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EARTHNOTES ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL, 10–16 November |
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Patrick Bond promotes reparations at Hist.Materialism conference in London, 10 November |
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Christi van der Westhuizen launches her new book 'White Power & the Rise and Fall of the National Party @ Ikes, 7 November: Seminar @ UKZN, 8 November |
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David Manyonga Seminar: Against child soldiering in Uganda, 6 November |
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Lionel Cliffe Seminar: States and Civil Society Struggle for Peace in the Horn of Africa, 5 November |
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Baruti Amisi Seminar: Rethinking social capital: A case study of Durban Congolese refugee women, 5 November |
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Dennis Brutus Marx in Swaziland, 4 November |
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Dennis Brutus & Patrick Bond at Friends of the Earth international conference in Swaziland, 4 November |
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David Wiley Seminar: The Disordering of Civil Society and the Militarisation of Africa, 29 October |
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Ntokozo Mthembu coordinates CCS-community-SIT course on globalisation, 29 October - 2 November |
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Marx @ KwaSuka Dennis Brutus plays Karl Marx, 26 & 28 October |
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Anne Mayher Seminar: Patterns of State Collaboration and Repression in the Scramble for Platinum in South Africa, 26 October |
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Patrick Bond at Ceasefire's campaign strategy meeting, 26 October |
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Dennis Brutus : 'Karl Marx @ UKZN', 25 October |
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Dennis Brutus Seminar: The American Court Decision on Apartheid Reparations, 24 October |
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Patrick Bond Norwegian People’s Aid Seminar on Strengthening Civil Society Johannesburg, 22 and 23 October |
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Patrick Bond analyses US hegemony-in-decline for Focus on the Global South masters course in Bangkok, 17 October (videotel) |
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Patrick Bond at Attac Norway Conference on Oil, Climate and Justice, 12-13 October |
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CCS/Sociology Film Screening: A Journey to Robben Island, 11 October |
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Patrick Bond Inaugural Lecture: Gobal Civil Society Strategies for Social Justice, 10 October |
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Dudu Khumalo, Rehana Dada and Patrick Bond join AGENDA journal for Biopolitics issue launch, 9 October |
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Patrick Bond makes case against carbon trading, Sydney, 6 October |
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Ntokozo Mthembu Energy Challenges Faced by Vulnerable Communities in the New Unified eThekwini Municipality, 5 October |
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Patrick Bond in Sydney for the launch of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, 4-5 October |
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Guiliana Gemelli Seminar: GIVING: Themes in Social Innovation, 3 October |
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Patrick Bond on Local Racism, Global Apartheid in Barcelona, 27 September |
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NGO leaders course at Univ. of Botswana with Patrick Bond , 26 September |
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Patrick Bond, Grace Kwinjeh, Ashwin Desai and Orlean Naidoo of CCS @ Ilrig's Globalisation School, 23-28 September |
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Dennis Brutus at Christopher Okigbo celebration in Boston, 20 September |
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Dennis Brutus Seminar: George Bush’s War Crimes, 18 September |
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Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge Wolpe Lecture: Traditions of Activism, 13 September |
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Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond at Joburg Climate Change conference, 12-13 September |
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Aethiopian/ African Millennium: Join I ‘n I in i-lebration, 2000! 11-12 September |
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Patrick Bond Seminar: Venezuela Rising, 10 September |
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Grace Kwinjeh, Gcina Mhlope, Dennis Brutus, Ashwin Desai A reading in solidarity with Zimbabwe, 9 September |
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CCS - TriContinental Films Festival Screening 7-23 September |
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Dennis Brutus Fort Hare, 29 August |
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Grace Kwinjeh Wolpe Lecture: Zimbabwe's Crisis, Civil Society's Responsibility, 23 August |
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Sufian Bukurura Seminar: Of Poverty and Illiteracy: Reflections from Conversations with Kids and Grannies, 28 August |
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Kathleen Millar Seminar: New Trains of Class Politics: Reflections on Organising Informal Recylers in Brazil and South Africa, 17 August |
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Melanie Samson Seminar: Producing Privatization, Re-Articulating Gender, Race, Class and Space, 15 August |
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CCS joins SDCEA for Women's Day in South Durban, 9 August |
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Patrick Bond on Zimbabwe's economic crisis (with Zimcodd in Harare) 1 August & New Zimbabwe lecture, 31 July |
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Social Policy masters course by Patrick Bond , 30 July-27 August |
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Patrick Bond in Caracas for Seminars on Capitalism, Climate Change and Africa, 26 and 27 July |
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Kiama Kaara Living Futures, Living Alternatives: Reflections on WSF Nairobi, 19 July |
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CCS 'Civil Society & Development' course Sufian Bukurura & Dennis Brutus,, 4-18 July |
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Maria Brendler Seminar: Radical participatory democracy: Stockholm, Caracas, Manila, Diyarbakir, 17 July |
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Rob Compton 'Developmental State' Debates from East Asia to South Africa, 13 July |
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Horace Campbell Wolpe Lecture: Pan-Africanism and the 21st Century African Revolution, 12 July |
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CCS 'Civil Society & Development' course Richard Ballard 9 July |
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Book Launch: Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki Ronald Suresh Roberts, Patrick Bond & Percy Ngonyama 6 July |
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CCS at the Toward an Africa Without Borders conference: Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus, Fatima Meer and David Moore Is South Africa Imperialist, Anti-Imperialist, or Subimperialist?, 8 July |
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CCS at the Toward an Africa Without Borders conference: Kiama Kaara, Grace Kwinjeh, Hopewell Gumbo, Femi Aborisade 'Activism Across Borders', Durban University of Technology, 6 July |
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Patrick Bond Reconcilation and Economic Reaction in South Africa, 3 July |
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DURBAN REALITY TOUR 26 & 30 June |
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James Ferguson The use and abuse of the concept ‘neoliberalism’ & Durban launch of: Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, 29 June |
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Patrick Bond Volatile Capitalism and Global Poverty SANPAD, 28 June |
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Ben Cashdan, Walden Bello, Moema Miranda and Virginia Setshedi 'Mbeki Unauthorised' (World Premiere) and 'Third World Politics', 28 June |
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Pat Horn & Gaby Bikombo Durban's street trading wars: Why 500 arrests and where now?, 25 June |
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Dennis Brutus Elitism versus Massification Equity and Redress in South African Higher Education in the context of Global Capitalism, 22 June |
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Shannon Walsh The G8 protests: Below, around and against, 22 June |
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Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada Launch of the edited book Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society, 16 June |
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Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada ISS Corruption & Governance Programme: Climate Change Crisis:Is Carbon Trading part of the Solution?, 15 June |
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Henning Melber CCS Seminar: Against the G8: The Emperor's New Clothes at Heiligendamm, 12 June |
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Maj Fiil and Sean Flynn Reflections on Constitutional Challenges to Prepaid Meters, 5 June |
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Patrick Bond Lecture at SungKongHoe University in Seoul, 28 May | |
