Thursday 29 November 2018, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal For enquiries or if you would like to attend please contact Melanie Reddy: 031 2603195 / Reddys2@ukzn.ac.za
| Session | Speaker | Venue Seminar Room 808 | ||
| 10:00-11:30 | Session One | Pat Horn | ||
| Civil Society: Leadership & Governance | Streetnet | |||
| What are the main challenges of leadership | ||||
| in civil society campaigns? | ||||
| What constitutes ‘good governance’ in civil | ||||
| society organisations? | ||||
| The importance of linking with communities | ||||
| and grassroots and strategies to enable / | ||||
| consolidate this. | ||||
| The importance of horizontal solidarity | ||||
| among organisations / campaigns / | ||||
| movements. | ||||
| Why do important campaigns / | ||||
| organisations lose momentum? | ||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Tea | |||
| 12:00-13:30 | Session Two | Zinhle Miya | ||
| GrassRoot: An App for Citizen Engagement | GrassRoot | |||
| and Activism | ||||
| What is GrassRoot? | ||||
| How do you access it and what does it cost? | ||||
| How can GrassRoot be used to mobilise for | ||||
| campaigns? | ||||
| What else can GrassRoot be used for? | ||||
| 13:30-14:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00-15:30 | Session Three | Saajidha | ||
| Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Sader | |||
| UKZN – | ||||
| Education | ||||
| Reproducing oppression through teaching | ||||
| and learning. | ||||
| What is knowledge? | ||||
| Who are the ‘knowledge’ holders? | ||||
| Theory and Praxis. | ||||
| Knowledge and Conscientization. | ||||
SPEAKERS
Pat Horn is a feminist trade unionist, International Co-ordinator of StreetNet International1, an international federation formed to protect and promote the rights of street vendors, to promote the voice and bargaining power of street vendors throughout the world. Since the international launch of StreetNet in November 2002, there are 51 affiliated organisations from 47 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.
Zinhle Miya is a Community builder, coordinating Grassroot field work in KwaZulu-Natal. She is passionate about working with the marginalised and helping people change their lives for the better. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Community & Development Studies. She has previously worked at various NGO’s and in Local Governance working closely with communities to tackle issues.
Saajidha Sader is based at UKZN’s School of Education. Her main areas of work are Feminist Research, Higher Education Reform and Globalization, Teacher Education, Social Justice Education, Feminist and Freirian Pedagogy
