Centre for Civil Society and Right2Know Campaign Seminar: The Right to Protest Centre for Civil Society and Right2Know Campaign Seminar: The Right to Protest Speakers: Mhlobo Gunguluzi and Thabane Miya Date: Thursday 27 July 2017 Time: 13:00-14:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic: This seminar focuses on the Right to Protest and considers the following: What constitutes a protest? Who can protest? What are the laws around protesting? Expanding on Section 17 of the Constitution (Assembly, Demonstration, Picket and Petition) and Section 35 (Arrest, Detention and Accused Persons) the seminar draws from real time accounts of past and current protest events in South Africa. Speaker Bios: Mhlobo Gunguluzi is a Right2Know activist focusing on media freedom and diversity. He has a long history of activism being part of the MDM in the 1980s and an ANCYL member during the 1990s. Thabane Miya is the Right2Know provincial coordinator for KwaZulu-Natal and a community scholar at the Centre for Civil Society. He is a political activist and former student leader.  Back

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