The Dennis Brutus Memorial Debate Series & Wolpe Lecture Archive Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine 5 August More  Social movements, from SA to BRICS to the world 31 March More  FROM DEMOCRACY TO KLEPTOCRACY, 26 OCTOBER More  Brutus Memorial Debate on Marikana, 22 November More  Durbans Corruptions & Disruptions More  The Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture Series Background information Click on the red arrow for background information on the Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture Series. More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews 2011 Rights of Nature and Climate Politics Pablo Salon, 2 December Community Climate Summit 28 October Wolpe lecture on South Africa's transition John Saul, 29 September Will Palestine be free Mustafa Barghouti, 25 August The second Arab revolt, the United States, and the future of Africa Immanuel Wallestein, 23 June Film & Discussion: Shack Theatre Florian Kunert and Phillip Hol, 26 May An Election Debate: “To Vote or Not to Vote 21 April Song and Dance: POWER, CONSENT AND THE ANC UNDER ZUMA AND BEYOND Hein Marais, 3 March Wolpe Lecture on Climate Change 19 February More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews 2010 CCS Wolpe film screenings Pamela Ngwenya and community videomakers, 20 November Wolpe Lecture in Honour of Fatima Meer with Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed, 16 November Indians in South Africa: 150 Years.Professor Dilip Menon & Ms. Ela Gandhi, 21 October Media Information & Freedom A debate between academics, journalists, civil society and the ruling party, 26 August 2010 Social Justice Ideas in Civil Society Politics A colloquium of scolar activists, 29 July 2010 Who scores in 2010 Durban communities march for a ‘World Cup for All’, 16 June What is global apartheid, and why do we fight it? Yash Tandon, 11 March 2010 Review of the Gerima lecture By Annsilla Nyar More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews 2009 Crisis of the Capitalist System: Where Do We Go From Here Immanuel Wallerstein 5 November Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict What we can learn from Gandhi Norman Finkelstein 20 August 2009 A Pan-African Harold Wolpe Lecture Tunde Adegbola & Durban Sings 16 July Economic crisis and prospects for social revolution Alex Callinicos 18 June Poverty & xenophobia: State failures, social challenges Bishop Paul Verryn 21 May William Gumede on the Democracy Gap,30 April Wolpe Lecture: Civil Society Internationalism, 22 January More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews September - December 2008 Harold Wolpe Lecture Debate: Cope vs Civil Society Mosiuoa Lekota, Ashwin Desai and Dennis Brutus (chair) 18 December Wolpe Lecture on Zimbabwe (MDC, ZSF, Idazim) Thokozani Khupe 22 November 2008 Wolpe Lecture Panel: Zimbabwe Solidarity Today!Tendai Biti & Bishop Rubin Phillip 30 October 2008 Wolpe Lecture panel: Wasted Lives Muna Lakhani 25 September 2008 More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews January - August 2008 Wolpe Lecture panel, on the issue of Water for All! Patra Sindane, Jackie Dugard, Dale McKinley 28 August 2008 Zimbabwe and People's Solidarity: Now's the Time! CCS & Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum - South Africa 24 July 2008 How do we solve our common problems? Communities against Xenophobia & Wolpe Lecture 12 June 2008 A Feminist Political Economy of Development and the New Imperialism Eunice Sahle 26 April 2008 Truth, Propaganda, Power: An evening with John Pilger 30 March 2008 To the Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa Xolela Mangcu 21 February 2008 Wolpe Lecture on the WSF Trevor Ngwane 26 January 2008 More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews July - December 2007 The State of SA’s Social Movements Mondli Hlatshwayo, Des D’Sa and Orlean Naidoo 22 November A Tradition of Activism Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge 13 September 2007 Robert Mugabe, the memory of colonialism and the real neo-colonial agenda Grace Kwinjeh 23 August 2007 Pan-Africanism and the 21st Century Revolution Horace Campbell 12 July 2007 More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews January - June 2007 MBEKI UNAUTHORISED (World Premiere) Ben Cashdan, Walden Bello & others 28 June 2007 The rise of the disciplinary university Jane Duncan 17 May 2007 Making Real the Right to Housing” Miloon Kothari 19 April 2007 Regaining our Tongues: The Challenges of Writing in Indigenous Languages Ngugi wa Thiong'o 23 March 2007 Fatima Meer Activism for Democracy 22 February 2007 More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews 2006 The Iraq War and the Responsibility of Resistance George Galloway 21 December 2006 A call to leadership: The role of Africans in the Development Agenda Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane 30 November 2006 Wars in the Middle East : What Citizens Movements Can do Phyllis Bennis 24th August 2006 Vans, Autos, Kombis and the Drivers of Social Movements Aswin Desai 28 July 2006 The greatest threat to future stability in our country vs the greatest strength of Abahlali baseMjondolo movement SA. (shack dwellers) Sbu Zikode 30 June 2006 The power of critical Pedagogy Peter McLaren 25 May 2006 The Gender Implications of the Zuma Health Trial Pregs Govender 18 May 2006 More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews July - December 2005 After the Interregnum: International Aid in the Service of Security Alan Fowler 1 December 2005 Talking to the Ancestors: National heritage, the Freedom Charter and nation-building in South Africa in 2005 Raymond Suttner 2 November 2005 Regional resistance and solidarity: SA companies and African workers in Southern Africa' Darlene Miller 6 October The struggle for Zimbabwe: Contesting the meaning of liberation Wilf Mhanda (Zimbabwe Liberators' Platform) 29 September Slow Delivery in South Africa’s Land Reform Programme: “The property clause revisited”.Lungisile Ntsebeza 25 August Unions and social movements in South Africa - Will the twain ever meet? Dinga Sikwebu 4 August More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews January - June 2005 Critical Capacities: Facing the Challenges of Intellectual Development in Africa Amina Mama's Wolpe Lecture, University of KwaZulu Natal, 23 June 2005, Durban The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein's Wolpe Lecture, University of KwaZulu Natal, 14 June 2005, Durban Is there any future in the past? A critique of the Freedom Charter in the era of neoliberalism. Console Tleane's Wolpe Lecture, University of KwaZulu Natal May 26 2005 Democracy and the importance of criticism, dissent and public dialogue William Mervin Gumede's Wolpe Lecture, University of KwaZulu Natal, 18 April 2005, Durban Keeping it in their pants: Politicians, men and sexual assault in South Africa Charlene Smith's Wolpe Memorial Lecture Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal 17 March 2005 More  Wolpe Lectures 2004 Review of Zackie Achmat’s Wolpe Memorial Lecture Ten Years of South Africa’s Democratic Constitution Review of Giovanni Arrighi’s Lecture, “The Rough Road to Empire” Ten Years of Democracy: From Racial to Class Apartheid An Incomplete Freedom Review of Mark Gevisser’s “Are We Living the Dream Deferred?” From Liberation to reconstruction: Theory and practice in the life of Harold Wolpe Review: Sexuality as the theatre for post-apartheid political battles? Wolpe Review: Building and Sustaining....a Women's Movement in the Zimbabwean Crisis The Fires of Memory: A review of Tariq Ali's Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture The Global Justice Movement 5 years after Seattle More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews 2003 Professor Sampie Terreblanche’s Lecture on Inequality in South Africa: A Review by Claire Vermaak AIDS: Crisis and Resistance A review by Mandisa Mbali A South African architecture: what is it, where is it? Passageways: Revisiting Self, The Society of the Spectacle and Moby-Dick by Darryl Accone Land: Critical Choices for South Africa: A review by Peter Dwyer Review of David Theo Godlberg’s lecture The Death of Race Bram Fischer and the Question of Identity The African Renaissance and the Neo-Liberal World Order: A review by Peter Dwyer Education & Social Movements - From peoples Education to Neoliberalism Another journalism is possible : Critical challenges for the media in South Africa Review of Stephen Friedman’s “Why South African Democracy has not Reduced Inequality” More  Wolpe Lectures & Reviews 2002 The (Self-Imposed) Crisis of the Black Intellectual: Jonathan Jansen's Wolpe lecture Organising for Second Freedom - Ela R. Bhatt's Wolpe Lecture The Basic Income Grant: Poverty, Politics and Policy-making: Ravi Naidoo's Wolpe lecture Anton Harber's Harold Wolpe Lecture on Journalism in the Age of the Market Fences and Windows: Windows of oppotunity in an era of fenced in resources and fenced out out people Naomi Klein and Ashwin Desai David McDonald's Wolpe Lecture on cost recovery and the crisis of service delibery in South Africa The 2nd Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture - Stephen Gelb and Roger Southall on NEPAD The Inaugural Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture with Sipho Seepe and Pallo Jordan: A review by Annsilla Nyar More

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