A reader for the Durban BRICS Summit Introducing Brics from above, and brics-from-below By Patrick Bond In Durban, South Africa, five heads of state meet on March 26-27 2013 at the International Convention Centre, to assure the rest of Africa that their countries’ corporations are better investors in infrastructure, mining, oil and agriculture than the traditional European and US multinationals. The Brazil-Russia-India-China-SA (Brics) summit also makes space for 16 heads of state from Africa, including notorious tyrants. A new $50 billion ‘Brics Bank’ will probably be launched. There will be more talk about monetary alternatives to the US dollar. More  Back

Events Index 2021  Cathy Elando Kodiemoka, Nomfundo Mkhaba, Ngazini Ngidi, Lucas Ngoetjana & Tinashe Njanji Community Scholar Workshop "The Covid-19 Vaccine Debate". Wednesday 21 April 2021   Alex Lenferna CCS Webinar: A Green New Eskom? Wednesday 14 April 2021   N. Shange, M.A Varghese, S. Ngubane & N. Mbuthuma CCS Webinar: Young Civil Society and Contemporary Issue. Wednesday 31 March 2021   Saliem Fakir CCS Webinar:Unpacking South Africa's Just Transition-A conversation with Saliem Fakir. Tuesday 23 March 2021   Bruce Baigrie What Is The Ecological Crisis and How Do We Halt It? Wednesday 10 March 2021   Vishwas Satgar CCS Webinar: The Climate Justice Charter Response to the Worsening Climate Crisis and South Africa’s Carbon Democracy. Wednesday 3 March 2021   Clint Le Bruyns, Saajidha Sader & Fikile Vilakazi. CCS Webinar: “Coloniality is not over: it is all over” On reconstituting the deconstituted in and through the humanities. Wednesday 25 November 2020   Rosalind Hampton, CCS Webinar: Haunting colonial legacies in-and-of the Canadian University. Wednesday 18 November 2020   Remi Joseph-Salisbury, CCS Webinar: Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism as Decolonial Praxis in British Universities. Wednesday 11 November 2020   Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi CCS Webinar: The use of ‘Decolonial Methodologies’ to Foster Political Agency. Wednesday 4 November 2020   Tana Joseph CCS Webinar: Decolonising the Sciences. Wednesday 21 October 2020   Leigh-Ann Naidoo CCS Webinar: Statues Must Fall. Wednesday 16 September 2020   Marjaan Sirdar, CCS Webinar: George Floyd and the Minneapolis Uprising. Wednesday 9 September 2020   Hamid Khan CCS Webinar: Defund the Police, Abolish the Stalker State – A Global Fight. Wednesday 2 September 2020   Danford Chibvongodze & Andries Motau, CCS Webinar: The Organizing Principle - Understanding the Erasure of Black Women in Liberation Movements from enslaved... Wednesday 26 August 2020   Tiffany Caesar CCS Webinar: Black Mothers and Activism In The Black Lives Matter Movement. Wednesday 19 August 2020   David Austin CCS Webinar: #BlackLivesMatter - Igniting A Global Call For Change. Wednesday 12 August 2020   Thami Nkosi CCS Webinar Curbing Covid-19: Restrictions on Civil and Political Rights. Wednesday 29 July 2020   Avena Jacklin CCS Webinar: Covid-19 and Environmental Regulations in South Africa: Curtailing Public Participation. Wednesday 22 July 2020   Vuyiseka Dubula CSS Webinar: The Impact of Covid-19 on the South African Health System. Wednesday, 15 July 2020   Patrick Bond CSS Webinar: A Global Political Economy of Covid-19 Social Struggles. Wednesday, 8 July 2020   Gillian Maree CSS Webinar: The Spatial Distribution of Risks and Vulnerabilities: The GCRO Covid-19 Gauteng Map. Wednesday, 1 July 2020   Thobani Zikalala CCS Webinar: Covid-19 Challenges in Higher Education – A Student’s Perspective. Wednesday 24 June 2020   Dominic Brown CCS Webinar: Funding the Basic Income Grant (BIG) in SA Post Covid-19. Wednesday 17 June 2020   Mark Heywood CCS Webinar: The South African Civil Society Response to Covid-19: The good, the bad and the ugly. Wednesday 10 June 2020   Lubna Nadvi CCS Webinar: South Africa’s Covid-19 Response and Political Leadership. Wednesday 3 June, 2020   Brian Minga Amza CCS Seminar: The uncomfortable place of spirituality and religion in the struggle for liberation. Wednesday 18 March 2020   Andries Motau CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: Documentary Screening "Thank you for the rain." Wednesday, 27 February 2020   Danford Chibvongodze Documentary Screening: City of Joy to mark 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children. Wednesday, 20 November 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: The pedreiro and the master planner(Part 6). Wednesday 30 October   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: Working on water (Part 5), Wednesday 23 October   Andries Motau CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: A documentary screening of “This Land”. Thursday 24 October 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Greening the city (Part 4). Wednesday 9 October 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: The architecture of violence (Part 3). Wednesday 9 October 2019   Oliver Mtapuri, CCS Seminar – Why innovation matters: To invent or Not invent (at own peril). Thursday 26 September 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture (Part 2). Thursday, 19 September 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture. Thursday, 12 September 2019   Andries Motau, CCS & docLOVE Documentary Screening: JOZI GOLD – A Human Catastrophe, A Toxic City, An Unlikely Activist. Thursday 29 August 2019   Mvu Ngcoya CCS Seminar: Why Cuba’s Agricultural Revolution Puts South Africa’s Agrarian Programmes to Shame. Thursday 8 August 2019   Mzamo Zondi, CCS Seminar: Activist Co-Optation: Tasting State Power. Wednesday 31 July 2019   Philisiwe Mazibuko, Andre de Bruin and Patricia Ipileng Agnes Dove, CCS Special Seminar Series – Race and Identity Facilitated by Mvuselelo Ngcoya. Tuesday 30 July 2019   Danford Chibvongodze, CCS Documentary Screening – The Power of Us. Thursday 18 July 2019   Joyce Chitja, Discussants: Tapiwa Muzerengi and Xolisile Ngumbela. CSS Seminar: Uncomfortable Tensions in the Food (In) Security Conundrum - The Role of Communities in Southern African Contexts. Thursday 27 June 2019   Daniel Byamungu Dunia, CCS and ASONET Seminar: SA Legislation on the Socioeconomic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Wednesday 12 June 2019   Lara Lee, Documentary Screening - BURKINABE BOUNTY. Wednesday, 5th June 2019   Isaac Khambule, CCS Seminar: A 5 Year Review of South Africa’s National Development Plan and its Developmental State Ambition. Wednesday 29 May 2019   CCS Documentary Screening: Everything Must Fall. Thursday 30 May 2019   Patrick Bond, Lisa Thompson & Mbuso Ngubane, CCS and African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy Seminar: The Local-Global Political Economy of Durban. Friday 17 May 2019   Judith Ojo-Aromokudu CCS Seminar: Understanding the spatial language of informal settlements in Durban: Informing upgrading programs for self-reliant and sustainable communities. Tuesday 7 May 2019   CCS and φowerfest! Free Public Screening: Shadow World. Thursday 25 April 2019   Lubna Nadvi, CCS and UKZN School of Social Sciences Seminar – What do party lists reveal about political parties contesting the 2019 SA Elections? Wednesday 24 April 2019   Lukhona Mnguni, CCS and the UKZN Maurice Webb Race Relations Unit Seminar: Elections 2019 and South Africa’s 25 years of Democracy "Where to from here?". Wednesday 18 April 2019   Sthembiso Khuluse and Daniel Dunia, CCS and the Right2Know Campaign Seminar: Your Right To Protest in South Africa. Friday 12 April 2019   Lerato Malope CCS Seminar: Service Delivery and Citizen Participation in Cato Manor. Wednesday 10 April 2019   Ranjita Mohanty, Ilya Matveev, Brian Meir CCS Seminar: Democratising Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice – An Indian Case Study. Friday 5 April 2019   Nduduzo Majozi, CCS Seminar: Housing Service Delivery in Cato Manor. Wednesday 27 March 2019   Danford Chibvongodze, CCS Documentary Screening: An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela. Friday 29 March 2019   Geoff Harris and Tlohang Letsie CCS Seminar - Demilitarising Lesotho: The Peace Dividend - A Basic Income Grant? Wednesday 20 March 2019   Thobani Zikalala CCS Seminar: Wokeness vs Consciousness. Wednesday 13 March 2019   Nisha Naidoo, CCS: Impact Strategy Workshop. Thursday 7 March 2019   Philisiwe Mazibuko & Percy Nhau, CCS Seminar: The ‘#Data Must Fall’ Campaign. Wednesday 6 March 2019   Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Empowering Communities to Self-Mobilise: The TAC Method. Wednesday 27 February 2019   Nisha Naidoo, CCS: Impact Strategy Workshop. Wednesday 13 February 2019   Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally, CCS Seminar: History's Schools: Past Struggles and Present Realities. Tuesday 27 November 2018   CCS & Powerfest Public Screening "The Public Bank Solution: How can we own our oewn banks?". Thursday 8 November 2018   Dr Victor Ayeni, CCS and African Ombudsman Research Centre Seminar: Improving Service Delivery in Africa. Tuesday 6 November 2018   Alude Mahali, CCS & HSRC Present Documentary Screening & Seminar: Ready or Not!. Thursday 22 November 2018   CCS & Powerfest, Public Screening of "Busted: Money Myths and Truths Revealed". Thursday 25 October 2018   Henrik Bjorn Valeur, A Culture of Fearing ‘The Other’: Spatial Segregation in South Africa. Wednesday 7 November 2018   Danford Chibvongodze, Seminar Six: "Half Man, Half Amazing"- The Gift of Nasir Jones' Music to African Collective Identity. Thursday, 11 October 2018   Brian Minga Amza and Dime Maziba, CCS Seminar: 31 Years Later - A Consideration of the Ideas of Thomas Sankara. Wednesday, 24 October 2018   Ajibola Adigun CCS Seminar: African Pedagogy and Decolonization: Debunking Myths and Caricatures. Thursday 18 October 2018   CCS & Powerfest! Public Screening of "FALSE PROFITS: SA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS". Wednesday, 26 September 2018   Mxolisi Nyuswa, CCS Community Scholars Seminar: Complexities and Challenges for Civil Society Building and Unity: Perspectives from the KZN Civil Society Coalition. Thursday 27 September 2018   CCS Seminar: Co-Production of Knowledge - Lessons from Innovative Sanitation Service Delivery in Thandanani and Banana City informal Settlements, Durban. Wednesday 17 October 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Rural Development and Livelihoods in South Africa. Thursday 13 September 2018   Simbarashe Tembo, CCS Seminar: Constitutionalism in Zimbabwe: An Interrogation of the 2018 Election. Wednesday, 19 September 2018   Thobani Zikalala, CCS Seminar: Adopting a Black Consciousness Analysis in Understanding Land Expropriation in South Africa. Wednesday, 12 September 2018   CCS Community Scholar Workshop Activism and Technology. Wednesday, 29 August 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Canada's Dark Secret. Thursday 30 August 2018     CCS UKZN & Powerfest!: Festival of Powerful Ideas, Public Screening: The D.I.Y Economy. Friday, 24 August 2018   Daniel Byamungu Dunia, CCS Seminar: Building capacity and skills for effective and successful integration of refugee communities in South Africa. Wednesday 8 August 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Human Trafficking, Thursday 19 July 2018   CCS UKZN & Powerfest!: Festival of Powerful Ideas, Public Screening of AUTOGESTIo. Thursday 12 July 2018   Wenche Dageid, CCS Seminar: Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development – prospects for health and equity. Monday 9 July 2018    Sachil Singh, CCS Seminar: Questioning the Medical Value of Data on Race and Ethnicity: A case study of the DynaMed Point of Care tool. Thursday 5 July 2018    CCS Seminar: Should I stay or should I go? Exploring mobility in the context of climatically-driven environmental change, Wednesday 27 June 2018   Gerald Boyce, CCS Seminar: From blackest night to brightest day, Thursday 28 June 2018   CCS, UKZN and Powerfest Festival of Powerful Ideas: Cuba-An African Odyssey, 14 June 2018   Mvu Ngcoya, CCS and Critical Times, Critical Race Project Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018: Land as a multi-splendorous thing: Kwasi Wiredu on how to think about land, Wednesday 30 May 2018   Deborah Ewing, Emma Goutte-Gattat, Aron Hagos Tesfai CCS and AIDS Foundation Seminar: Using technology to improve refugee and migrant access to sexual and reproductive health care?,Thursday 31 May 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: White Helmets, Thursday 24 May 2018   CCS, UKZN & Powerfest! Festival of Powerful Ideas: Celebrating Africa Month Stealing Africa, Wednesday 16 May 2018   Chris Desmond CCS Seminar: Liberation Studies: Development through Recognition, Wednesday 9 May 2018   Andrew Lawrence CCS Seminar - Obstacles to realising the 'Million Climate Jobs' Vision: Which policy strategies can work? When? How?, Friday 18 May 2018   CCS, UKZN, Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas (FREE FILM AND POPCORN SERIES), Thursday 26 April 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: April Theme Earth Day "Seeds of Sovereignty" & "Cowspiracy"...Discover environmentalism. 19 April 2018   Alfred Moraka, How Not To Despoil Yourself of African Wonders: Oyeronke Oyewumi’s work as African Epistemological Enchantment. Wednesday 18 April 2018   Dr Joseph Rudigi Rukema, CCS Seminar: Entrepreneurship through Research - Converting Research into Community Projects. Wednesday 11 April 2018   Philile Langa, Centre for Civil Society and Critical Times, Critical Race Project Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018. Thursday 29 March 2018   Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The Centre for Civil Society and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas 2018 Free Film and Popcorn Series. Wednesday 28 March 2018   Professor Siphamandla Zondi, CCS and International Relations, School of Social Sciences Seminar: Hearing Africa Speak Again - Amilcar Cabral’s Seven Theses on the African Predicament Today. Tuesday 27 March 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: #MeToo vs. Time's Up & We Should All Be Feminists. Thursday 22 March 2018   Documentary Screening, CCS and KZN Palestine Forum Documentary Screening: Anti Black Racism and Israel’s White Supremacy, 14 March 2018   Mary de Haas, Of Corruption and Commissions but no Conclusions Seminar Series: The Moerane Commission, 15 March 2018   Jay Johnson, CCS Seminar: Contested Rights and Spaces in the City: the Case of Refugee Reception Offices in South Africa, 13 March 2018   Daniel Byamungu Dunia,CCS and Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Seminar: The Trials of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa , 1 March 2018    King Sibiya, CCS and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas, 27 February 2018   97% Owned, CCS and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas 2018, Documentary Screening Series 2018, 28 February 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS: Documentary Screening , 22 February 2018   Siviwe Mdoda, Right 2 Know (R2K) Campaign Seminar: Public Interest Information vs Private Information: Jacques Pauw’s ‘The President’s Keepers’ Case, 1 February 2018   Shaun Ruggunan CCS Seminar: Waves of Change: Globalisation and Labour Markets, 15 November 2017   Gerard Boyce The Dentons Commission, 1 November 2017   Ndumiso Dladla Prolegomenon to an Africanist Historiography in South Africa: Mogobe Ramose’s Critical Philosophy of Race, 25 October 2017   Eliza Solis-Maart CSS Seminar: Young Civil Society and Contemporary Issues, 11 October 2017   Rozena Maart Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018 , 27 September 2017   Gerard Boyce CCS Seminar: Of Corruption and Commissions but no Conclusions Seminar Series, 20 September 2017    Shauna Mottiar CCS Seminar: Everyday Forms of Resistance in Durban, 1 September 2017   Mhlobo Gunguluzi and Thabane Miya Centre for Civil Society and Right2Know Campaign Seminar: The Right to Protest, 27 July 2017   Bandile Mdlalose, Daniel Dunia and Nisha Naidoo, The Peoples Economic Forum Responds to the World Economic Forum, 1 June 2017   Mvu Ngcoya, Rozena Maart, Shaun Ruggunan, Mershen Pillay Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Decolonising Curricula, 25 May 2017   Peter Sutoris, Environmental Activism and Environmental Education: (De) Politicising Struggles in India and South Africa, 18 May 2017   Lubna Nadvi, Lukhona Mnguni, Shauna Mottiar, The April 7th Protests, 20 April 2017   John Devenish, CCS Seminar: The use of interactive maps and scatter graphs to study protest in the BRICS countries, 13 April 2017    Shauna Mottiar, Mvuselelo Ngcoya BOOK LAUNCH: Philanthropy in South Africa - Horizontality, ubuntu and social justice, 22 March 2017   Peter McKenzie Photo Exhibition - Durbanity, 09 March 2017   Elisabet Van Wymeersch On change, conflicts and planning theory: the transformative potential of disruptive contestation, 2 March 2017   Daniel Byamungu Dunia, Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Community Building Workshop: CRIMINALISATION OF HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH, 24 February 2017   Jasper Finkeldey, Centre for Civil Society Seminar: (No) Limits to extraction? Popular Mobilization and the Impacts of the Extractive Industries in KZN, 9 February 2017   Bandile Mdlalose, New Urban Agenda’ – Report Back from Habitat III, United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development Ecuador, 28 November   Patrick Bond, From Trump to BRICS, where is civil society headed? 18 November   Duduzile Khumalo, Sibongile Buthelezi, Cathy Sutherland, Vicky Sim, Social constructions of environmental services in a rapidly densifying peri-urban area under dual governance in eThekwini Municipality, 26 October    Gerard Boyce, Arguments in favour of putting the South African government's nuclear plans to a popular referendum, 28 October    Alex Hotz CCS Seminar: Challenging Secrecy and Surveillance: Building Anti-Surveillance Activism, 19 August   Itai Kagwere, Daniel Byamungu Dunia and Gabriel Hertis CCS Seminar: Challenges of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa, 26 August   Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: Sight on the target: Tackling destructive fishing, 12 August   CCS Co-Hosts: The Governance and Politics of HIV AIDS, 19 July   Carolijn van Noort CCS Seminar: “Strategic narratives of infrastructural development: is BRICS modernizing the tale?”, 26 July   Moises Arce CCS Seminar: The Political Consequences of Mobilizations against Resource Extraction, 12 July   Zimbabwe's Despondent Political Economy - a Durban workshop to honour Sam Moyo 13-14 June 2016   Patrick Bond gives political economy lecture to Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Women in Business Forum, 26 April 2016   CCS hosts mining critics for press conference, 7 April   Assassination in Xolobeni: Film screening and memorial meeting for Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, 6 April   Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia launch BRICS in Toronto, 31 March   Akin Akikboye CCS Seminar: KZN's Internally Displaced People, 31 March   Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia present critique of world ports, New York, 30 March   Hafsa Kanjwal CCS Seminar: India in Turmoil, 23 March   Dieter Lünse CCS Seminar: Strength of nonviolent action, 22 March   Patrick Bond testifies at public hearing on Transnet's South Durban plans, 21 March   Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and Pan-Africanism, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 15 March   Yaa Ashantewaa K. Archer-Ngidi CCS Seminar: The role of Black women in liberation, 10 March   Patrick Bond reports on research into urban economic and ecological violence, IDRC & UKAID conference, Johannesburg, 8 March   Patrick Bond addresses Women in Mining (Womin) conference on movement building, Johannesburg, 7 March   Allen & Barbara Isaacman CCS Seminar: Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development, 4 March    Patrick Bond presents South Durban paper in Merebank, 2 March   Andrew Lawrence CCS Seminar: Why nuclear energy is bad for South Africa, bad for the world—and how it can be opposed, 29 February 2016    China Ngubane , Chumile Sali & Dalli Weyers CCS Seminar: Social Justice Coalition Citizen Oversight of Policing in Khayelitsha Court Case Presentation, 26 February   CCS hosts groundWork, SDCEA and FrackFreeSA for climate and energy workshop, 25 February   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Can the SA budget afford #FeesMustFall demands and other social spending? 23 February    Patrick Bond joins Mondli Hlatshwayo & Aziz Choudry to launch Just Work, Ike's Books, 22 February   Peter Cole CCS Seminar: A History of Dockers, Social Movements and Transnational Solidarity in Durban and San Francisco, 17 February   Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS at Univ of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 15 February   Delwyn Pillay, Jorim Gerrad, Madaline George & Nozipho Mkhabela CCS Seminar: A return to MUTOKO, Zimbabwe, 10 February    Nick Turse CCS Seminar: AFRICOM’s New Math and “Scarier” Times Ahead in Africa, 5 February   Menzi Maseko & Mandla Mbuyisa CCS Seminar: Black Consciousness, Fees Must Fall and Lessons from the Life of Ongkopotse Tiro, 1 February    Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane & Daniel Dunia CCS Seminar: Central African and Zimbabwean geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society II, 27 January    Patrick Bond keynote at Tata Institute Development Studies conference, 23 January   Patrick Bond, Thando Manzi, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane present urban analysis at Tata Institute, Mumbai, 19-22 January   Patrick Bond, Achin Vanaik, Ajay Patnaik & Alka Acharya launch BRICS book, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 18 January   Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane, Daniel Dumia & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: African geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society I, 11 January   Events Index 2015   CCS students Boaventura Monjane, Mithika Mwenda, Tabitha Spence & Celia Alario at the COP21 climate summit, Paris, 1-12 December   Jorim Gerrard & Paul Steffen CCS Seminar: Influencing society's views of refugees, 9 December    Workshop on Climate Change and Environmental Justice with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 7-10 December    Ashwin Desai, Betty Govinden, Crispin Hemson & Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: The Gandhi debate, 27 November   Stefano Battain & Daniela Biocca CCS Seminar: Alternative development or alternative to development? 27 November   Patrick Bond debates Sihle Zikalala & Vasu Gounden on the state of South Africa, eThekwini Progressive Professionals Forum, 25 November   CCS Seminar: Remembering Sam Moyo, 25 November    Christelle Terreblanche debates Ubuntu at the University of Pretoria, 23 November   Patrick Bond & Toendepi Shonhe CCS Seminar: BRICS crumble, commodities crash and Africa's climate changes, 20 November   Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS banking at University of Cape Town School of Economics, 16 November   Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: KZN civil society responses to the Paris Climate Change Conference, 9 November   Patrick Bond with Numsa and BRICS climate critique at Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-6 November   Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: Black First! but what is Black? 4 November   Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS as sub-imperialism at Open University, 4 November   Patrick Bond debates BRICS and climate change at Sussex University, 3 November   Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Numsa, technological change and politics at ArcelorMittal's Vanderbijlpark plant, 22 October   Tri Continental Film Festival Screenings at CCS 21-24 October   Patrick Bond launches BRICS book in New York 19 October   Patrick Bond delivers keynote at Cyprus conference on mining and sustainable development, 16 October   Brian Minga Anza, Mwamba Kalombo Thithi & Sinqobangaye Magestic Pro Sibisi CCS Seminar: Creative challenges to xenophobia, 15 October 2015   Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Inequality, the criminalisation of protest and internecine social conflict, 9 October   Patrick Bond delivers sustainability keynote to SA Public Health Association conference, 8 October   Patrick Bond debates UN Sustainable Development Goals, ClassicFM, Johannesburg, 1 October   Patrick Bond talks on African uprisings at Mapungubwe Institute, Pretoria, 30 September   Patrick Bond debates Africa in the world economy, Channel Africa, Johannesburg, 29 September   Ana Garcia presents BRICS critique at Geopolitical Economy conference, Winnipeg, 26 September   Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth in Berlin, 16 September   CCS welcomes World Social Science Forum to Durban, with talks by Vuyiseka Dubula, Patrick Bond & others in CCS, 13 - 16 September    CCS welcomes Codesria and WSSF to Ike's Books, 12 September   CCS hosts the South-South Institute during the World Social Science Forum, 10-18 September   Patrick Bond lectures at Codesria/Osisa Economic Justice Institute, 8-9 September   Patrick Bond, Boaventura Monjane & Mithika Mwenda at Africa Climate Talks, Dar es Salaam, 3-5 September   Vladimir Slivyak What's wrong with Russia's nuclear energy deal-making? 4 September    John Devenish CCS Seminar: Mapping social unrest in South Africa, 1 September    Patrick Bond lectures on climate and deglobalisation alternatives at Attac University, Marseille, 26 August   Patrick Bond lecture on legacy of Rosa Luxemburg at New School for Social Research, New York, 21 August   China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia as symptom, 20 August    Justine van Rooyen CCS Seminar: The Social Inclusion/Exclusion of Intersex South Africans, 12 August   Patrick Bond keynote speech at BRICS-in-Africa conference, Livingstone, 7-11 August   Patrick Bond and Sam Moyo speak at Trust Africa conference on Illicit Financial Flows, Harare, 3 August   Patrick Bond delivers paper on climate and the blue economy, Wits University, 2 August   Patrick Bond in economic debate at M&G Literary Festival, Johannesburg, 1 August   Yaa Ashantewaa Ngidi CCS Seminar: The state of the Pan Africanist movement, 30 July   Ryan Solomon CCS Seminar: Belonging, inclusion and South African civil society in the campaigns against AIDS and xenophobia, 29 July   Patrick Bond moderates UKZN College of Humanities debate on xenophobia and higher ed transformation, 28 July   Lloyd Sachikonye CCS Seminar: Social research and civil society in Zimbabwe, 28 July   Patrick Bond & Mithika Mwenda at Climate Futures symposium, Italy, 13-17 July   China Ngubane, Bandile Mdlalose & Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: The state of social activism against xenophobia, human rights violations and mining exploitation - three case sites, 3 July   CCS co-hosts (with Chris Hani Institute) World Association for Political Economy, Johannesburg, 19-21 June   CCS workshop with ASONET, Action Support Centre and South African Liaison Office, on South Africa, Peace and Security in the post-2015 Development Agenda, 10-11 June   CCS/ASONET workshop on xenophobia, 5 June   Alf Nilsen launches his book We Make Our Own History, at Ike's Books, 4 June   Patrick Bond addresses civil society electricity crisis summit on load-shedding, Johannesburg, 2 June    Patrick Bond talks on extractivism, BRICS sub-imperialism and South Africa at Left Forum, New York, 30-31 May   China Ngubane, Gabriel Hertis, Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Persistent Durban xenophobia and Operation Fiela, 20 May   CCS hosts Colgate University students for social movement research, June   Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: Xolobeni mining, unobtanium-titanium battle update, 14 May   Patrick Bond lecture on carbon markets and climate debt, Gyeongsang University, Jinju, Korea, 12 May   Patrick Bond speaks on South African political economy, Hong Kong Reader bookshop, 11 May   Gcina Makoba, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Rhodes' walls must fall! 30 April    CCS Film Screening: The GAMA Strike A victory for all workers, 24 April   Faith ka Manzi & Bandile Mdlalose at Climate Justice strategy meeting, Maputo, April 21-23   Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth and the green economy, Berlin, 21 April   Paul Kariuki, Bandile Mdlalose, China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Durban, 14 April   CCS joins Greenpeace and R2K in solidarity meeting with Somkhele coal victims, northern KZN, 12 April   Patrick Bond lecture on water commodification and resistance at Zimbabwe Sustainable Economics Forum, Harare, 9 April   China Ngubane & Jean-Pierre Lukamba CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Isipingo, 7 April   Alice Thomson, Desmond D’Sa & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Liberal and radical approaches to Environmental Justice campaigning, 1 April   Patrick Bond speaks on coalitions for national economic sovereignty, World Social Forum, University of Tunis el Manar, 25 March   Akin Akiboye & Jorim Gerrard CCS Seminar: Xenophobia and displacement, 17 March   Sofie Hellberg CCS Seminar: Water, life and politics in Durban, 10 March   Faith kaManzi, Nonhle Mbuthuma, Melissa Hansen & others International Women’s Day at the UKZN Centre for Civil Society: Resistance to Resource Cursing in KZN, the Eastern Cape and the DRC, 9th March   Israeli Apartheid Week Events 2 - 8 March   Baruti Amisi and Boaventura Monjane speak at US Power Africa conference, University of Illinois, 2-4 March   Baruti Amisi, Gerard Boyce & Patrick Bond CCS Workshop: 'False solutions' to climate and energy crises, 26 February   Carlos Cardoso CCS Seminar: Knowledge production and intellectual formation in Africa from Codesria's perspective, 20 February   Benny Wenda CCS Seminar: The campaign to free West Papua, 19 February   Gcina Makoba & Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Campaigning against coal in KZN, 18 February   Patrick Bond debates BRICS sherpa Anil Sooklal, UCT Centre for Conflict Resolution, 16 February   Desmond D'Sa, David Le Page, Bhavna Deonarain, Winnie Mdletshe & others: Launch of Fossil Free KZN, 13 February   Angus Joseph CCS Seminar: Climate justice and solidarity from Lima to Paris, 13 February   Nhamo Chikowore & China Ngubane Zimbabwe's new conjuncture and SA's new xenophobia, 6 February   Baruti Amisi, Brain Amza & and Jacky Kabidu DRC uprising, repression and solidarity, 5 February   Chris Coward CCS Seminar: New spaces of social activism, 28 January   Immanuel Ness CCS Seminar: Lessons from the labour movements of China and India, 27 January   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Electricity crisis scenarios, 20 January   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Oil spills, coal digs, resource cursing and resistance, 12 January   Events Index 2014   Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: United Front Preparatory Assembly assessment, 22 December   Thando Manzi, Au Loong Yu & John Devenish CCS Seminar: BRICS-from-below struggles for justice, 19 December   CCS hosts South Durban climate camp, 8-11 December   Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose, Shauna Mottiar, Themba Mchunu & China Ngubane CCS press conference and workshop: Durban politics stressed to break-point, 5 December   Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Organised labour's losses since 1994, worker-community relations after 2014, 28 November   Patrick Bond critiques World Bank at UWC poverty conference, 27 November   CCS hosts launch of Fossil Free South Africa, 27 November   Faith ka-Manzi debates SA social protest at Gumede Lecture, Durban History Museum, 27 November   Melissa Hansen CCS Seminar: Struggles over conservation space in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, 24 November    Patrick Bond lectures on Africa's Resource Curse, Stellenbosch University, 20 November   Vuyiseka Dubula, Faith ka-Manzi & Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Treatment Action Campaign reaches the knife-edge, 18 November, 2014   CCS hosts Durban environmental network, 15 November   Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: Learning and research in social movements, 14 November   Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: NGOization, 'civil society' and social change: Complicity, contradictions and prospects, 13 November   Gun Free South Africa workshop with CCS, 12 November   Creesen Naicker CCS Seminar: Sport for Development in South Africa, 11 November   Patrick Bond joins SA panel at Historical Materialism conference, London, 7 November   Patrick Bond lectures on neoliberalism and social policy at South-South Institute in Bangkok, 5 November   Patrick Bond keynote address on African IT, to the International Development Informatics Association, 3 November   Patrick Bond debates GDP with SA government, Pretoria, 31 October   Patrick Bond debates GDP reform at University of Pretoria, 28 October   China Ngubane and Patrick Bond at UKZN Geography workshop on community politics, 24 October   CCS hosts CT Social Justice Coalition training on sanitation advocacy, 22 October   CCS hosts Greenpeace film on climate and Arctic oil, Black Ice, 14 October   Diana Buttu CCS Seminar: The situation in Palestine, 8 October   Mithika Mwenda lecture on climate justice at Climate Change and Development Conference, Morocco, 7 October   Stefan Cramer CCS Seminar on Karoo fracking, 7 October   Omar Shaukat CCS Seminar: Thinking through ISIS, 1 October   Patrick Bond lecture on SA social policy at University of Burgundy, Dijon, 25 September   Patrick Bond debates Mark Weisbrot on BRICS at IPS, Washington, 23 September   Mithika Mwenda and Patrick Bond talk on climate justice, Converge for Climate at Graffiti Church, New York City, 20 September   Awethu! network meets at CCS, 20 September   Patrick Bond lecture on South Africa at City University of New York, 18 September   John Saul and Patrick Bond launch books at Cape Town Open Book Fair, 17 September   Gcina Makoba update on recyclables project in Inanda, 15 September   The UKZN Centre for Civil Society and Palestine Solidarity Forum host a Gaza Documentary Screening, 11 September    Patrick Bond debates the causes and implications of Marikana at the Durban Democracy and Development Programme, 10 September   Mnikeni Phakathi & Asha Moodley CCS Seminar (with the Right to Know Campaign): Student Protest at UKZN 2014, 5 September   Patrick Bond debates climate and energy at Univ of Leipzig 'Degrowth' conference, Germany, 5 September   Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond Durban water and sanitation policies, projects and politics, 1 September   Patrick Bond input on BRICS at Centre for Conflict Resolution seminar, Pretoria, 31 August   Patrick Bond on Resource Curses and antidotes, at Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Maputo, 28 August   China Ngubane & Sizwe Shiba Southern African people's solidarity dynamics, 28 August   Patrick Bond lecture on South Durban strategy, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, 22 August   Patrick Bond lecture on SA political economy at Chinese Academy of Marxism, Beijing, 20 August   Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Climate change and global policy battles, 15 August   Niall Reddy CCS Seminar: BRICS after Fortaleza, 14 August   Ilan Pappé Dennis Brutus Memorial Lecture: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine, 5 August   UKZN CCS Masters Student Mithika Mwenda testifies on Climate Justice on Our Common Planet, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, 4 August   Loraine Dongo & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Climate, oil and activism in South Africa, 31 July    Patrick Bond debates Intensive Energy User Group's Shaun Nel on energy, SAfm, 23 July   Patrick Bond debates SACP's Alex Mashilo on SA politics, SA Democratic Teachers Union KZN Province, Durban, 24 July   Susan Spronk Contesting Water Privatisation through an Efficiency Narrative, 23 July   Matt Meyer The State of the Art in Non-violent Civil Disobedience, 22 July   Patrick Bond discusses infrastructure finance, Fortaleza, 15 July   CCS-Brazilian collaboration at the 2014 BRICS Summit, 14-16 July in Fortaleza   Patrick Bond debates JP Landman on SA poli econ, Ike's Books, 9 July   Bhekinkosi Moyo CCS Seminar: Southern African civil society, 7 July   Jack Dyer CCS Seminar: The economic consequences of Durban's port expansion, 25 June 2014   Patrick Bond lecture on SA macroeconomic conditions, at UKZN SA Research Chair initiative workshop, 20 June   Patrick Bond debates SA soccer leader Danny Jordaan on the World Cup's legacy, BBC radio, 18 June   John Devenish CCS Seminar: Protests in India, South Africa & Brazil The issues participants & tactics, 17 June 2014   Patrick Bond debates the SA economy with MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu, UKZN Business School, 11 June   Patrick Bond debates sustainability at Governance Innovation conference, University of Pretoria, 5 June   CCS hosts mineworker solidarity event, 31 May   Patrick Bond lecture on South African water commodification, University of London, 30 May   Patrick Bond debates 'Africa Rising (or Uprising?)' in Maputo at Frelimo Political School, 29 May 2014   Patrick Bond speaks on global finance at the World Association for Political Economy, Hanoi, 24 May   Shauna Mottiar presents at 'Contentious Politics' seminar, University of Johannesburg, 22 May   Patrick Bond & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: BRICS from above, the middle and below: which directions for alliances and conflicts? 16 May   Patrick Bond debates BRICS civil society, SA Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, 13 May   Patrick Bond presentation on climate justice governance via skype to Linkoping University, Sweden, 8 May   Gcina Makoba and Thuli Hlela host Miners Shot Down in Durban townships, 1 May   Admos Chimhowu CCS Seminar: Food Sovereignty Discourses, Land and Labour in Southern Africa, 30 April   Patrick Bond presents on BRICS geopolitics and BRICS banking, Rio de Janeiro, 28-29 April   Shauna Mottiar delivers paper on popular protest in South Africa, Oxford University, 26 April   Floyd Shivambu, Innocent Ndiki, Louise Colvin and Patrick Bond CCS Workshop: Which critiques of post-Apartheid malgovernance - and which counter strategies - come next?, 25 April   Bram Buscher CCS Seminar: ‘I Nature’: Web 2.0, Social Media and the Political Economy of Conservation, 25 April   Patrick Bond discusses DeSutcliffisation at Durban University of Technology Urban Futures Centre, 24 April   Patrick Bond talk on SA@20 in New York, 19 April   Patrick Bond keynote lecture on climate, health and risk, University of Washington, Seattle, 17 April   Ken Walibora Waliaula CCS Seminar: Remembering and Disremembering Africa, 16 April   Ben Turok School of Social Sciences & CCS Seminar: With my head above the parapet: An insider account of the ANC in power, 15 April   Thando Manzi CCS Seminar: Brazilian civil society contests the World Cup, economic injustice and BRICS, 10 April   Patrick Bond gives three talks at the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, 10 April   Patrick Bond on comparative solidarity with Palestine and South Africa, Johns Hopkins University, 7 April   Patrick Bond paper on Climate Change, Debt and Justice in Africa at University of North Carolina conference, 5 April   Zackie Achmat, Thando Manzi, Paul Routledge Dennis Brutus Memorial Debate: The state of our social movements, from SA to BRICS to the world 31 March    Paul Routledge CCS/Development Studies seminar on politics of climate change, 31 March   Zackie Achmat and Ndifuma Ukwazi offer activist Autumn School, 31 March - 2 April   Prince Mashele CCS Seminar: The fall of the ANC, 28 March   Patrick Bond seminar on a Redistributive Eco-Debt Payment system, University of Lund, 28 March   Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Identity formation amongst immigrant traditional healers, 27 March    Charles Mangongera & Toendepi Shonhe CCS Seminar: Who rules Zimbabwe - and what should civil society do now? , 25 March   Patrick Bond and Xolani Dube debate 20 years of liberation (plus booklaunch), Time of the Writer festival, 20 March   Lukhona Mnguni, Molaudi Sekake & Lesiba Seshoka (invited)CCS Seminar: UKZN student woes and freedom of expression, 20 March    Patrick Bond responds to Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim foreign policy presentation, 19 March   Vanessa Burger and Faith kaManzi support Durban harbour mobilisation, Dalton Hostel, 16 March   Israeli Apartheid Week talk by Miko Peled, CCS co-sponsorship with Palestine Solidarity movement, 14 March   Peter McKenzie CCS Seminar: Cato Manor Between hope and Possibility, 13 March   Patrick Bond testimony on water politics at SA Human Rights Commission, 11 March   Patrick Bond lecture at Rosa Luxemburg centenary of Accumulation of Capital, Berlin, 9 March   Patrick Bond seminar on SA's Resource Curse, Harare, 28 February   Sreeram Chaulia CCS Seminar on Brazil-Russia-India-China-SA, 25 February   Patrick Bond seminar on 'tokenistic' social policy at UKZN Development Studies, 19 February   China Ngubane addresses conference on Community Serving Humanity, UKZN, 12 February   Patrick Bond addresses PanAfrican Climate Justice Alliance challenges, Dakar, 10 February   Vishwas Satgar runs workshop on the United Front approach, 30 January   Patrick Bond addresses Numsa shopstewards on economic crises, Johannesburg, 25 January   Patrick Bond testifies to Parliament against mega-projects, 16 January   Shauna Mottiar Protest and participation in Cato Manor, Merebank and Wentworth, 15 January    Patrick Bond lecture on development and political economy and method, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine, 6 January   Events Index 2013   China Ngubane and Patrick Bond speak at the People's Dialogue BRICS strategy session, Johannesburg, 10-12 December   Thando Manzi and Patrick Bond discuss Durban slum research at the Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, 10 December   Patrick Bond, Farai Maguwu and Khadija Sharife testify to African Union commission against corruption, Arusha, 7 December   Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Report-back from Warsaw climate summit, 6 December   Patrick Bond debates natural capital and GDP at Wits University, Johannesburg, 5 December   CCS hosts Democracy from Below citizenship movement 30 November - 1 December   Giuliano Martinello CCS Seminar: Dispossession and resistance to SA agribusiness in the new scramble for Southern and Eastern African land, 28 November    Patrick Bond at South Durban BRICS-from-below campaign against port-petrochemical expansion, Wentworth, 27 November   Film Screenings: Non-Violence as a Strategy for Social Change: CCS Seminar room, 19 September, 17 October, 21 November   Patrick Bond debates climate and capitalism at COP19 in Warsaw, 17 November   CCS participates in South Durban People's Climate Camp, 14-17 November   Patrick Bond lectures on global finance in Brussels, 13-15 November   Patrick Bond presents on Commoning, Rights and Praxis at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, 8 November   Patrick Bond public lecture on the New Africa Scramble in Berlin, 7 November   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Financial crises and social resistance, from household to global scales, 6 November   Gcina Makoba & Muna Lakhani CCS Seminar: Mapping Waste From Cradle to Grave: the Inkanyezi Community Recyclers and Global Zero-Waste Movement, 31 October   CCS founder Adam Habib launches South Africa's Suspended Revolution, Ike's Books, 29 October   Brutus Memorial Debate: "From democracy to kleptocracy", 26 October   Faith Manzi CCS Seminar: The Anatomy of a Cato Manor 'Popcorn Protest', 24 October   Patrick Bond critiques financial markets at Unemployment Insurance Fund board meeting, 15 October   Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Cartooning race and class after Marikana, 10 October