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Curing Post-Copenhagen Hangover |
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Uncivil society will have to take up the slack and apply direct pressure, starting with the slogan ‘leave the oil in the soil, the coal in the hole and the tarsand in the land!’
Patrick Bond 23 December 2009
In Copenhagen, the world’s richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, ignoring requests of global village neighbors to please chill out.
Instead of halting the hedonism, Barack Obama and the Euro elites cracked open the mansion door to add a few nouveau riche guests: South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, China’s Jiabao Wen (reportedly the most obnoxious of the lot), Brazil’s Lula Inacio da Silva and India’s Manmohan Singh. By Saturday morning, still punch-drunk with power over the planet, these wild and crazy party animals had stumbled back onto their jets and headed home.
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CCS debates climate ‘solutions’, critiques carbon trade |
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As a founder member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice in 2004, CCS’s Environmental Justice Project
supports the new Climate Justice Now! South Africa chapter
honours local eco-justice leader Sajida Khan (1952-2007) for her fight against Bisasar Road emissions trading
links SA climate damage to electricity overconsumption by SA’s minerals-energy complex
promotes higher and cheaper electricity consumption by low-income people, especially women
works with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance against local emitters
researches trends in climate change and carbon markets
reports regularly on local/national/global campaigns by civil society against greenhouse gas emissions and planetary destruction, and
explores alternative Climate Justice strategies to mitigate emissions and finance adaptation
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SA SOCIAL PROTEST OBSERVATORY |
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Recent SA political-economic analysis |
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APARTHEID REPARATIONS BACK ON TRACK, SAYS BRUTUS |
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CCS Honorary Professor Dennis Brutus is still advocating reparations for corporate profits made during apartheid, and in early September the SA government finally agreed he's right to do so.
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War Resisters League's 44th Annual Peace Award |
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Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South . New York City
Honoring the Work of Dennis Brutus, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), and Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)
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Booklaunch: Climate Change, Carbon Trading & Civil Society |
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Centre for Civil Society 2008 activities |
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Introduction
As the world economic crisis broke, as once-abstract problems of energy,
water and climate became household concerns, as local political parties
and civil society suffered unprecedented fracturing, and as xenophobia
divided the region’s poor and working people, the year 2008 was also a
very tumultuous period for the Centre for Civil Society. In a maelstrom
of conflict, including thousands more ‘service delivery protests’
against national/municipal policies and practices, CCS staff found space
for productive phases.
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THE CCS ONLINE LIBRARY: AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR YOUR RESEARCH |
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The Centre for Civil Society Online Library has now been upgraded with over 3000 publications including hundreds of photos & other graphics.
A search feature allows one to search by means of Author,Title or keywords or using short phrases such as water privatisation, or Post Apartheid South Africa
Use the keywords photos images, pictures & graphics to find publications with photos or other images
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Welcome to DurbanSings |
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A CCS project with Durban community groups"
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Two more honorary doctorates for Dennis Brutus |
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Activist and poet, Professor Dennis Vincent BRUTUS, in recognition of his contributions to South African letters and to human rights, democracy and justice, will receive a D Litt (Doctor of Literature) from both Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and Rhodes University on April 17th.
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New Funder for the CCS Website |
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CCS on the situation at Howard College Campus |
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(A staff meeting on 25 March issued this statement:)
Postponement of 26 March Wolpe Lecture by William Gumede, and also of the Environmental Politics Seminar
Due to the student protest at the UKZN Howard College Campus, tomorrow evening’s Harold Wolpe Lecture by William Gumede has been postponed until late 23 April. Tomorrow afternoon’s seminar on environmental politics - with leading representatives of political parties and civil society - will be rescheduled for a date roughly one week prior to the 22 April election.
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Patrick Bond debates ANC economic policy |
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Should Israel's academic institutions be boycotted? |
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Join our discussion.
The Israeli Centre for Third Sector Research has announced an international conference in March. Several senior CCS academics cannot
endorse this conference, because of its lack of Palestinian inputs.
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Obama, not yet Uhuru |
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Three articles by CCS director Patrick Bond warn of Obama mania.
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Face to face with ‘Terror’ in post-Apartheid South Africa |
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By Ashwin Desai
Harold Wolpe Lecture Debate with Mosiuoa Lekota, 18 December 2008
In 1955 a few thousand of our wisest and bravest ancestors gathered at a
place called Kliptown. It was a gathering of delegates from every racial
group in the country, comprised of women and men who believed in the
unprejudiced power of democracy and who sought equality and freedom for
all in the land. It was a gathering that took place during a time of
danger. The government of the day served only the few, a minority, and
it protected the interests of this minority viciously. Despite the
threat of arrest and beatings, the delegates at Kliptown spent days
fashioning the Freedom Charter, a remarkable document setting out ten
principles for a future citizenship that everyone there knew would
probably only come after much of their own blood and of their children
had been spilt. This document came to define for many millions of people
thereafter, the aspirations of the oppressed in South Africa. To signal
their unity in the goals and values they would strive for, the delegates
at Kliptown, coming from separate organizations, gave this singular
event a name of its own, the Congress of the People.
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Defend academic freedom at UKZN! |
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Refugee eviction attempt reflects Durban police brutality |
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Photo exhibit: on refugees & xenophobia, 4 - 28 November
Durban police constable Kwesi Matenjwa confesses - on the morning of Saturday, 1 November - how "the great white shark", City Manager Michael Sutcliffe, ordered his unit to evict (without alternative accommodation) 47 desperate people, mostly from the Eastern DRC. The area from which residents of Albert Park fled has witnessed four million casualties in a civil war over resources, as warlords - funded by corporations such as Anglo American (as Human Rights Watch discovered) - loot and pillage for coltan (used in our cellphones) and other minerals, making it unsafe for return. The refugees are also victims of the May 2008 Durban xenophobia and of a confrontation with Sutcliffe at City Hall in July. CCS has produced a photo exhibition by Oliver Meth and colleagues on their plight, displayed in the UKZN library. Sutcliffe accused the refugees - mainly women and children - of being involved in "crime", offering no evidence. But Matenjwa explained that a political rally on 4 November and the 2010 World Cup were the real reasons police tore down plastic shelters and confiscated refugee belongings - including vital immigration papers - without warning. In the process of their attempted eviction, the refugees' human rights were "drowned", Matenjwa admitted, a not uncommon occurrence for a Durban metro police force that regularly shoots to kill. The refugees vow to remain in Albert Park until they have a chance at dignity.
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Patrick Bond on the Global Economic Crisis |
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CCS Communiques |
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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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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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NEW CCS PUBLICATIONS |
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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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Events Index |
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Patrick Bond at SF protest against Danish repression of civil society and Copenhagen climate 'deal', and radio interview, 18 December |
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Patrick Bond addresses climate seminar at Univ of Lund Business School, 15 December |
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Kristine Wasrud Participation and Influence in Water Policy in Durban, South Africa, 11 December |
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Umesh de Silva Seminar: Traditional farming in Umzinyathi, 9 December |
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Oliver Meth at the CCS Workshop on women & child abuse Cato Crest Library, 8 December |
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Climate Justice Film Festival, 10 December |
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Patrick Bond at Roskilde Univ Civil Society Centre, 7 December |
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Patrick Bond keynotes Leeds 'Democratisation in Africa' conference, 4 December |
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Sinegugu Zukulu & John Clarke Seminar: Resilience, Resolarisation and Relocalisation, 30 November |
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Patrick Bond speaks at Mandela Foundation about SA economic disasters, 26 November |
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Nick Smith Seminar Politics of protection/crime/policing, 26 November |
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Seminar on outsourced and contract workers at UKZN, 24 November |
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CCS and Durban Sings! at the Global Crisis and Africa: Struggles for Alternatives hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; Randburg, Johannesburg 19-21 November, 2009 |
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3rd Climate Justice Now! KZN meeting, 20 November |
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MAKE SOME NOISE! Concert 6 November 2009 |
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Immanuel Wallerstein Wolpe Lecture: Crisis of the Capitalist System Where to from Here?, 5 November |
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The Crises and the Commons: Durban debates on politics, economics and environment 4-7 November |
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Solidarity with Durban's oppressed: Bottom-up resistance strategies of shackdwellers, pollution victims and labour-brokered workers, 4 November |
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Seminar on Problems faced by UKZN workers, Westville campus, 28 October |
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Faith Manzi & Oliver Meth at the Gender Based Violence Workshop, Durban 27 & 28 October 2009 |
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Bengt Brülde & Stellan Vinthagenand Seminar: Ethics, Resistance and Global Justice, 26 October |
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Baruti Amisi, Trevor Ngwane & Patrick Bond Anti-Xenophobia research project with Strategy&Tactics 19- 20 October |
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Durban Sings (Molefi Ndlovu & Claudia Wegener) at National Oral History Conference, 13-16 October,2006 |
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Tri-Continental Film Festival Durban community screenings – (hosted by Oliver Meth) at Inanda, Chatsworth, Wentworth, CBD, & Folweni, 1-12 October |
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Patrick Bond lectures at Suffolk Univ, Boston, 29 Sept-2 Oct |
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Helen McCue Seminar: Grassroots Mobilising within Refugee Communities: Perspectives on Palestine and Australia, 18 September |
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Patrick Bond Booklaunch: Climate Change, Carbon Trading & Civil Society, 18 September |
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Dennis Brutus honored by War Resisters League, 18 September |
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Patrick Bond skypecast on climate and ecological debt to Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, Copenhagen, 16 September |
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Oliver Meth People to People International Documentary Conference, 10-12 September |
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Dick Forslund & Patrick Bond Seminar: South Africa's capitalist crisis and civil society, 7 September |
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Dudu Khumalo on the Durban public transport crisis, 1 September |
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Patrick Bond National Health Insurance: Can SA afford it?, 24 August |
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John Berg Seminar: Barack Obama's presidency and civil society reactions, 24 August |
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Norman Finkelstein Wolpe Lecture: Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Gandhi, 20 August |
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Seminar with outsourced workers at UKZN, 12 August |
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Patrick Bond debates Sampie Terreblanche (Stellenbosch), 6 August, UCT |
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Patrick Bond addresses Ecuador eco-finance conference (videolink), 4 August |
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Dr Essop Pahad Thinking about the Legacy of Mbeki's Politics, 4 August |
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Patrick Bond at the South African Civil Society Energy Caucus Meeting, 29-30 July |
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Barak Hoffman Seminar: Democracy and Civil Society Research in Ghana and SA, 27 July 2009 |
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CCS hosts free screenings of Durban International Film Festival, 25 July - 1 August |
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Sean Flynn & Maj Fiil Seminar on water rights, ( SKYPECAST ) 24 July |
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Patrick Bond lecture at carbon trading conference, Johannesburg, 22 July |
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Sein Win Seminar by Burmese prime minister (exiled) on solidarity (SKYPECAST), 21 July |
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Tunde Adegbola A Pan-African Harold Wolpe Lecture & cultural events, 16 July |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA Political Economy, San Francisco socialist conference, 4 July |
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Orlean Naidoo on participation at DDP seminar, 30 June |
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Patrick Bond speaks on 'World Slump: Financial Crisis and Emerging Class Struggles in the Global South', 28 June, Toronto |
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Patrick Bond on African social resistance to economic crisis, 26 June, Moscow |
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Oliver Meth and Orlean Naidoo facilitate Diakonia Council of Churches Democracy Course, 24 -26 June 2009 |
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Alex Callinicos Wolpe Lecture: Economic crisis and prospects for social revolution, 18 June |
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Blair Rutherford Seminar: Zimbabwe farm labour, social justice and citizenship, 17 June |
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Trevor Ngwane Seminar: Community resistance to energy privatisation and ecological degradation, 11 June |
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DURBAN SINGS central editorial workshops, 8 & 22 June |
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Gaby Bikombo, Judy Mulqueeny, Harry Ramlal, Caroline Skinner Seminar: War of Warwick Junction, 9 June |
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Patrick Bond, Abedian, Dumisa, Maharaj et al on 'Zumanomics', UKZN Biz School, 3 June |
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Rehana Dada keynote address to Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute AGM, 2 June |
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Patrick Bond on African underdevelopment at Sussex IDS conference (via skypecast), 1 June |
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Trevor Ngwane presents at the International Conference on Ideas and Strategies in the Alterglobalisation Movement, Seoul, 29 May |
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Peter McKenzie cultural seminar on 'Footsak: On the Ball for 2010', 28 May |
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Björn Surborg Seminar: Contesting Johannesburg's extractive industries, 25 May |
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Paul Verryn, Methodist Bishop of Johannesburg: Wolpe Lecture: Poverty and xenophobia, 21 May |
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Robert Jensen, Univ of Texas: Seminar: Whiteness and social change in the US, 21 May |
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Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute: Seminar: The state of the world water wars, 15 May |
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Patrick Bond debates 'The G20 Global Deal' at Wits/Osisa, Johannesburg, 12 May |
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Molefi Ndlovu, Seminar: Azania Rising: The demise of the 1652 class project, 13 May |
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Rehana Dada, Seminar: Climate mitigation case studies, 11 May |
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CCS/DYFS - Anti-xenophobia film screening facilitators workshop, 9 May |
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Orlean Naidoo, Seminar: Chatsworth upgrading struggles and victories, 8 May |
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Patrick Bond, Joburg Wolpe Lecture at Wits Univ, 7 May |
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Patrick Bond at Cosatu electricity workshop, Joburg, 6 May |
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Joan Canela and Helena Olcina Seminar: Social movements in Bolivia and Catalan, 5 May |
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William Gumede Wolpe Lecture: SA’s “Democracy Gap”, 30 April |
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Three representatives of the Tamil liberation movement youth Seminar: The Tamil people under seige, 21 April |
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Leading eco-social spokespersons from political parties and civil society Seminar: Environmental confrontations - Political parties meet civil society, POSTPONED |
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Rehana Dada at York Univ climate ecojustice conference, Toronto, 16-17 April |
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John Minto Seminar: The Legacy of Anti-apartheid Sports Boycotts, 16 April |
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Dennis Brutus celebrations, honorary doctorates conferred at both Rhodes Univ and Mandela Univ, 16-17 April |
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Nelson Muhirwa & Jean Chrisostome Kanamugire Seminar: The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years On, 8 April |
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Oliver Meth Seminar: Wentworth Crime, Gangs and Civil Society, 7 April |
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Ida Susser booklaunch, 'AIDS, Sex and Culture', with Quarraisha Abdool Karim, at Ike's Books, 2 April |
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Dennis Brutus on Reconciliation and Memory in Post-Apartheid SA, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, 2-3 April |
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Sofie Hellberg Seminar: Governing lives through hydropolitics in eThekwini , 1 April 2009 |
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Claudia Wegener & Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu Digital Soiree Durban Sings Internet Radio project, 24 March |
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Simone Claar Seminar: Post-Apartheid Political Economy and State Policy, 19 March |
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Oliver Meth presents at the HSRC Violent Crime and Democratization in the Global South Conference, 18-20 March |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza Seminar: African Development Bank water projects, 12 March |
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Deniz Kellecioglu Seminar: Zimbabwe Civil Society confronts Mugabe's Economy, 11 March |
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Patrick Bond debates ANC economic policy, 9 March, Durban |
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Kalinca Copello Seminar: ICTs and social movements: From Chiapas to Brazil to South Africa, 6 March |
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Lisa Ramsay & Schwarzanne Leafe Seminar & Film: Climate Change and Eco-Social Resistance in South Durban, 27 February 2009 |
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Patrick Bond presents to ActionAid/Nepad conference on global financial crisis, 24 February, Midrand |
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Molefi Ndlovu Johannesburg: Market Photo Workshop, 22-28 February |
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Orlean Naidoo & Patrick Bond seminar on Free Basic Water, and screening of Flow, 18 February |
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Ida Susser Seminar: AIDS, Sex, Culture and Civil Society, 11 February |
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Dennis Brutus and Moya Atkinson film/seminar on US anti-war movement, 9 February |
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Patrick Bond seminar on the ongoing global financial crisis, University of Johannesburg, 6 February |
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Durban Sings internet audio and community radio with Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener, 2-6 February |
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Patrick Bond in dialogue with Jeremy Cronin on financial crisis, Johannesburg, 28 January |
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Dennis Brutus, Lubna Nadvi, Monica Rorvik and Salim Vally Seminar: Should Israel be boycotted? If so, how?, 27 January |
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Giyani Dube, Lubna Nadvi, Kate Griffiths and Timothy Rukombo Wolpe Lecture: Civil Society Internationalism - from Lindela to Gaza to Washington, 22 January |
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Pamela Ngwenya, Molefi Ndlovu, Claudia Wegener Seminar: Participatory community audio/video as a tool for social research, 21 January |
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Dale McKinley, Orlean Naidoo, Dudu Khumalo, Bryan Ashe Seminar on the World Water Forum, 19 January |
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Mavuso Dingani film/seminar on the Zimbabwean exile in Durban, 6 January |
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Mosiuoa Lekota , Ashwin Desai & Dennis Brutus Wolpe Lecture: Cope vs Civil Society, 18 December |
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Andreas Godsäter & Baruti Amisi Seminar: Civil society in Eastern and Southern Africa; and The Inga Hydropower Project and Civil Society, 15 December |
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Nithaya Chetty, Simon Mapadimeng and Rob Morrell on UKZN academic freedom, 10 December |
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Kerry Cullinan & Faith ka Manzi Seminar: AIDS, activism and treatment - An update, 9 December |
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Patrick Bond address to Umgeni Water sustainability summit, 4 December |
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Claudia Wegener Seminar: Giving back to the community: how? what? when? why?, 1 December |
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Dennis Brutus at Jubilee SA 10-year anniversary celebration, Johannesburg, 29-30 November |
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CCS celebrates Brutus@84 and new edn of Climate Change book, 28 November |
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Lisbeth Larsson-Liden (Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala), seminar on social relations atiSimangaliso World Heritage Site, 27 November |
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Oliver Meth at SA Domestic Violence Act conference, Johannesburg, 26-28 November |
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Daria Zelenova Seminar on Russia's new social movements, 24 November [Skypecast] |
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Dennis Brutus at Boston 'Encuentro5', 23 November |
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Thokozani Khupe, Wolpe Lecture (MDC, ZSF, Idazim) at Rick Turner Hall, 22 November |
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DURBAN SINGS: CCS Audio workshops 21- 26 Novmber |
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Orlean Naidoo Seminar on women's housing struggles, 20 November [Skypecast] |
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Dennis Brutus celebration in Massachusetts, 17-20 November |
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Orlean Naidoo at the AWID Forum, Cape Town, 14 -17 November |
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Patrick Bond on "Global financial domination, corporate profiteering and free trade" at Osisa Financial Crisis Policy Seminar, Johannesburg, 14-15 November |
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Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Molefi Ndlovu lecture to Focus on the Global South on global finance and social resistance, Bangkok, 10 and 18 November [skypecast] |
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CCS hosts Durban screenings of Earthnotes Environmental Film Festival, UKZN, 10-14 November |
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Patrick Bond & Dennis Brutus Seminar: The US financial meltdown - Part 3: Social resistance here/there, 7 November [skypecast] |
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Oliver Meth Photo exhibition on refugees & xenophobia, 4 - 28 November |
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Patrick Bond Seminar: The US financial meltdown - Part 2: Implications for South Africa, 31 October [skypecast] |
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Dennis Brutus at UKZN CAF film on the Bush Impeachment movement, plus reparations case briefing, 30 October |
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Patrick Bond and Simphiwe Nojiyeza on 'Urban social struggles over water', presentation to Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, 24 October 2008 |
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Tendai Biti and Bishop Rubin Phillip give Wolpe Lecture on Zimbabwe, Howard College Auditorium, 30 October |
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Dennis Brutus at Sao Paolo Univ anti-hegemony conference, 21-24 October |
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Molefi Ndlovu, Faith ka Manzi and Claudia Wegener Report from the Southern African Social Forum 16 -18 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 Seminar: The US financial crisis, 3 October [Skype] |
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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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Sufian Bukurura speaks at the 22nd Student Development Conference, 29 September-2 October |
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Patrick Bond at Southern Africa Resource Watch workshop, Johannesburg, 30 September |
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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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Seminar by Oilwatch strategists Nnimmo Bassey, Yvonne Yanez and Claudia Carr, 12 September [skypecast] |
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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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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 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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Dennis Brutus at TIAA-CREF shareholder meeting, Denver, 15 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 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 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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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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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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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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CCS participates in civil society budget watch debate on public participation in the budget process, 29 April |
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Patrick Bond lectures in Massachusetts, 30 April -2 May |
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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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Annsilla Nyar, Brij Maharaj and Deborah Ewing Seminar: Social Giving, 21 April 2008 |
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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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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 |
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Patrick Bond Lecture at Gyeongsang University in Jinju, S.Korea, 25 May |
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Chris Benner CCS Seminar: Informational Labour Processes and Civil Society Strategies, 21 May |
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Ida Susser CCS Seminar: Plus ca change: Women and AIDS in the Second Millennium, 17 May |
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Jane Duncan Wolpe Lecture: The rise of the disciplinary university, 17 May |
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UKZN Community Activist Forum Seminar: University struggles and challenges – then and now, 16 May |
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Rod Burgess CCS Seminar: Globalisation and Urban Fragmentation, 15 May |
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Dudu Khumalo CCS Seminar: The Social and cultural benefits of Umgeni River that have been lost to the Inanda Dam 11 May |
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MK Eelaventhan Seminar: Current Political Developments in Sri Lanka 8 May |
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Patrick Bond to speak at Cornell Univ and Monthly Review, NYC 7 May |
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Llewellyn Leonard Seminar: Civil society response to industrial risk 4 May |
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Patrick Bond on SA economy at Stanford Univ colloquium 30 April |
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Patrick Bond at U.Cal Berkeley African Studies on Zimbabwe 1 May |
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Patrick Bond to speak on Southern African political economy at ActionAid in Washington, 27 April |
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Mazibuko Jara (Amandla Publishing) and Orlean Naidoo Seminar: Revisiting South Africa's transition: Contradictions and possibilities 26 April |
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Patrick Bond E.Cape Wolpe lecture on Coega in Port Elizabeth 25 April |
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Patrick Bond at Joburg climate change conference, 23-24 April |
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Mandisa Mbali Seminar: 'All about conferences and per diems': A critical reassessment of South African AIDS activism 1994-1998, 20 April |
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Miloon Kothari Wolpe Lecture: Making Real the Right to Housing, 19 April |
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John S.Saul Seminar: The Strange Death of Liberated Southern Africa 3 April |
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SIT Study Abroad South Africa: Globalisation and Development: 2-5 April 2007 |
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Wolpe Lecture:Regaining our Tongues: The Challenges of Writing in Indigenous Languages, 23 March |
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Fanty Wariyai, Jonah Gbemre, Jome Akpoduado, Michael Keania Karikpo, Comrade Che I. Ibegwura, Victor Chris Egbe CCS and groundWork Seminar: Environmental Injustice in the Niger Delta: Lessons for Africa: 7 March |
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Workshop on SA Biofuels Strategy: 5 March |
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Peter Hudis Seminar on Developing a Philosophically Grounded Alternative to Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective: 5 March |
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Professor Fatima Meer Wolpe Lecture: Activism for Democracy, 22 February |
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Anil Naidoo Seminar on The Geopolitics of the Water Justice Movement: From Nairobi (2007) to Istanbul (2009): 31 January |
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Teivo Teivainen Seminar on the WSF: 17 January |
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The World Social Forum - CCS engagements: January |
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Corinna Genschel Seminar on the WSF and feminism: 12 January |
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George Galloway Wolpe Lecture: The Iraq War and the Responsibility of Resistance, 13 December 2006 |
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Social Movements Indaba, 3-7 December 2006 |
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Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane Wolpe Lecture: A call to leadership: The role of Africans in the Development Agender, 30 November 2006 |
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The 2006 Corpse Awards for corporate misdeeds, cohosted with groundWork: 10 November 2006 |
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