Archive of CCS Events CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: Documentary Screening "Thank you for the rain." Date: Wednesday, 27 February 2020 Time: 12:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Facilitator: Andries Motau More  CCS in collaboration with docLOVE. Documentary Screening: City of Joy to mark 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children Date: Wednesday, 20 November 2019 Time: 12:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Facilitator: Danford Chibvongodze More  Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: The pedreiro and the master planner: Wednesday 30 October (Part 6) Title: Part 6 - The pedreiro and the master planner Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Time: 12:00-13:00 Date: Wednesday 30 October 2019 Facilitators: Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana More  Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: Working on water (Part 5) Title: Part 5 - Working on water Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Time: 12:00-13:00 Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019 Facilitators: Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana More  CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: A documentary screening of “This Land” Date: Thursday 24 October 2019 Time: 12:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Facilitator: Andries Motau More  Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: Greening the city (Part 4) Title: Part 4 - Greening the city: Wednesday 16 October Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Time: 12:00-13:00 Date: Wednesday 16 October 2019 Facilitators: Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana More  Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: The architecture of violence (Part 3) Title: Part 3 - The architecture of violence Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Time: 12:00-13:00 Date: Wednesday 9 October 2019 Facilitators: Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana More  Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture (Part 2) Title: Part 2 - A traditional future Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Time: 12:00-13:00 Date: Thursday, 19 September 2019 Facilitators: Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana More  Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture Title: Part 1 - Guerrilla architect Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Time: 12:00-13:00 Date: Thursday, 12 September 2019 Facilitators: Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana More  CCS & docLOVE Documentary Screening: JOZI GOLD – A Human Catastrophe, A Toxic City, An Unlikely Activist Date: Thursday 29 August 2019 Time: 12:30 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Facilitator: Andries Motau More  Centre for Civil Society in partnership with Greenpeace Durban Local Group and the Slow Food Youth Network KZN, introduce to you the Documentary Screening - BURKINABE BOUNTY Date: Wednesday, 5th June 2019 Time: 12:30-14:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN More  CCS Documentary Screening – The Power of Us Date: Thursday 18 July 2019 Time: 12:30-14:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Facilitator: Danford Chibvongodze More  CCS Documentary Screening: Everything Must Fall Date: Thursday 30 May 2019 Time: 12:00-14:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Documentary Topic: Everything Must Fall More  BOOK LAUNCH: Philanthropy in South Africa - Horizontality, ubuntu and social justice Editors: Shauna Mottiar and Mvuselelo Ngcoya Date: Wednesday 22 March 2017 Time: 5.30 for 6.00 pm Venue: IKE’S BOOKS AND COLLECTABLES, 48a Florida Road, Durban More  The Governance and Politics of HIV AIDS Title: The Governance and Politics of HIV AIDS Date: 19 July 2016 Time: 09:00-18:00 Venue: Diakonia Centre, Durban More  Patrick Bond gives political economy lecture to Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Women in Business Forum, 26 April More  CCS hosts mining critics for press conference, 7 April More  Patrick Bond and Ana Garcia launch BRICS in Toronto, 31 March. More  Patrick Bond and Ana Garcia present critique of world ports, New York, 30 March Date:Wednesday, March 30, Time:6:30pm – 8:00pm Venue:Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office 275 Madison Avenue, Suite 2114 (entrance over 40th St.) New York, NY 10016 Free and open to the public. Registration here More  Patrick Bond testifies at public hearing on Transnet's South Durban plans, 21 March More  Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and Pan-Africanism, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 15 March More  Patrick Bond reports on research into urban economic and ecological violence, IDRC & UKAID conference, Johannesburg, 8 March More  Patrick Bond addresses Women in Mining (Womin) conference on movement building, 7 March More  Patrick Bond presents South Durban paper in Merebank, 2 March More  CCS hosts groundWork, SDCEA and FrackFreeSA for climate and energy workshop, 25 February More  Book launch: Just Work, Ike's Books, 22 February More  Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS at Univ of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 15 February More  Patrick Bond keynote at Tata Institute Development Studies conference, 23 January More  Patrick Bond, Thando Manzi, Bandile Mdlalose and China Ngubane present urban analysis at Tata Institute 19-22 January More  Patrick Bond, Achin Vanaik, Ajay Patnaik and Alka Acharya launch BRICS book, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 18 January More  Workshop on Climate Change and Environmental Justice with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 7-10 December More  CCS students at the COP21 climate summit, 1-12 December More  Patrick Bond debates Sihle Zikalala and Vasu Gounden on the state of South Africa, eThekwini Progressive Professionals Forum, 25 November More  Christelle Terreblanche debates Ubuntu at the University of Pretoria, 23 November More  Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS banking at University of Cape Town School of Economics, 16 November More  Patrick Bond with Numsa and BRICS climate critique at Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-6 November More  Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS as sub-imperialism at Open University, 4 November More  Patrick Bond debates BRICS and climate change at Sussex University, 3 November More  Tri Continental Film Festival Screenings at CCS 21-24 October More  Patrick Bond launches BRICS book in New York 19 October More  Patrick Bond delivers keynote at Cyprus conference on mining and sustainable development, 16 October More  Patrick Bond delivers sustainability keynote to SA Public Health Association conference, 8 October More  Patrick Bond debates UN Sustainable Development Goals, ClassicFM, Johannesburg, 1 October More  Patrick Bond talks on African uprisings at Mapungubwe Institute, Pretoria, 30 September More  Patrick Bond debates Africa in the world economy, Channel Africa, Johannesburg, 29 September More  Ana Garcia presents BRICS critique at Geopolitical Economy conference, Winnipeg, 26 September More  Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth in Berlin, 16 September More  CCS welcomes World Social Science Forum to Durban, 13-16 September More  CCS welcomes Codesria and WSSF to Ike's Books, 12 September More  CCS hosts the South-South Institute during the World Social Science Forum, 10-18 September More  Patrick Bond lectures at Codesria/Osisa Economic Justice Institute, 8-9 September More  Patrick Bond, Boaventura Monjane and Mithika Mwenda at Africa Climate Talks 3-5 September More  Patrick Bond lectures climate and deglobalisation alternatives 26 August More  Patrick Bond lecture on legacy of Rosa Luxemburg at New School for Social Research, New York, 21 August More  Patrick Bond keynote speech at BRICS-in-Africa conference, 7-11 August More  Patrick Bond and Sam Moyo speak at Trust Africa conference on Illicit Financial Flows, Harare, 3 August More  Patrick Bond delivers paper on climate and the blue economy, Wits University, 2 August More  Patrick Bond in economic debate at M&G Literary Festival, Johannesburg, 1 August More  Patrick Bond moderates UKZN College of Humanities debate on xenophobia and higher ed transformation, 28 July More  Patrick Bond and Mithika Mwenda at Climate Futures symposium, Italy, 13-17 July More  CCS co-hosts World Association for Political Economy, Johannesburg, 19-21 June More  Workshop: SA, Peace and Security in the post-2015 Development Agenda, 10-11 June More  CCS hosts Colgate University students for social movement research, June More  CCS/ASONET workshop on xenophobia, 5 June DATE: 5 June 2015, 10am-2pm VENUE: Centre for Civil Society Brutus Room, 6th floor of MTB, Howard College Campus, UKZN, Durban More  Alf Nilsen launches his book We Make Our Own History, at Ike's Books, 4 June More  Patrick Bond addresses civil society electricity crisis summit on load-shedding, 2 June More  Patrick Bond talks on extractivism, BRICS sub-imperialism and South Africa, 30-31 May More  Patrick Bond lecture on carbon markets and climate debt, Gyeongsang University, Jinju, Korea, 12 May More  Patrick Bond speaks on South African political economy, Hong Kong Reader bookshop, 11 May More  CCS Film Screening: The Gama Strike A victory for all workers, 25 April Date: Friday 24 April 2015 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room 6th floor MTB Howard College UKZN Film Screening and discussion More  Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth and the green economy, Berlin, 21 April More  Faith ka Manzi and Bandile Mdlalose at Climate Justice strategy meeting, Maputo, April 21-23 More  CCS joins Greenpeace and R2K in solidarity meeting with Somkhele coal victims, northern KZN, 12 April More  Patrick Bond lecture on water commodification and resistance, 9 April More  Patrick Bond speaks at the World Social Forum, 25 March More  Baruti Amisi and Boaventura Monjane speak at US Power Africa conference, 2-4 March More  'False solutions' to climate and energy crises, 26 February Centre for Civil Society Workshop - all welcome Speakers: Baruti Amisi, Gerard Boyce and Patrick Bond Date: Thursday 26 February 2015 Time: 12:30-15:00 (new time - extended for more analysis) Venue: CCS Seminar Room 602, 6th Floor, MTB Tower, Howard College More  Israeli Apartheid Week Events 2 - 8 March More  Patrick Bond debates BRICS sherpa Anil Sooklal, UCT Centre for Conflict Resolution, 16 February More  Launch of Fossil Free KZN, 13 February More  CCS hosts South Durban climate camp, 8-11 December More  Faith ka-Manzi debates SA social protest at Gumede Lecture, 27 November More  CCS hosts launch of Fossil Free South Africa, 27 November The launch of FOSSIL FREE SOUTH AFRICA DURBAN will be on 27 November 2014, 18h00 for 18h30 at 2nd Floor Memorial Tower Building (MTB), Howard College UKZN. Please do join us and help spread the word. Time: 18h00 for 18h30 Venue: L2 2nd Floor Memorial Tower Building (MTB), Howard College, UKZN Keynote speaker: Des D’Sa (South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and Goldman Prize winner) More  Patrick Bond critiques World Bank at UWC poverty conference, 27 November More  Patrick Bond lectures on Africa's Resource Curse, Stellenbosch University, 20 November More  Gun Free South Africa workshop with CCS, 12 November More  CCS hosts Durban environmental network, 15 November More  Patrick Bond at the Historical Materialism conference November 7 More  Patrick Bond lectures on neoliberalism and social policy at South-South Institute in Bangkok, November 5 More  When Africans uprise against ‘Africa Rising’, what role for IT? 3 November More  Patrick Bond debates GDP with SA government, Pretoria, 31 October More  Patrick Bond debates GDP reform at University of Pretoria, 28 October More  China Ngubane and Patrick Bond at UKZN Geography workshop on community politics, 24 October More  CCS hosts CT Social Justice Coalition training on sanitation advocacy, 22 October More  CCS hosts Greenpeace film on climate and Arctic oil, Black Ice, 14 October Date:14 October , 12:00-1:00 Venue: Centre for Civil Society, Memorial Tower Building, Room 602, 6th Floor, Howard College Campus, Durban More  Mithika Mwenda lecture on climate justice at Climate Change and Development Conference, Morocco, 7 October More  Patrick Bond lecture on SA social policy at University of Burgundy, Dijon, 25 September More  Patrick Bond debates Mark Weisbrot on BRICS at IPS, Washington, 23 September More  Mithika Mwenda and Patrick Bond talk on climate justice, Converge for Climate at Graffiti Church, New York City, 20 September More  Awethu! network meets at CCS, 20 September More  Patrick Bond lecture on South Africa at City University of New York, 18 September More  John Saul and Patrick Bond launch books at Cape Town Open Book Fair, 17 September More  Gcina Makoba update on recyclables project in Inanda, 15 September More  Gaza Documentary Screening, 11 September More  Patrick Bond on Marikana at the Durban DDP, 10 September More  Patrick Bond at the Univ of Leipzig 'Degrowth' conference, Germany, 5 September More  Patrick Bond input on BRICS at Centre for Conflict Resolution seminar, Pretoria, 31 August More  Patrick Bond on Resource Curses and antidotes, at Institute for Social and Economic Studies, 28 August More  Patrick Bond lecture on South Durban strategy, Gyeongsang National University, 22 August More  Patrick Bond lecture on SA political economy at Chinese Academy of Marxism, 20 August More  Mithika Mwenda testifies on Climate Justice on Our Common Planet, 4 August More  Patrick Bond debates SACP's Alex Mashilo on SA politics, SADTU KZN Province, Durban, 24 July More  Patrick Bond debates Intensive Energy User Group's Shaun Nel on energy, SAfm, 23 July More  CCS-Brazilian collaboration at the 2014 BRICS Summit, 14-16 July in Fortaleza More  Patrick Bond discusses infrastructure finance, Fortaleza, 15 July More  Patrick Bond debates JP Landman on SA poli econ, Ike's Books, 9 July More  Patrick Bond lecture on SA macroeconomic conditions, 20 June More  Patrick Bond debates SA soccer leader Danny Jordaan on the World Cup's legacy, BBC radio, 18 June More  Patrick Bond debates the SA economy with MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu, UKZN Business School, 11 June More  Patrick Bond debates sustainability at Governance Innovation conference, University of Pretoria, 5 June More  CCS hosts mineworker solidarity event, 31 May More  Patrick Bond lecture on South African water commodification, University of London, 30 May More  Patrick Bond debates 'Africa Rising (or Uprising?)' in Maputo at Frelimo Political School, 29 May 2014 More  Patrick Bond speaks on global finance at the World Association for Political Economy, Hanoi, 24 May More  Shauna Mottiar presents at 'Contentious Politics' seminar, 22 May More  Patrick Bond debates BRICS civil society, SA Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, 13 May More  Patrick Bond presentation on climate justice governance via skype to Linkoping University, Sweden, 8 May More  Gcina Makoba and Thuli Hlela host Miners Shot Down in Durban townships, 1 May DATE: Thursday 1 May (MAY DAY) VENUE: Bambanani Hall – KwaNyuswa, Durban TIME: 10h00 CONTACT: Thuli Hlela, 079 1029047 DATE: Thursday 1 May (MAY DAY) VENUE: Inanda, Durban TIME: 10h00 CONTACT: Gcina Makoba, 079 6101401 More  Patrick Bond presents on BRICS geopolitcs and BRICS banking, Rio de Janeiro, 28 and 29 April More  Shauna Mottiar delivers paper on popular protest in South Africa, Oxford University, 26 April More  Comparing critiques of post-apartheid misrule, 25 April More  Patrick Bond discusses DeSutcliffisation at DUT, 24 April Date: 24th April (Thursday) Time: 12:00 – 13:30 Venue: ESBE Boardroom, L3, S4, S Block Topic: DeSutcliffe-ising Durban: how is the new team doing? Presenter: Prof. Patrick Bond More  Patrick Bond talk on SA@20 in New York, 19 April More  Patrick Bond keynote lecture on climate, health and risk, 17 April More  Patrick Bond at the Association of American Geographers, 10 April More  Patrick Bond on comparative solidarity with Palestine and South Africa, Johns Hopkins University, 7 April More  Patrick Bond paper on Climate Change, Debt and Justice in Africa at University of North Carolina conference, 5 April More  CCS/Development Studies seminar on politics of climate change, 31 March Title: ‘Networking the politics of climate justice’ Speaker: Paul Routledge Time: 12:30-13:50, 31 March 2014. Venue: Seminar Room F213, School of Built Environment and Development Studies, Memorial Tower Building, UKZN. Google maps: -29.866933,30.981963 More  Zackie Achmat and Ndifuma Ukwazi offer activist Autumn School, 31 March - 2 April More  Patrick Bond seminar on a Redistributive Eco-Debt Payment system, University of Lund, 28 March More  Patrick Bond and Xolani Dube debate 20 years of liberation, 20 March More  Patrick Bond responds to Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim foreign policy presentation, 19 March More  Vanessa Burger and Faith kaManzi support Durban harbour mobilisation, Dalton Hostel, 16 March More  Israeli Apartheid Week talk by Miko Peled, CCS co-sponsorship with Palestine Solidarity movement, 14 March More  Patrick Bond testimony on water politics at SA Human Rights Commission, 11 March More  Patrick Bond lecture at Rosa Luxemburg centenary of Accumulation of Capital, Berlin, 9 March More  Patrick Bond seminar on SA's Resource Curse, Harare, 28 February More  Seminar on 'tokenistic' social policy, 19 February More  Patrick Bond addresses PACJA challenges 10 February More  China Ngubane addresses conference on Community Serving Humanity, UKZN, 12 February More  Vishwas Satgar runs workshop on the United Front approach, 30 January TITLE: The state of civil society and the United Front approach PRESENTER: Vishwas Satgar DATE: 30 January 2014 TIME: 1:30-4pm (NOTE NEW TIME) More  Patrick Bond addresses Numsa shopstewards on economic crises, 25 January More  Patrick Bond testifies to Parliament against mega-projects, 16 January More  Patrick Bond lectures at Birzeit University, 6 January More  China Ngubane and Patrick Bond speak at the People's Dialogue BRICS strategy session, 10-12 December More  Slums, States and Citizens: Slum dwellers and the state in Delhi, Durban and Nairobi, 10 December More  Patrick Bond, Farai Maguwu and Khadija Sharife at the African Union commission against corruption More  Patrick Bond debates natural capital and GDP at Wits University, 5 December More  CCS hosts Democracy from Below citizenship movement More  Patrick Bond at South Durban BRICS-from-below campaign against port-petrochemical expansion, 27 November More  Patrick Bond at COP19, 17 November More  CCS participates in South Durban People's Climate Camp, 14-17 November More  Patrick Bond lectures on global finance in Brussels, 13-15 November More  Patrick Bond presents on Commoning, Rights and Praxis at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 8 November More  Patrick Bond public lecture on the New Africa Scramble in Berlin, 7 November More  CCS founder Adam Habib launches South Africa's Suspended Revolution, Ike's Books, 29 October More  Patrick Bond critiques financial markets at Unemployment Insurance Fund board meeting, 15 October More  CCS PhD student Vuyiseka Dubula leads AIDS research workshop, 4 October More  Patrick Bond on Durban's urban neoliberalism, 29 September More  Film Screenings: Non-Violence as a Strategy for Social Change More  Patrick Bond at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 13 September More  Patrick Bond speaks at 'Rising Powers' workshop, 12 September More  Patrick Bond at Shanghai Academy of Social Science, 11 September More  Patrick Bond lecture on geopolitics at Institute for International Relations, 9 September More  G20 Post-Globalisation Initiative G20 counter-summit, 2-6 September More  Natural Resource Policy Dialogue Conference, 30 August More  China Ngubane helps launch Diakonia's KZN School of Activism, 27 August More  Khadija Sharife at 'No REDD in Africa Network, 27-29 August More  Patrick Bond at Durban Flatdwellers conference, 24 August More  CCS Workshop: Corruption, corporate bribery, arms deals and social critique, 21 August More  Patrick Bond debates BRICS, UKZN Student Union, 14 August More  Patrick Bond discusses SA's economic crisis at National Union of Metalworkers, 8 August More  CCS hosts Open Society's Sustainable Development course for Southern Africa, 15-27 July More  Patrick Bond debates Blade Nzimande on 21st Century Socialism, Chris Hani Institute, Johannesburg, 25 June More  Khadija Sharife and Shauna Mottiar testify at UN conference on illicit capital flight, 18 June More  Patrick Bond at Ecuador conference on eco/economic crises, Quito, 12 June More  Patrick Bond at Left Forum,New York City, 7-9 June More  Patrick Bond lecture on Enviro Impact Assessments at Savannah School of Law in Georgia, 6 June More  China Ngubane speaks at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development counter-summit, 1 June More  CCS hosts Antipode Institute for the Geographies of Justice, 27 May to 1 June More  Patrick Bond at AIDC National Development Plan seminar, Cape Town 22 May More  China Ngubane participates in the Gumede Lecture Series 17 May More  Patrick Bond talk on African poli-econ at OilWatch-Africa conference, Johannesburg, 13 May More  Climate finance at SADC Basic Income Group strategic workshop, 25 April More  Sarah Bracking & Patrick Bond at SDCEA workshop, Clairwood, 20 April More  Patrick Bond paper on geopolitics at Univ of California-Riverside, 13 April More  Patrick Bond presents on South Durban to Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 10 April More  Patrick Bond on territorial alliances at International Studies Association, 6 April More  Making of Global Capitalism', International Studies Association, 4 April More  Patrick Bond presentation on BRICS at International Studies Association, San Francisco, 3 April More  Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and the Dennis Brutus legacy, University of Pittsburgh, 2 April More  Patrick Bond on skype to World Social Forum, 28 March More  BRICS EVENTS 22 -27 MARCH More  Writers Speak Out: South African Oppressions, 22 March CCS hosts 16th Time of the Writer – International Writers Festival Date: Friday, 22 March Time: 12:30-2pm Writers in attendance: Ashwin Desai, Kagiso Molope Venue:Centre for Civil Society, MTB, 6th Floor, Seminar Room 602, Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Contact: Tel: 031 260 2940 More  Patrick Bond at Ejolt workshop in Abuja, Nigeria, 20-21 March More  Susan Abul Hawa workshop on Palestine liberation today, 20 March More  Patrick Bond lectures on climate justice, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 15 March DATE: FRIDAY 15TH MARCH, 2013. VENUE: EBITIMI BANIGO AUDITORIUM UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT, PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA. TIME: 11:30 AM. More  CCS co-organises workshop on 'Beyond Uneven Development' in Maputo, 1-3 October More  Patrick Bond at community BRICS briefing, Wentworth, 11 March More  Patrick Bond gives UKZN Development Studies seminar on BRICS, 6 March Speaker: Patrick Bond Time: 12:30-13:50, 6 March 2013. Venue: Seminar Room F213, School of Built Environment and Development Studies, Memorial Tower Building, UKZN Google maps: -29.866933,30.981963 More  Patrick Bond debates Ebrahim Ebrahim on BRICS, ActionAid in Joburg, 28 February More  Patrick Bond on climate and BRICS at the Global Studies Conference, 23 February More  Patrick Bond talks about climate justice at Institute for Policy Studies in Washington on 19 February More  A Briefing on BRICS More  Patrick Bond at crisis & inequality seminar at Focus on the Global South, 28-29 January More  Patrick Bond speaks against the Eskom price hikes, 17 January More  Other Events 2012 More  Other Events 2011 More  Other Events 2010 More  Other Events 2009 More  Other Events 2008 More  Other Events 2006-2007 More