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Civil Society in South Africa: A Shrinking Space?



Centre for Civil Society - Special Webinar Series Civil Society in South Africa: A Shrinking Space? Sonke Gender Justice & Social Justice Coalition

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Special Webinar Series:Civil Society in South Africa: Civil Society in South Africa: A Shrinking Space Equal Education & Section 27



Centre for Civil Society - Special Webinar Series Civil Society in South Africa: A Shrinking Space? Equal Education & Section 27

A number of international studies have noted a ‘shrinking space’ for civil society. This has been attributed to curtailing civil society organisation activities, increased regulation, repression and restrictions owing to increased and complicated reporting requirements. South African studies have echoed this trend noting threats of closer regulation, findings of pre-emptive repression of protest, intimidation of activists and the framing of social movements and some NGOs as ‘counter revolutionary’.

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Special Webinar Series:Civil Society in South Africa: Civil Society in South Africa: A Shrinking Space?


A number of international studies have noted a ‘shrinking space’ for civil society. This has been attributed to curtailing civil society organisation activities, increased regulation, repression and restrictions owing to increased and complicated reporting requirements. South African studies have echoed this trend noting threats of closer regulation, findings of pre-emptive repression of protest, intimidation of activists and the framing of social movements and some NGOs as ‘counter revolutionary’.
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Special Webinar Series:Civil Society in South Africa: A Shrinking Space?

A number of international studies have noted a ‘shrinking space’ for civil society. This has been attributed to curtailing civil society organisation activities, increased regulation, repression and restrictions owing to increased and complicated reporting requirements. South African studies have echoed this trend noting threats of closer regulation, findings of pre-emptive repression of protest, intimidation of activists and the framing of social movements and some NGOs as ‘counter revolutionary’.
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Special Webinar Series: South Africa: A Shrinking Space?

A number of international studies have noted a ‘shrinking space’ for civil society. This has been attributed to curtailing civil society organisation activities, increased regulation, repression and restrictions owing to increased and complicated reporting requirements. South African studies have echoed this trend noting threats of closer regulation, findings of pre-emptive repression of protest, intimidation of activists and the framing of social movements and some NGOs as ‘counter revolutionary’.

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Special Webinar Series: Right2Know Campaign

Right2Know Campaign since its establishment in 2010 has been at the forefront of reducing state secrecy in the drafting of laws, increasing access to information, and protecting freedom of expression, especially on the internet. R2K work has been significantly involved over the years. In this special webinar series, CCS community scholar Ben Madokwe unpacks the role Right2Know plays in spearheading campaigns on information access and countering repression in South Africa

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Special Webinar Series:Navigating South Africa’s Shrinking Civic Space: A Case of Black Sash.


Several international studies have noted a ‘shrinking space’ for civil society. This has been attributed to curtailing civil society organisation activities, increased regulation, repression and restrictions owing to increased and complicated reporting requirements. South African studies have echoed this trend noting threats of closer regulation, findings of pre-emptive repression of protest, intimidation of activists and the framing of social movements and some NGOs as ‘counter revolutionary’.
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Special Webinar Series:2024 Election Voter Education and Registration.


Ben Madokwe is an activist and works at Right to know (R2K). He is mainly overseeing one of the important pillars at R2K on national level and provincial level which covers different programs including Participatory democracy, Countering Patriarchy, Communication rights and Countering repression.
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CCS Webinar:21st Century Women in Activism, Redefining the Struggle.


Every August in South Africa women are celebrated to commemorate the 1956 march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws. These laws required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an internal passport, known as a passbook, that served to maintain population segregation, control urbanisation, and manage migrant labour during the apartheid era. Women struggles continue across the world centred on racial injustice, inequality and the wage disparity gap. This special webinar series focuses on women and activism at the forefront of change.

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CCS Webinar:21st Century Women in Activism, Redefining the Struggle.


Every August in South Africa women are celebrated to commemorate the 1956 march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws. These laws required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an internal passport, known as a passbook, that served to maintain population segregation, control urbanisation, and manage migrant labour during the apartheid era. Women struggles continue across the world centred on racial injustice, inequality and the wage disparity gap. This special webinar series focuses on women and activism at the forefront of change.
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CCS Webinar:Applying Photography to Trace the Slow Violence of Environmental Disaster


August 2023
Facilitator:>Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
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CCS Webinar:The Hidden Economy of Creative Industries


August 2023

The creative industry which consists of many forms of arts such as traditional music, poetry and dance remain crucial in preserving culture, sustaining people’s well-being, and creating jobs. However, the neglect of the creative has undermined its potential to contribute to social and economic change in South Africa’s broader society. This special webinar series invites creative artists and activists, and academics to discuss how South Africa’s creative industries interact with communities’ efforts to resist poverty and consolidate social rights.
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CCS Webinar:Reflections on Black struggles and achievements in bettering activism in our time.


March-May 2023
Centre for Civil Society - Special Webinar Series Reflections on Black struggles and achievements in bettering activism in our time.


February is Black History Month in the United States of America where the achievements and history of African Americans are profiled and celebrated. The significance of these celebrations have reverberated across the globe. Black struggles in many countries have come to the forefront with issues of racial and social injustice, inequality and economic disparity being highlighted. This special webinar series focuses on how Black activism has evolved in responding to these pressing issues. We celebrate Blackness in all its greatness and resistance.
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CCS Webinar: Reflections on Black struggles/Activism and achievements in bettering activism in our time


Date: 30 March 2023
Time: 16:00-17:00
Zoom Link: https://ukzn.zoom.us/j/97635031940?pwd=NHpsWkhDc0Y1TC9YcHkvcVErWEpxZz09

Speaker: Nekima Levy Armstrong
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CCS Webinar: Building Counter Power
Building Counter Power

Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze 
Speaker: Madoda Cuphe 
Date: 17 November 2022
Time: 16:00-17:00 (SA Time)

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CCS Webinar: CIVICUS MONITOR: Tracking the World’s Civic Space


Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze 
Speaker: Sylvia Mbataru
Date: 06 October 2022
Time: 16:00-17:00 (SA Time)

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CCS Webinar: Reflecting on the 2022 CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report


Speaker: Andrew Firmin
Date : 29 September 2022
Time: 16:00-17:00 (SA Time) 

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CCS Webinar: Struggle to Decolonising Queer movement in Zimbabwe

Facilitators: Andries Motau and Danford Chibvongodze
Speaker: Samuel Matsikure
Date: Thursday, 21 July 2022
Time: 16h00-17h00 (SA Time)

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CCS Webinar: Boy on the Run 

Speaker: Welcome Mandla Lishivha
Facilitators: Andries Motau and Danford Chibvongodze
Date: 14 July 2022
Time: 16:00-17:00 (SA Time) 

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CCS Webinar: Arts, youth conscientization and environmental issues at COP 26: Reflections on Phone Call to the world
Arts, youth conscientization and environmental issues at COP 26: Reflections on Phone call to the world
Speakers: Mary Elizabeth Lange, Bhekithemba Dlamini, Noluthando Shandu and Rachelle Ngalula Mukendi
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Date: 28 April 2022
Time: 16h00-17h00 (SA Time)

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CCS Webinar: Climate Resilient Development Pathways from IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) 
Webinar: Climate Resilient Development Pathways from IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)
Speaker: Debora Ley
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze 
Date: Thursday, 21 April 2022
Time: 16:00-17:00 (SA Time) 

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CCS Webinar: Climate change and conflict in Africa: A Reflection on COP 26
A reflection on COP 26
Speaker: Jean-Marc Akakpo
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze 
Date: 17 March 2022
Time: 16:00-17:00 (SA Time) 

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CCS Webinar: What do the Indian Farm Laws Say and Why Are the Farmers Protesting Against Them?
What do the Indian Farm Laws Say and Why Are the Farmers Protesting Against Them
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze 
Speaker:  Radha D'Souza
Date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time 

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CCS Webinar: All Black Lives Matter: The Black Trans Lives Movement in America

Speaker: Tori Cooper
Date: Thursday, 14 October 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time 
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze 

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CCS Webinar: The Future of Effective Movements: Lessons from Nigeria's #EndSARS Protest
The Future of Effective Movements: Lessons from Nigeria's #EndSARS ProtestSpeaker: Fisayo Soyombo
Date: Thursday, 09 September 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time 
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
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CCS Webinar: How to get an abortion legally when it’s illegal?


Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze 
Speaker: Eva Ptašková 
Date: Thursday, 26 August 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time 

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CCS Webinar: Why is the Right to Protest under attack across the world?
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze 
Speaker:  Lysa John
Date: Thursday, 19 August 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: Extractive Resource Nationalization

Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Speaker: Paasha Mahdavi
Date:  Thursday 12 August 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: Thinking Beyond the Resource Curse? Oil, Globalized Assemblages and Development in Ghana
Thinking Beyond the Resource Curse? Oil, Globalized Assemblages and Development in Ghana

Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Speaker: Nathan Andrews
Date: Wednesday 4 August 2021
Time:16:00-17:00 SA Time
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CCS Webinar: The Curse of Titanium - The Amadiba Crisis Committee and Community Struggles in the Eastern Cape

Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Speaker: Nonhle Mbuthuma
Date: Wednesday 28 July 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time
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CCS Webinar: 'Solidarity in the Time of Covid' - Civil Society Responses to the Pandemic

Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Speaker: Andrew Firmin
Date: Wednesday 14 July 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: The State of Civil Society: Findings from the 2021 CIVICUS Report

Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Speakers: Inés Pousadela and David Kode
Date: Wednesday 7 July 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: The Impacts of Industrial Timber Plantations on Environmental and Social Justice
  Webinar: The Impacts of Industrial Timber Plantations on Environmental and Social Justice

Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Speaker: Philip Owen
Date: Thursday 20 May 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time
 
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ukzn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclfu2spj0tGNKgxxMy6DvNCctoi_vsuGG5
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting

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CCS Webinar: Oil palm cultivation and socio-ecological changes: A challenge for Sustainable Development in Cameroon
Webinar: Oil palm cultivation and socio-ecological changes: A challenge for Sustainable Development in Cameroon
Speaker: Guy Donald Abassombe
Date: Thursday 13 May 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ukzn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqduuurzsjH9fscBMYJabG5V1RiIJevL9V

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CCS Webinar: A Green New Eskom?
Webinar: A Green New Eskom?

Speaker: Alex Lenferna
Date: Wednesday 14 April 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time
Zoom Registration: https://ukzn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc-igqzsvHtUxq49smz-dwIAFMAC3m-TT

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CCS Webinar: Climate Work and Climate Justice Work

Kumi Naidoo
Speaker: Kumi Naidoo
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Date: Thursday, 29 April 2021
Time: 16H00-17H00 SA Time
Register in advance for this meeting:  https://ukzn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMuf-mhqT8qHden5hQEcwHdX7q-QxV4q8Um

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CCS Webinar: Unpacking South Africa's Just Transition: A conversation with Saliem Fakir
What Is The Ecological Crisis and How Do We Halt It?

Series: Climate Change
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Speaker: Saliem Fakir
Date: Tuesday 23 March 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time
Zoom Registration: https://ukzn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlf-mvqTgrGdHfx5oFctXhSkUP6fsG39K9

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CCS Webinar: What Is The Ecological Crisis and How Do We Halt It?
What Is The Ecological Crisis and How Do We Halt It?

Ecological Crisis and How Do We Halt It? 
Series: Climate Change
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Date: Wednesday 10 March 2021
Time:  16:00-17:00 SA Time
Speaker: Bruce Baigrie
Zoom: Register in advance for this meeting: https://ukzn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqdeiqrzovG9F79MkhU2ivrEh9YW5GdadI

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CCS Webinar: The Climate Justice Charter Response to the Worsening Climate Crisis and South Africa’s Carbon Democracy
The Climate Justice Charter Response to the Worsening Climate Crisis and South Africa’s Carbon Democracy

Webinar: The Climate Justice Charter Response to the Worsening Climate Crisis and South Africa’s Carbon Democracy
Series: Climate Justice
Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze
Speaker: Vishwas Satgar
Date & Time: Wednesday 3 March 2021, 16:00-17:00 SA Time
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CCS Webinar: “Coloniality is not over: it is all over” On reconstituting the deconstituted in and through the humanities
Coloniality is not over: it is all over
Speakers: Clint Le Bruyns, Saajidha Sader & Fikile Vilakazi
Date: Wednesday 25 November 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: Haunting colonial legacies in-and-of the Canadian University
Haunting colonial legacies in-and-of the Canadian University
Speaker: Rosalind Hampton
Date: Wednesday 18 November 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism as Decolonial Praxis in British Universities
Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism as Decolonial Praxis in British Universities

Speaker: Remi Joseph-Salisbury
Date: Wednesday 11 November 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: The use of ‘Decolonial Methodologies’ to Foster Political Agency
The use of 'Decolonial Methodologies' to Foster Political Agency
Date: Wednesday 4 November 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time
Speaker: Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi

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CCS Webinar: Decolonising the Sciences
Decolonising the Sciences
Speaker: Tana Joseph
Date: Wednesday 21 October 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: Statues Must Fall
Statues Must Fall

Speaker: Leigh-Ann Naidoo
Facilitators: Danford Chibvongodze & Andries Motau
Date: Wednesday 16 September
Time: 15:00-16:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: George Floyd and the Minneapolis Uprising


Facilitators: Danford Chibvongodze & Andries Motau
Speaker: Marjaan Sirdar
Date: Wednesday 9 September 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time


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CCS Webinar: Defund the Police, Abolish the Stalker State – A Global Fight


Facilitators: Danford Chibvongodze & Andries Motau
Speaker: Hamid Khan
Date: Wednesday 2 September 2020
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: The Organizing Principle - Understanding the Erasure of Black Women in Liberation Movements from enslaved insurrections to Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter


Facilitators: Danford Chibvongodze & Andries Motau
Speaker: Maria Martin
Date: Wednesday 26 August
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: Black Mothers and Activism In The Black Lives Matter Movement


Speaker: Tiffany Caesar
Date: Wednesday 19 August 2020
Time 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: #BlackLivesMatter - Igniting A Global Call For Change
Speaker: David Austin
Date: Wednesday 12 August
Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time

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CCS Webinar: Curbing Covid-19: Restrictions on Civil and Political Rights.
Topic: Curbing Covid-19: Restrictions on Civil and Political Rights.
Speaker: Thami Nkosi
Date & Time: Wednesday 29 July 2020, 01:20 PM

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CCS Webinar: Covid-19 and Environmental Regulations in South Africa: Curtailing Public Participation
Topic: Covid-19 and Environmental Regulations in South Africa: Curtailing Public Participation
Speaker: Avena Jacklin
Date & Time: Wednesday 22 July 2020, 01:20 PM

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CSS Webinar: The Impact of Covid-19 on the South African Health System
Topic: The Impact of Covid-19 on the South African Health System
Speaker: Vuyiseka Dubula
Date & Time: Wednesday 15 July, 2020 1:20 PM

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CSS Webinar: A Global Political Economy of Covid-19 Social Struggles
Topic: A Global Political Economy of Covid-19 Social Struggles
Speaker: Patrick Bond
Date & Time: Wednesday 8 July, 2020 1:20 PM

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CSS Webinar - The Spatial Distribution of Risks and Vulnerabilities: The GCRO Covid-19 Gauteng Map
Topic: The Spatial Distribution of Risks and Vulnerabilities: The GCRO Covid-19 Gauteng Map
Speaker: Gillian Maree
Date & Time: Wednesday 1 July, 2020 01:20 PM

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CCS Webinar: The UKZN Centre for Civil Society is inviting you to a Zoom Session of the CCS Webinar Series
Topic: Covid-19 Challenges in Higher Education – A Student’s Perspective
Speaker: Thobani Zikalala
Date & Time: Wednesday 24 June 2020, 01:20 PM Johannesburg

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CCS Webinar: The UKZN Centre for Civil Society is inviting you to a Zoom Session of the CCS Webinar Series
Topic: South Africa’s Covid-19 Response and Political Leadership
Speaker: Lubna Nadvi
Date & Time: Wednesday 3 June, 2020 01:20 PM

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CCS Webinar: The UKZN Centre for Civil Society is inviting you to a Zoom Session of the CCS Webinar Series
Topic: The South African Civil Society Response to Covid-19: The good, the bad and the ugly
Speaker: Mark Heywood
Date & Time: Wednesday 10 June 2020, 01:20 PM Johannesburg

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CCS Webinar: The UKZN Centre for Civil Society is inviting you to a Zoom Session of the CCS Webinar Series
Topic: Funding the Basic Income Grant (BIG) in SA Post Covid-19
Speaker: Dominic Brown
Date & Time: Wednesday 17 June 2020, 01:20 PM Johannesburg

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