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Durban Port's Poverty, Consumerism, Enoughness
Sarah Bracking (The Africa Report) 29 April 2013
If an oil carrying ship hits the rocks off the Durban coast where I live it will cause a spill that will create many jobs, to pick up all the dead birds from the beaches up and down the coast. Economists who love capitalism do not see a problem with the consumer as shopping machine, because for them consumption contributes to job creation and economic growth, which they also see as completely problem free positive things. I don't.
Poverty, scarcity and frugality are related but importantly different concepts, as Wolfgang Sachs once wrote in a brilliant essay in just as good a book called Planet Dialectics in 1999. Importantly, for most of human history frugality has been the state of life, there was not really very much to go around, so people learned to be very careful with their possessions, a sort of 'waste not, want not' existence.
But then, capitalist markets, and the economics that justifies them invented scarcity as an organising principle of societies wherein the exploitation and expropriation of some peoples' things and labour is carried out by others, creating a wealthy class that gets wealthier, which after 400 years or so leads us to modern day inequality, the worst ever recorded.
In economic theory, markets deal with scarcity by automatically balancing the available supply of a thing with the demand that people have for it, and at that point a price emerges. In other words, the rarer the thing, and the more people that want it, the higher the price.
A lack of 'enoughness' sends addicted shopperholics to malls day after day
This is often a very cruel 'equilibrium price', particularly when something that is scarce is also a basic good, like food. Before a famine, the cost of food skyrockets as traders and hoarders make merry at everybody else's expense, while the price of other assets, such as livestock or jewellery drops like the proverbial stone, as people sell anything they can to try and meet the (rising) price of food.
Many economists with some semblance of a heart thus believe that governments need to regulate scarcity, particularly around basic goods and if markets are causing adverse outcomes, such as starvation in the case of food scarcity.
But there are also economists who believe in 'free' markets, as did the late Margaret Thatcher, who believed in the fundamental principle that 'free' markets, left unattended and to their own devices, generate the best outcome for society at large through a 'hidden hand' (although in her case this was often an iron fist, and yes many thought she had no heart at all).
Scarcity, however, is not necessarily a bad thing if we manage it properly. Indeed, humanity must do this as we live in a finite globe where commodities will just run out unless the sustainability clause in the increasingly popular concept of the 'Green Economy' is actually made to have some substance.
This brings us to the concept of poverty, which is essentially a classification as well as a real experienced existence for those called 'poor'.
Now don't get me wrong, poverty of course exists and is widespread and chronic for about 800 million to 1 billion people alive today. For these chronically poor people there is not enough food, or shelter, or clean water on a daily basis, and their notional right to government assistance under the UN Declaration of Human Rights is in some way ineffective. But for most of human history we have understood this as simply frugality, because people's perception of poverty is critically a relative one.
Many people discovered they were poor when other people became rich(er) and when they were termed as such by government or economists. Before this point, they were living frugally, if at risk of an early and easy death.
But above this group that nearly all would agree are poor today, there are a larger number of people who live in relative poverty to others, some of whom have so much income and assets that it becomes counter-intuitive to see them as poor at all!
In fact, a common middle class form of 'poverty', in Europe at least, is the person who complains that they have no money – once the mortgage, the school fees, the bills, taxes and so forth have already been paid! This is not really poverty, this is a critical lack of a sense of 'enoughness', and it is arguably a global virus, as Oliver James so eloquently argues in his book Affluenza.
Having no sense of enoughness is the largest driver of the global economy, as the advertising industry works day and night to persuade us that we need the next new thing, or style, or fashion.
Again in Europe, firms like IKEA are busy telling people that even furniture should become subject to fashion, so that one's sofa or kitchen table must be replaced seasonally, which of course hikes their profits and contributes to our landfill rubbish problem.
A lack of 'enoughness' sends addicted shopperholics to malls day after day, as 4 pairs of shoes is not enough, then 10, 40, 300. Capitalism loves this state of being as it drives economic growth, just as consumption drives many of us into debt.
Of course economists who love capitalism do not see a problem with the consumer as shopping machine, because for them consumption contributes to job creation and economic growth, which they also see as completely problem free positive things. I don't.
If an oil carrying ship hits the rocks off the Durban coast where I live it will cause a spill that will create many jobs, to pick up all the dead birds from the beaches up and down the coast. To clean the gorgeous Bay of Plenty, Addington's, Sun Casino, North Beach, Brighton Beach, up to Ballito and down to Amanzimtoti, and so on.
Indeed, it would cause a localised hike in economic growth and job creation – but only a crazy person would see this as a good thing.
Economic growth at all cost
So when South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan told around 300 South Durban residents on 1 September, last year (2012), in Clairwood's historic Tamil Hall, that the demolition of their houses to make way for the port extension in the South Durban Basin was a really good idea, I was left in a sense of morbid awe.
He argued that it would create jobs and cause economic growth. I was also struck by his inflective addition to the 'There Is No Alternative' (TINA) school of economics that is forever in favour of free markets – for Big Oil, for mining companies and for an unsustainable future of ever increasing amounts of consumption and global warming.
And again, there was here another critical lack of a sense of enoughness, that the beautiful Port of Durban, Wilson's Wharf, the BAT Centre, the sandbank in the bay, the strip of grass beside the habour wall where the shareblock residents play football at dusk, the green and red directional lights twinkling at night is as it should be, and indeed is exactly the right size.
No sense that the Isipingo Beach, allegedly the most polluted in the world, or the primary school next to the Engen Refinery (which keeps throwing hot oil and flames into the air in sporadic accidents), where one in two children have to take inhalers to school for their asthma have not had enough already.
Then came the April 2013 notices of major refinery expansions by both BP at Sapref (next to the old airport) and Total at Island View Refinery – which together with Engen represents the largest oil refining complex on the continent. Has this community not suffered way more than its fair share of the 'externalitites' of capitalist markets to say 'enough already'?
In fact, it occurred to me while listening to the Minister of Finance the Honourable Pravin Gordhan, telling people that 'we' are in a race with the Mozambicans for economic growth, and that 'they' were building new ports, so 'we' had to as well, that maybe he was talking about a sporting fixture.
But no, the Minister had embraced the race to economic growth at any cost, so 'we' had to as well, or otherwise it would be the End of Life as We Know It. Indeed he invokes fear by arguing that the 'There is No Alternative' view of economics, if not understood by the little people could mean national disaster - a distressingly weak case intellectually.
He said that The Nation JUST HAD TO make the Port eight times as large (by capacity), destroying the sandbanks, the rare birds, chameleons, the house that Mahatma Gandhi once lived in, the cultural icons of an historic Indian community, temples, grave yards and the communities of Clairwood, Merebank, Mobeni, Wentworth and parts of Isipingo, Bluff and lower Umbilo or the future would be BLEAK and JOBLESS, and the hole in the nation's finances called sovereign debt would just grow into a figure of countless 'noughts'.
Now to destroy so much I think you would have to be pretty confident about the economic case, so taking my professional interest in the assessments, or 'impact' studies that governments do to work out the affect that a development project will have on the people and environment I tracked down the particular report, with the help of the wonderful people at the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance that is supposed to justify this particular act of structural violence.
Before opening it, it doesn't look good, as the places and people have already become an 'interface zone', and by page 3, the consultants are talking about the 'redesign' of their space.
People-less, the report talks of the urgent need that Gauteng has for oil, and the huge pipeline that has already been built from Durban to Johannesburg to fulfil the national addition to big cars, to mining and to ripping minerals out of the ground at a faster and faster pace, to pay for the stuff coming into the big malls.
It is rumoured that a Chinese company are providing financing to Transnet in exchange for a guaranteed proportion of freight volume through the port. The minerals of Africa ripped out of the ground at an ever faster pace to pay for the consumer goods imported, plastic pink things for girls, plastic blue things for boys, the waste products of global petrochemical addition. The beauty, the history, the heritage, culture, Life does not get a look in.
How many jobs lost for jobs created?
There is certainly no sense of Enoughness here. Only a shrill urgency claimed for growth and jobs, both of which are calculated and predicted in the absence of consideration for the growth that the local economy already produces, and the jobs already there, whether in a car parts vendor, a Samoosa maker in her back kitchen, a fisherperson on the sandbank or a surf club struggling on the Bay Head.
Thus the port will apparently, according to Transnet create 28,000 jobs up and down the whole infrastructural plan, from the new oil exploration work out on the continental shelf, through the logistics chain, and up to Harrismith and Joburg. More oil, more containers, more roads, more pipelines.
But how many jobs are already there in the 30,000 affected households, and in their small businesses and informal businesses. They simply don't know. One sign of a disadvantaged community is that they are never counted.
There are many numbers, and much counting, and loads of figures, diagrams and data in the very long consultancy report. In Chapter 8, the 'Composite Summary & Strategic Issues Final Draft March 2009 A Local Area Plan and Land Use Management Scheme for the Back of Port Interface Zone. Perspective' Prepared by the Graham Muller Associates Consortium, the consultants commissioned by Ethekwini Municipality consider the challenges, possibilities and strategic issues, in a nice neat table, that arise from their Back of Port 'interface redesign'.
Environmentally, under 'possibility' we are told that the biodiversity loss and further pollution mean It may be necessary to plan compensatory reserve areas, somewhere else, as land use within the area is too dense.
Thus a 'strategic issue' is that A significant area will be displaced, compensation may require remaining areas of coastal grassland such as the racecourse in addition to significant areas outside the area. The loss of habitat associated with port development may not be replaceable in the location. It may be necessary to conserve other areas within the Municipal Area. The grammar is not good here, but I take this to mean that all will be lost here, but never mind, we'll call the (already existing) racecourse 'compensation'.
In the trade of environmental impact assessment, this is called mitigation in a non-proximate offset. In plain English it is called, hard luck, we'll save something for someone else, somewhere else, by calling it compensation and promising not to destroy that as well (even if it wasn't under threat in the first place). In fact in this case, a chunk of the racecourse will indeed go under concrete, so maybe we should see what remains as our collective 'mitigation'.
But arguably the most human cruelty in this project is to be found in the summary of social impact. Here it is a 'challenge' that there is a Need for additional container capacity at a port (Super Port / Hub Port) and a challenge that there is a National focus on South Durban as key petro-chemical hub – industrial growth zone and the local desire of communities to continue living in South Durban.
Indeed, a challenge if not total recipe for distress. This is a community which from Apartheid through to now has been systematically socially excluded and made to stand at the back end of the line for service delivery improvements.
Social programmes replace homes
It was of course no accident that the dirty industries were originally put next to Indian and Black communities, and though this may sound cynical to some, that there has been a lack of investment in these areas for some considerable time, in the expectation that a project like this would one day get done. Previous forced removals have left people in squalor in apparently permanent 'transit camps', with no history of compensation.
This lack of intervention now allows for an important framing of the community as dysfunctional, a cruel twist where a place and its people can be pathologised and their forced poverty made into a reason for their ultimate destruction.
It is a 'challenge' that there is, again in the view of Consultants Inc Poverty, unemployment and [a] slow pace of transformation [which] impacts on [the] social character and conditions of [the] neighbourhoods.
Consultants Inc. observe that Social decline of large inner city zones as a result of the lack of intervention into critical social issues: [results in] crime, drugs, alcohol abuse, life skills, social norms and activities for the youth, and HIV/Aids, while Crime and the inability to manage the problem at all levels of government impacts on [the] quality of life and [the] stability of neighbourhoods. In other words, they imply that there isn't really much to be lost here as it's a pretty terrible place to live. The complexity of a neighbourhood, problems and all, is then re-framed as a sequences of social problems.
So I was particularly interested to see what 'possibilities' there were, but then quickly grew alarmed as the job creation and economic growth spoken of by the Minister has magically turned into programmes in key strategic areas to address social problems: crime prevention, drugs and alcohol and programmes for the youth.
They will lose their homes and then be sent on a social reprogramming!
In fact look a little deeper, as the Stop the Port campaign are doing, and it looks like there are derisory plans to compensate people, who will just be asked to politely walk away. A letter sent on 22 May, 2012, from the Head of Housing of Ethekwini Municipality to the ECOD Housing Committee, sums up well - that what they have is a possible resettlement in a place that is imaginary/not yet built.
Parts of the letter read: A report is to be submitted to the Housing Committee that suggestsfor relocation to Cornubia in terms of a prioritization process. The 12 settlements requested for relocation [as a consequence of the Back of Port 'development'] will be included in that report...
As the report currently stands there is a need of approximately 30 000 units identified for relocation to Cornubia. If the 764 structures (excluding the possibility of the backyard shacks in formal sites that are in the process of been quantified for Clairwood) the demand on Cornubia is further increased. The Cornubia development allows for the construction of approximately 12000 fully subsidized housing structures [not built yet]. Therefore there is an oversubscription of almost 18 000 units.
Thus in this sorry tale of 'free' markets you have Transnet, Big Oil, ideologically explained by TINA forcibly removing 30,000 affected 'units' (that is households), with no plans for compensation.
Their 'enoughness', their frugality, their communities, are to be destroyed so [bad] economists can manage 'scarcity' for Oil, without any apparent hat-tip to the ideas of the Green Economy promulgated by the Government from COP17, and the cruelty of the footnote to the plans? The people, whose very 'poverty' is being used against them.
They are depicted, after years of government neglect, as communities not worth keeping. All of which goes to show how three other related words, 'wisdom', 'education' and 'intelligence' are also very similar, but again, and critically in this case, very different as educated consultants and government ministers demonstrate so little wisdom or intelligence.
Let's say 'Enough!' I am humming that Chumbawumba classic anthem 'Enough is Enough is Enough', remembering the heroic Sokwanele group in Zimbabwe, who in a different context are shouting 'sokwanele' ('enough' in Shona), trying to get rid of the dictator and his de facto military state within a state.
I may write a book on the necessary need to restore enoughness as a concept in economics. I sometimes start that lecture with a metaphor, imagine the global economy is a car driving at 160 km per hour down the N1 with no seatbelts for the children. Would you want to increase the speed? No, not if you were sane. So why do we need any more 'economic growth'?
It is only the measurement of how much faster insane economists want an already critically unsustainable and dangerously large global economy to go. More, bigger, better, faster, consume, consume, shop.
So let's say enough.
South Durban’s battle royal
Lloyd Gedye (Citypress) 28 April 2013
Community refuses to be railroaded by Transnet and the government, writes Lloyd Gedye
‘I see your shirt says you are against the port expansion. Why?” asked Transnet CEO Brian Molefe as he confronted south Durban community leader Desmond D’sa on the steps of the Wentworth Community Hall.
After D’sa told him he’d lodged, in writing, the objections of his organisation, the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, to Transnet and the eThekwini Municipality, and did not want to argue, Molefe told him: “You are a liar. You don’t understand democracy. You are irresponsible and you are lying to the community.
“Do you want to take us back?” Molefe continued. “Do you want to deny black people jobs and development, just to save some frogs?”
D’sa did not respond to this oversimplification of his neighbourhood’s concerns, nor did he react to Molefe’s playing of the race card.
But this confrontation speaks volumes about the state of engagement around Durban’s port expansion and the new dig-out port planned for the city.
Molefe, with Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba and Transport Minister Ben Martins, hosted a community meeting two weeks ago to sell the port plans to Wentworth residents.
D’sa attended as chairperson of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, a coalition of 14 environmental, community and church groups, formed in 1995.
“We are not against development,” he later told City Press, but he insists that if government and Transnet think they can bulldoze over community concerns, they have another think coming.
So why has it come to this?
According to Transnet and eThekwini documents released for public comment, the Durban port can accommodate 2.9 million containers and Transnet predicts an 8% annual increase in their number.
If they are correct, this means they will run out of capacity by 2019.
The planned expansion to the existing port – and the new dig-out port to be built on land in the suburb of Reunion occupied by the old Durban airport – will increase capacity to 20 million containers.
In terms of the South African economy, the port expansion and new dig-out port are “not a nice-to-have”, as one eThekwini official explained.
In fact, the port plans are integral to the second strategic infrastructure project of the presidential infrastructure coordinating commission. It also forms part of the National Planning Commission’s development plan.
But the ramifications for the Durban suburbs of Athlone Park, Isipingo Beach, Merewent, Austerville, Merebank, Treasure Beach, Wentworth, Jacobs, the Bluff, Umbilo and Clairwood, and those who live there are very real.
Some, such as Clairwood, are already feeling the impact of being situated close to the existing port.
A drive through Clairwood is depressing.
Rubbish is piled on street corners, sometimes containing bags of faeces because of the lack of proper sewerage.
Sex workers and drug dealers populate the streets, while illegal trucking businesses have set up next to residential homes, with up to 10 trucks parked in yards. The roads, not built for this sort of traffic, are riddled with potholes.
The city says there were 7 379 truck-related accidents on municipal land in 2011, in which 72 people died and 210 were injured.
The south Durban community is not prepared to accept this status quo.
Last April, they occupied Solomon Mahlangu Drive, which joins Umbilo to the Bluff, to protest against the truck deaths.
Government and Transnet plan to increase rail freight from the port by between 25% and 73% of total freight by 2041, reducing road freight from 75% to 27%.
But this does not mean a decrease in the number of trucks on the roads because of the extra capacity the port expansion plans will bring.
The actual number of trucks is expected to increase by 123% over the next 30 years.
“The city has purposefully allowed Clairwood to degenerate into this hellhole,” said environmentalist Bobby Peek from groundWork, who works with the community to fight heavy polluters.
“Historically, south of Umbilo River has been a free-for-all,” he said, adding that south Durban has become an industrial hub with hazardous petrochemical and paper companies moving in next to working class residents.
A submission on the port-expansion plans by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and Earthlife Africa says the residents have health concerns.
“Studies in the area have shown the severe health crisis that has resulted,” says the document. “Children living in Merebank have higher rates of persistent asthma (32%) than children from Umlazi (17%), further away from the industry.”
Some schools in the area have reported asthma occurring among more than half of their pupils (52%). A recent study confirmed that cancer rates in Merebank are 24 times higher than in most other parts of the country.
When City Press attended a community meeting on the port plans in Umbilo late last year, the 100 residents there were asked to raise their hands if a friend or family member had cancer or a breathing complaint. More than a third raised their hands.
But pollution, trucks, prostitution and drugs are not south Durban’s only concerns.
KwaZulu-Natal subsistence fishermen are fighting Transnet for access to traditional fishing grounds, and a number of environmental NGOs have raised concerns over the destruction of endangered species and ecosystems at the dig-out port site, as well as the current harbour.
Added to this are 16 farmers, who employ hundreds of workers to farm 187 hectares of the old Durban airport land.
They had leased the land from Airports Company SA since the 1980s, but their future is now uncertain.
It’s not just their livelihood that is of concern. They also are a major source of affordable fruit, vegetables and flowers for the south Durban area.
In addition, environmentalists say the dig-out port will wipe out a large chunk of the habitat of one of the world’s rarest frogs.
The Pickersgill’s reed frog is confined to scattered pieces of land totalling 9km2, of which the old airport forms more than 2.3km2.
It is clear that the community has real concerns, regardless of whether Molefe wants to make light of their concerns and reduce them to “saving frogs”.
The community has even reached out to Transnet and the government, inviting them to address their members.
One such proposed meeting was meant to take place a week ago, but Transnet and Gigaba refused the invitation, hosting their own gathering the previous weekend in Wentworth instead.
The SA National Civic Organisation was there and, when City Press asked the members where they were from, they replied: “KwaMashu”.
Asked why they came, they said they were promised jobs.
It remains to be seen whether or not this was a case of bussing in a less confrontational crowd for public engagement.
What they said:
Transnet spokesperson Mboniso Sigonyela:
On the Wentworth community engagement: “This was an engagement session for affected communities in the area. We are not aware of people who were promised jobs for attendance.”
On the altercation between Brian Molefe and Desmond D’sa: “We disagree that the conversation was nasty, nor was it an attack. It was, however, a robust discussion on a matter of fact. So we stand by our words.
“Mr D’sa has been telling people that Transnet is planning forced removals in order to develop the proposed dig-out port. Neither Transnet nor the city has indicated an intention for forced removals to accommodate the port. When queried over these statements, Mr D’sa declined to answer. He was further queried about a message on the T-shirt he was wearing. He declined to engage, saying he was entitled to wear the misleading T-shirt. It was at that point that Mr Molefe pointed out that Mr D’sa does not understand democracy and that it is not about misleading people about nonexistent problems.
“That is the context in which the conversation took place.
“With regards to the statement about black people, it is our view that lack of investment, which Mr D’sa is advocating, hurts African people the most.
“Therefore, the proposed infrastructure programme for Durban will be of great benefit to them.”
On the consultation process: “Transnet is aware of the request for a single forum, which provides feedback and information on all related infrastructure projects that affect the area.
“This was made by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and its affiliates. We have elevated the matter to the Strategic Integrated Project 2 steering committee.
“We believe that the committee is in the process of establishing a common platform for stakeholder engagement, as requested.”
On the Isipingo farmers: “Farmers operating on the properties already acquired by Transnet are on month-on-month contracts. We are currently in talks with a view to agreeing on longer-term contracts, as there is no immediate need to relocate farmers at this stage.”
On the KwaZulu-Natal subsistence fishermen: “Our management at the Port of Durban is engaging with the fishermen and other users with regards to access to facilities under Transnet’s control.”
At the time of going to print, the department of transport and eThekwini Municipality had not responded to questions. The department of public enterprises referred questions to Transnet.
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PORT PROCESS IS FLAWED
Desmond D’SA (Sunday Tribune) 28 April 2013
‘Participation’ is a farce in south Durban writes Desmond D’SA, who asks for ‘one consultation on one vision for one development’ for the region
SOUTH Durban residents and allies campaigning against the port expansion and associated projects are dismayed and outraged at the manner in which stakeholder engagement for the digout port, the Back of Port Local Area plan and related projects has commenced.
The people who will be affected by the R250-billion project have repeatedly demanded that planning must be interrogated as one holistic public participation process, to create a development vision and plan for an all the people of south Durban. Up until now, the fragmented strategy of government and Transnet has prevented a full perspective on the scope of the project. The result is an extremely high level of alienation by affected residents and a sense that the consultation process is being manipulated.
Hundreds of south Durban people attended the meeting on September 1 last year in Clairwood where Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Mayor James Nxumalo promised a holistic process and full consultation.
We received commitments from the mayor’s office at the “developmental dialogue” on November 6, held at Moses Mabhida Stadium, and again on December 5 from the Minister of Public Enterprises, Malusi Gigaba, that a holistic stakeholder process would be initiated.
To date we have no clarity from the government about how the promised consultative process will work. Communities still have to deal with multiple processes.
On March 12 we invited the municipal manager, the mayor, the premier of KwaZulu-Natal, the Minister of Public Enterprise, the Minister of Finance as well as Transnet to a meeting on April 20. The purpose of the meeting was to initiate an inclusive process and for the government and Transnet to present their plans. This invitation was refused.
Instead the ministries of Public Enterprises and Transport hastily organised a “community engagement” on the Strategic Infrastructure Programme-2 (SIP2) on April 13 at the Austerville Community Hall.
In contrast, it seems that a SIP2 engagement with business on April 12 was organised well in advance. SIP2 is about the eThekwini-Gauteng transport corridor and the port expansion.
Public notices
The meeting included Minister Gigaba, KZN MEC for Economic Development Mike Mabuyakhulu, the premier’s spokesman Cyril Xaba, the Speaker of the eThekwini Municipality, Logie Naidoo, and Transnet’s chairman and chief executive, Mafika Mkwanazi and Brian Molefe.
The South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) was notified of the community engagement on April 11.
Some organisations aligned to the ANC in Wentworth were informed the following day in the evening.
No public notices inviting local people were posted in Merebank, Isipingo, Umbilo, Amanzimtoti, and Umlazi or anywhere else. None of the residents’ organisations and community groups from Clairwood, the Bluff, and Wentworth, Umbilo or other settlements were notified.
None of the other participants in the campaign against the port expansion, such as Earthlife Africa eThekwini, groundWork or the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society were informed of the meeting.
Only a handful of people from Wentworth came because they were walking nearby and happened to hear about the meeting. The councillor of Ward 68 was only informed on the morning about a meeting occurring at the community hall.
The meeting was called for 9am. It was delayed until shortly before 11am when buses started arriving bringing people from other parts of eThekwini. We fully support the principle of an inclusive community engagement that reaches out to all eThekwini’s people.
Nevertheless, the impression was created both that the attendance of these groups was organised at the last moment and that, as SANCO (South African National Civic Organisation) members, they were assumed to support the ruling party and the port expansion.
However, it backfired on the government – members of the audience made plain that it was a charade and not proper public consultation. And from all sides, whether from Sanco or south Durban, they questioned whether the mega projects would deliver the promised jobs and development.
Engage
Minister Gigaba told the meeting he was honouring his commitment to engage the community. This was the commitment made to the south Durban constituencies on December 5.
We believe that this commitment would have been better honoured by accepting the invitation to address the community meeting on April 20.
Adrian Peters, of eThekwini Municipality, gave a presentation on SIP2 and the port expansion. This made clear that the big decisions were already made. The primary purpose of “consultation” is to get community buy in. It ignores the enormous opposition that south Durban residents are expressing about the added pollution, the forced displacement of people starting with Clairwood and Merebank, and the likely intensification of real socio-economic problems.
What we need is not only a genuine participation process but one entailing high-employment, community-strengthening development, and which will not impact on people’s lives locally or globally through climate change.
The plans of Transnet and the municipality will have the opposite impact. The track record of these official planners is appalling, and our city is littered with white elephants, construction corruption and socio-economic neglect as a result.
On April 20, the community redoubled its efforts to ensure that the concerns of labour, environment, youth, women and all our neighbourhoods are addressed properly. That meeting – to which government and Transnet officials were invited – helped to provide the information and organising that our communities need to resist the R250bn tsunami of pollution and corporate subsidies.
We have survived in south Durban against all odds, and we will continue to demand that instead of a destructive mega project, our people and environment are allowed to develop in the way we want. We need one consultation for one vision for Durban and south Durban in particular.
This statement is supported by the following organisations: Clairwood Residents’ and Ratepayers’ Association, Bluff, Isipingo, Merebank Residents’ Association, Earthlife Africa eThekwini, Centre For Civil Society, groundWork, Umbilo Action Group, KZN Subsistence Fisherfolks, Airport Farmers’ Association, Silverglen Civic Association, Unemployed Movement of Umlazi, Lamontville Informal Settlement, Clairwood Informal Settlement, Folweni, R2Know KZN, Durban Social Forum.
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Lysa John CCS Webinar: Why is the Right to Protest under attack across the world? Thursday, 19 August 2021 |
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Paasha Mahdavi CCS Webinar: Extractive Resource Nationalization. Thursday 12 August 2021 |
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Nathan Andrews Thinking Beyond the Resource Curse? Oil, Globalized Assemblages and Development in Ghana. Wednesday 4 August 2021 |
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Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Webinar: The Curse of Titanium - The Amadiba Crisis Committee and Community Struggles in the Eastern Cape. Wednesday 28 July 2021 |
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Andrew Firmin CCS Webinar: 'Solidarity in the Time of Covid' - Civil Society Responses to the Pandemic. Wednesday 14 July 2021 |
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Inés Pousadela and David Kode CCS Webinar: The State of Civil Society: Findings from the 2021 CIVICUS Report. Wednesday 7 July 2021 |
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Philip Owen The Impacts of Industrial Timber Plantations on Environmental and Social Justice. Thursday 20 May 2021 |
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Guy Donald Abassombe CCS Webinar: Oil palm cultivation and socio-ecological changes A challenge for Sustainable Development in Cameroon. Thursday 13 May 2021 |
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Kumi Naidoo CCS Webinar: Climate Work and Climate Justice Work. Thursday, 29 April 2021 |
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Cathy Elando Kodiemoka, Nomfundo Mkhaba, Ngazini Ngidi, Lucas Ngoetjana & Tinashe Njanji Community Scholar Workshop "The Covid-19 Vaccine Debate". Wednesday 21 April 2021 |
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Alex Lenferna CCS Webinar: A Green New Eskom? Wednesday 14 April 2021 |
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N. Shange, M.A Varghese, S. Ngubane & N. Mbuthuma CCS Webinar: Young Civil Society and Contemporary Issue. Wednesday 31 March 2021 |
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Saliem Fakir CCS Webinar:Unpacking South Africa's Just Transition-A conversation with Saliem Fakir. Tuesday 23 March 2021 |
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Bruce Baigrie What Is The Ecological Crisis and How Do We Halt It? Wednesday 10 March 2021 |
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Vishwas Satgar CCS Webinar: The Climate Justice Charter Response to the Worsening Climate Crisis and South Africa’s Carbon Democracy. Wednesday 3 March 2021 |
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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 |
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Rosalind Hampton, CCS Webinar: Haunting colonial legacies in-and-of the Canadian University. Wednesday 18 November 2020 |
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Remi Joseph-Salisbury, CCS Webinar: Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism as Decolonial Praxis in British Universities. Wednesday 11 November 2020 |
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Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi CCS Webinar: The use of ‘Decolonial Methodologies’ to Foster Political Agency. Wednesday 4 November 2020 |
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Tana Joseph CCS Webinar: Decolonising the Sciences. Wednesday 21 October 2020 |
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Leigh-Ann Naidoo CCS Webinar: Statues Must Fall. Wednesday 16 September 2020 |
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Marjaan Sirdar, CCS Webinar: George Floyd and the Minneapolis Uprising. Wednesday 9 September 2020 |
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Hamid Khan CCS Webinar: Defund the Police, Abolish the Stalker State – A Global Fight. Wednesday 2 September 2020 |
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Danford Chibvongodze & Andries Motau, CCS Webinar: The Organizing Principle - Understanding the Erasure of Black Women in Liberation Movements from enslaved... Wednesday 26 August 2020 |
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Tiffany Caesar CCS Webinar: Black Mothers and Activism In The Black Lives Matter Movement. Wednesday 19 August 2020 |
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David Austin CCS Webinar: #BlackLivesMatter - Igniting A Global Call For Change. Wednesday 12 August 2020 |
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Thami Nkosi CCS Webinar Curbing Covid-19: Restrictions on Civil and Political Rights. Wednesday 29 July 2020 |
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Avena Jacklin CCS Webinar: Covid-19 and Environmental Regulations in South Africa: Curtailing Public Participation. Wednesday 22 July 2020 |
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Vuyiseka Dubula CSS Webinar: The Impact of Covid-19 on the South African Health System. Wednesday, 15 July 2020 |
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Patrick Bond CSS Webinar: A Global Political Economy of Covid-19 Social Struggles. Wednesday, 8 July 2020 |
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Gillian Maree CSS Webinar: The Spatial Distribution of Risks and Vulnerabilities: The GCRO Covid-19 Gauteng Map. Wednesday, 1 July 2020 |
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Thobani Zikalala CCS Webinar: Covid-19 Challenges in Higher Education – A Student’s Perspective. Wednesday 24 June 2020 |
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Dominic Brown CCS Webinar: Funding the Basic Income Grant (BIG) in SA Post Covid-19. Wednesday 17 June 2020 |
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Mark Heywood CCS Webinar: The South African Civil Society Response to Covid-19: The good, the bad and the ugly. Wednesday 10 June 2020 |
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Lubna Nadvi CCS Webinar: South Africa’s Covid-19 Response and Political Leadership. Wednesday 3 June, 2020 |
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Brian Minga Amza CCS Seminar: The uncomfortable place of spirituality and religion in the struggle for liberation. Wednesday 18 March 2020 |
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Andries Motau CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: Documentary Screening "Thank you for the rain." Wednesday, 27 February 2020 |
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Danford Chibvongodze Documentary Screening: City of Joy to mark 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children. Wednesday, 20 November 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: The pedreiro and the master planner(Part 6). Wednesday 30 October |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: Working on water (Part 5), Wednesday 23 October |
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Andries Motau CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: A documentary screening of “This Land”. Thursday 24 October 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Greening the city (Part 4). Wednesday 9 October 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: The architecture of violence (Part 3). Wednesday 9 October 2019 |
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Oliver Mtapuri, CCS Seminar – Why innovation matters: To invent or Not invent (at own peril). Thursday 26 September 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture (Part 2). Thursday, 19 September 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture. Thursday, 12 September 2019 |
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Andries Motau, CCS & docLOVE Documentary Screening: JOZI GOLD – A Human Catastrophe, A Toxic City, An Unlikely Activist. Thursday 29 August 2019 |
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Mvu Ngcoya CCS Seminar: Why Cuba’s Agricultural Revolution Puts South Africa’s Agrarian Programmes to Shame. Thursday 8 August 2019 |
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Mzamo Zondi, CCS Seminar: Activist Co-Optation: Tasting State Power. Wednesday 31 July 2019 |
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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 |
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Danford Chibvongodze, CCS Documentary Screening – The Power of Us. Thursday 18 July 2019 |
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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 |
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Daniel Byamungu Dunia, CCS and ASONET Seminar: SA Legislation on the Socioeconomic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Wednesday 12 June 2019 |
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Lara Lee, Documentary Screening - BURKINABE BOUNTY. Wednesday, 5th June 2019 |
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CCS Documentary Screening: Everything Must Fall. Thursday 30 May 2019 |
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Isaac Khambule, CCS Seminar: A 5 Year Review of South Africa’s National Development Plan and its Developmental State Ambition. Wednesday 29 May 2019 |
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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 |
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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 |
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CCS and φowerfest! Free Public Screening: Shadow World. Thursday 25 April 2019 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sthembiso Khuluse and Daniel Dunia, CCS and the Right2Know Campaign Seminar: Your Right To Protest in South Africa. Friday 12 April 2019 |
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Lerato Malope CCS Seminar: Service Delivery and Citizen Participation in Cato Manor. Wednesday 10 April 2019 |
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Ranjita Mohanty, Ilya Matveev, Brian Meir CCS Seminar: Democratising Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice – An Indian Case Study. Friday 5 April 2019 |
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Nduduzo Majozi, CCS Seminar: Housing Service Delivery in Cato Manor. Wednesday 27 March 2019 |
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Danford Chibvongodze, CCS Documentary Screening: An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela. Friday 29 March 2019 |
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Geoff Harris and Tlohang Letsie CCS Seminar - Demilitarising Lesotho: The Peace Dividend - A Basic Income Grant? Wednesday 20 March 2019 |
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Thobani Zikalala CCS Seminar: Wokeness vs Consciousness. Wednesday 13 March 2019 |
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Nisha Naidoo, CCS: Impact Strategy Workshop. Thursday 7 March 2019 |
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Philisiwe Mazibuko & Percy Nhau, CCS Seminar: The ‘#Data Must Fall’ Campaign. Wednesday 6 March 2019 |
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Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Empowering Communities to Self-Mobilise: The TAC Method. Wednesday 27 February 2019 |
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Nisha Naidoo, CCS: Impact Strategy Workshop. Wednesday 13 February 2019 |
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Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally, CCS Seminar: History's Schools: Past Struggles and Present Realities. Tuesday 27 November 2018 |
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CCS & Powerfest Public Screening "The Public Bank Solution: How can we own our oewn banks?". Thursday 8 November 2018 |
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Dr Victor Ayeni, CCS and African Ombudsman Research Centre Seminar: Improving Service Delivery in Africa. Tuesday 6 November 2018 |
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Alude Mahali, CCS & HSRC Present Documentary Screening & Seminar: Ready or Not!. Thursday 22 November 2018 |
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CCS & Powerfest, Public Screening of "Busted: Money Myths and Truths Revealed". Thursday 25 October 2018 |
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Henrik Bjorn Valeur, A Culture of Fearing ‘The Other’: Spatial Segregation in South Africa. Wednesday 7 November 2018 |
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Danford Chibvongodze, Seminar Six: "Half Man, Half Amazing"- The Gift of Nasir Jones' Music to African Collective Identity. Thursday, 11 October 2018 |
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Brian Minga Amza and Dime Maziba, CCS Seminar: 31 Years Later - A Consideration of the Ideas of Thomas Sankara. Wednesday, 24 October 2018 |
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Ajibola Adigun CCS Seminar: African Pedagogy and Decolonization: Debunking Myths and Caricatures. Thursday 18 October 2018 |
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CCS & Powerfest! Public Screening of "FALSE PROFITS: SA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS". Wednesday, 26 September 2018 |
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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 |
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CCS Seminar: Co-Production of Knowledge - Lessons from Innovative Sanitation Service Delivery in Thandanani and Banana City informal Settlements, Durban. Wednesday 17 October 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Rural Development and Livelihoods in South Africa. Thursday 13 September 2018 |
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Thobani Zikalala, CCS Seminar: Adopting a Black Consciousness Analysis in Understanding Land Expropriation in South Africa. Wednesday, 12 September 2018 |
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Simbarashe Tembo, CCS Seminar: Constitutionalism in Zimbabwe: An Interrogation of the 2018 Election. Wednesday, 19 September 2018 |
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CCS Community Scholar Workshop Activism and Technology. Wednesday, 29 August 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Canada's Dark Secret. Thursday 30 August 2018 |
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CCS UKZN & Powerfest!: Festival of Powerful Ideas, Public Screening: The D.I.Y Economy. Friday, 24 August 2018 |
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Daniel Byamungu Dunia, CCS Seminar: Building capacity and skills for effective and successful integration of refugee communities in South Africa. Wednesday 8 August 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Human Trafficking, Thursday 19 July 2018 |
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CCS UKZN & Powerfest!: Festival of Powerful Ideas, Public Screening of AUTOGESTIo. Thursday 12 July 2018 |
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Wenche Dageid, CCS Seminar: Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development – prospects for health and equity. Monday 9 July 2018 |
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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 |
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CCS Seminar: Should I stay or should I go? Exploring mobility in the context of climatically-driven environmental change, Wednesday 27 June 2018 |
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Gerald Boyce, CCS Seminar: From blackest night to brightest day, Thursday 28 June 2018 |
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CCS, UKZN and Powerfest Festival of Powerful Ideas: Cuba-An African Odyssey, 14 June 2018 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: White Helmets, Thursday 24 May 2018 |
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CCS, UKZN & Powerfest! Festival of Powerful Ideas: Celebrating Africa Month Stealing Africa, Wednesday 16 May 2018 |
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Chris Desmond CCS Seminar: Liberation Studies: Development through Recognition, Wednesday 9 May 2018 |
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Andrew Lawrence CCS Seminar - Obstacles to realising the 'Million Climate Jobs' Vision: Which policy strategies can work? When? How?, Friday 18 May 2018 |
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CCS, UKZN, Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas (FREE FILM AND POPCORN SERIES), Thursday 26 April 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: April Theme Earth Day "Seeds of Sovereignty" & "Cowspiracy"...Discover environmentalism. 19 April 2018 |
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Alfred Moraka, How Not To Despoil Yourself of African Wonders: Oyeronke Oyewumi’s work as African Epistemological Enchantment. Wednesday 18 April 2018 |
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Dr Joseph Rudigi Rukema, CCS Seminar: Entrepreneurship through Research - Converting Research into Community Projects. Wednesday 11 April 2018 |
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Philile Langa, Centre for Civil Society and Critical Times, Critical Race Project Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018. Thursday 29 March 2018 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: #MeToo vs. Time's Up & We Should All Be Feminists. Thursday 22 March 2018 |
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Documentary Screening, CCS and KZN Palestine Forum Documentary Screening: Anti Black Racism and Israel’s White Supremacy, 14 March 2018 |
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Mary de Haas, Of Corruption and Commissions but no Conclusions Seminar Series: The Moerane Commission, 15 March 2018 |
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Jay Johnson, CCS Seminar: Contested Rights and Spaces in the City: the Case of Refugee Reception Offices in South Africa, 13 March 2018 |
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Daniel Byamungu Dunia,CCS and Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Seminar: The Trials of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa , 1 March 2018 |
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King Sibiya, CCS and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas, 27 February 2018 |
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97% Owned, CCS and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas 2018, Documentary Screening Series 2018, 28 February 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS: Documentary Screening , 22 February 2018 |
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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 |
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Shaun Ruggunan CCS Seminar: Waves of Change: Globalisation and Labour Markets, 15 November 2017 |
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Gerard Boyce The Dentons Commission, 1 November 2017 |
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Ndumiso Dladla Prolegomenon to an Africanist Historiography in South Africa: Mogobe Ramose’s Critical Philosophy of Race, 25 October 2017 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart CSS Seminar: Young Civil Society and Contemporary Issues, 11 October 2017 |
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Rozena Maart Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018 , 27 September 2017 |
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Gerard Boyce CCS Seminar: Of Corruption and Commissions but no Conclusions Seminar Series, 20 September 2017 |
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Shauna Mottiar CCS Seminar: Everyday Forms of Resistance in Durban, 1 September 2017 |
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Mhlobo Gunguluzi and Thabane Miya Centre for Civil Society and Right2Know Campaign Seminar: The Right to Protest, 27 July 2017 |
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Bandile Mdlalose, Daniel Dunia and Nisha Naidoo, The Peoples Economic Forum Responds to the World Economic Forum, 1 June 2017 |
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Mvu Ngcoya, Rozena Maart, Shaun Ruggunan, Mershen Pillay Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Decolonising Curricula, 25 May 2017 |
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Peter Sutoris, Environmental Activism and Environmental Education: (De) Politicising Struggles in India and South Africa, 18 May 2017 |
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Lubna Nadvi, Lukhona Mnguni, Shauna Mottiar, The April 7th Protests, 20 April 2017 |
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John Devenish, CCS Seminar: The use of interactive maps and scatter graphs to study protest in the BRICS countries, 13 April 2017 |
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Shauna Mottiar, Mvuselelo Ngcoya BOOK LAUNCH: Philanthropy in South Africa - Horizontality, ubuntu and social justice, 22 March 2017 |
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Peter McKenzie Photo Exhibition - Durbanity, 09 March 2017 |
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Elisabet Van Wymeersch On change, conflicts and planning theory: the transformative potential of disruptive contestation, 2 March 2017 |
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Daniel Byamungu Dunia, Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Community Building Workshop: CRIMINALISATION OF HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH, 24 February 2017 |
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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 |
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Bandile Mdlalose, New Urban Agenda’ – Report Back from Habitat III, United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development Ecuador, 28 November |
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Patrick Bond, From Trump to BRICS, where is civil society headed? 18 November |
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Gerard Boyce, Arguments in favour of putting the South African government's nuclear plans to a popular referendum, 28 October |
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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 |
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Alex Hotz CCS Seminar: Challenging Secrecy and Surveillance: Building Anti-Surveillance Activism, 19 August |
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Itai Kagwere, Daniel Byamungu Dunia and Gabriel Hertis CCS Seminar: Challenges of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa, 26 August |
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Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: Sight on the target: Tackling destructive fishing, 12 August |
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Carolijn van Noort CCS Seminar: “Strategic narratives of infrastructural development: is BRICS modernizing the tale?”, 26 July |
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CCS Co-Hosts: The Governance and Politics of HIV AIDS, 19 July |
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Moises Arce CCS Seminar: The Political Consequences of Mobilizations against Resource Extraction, 12 July |
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Zimbabwe's Despondent Political Economy - a Durban workshop to honour Sam Moyo 13-14 June 2016 |
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Patrick Bond gives political economy lecture to Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Women in Business Forum, 26 April 2016 |
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CCS hosts mining critics for press conference, 7 April |
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Assassination in Xolobeni: Film screening and memorial meeting for Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, 6 April |
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Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia launch BRICS in Toronto, 31 March |
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Akin Akikboye CCS Seminar: KZN's Internally Displaced People, 31 March |
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Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia present critique of world ports, New York, 30 March |
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Dieter Lünse CCS Seminar: Strength of nonviolent action, 22 March |
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Hafsa Kanjwal CCS Seminar: India in Turmoil, 23 March |
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Patrick Bond testifies at public hearing on Transnet's South Durban plans, 21 March |
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Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and Pan-Africanism, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 15 March |
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Yaa Ashantewaa K. Archer-Ngidi CCS Seminar: The role of Black women in liberation, 10 March |
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Patrick Bond reports on research into urban economic and ecological violence, IDRC & UKAID conference, Johannesburg, 8 March |
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Patrick Bond addresses Women in Mining (Womin) conference on movement building, Johannesburg, 7 March |
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Allen & Barbara Isaacman CCS Seminar: Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development, 4 March |
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Patrick Bond presents South Durban paper in Merebank, 2 March |
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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 |
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China Ngubane , Chumile Sali & Dalli Weyers CCS Seminar: Social Justice Coalition Citizen Oversight of Policing in Khayelitsha Court Case Presentation, 26 February |
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CCS hosts groundWork, SDCEA and FrackFreeSA for climate and energy workshop, 25 February |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Can the SA budget afford #FeesMustFall demands and other social spending? 23 February |
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Patrick Bond joins Mondli Hlatshwayo & Aziz Choudry to launch Just Work, Ike's Books, 22 February |
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Peter Cole CCS Seminar: A History of Dockers, Social Movements and Transnational Solidarity in Durban and San Francisco, 17 February |
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Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS at Univ of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 15 February |
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Delwyn Pillay, Jorim Gerrad, Madaline George & Nozipho Mkhabela CCS Seminar: A return to MUTOKO, Zimbabwe, 10 February |
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Nick Turse CCS Seminar: AFRICOM’s New Math and “Scarier” Times Ahead in Africa, 5 February |
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Menzi Maseko & Mandla Mbuyisa CCS Seminar: Black Consciousness, Fees Must Fall and Lessons from the Life of Ongkopotse Tiro, 1 February |
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Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane & Daniel Dunia CCS Seminar: Central African and Zimbabwean geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society II, 27 January |
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Patrick Bond keynote at Tata Institute Development Studies conference, 23 January |
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Patrick Bond, Thando Manzi, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane present urban analysis at Tata Institute, Mumbai, 19-22 January |
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Patrick Bond, Achin Vanaik, Ajay Patnaik & Alka Acharya launch BRICS book, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 18 January |
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Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane, Daniel Dumia & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: African geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society I, 11 January |
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CCS students Boaventura Monjane, Mithika Mwenda, Tabitha Spence & Celia Alario at the COP21 climate summit, Paris, 1-12 December |
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Jorim Gerrard & Paul Steffen CCS Seminar: Influencing society's views of refugees, 9 December |
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Workshop on Climate Change and Environmental Justice with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 7-10 December |
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Ashwin Desai, Betty Govinden, Crispin Hemson & Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: The Gandhi debate, 27 November |
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Stefano Battain & Daniela Biocca CCS Seminar: Alternative development or alternative to development? 27 November |
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CCS Seminar: Remembering Sam Moyo, 25 November |
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Patrick Bond debates Sihle Zikalala & Vasu Gounden on the state of South Africa, eThekwini Progressive Professionals Forum, 25 November |
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Christelle Terreblanche debates Ubuntu at the University of Pretoria, 23 November |
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Patrick Bond & Toendepi Shonhe CCS Seminar: BRICS crumble, commodities crash and Africa's climate changes, 20 November |
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Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS banking at University of Cape Town School of Economics, 16 November |
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Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: KZN civil society responses to the Paris Climate Change Conference, 9 November |
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Patrick Bond with Numsa and BRICS climate critique at Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-6 November |
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Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS as sub-imperialism at Open University, 4 November |
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Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: Black First! but what is Black? 4 November |
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Patrick Bond debates BRICS and climate change at Sussex University, 3 November |
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Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Numsa, technological change and politics at ArcelorMittal's Vanderbijlpark plant, 22 October |
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Tri Continental Film Festival Screenings at CCS 21-24 October |
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Patrick Bond delivers keynote at Cyprus conference on mining and sustainable development, 16 October |
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Patrick Bond launches BRICS book in New York 19 October |
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Brian Minga Anza, Mwamba Kalombo Thithi & Sinqobangaye Magestic Pro Sibisi CCS Seminar: Creative challenges to xenophobia, 15 October 2015 |
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Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Inequality, the criminalisation of protest and internecine social conflict, 9 October |
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Patrick Bond delivers sustainability keynote to SA Public Health Association conference, 8 October |
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Patrick Bond debates UN Sustainable Development Goals, ClassicFM, Johannesburg, 1 October |
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Patrick Bond talks on African uprisings at Mapungubwe Institute, Pretoria, 30 September |
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Patrick Bond debates Africa in the world economy, Channel Africa, Johannesburg, 29 September |
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Ana Garcia presents BRICS critique at Geopolitical Economy conference, Winnipeg, 26 September |
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Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth in Berlin, 16 September |
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CCS welcomes World Social Science Forum to Durban, with talks by Vuyiseka Dubula, Patrick Bond & others in CCS, 13 - 16 September |
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CCS welcomes Codesria and WSSF to Ike's Books, 12 September |
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CCS hosts the South-South Institute during the World Social Science Forum, 10-18 September |
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Patrick Bond lectures at Codesria/Osisa Economic Justice Institute, 8-9 September |
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Patrick Bond, Boaventura Monjane & Mithika Mwenda at Africa Climate Talks, Dar es Salaam, 3-5 September |
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Vladimir Slivyak What's wrong with Russia's nuclear energy deal-making? 4 September |
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John Devenish CCS Seminar: Mapping social unrest in South Africa, 1 September |
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Patrick Bond lectures on climate and deglobalisation alternatives at Attac University, Marseille, 26 August |
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Patrick Bond lecture on legacy of Rosa Luxemburg at New School for Social Research, New York, 21 August |
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China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia as symptom, 20 August |
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Justine van Rooyen CCS Seminar: The Social Inclusion/Exclusion of Intersex South Africans, 12 August |
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Patrick Bond keynote speech at BRICS-in-Africa conference, Livingstone, 7-11 August |
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Patrick Bond and Sam Moyo speak at Trust Africa conference on Illicit Financial Flows, Harare, 3 August |
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Patrick Bond delivers paper on climate and the blue economy, Wits University, 2 August |
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Patrick Bond in economic debate at M&G Literary Festival, Johannesburg, 1 August |
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Yaa Ashantewaa Ngidi CCS Seminar: The state of the Pan Africanist movement, 30 July |
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Ryan Solomon CCS Seminar: Belonging, inclusion and South African civil society in the campaigns against AIDS and xenophobia, 29 July |
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Patrick Bond moderates UKZN College of Humanities debate on xenophobia and higher ed transformation, 28 July |
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Lloyd Sachikonye CCS Seminar: Social research and civil society in Zimbabwe, 28 July |
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Patrick Bond & Mithika Mwenda at Climate Futures symposium, Italy, 13-17 July |
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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 |
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CCS co-hosts (with Chris Hani Institute) World Association for Political Economy, Johannesburg, 19-21 June |
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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 |
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CCS/ASONET workshop on xenophobia, 5 June |
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Alf Nilsen launches his book We Make Our Own History, at Ike's Books, 4 June |
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Patrick Bond addresses civil society electricity crisis summit on load-shedding, Johannesburg, 2 June |
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Patrick Bond talks on extractivism, BRICS sub-imperialism and South Africa at Left Forum, New York, 30-31 May |
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China Ngubane, Gabriel Hertis, Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Persistent Durban xenophobia and Operation Fiela, 20 May |
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CCS hosts Colgate University students for social movement research, June |
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Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: Xolobeni mining, unobtanium-titanium battle update, 14 May |
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Patrick Bond lecture on carbon markets and climate debt, Gyeongsang University, Jinju, Korea, 12 May |
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Patrick Bond speaks on South African political economy, Hong Kong Reader bookshop, 11 May |
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Gcina Makoba, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Rhodes' walls must fall! 30 April |
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CCS Film Screening: The GAMA Strike A victory for all workers, 24 April |
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Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth and the green economy, Berlin, 21 April |
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Faith ka Manzi & Bandile Mdlalose at Climate Justice strategy meeting, Maputo, April 21-23 |
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Paul Kariuki, Bandile Mdlalose, China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Durban, 14 April |
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CCS joins Greenpeace and R2K in solidarity meeting with Somkhele coal victims, northern KZN, 12 April |
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China Ngubane & Jean-Pierre Lukamba CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Isipingo, 7 April |
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Patrick Bond lecture on water commodification and resistance at Zimbabwe Sustainable Economics Forum, Harare, 9 April |
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Alice Thomson, Desmond D’Sa & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Liberal and radical approaches to Environmental Justice campaigning, 1 April |
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Patrick Bond speaks on coalitions for national economic sovereignty, World Social Forum, University of Tunis el Manar, 25 March |
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Akin Akiboye & Jorim Gerrard CCS Seminar: Xenophobia and displacement, 17 March |
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Sofie Hellberg CCS Seminar: Water, life and politics in Durban, 10 March |
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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 |
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Israeli Apartheid Week Events 2 - 8 March |
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Baruti Amisi and Boaventura Monjane speak at US Power Africa conference, University of Illinois, 2-4 March |
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Baruti Amisi, Gerard Boyce & Patrick Bond CCS Workshop: 'False solutions' to climate and energy crises, 26 February |
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Carlos Cardoso CCS Seminar: Knowledge production and intellectual formation in Africa from Codesria's perspective, 20 February |
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Benny Wenda CCS Seminar: The campaign to free West Papua, 19 February |
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Gcina Makoba & Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Campaigning against coal in KZN, 18 February |
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Patrick Bond debates BRICS sherpa Anil Sooklal, UCT Centre for Conflict Resolution, 16 February |
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Desmond D'Sa, David Le Page, Bhavna Deonarain, Winnie Mdletshe & others: Launch of Fossil Free KZN, 13 February |
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Angus Joseph CCS Seminar: Climate justice and solidarity from Lima to Paris, 13 February |
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Nhamo Chikowore & China Ngubane Zimbabwe's new conjuncture and SA's new xenophobia, 6 February |
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Baruti Amisi, Brain Amza & and Jacky Kabidu DRC uprising, repression and solidarity, 5 February |
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Chris Coward CCS Seminar: New spaces of social activism, 28 January |
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Immanuel Ness CCS Seminar: Lessons from the labour movements of China and India, 27 January |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Electricity crisis scenarios, 20 January |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Oil spills, coal digs, resource cursing and resistance, 12 January |
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Events Index 2014 |
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Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: United Front Preparatory Assembly assessment, 22 December |
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Thando Manzi, Au Loong Yu & John Devenish CCS Seminar: BRICS-from-below struggles for justice, 19 December |
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CCS hosts South Durban climate camp, 8-11 December |
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Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose, Shauna Mottiar, Themba Mchunu & China Ngubane CCS press conference and workshop: Durban politics stressed to break-point, 5 December |
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Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Organised labour's losses since 1994, worker-community relations after 2014, 28 November |
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Patrick Bond critiques World Bank at UWC poverty conference, 27 November |
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CCS hosts launch of Fossil Free South Africa, 27 November |
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Faith ka-Manzi debates SA social protest at Gumede Lecture, Durban History Museum, 27 November |
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Melissa Hansen CCS Seminar: Struggles over conservation space in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, 24 November |
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Patrick Bond lectures on Africa's Resource Curse, Stellenbosch University, 20 November |
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Vuyiseka Dubula, Faith ka-Manzi & Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Treatment Action Campaign reaches the knife-edge, 18 November, 2014 |
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CCS hosts Durban environmental network, 15 November |
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Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: Learning and research in social movements, 14 November |
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Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: NGOization, 'civil society' and social change: Complicity, contradictions and prospects, 13 November |
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Gun Free South Africa workshop with CCS, 12 November |
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Creesen Naicker CCS Seminar: Sport for Development in South Africa, 11 November |
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Patrick Bond joins SA panel at Historical Materialism conference, London, 7 November |
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Patrick Bond lectures on neoliberalism and social policy at South-South Institute in Bangkok, 5 November |
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Patrick Bond keynote address on African IT, to the International Development Informatics Association, 3 November |
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Patrick Bond debates GDP with SA government, Pretoria, 31 October |
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Patrick Bond debates GDP reform at University of Pretoria, 28 October |
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China Ngubane and Patrick Bond at UKZN Geography workshop on community politics, 24 October |
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CCS hosts CT Social Justice Coalition training on sanitation advocacy, 22 October |
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CCS hosts Greenpeace film on climate and Arctic oil, Black Ice, 14 October |
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Diana Buttu CCS Seminar: The situation in Palestine, 8 October |
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Mithika Mwenda lecture on climate justice at Climate Change and Development Conference, Morocco, 7 October |
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Stefan Cramer CCS Seminar on Karoo fracking, 7 October |
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Omar Shaukat CCS Seminar: Thinking through ISIS, 1 October |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA social policy at University of Burgundy, Dijon, 25 September |
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Patrick Bond debates Mark Weisbrot on BRICS at IPS, Washington, 23 September |
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Mithika Mwenda and Patrick Bond talk on climate justice, Converge for Climate at Graffiti Church, New York City, 20 September |
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Awethu! network meets at CCS, 20 September |
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Patrick Bond lecture on South Africa at City University of New York, 18 September |
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John Saul and Patrick Bond launch books at Cape Town Open Book Fair, 17 September |
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The UKZN Centre for Civil Society and Palestine Solidarity Forum host a Gaza Documentary Screening, 11 September |
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Gcina Makoba update on recyclables project in Inanda, 15 September |
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Patrick Bond debates the causes and implications of Marikana at the Durban Democracy and Development Programme, 10 September |
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Mnikeni Phakathi & Asha Moodley CCS Seminar (with the Right to Know Campaign): Student Protest at UKZN 2014, 5 September |
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Patrick Bond debates climate and energy at Univ of Leipzig 'Degrowth' conference, Germany, 5 September |
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Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond Durban water and sanitation policies, projects and politics, 1 September |
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Patrick Bond input on BRICS at Centre for Conflict Resolution seminar, Pretoria, 31 August |
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Patrick Bond on Resource Curses and antidotes, at Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Maputo, 28 August |
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China Ngubane & Sizwe Shiba Southern African people's solidarity dynamics, 28 August |
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Patrick Bond lecture on South Durban strategy, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, 22 August |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA political economy at Chinese Academy of Marxism, Beijing, 20 August |
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Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Climate change and global policy battles, 15 August |
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Niall Reddy CCS Seminar: BRICS after Fortaleza, 14 August |
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Ilan Pappé Dennis Brutus Memorial Lecture: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine, 5 August |
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UKZN CCS Masters Student Mithika Mwenda testifies on Climate Justice on Our Common Planet, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, 4 August |
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Loraine Dongo & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Climate, oil and activism in South Africa, 31 July |
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Patrick Bond debates Intensive Energy User Group's Shaun Nel on energy, SAfm, 23 July |
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Patrick Bond debates SACP's Alex Mashilo on SA politics, SA Democratic Teachers Union KZN Province, Durban, 24 July |
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Susan Spronk Contesting Water Privatisation through an Efficiency Narrative, 23 July |
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Matt Meyer The State of the Art in Non-violent Civil Disobedience, 22 July |
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Patrick Bond discusses infrastructure finance, Fortaleza, 15 July |
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Patrick Bond debates JP Landman on SA poli econ, Ike's Books, 9 July |
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CCS-Brazilian collaboration at the 2014 BRICS Summit, 14-16 July in Fortaleza |
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Bhekinkosi Moyo CCS Seminar: Southern African civil society, 7 July |
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Jack Dyer CCS Seminar: The economic consequences of Durban's port expansion, 25 June 2014 |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA macroeconomic conditions, at UKZN SA Research Chair initiative workshop, 20 June |
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Patrick Bond debates SA soccer leader Danny Jordaan on the World Cup's legacy, BBC radio, 18 June |
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John Devenish CCS Seminar: Protests in India, South Africa & Brazil The issues participants & tactics, 17 June 2014 |
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Patrick Bond debates the SA economy with MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu, UKZN Business School, 11 June |
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Patrick Bond debates sustainability at Governance Innovation conference, University of Pretoria, 5 June |
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CCS hosts mineworker solidarity event, 31 May |
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Patrick Bond lecture on South African water commodification, University of London, 30 May |
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Patrick Bond debates 'Africa Rising (or Uprising?)' in Maputo at Frelimo Political School, 29 May 2014 |
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Patrick Bond speaks on global finance at the World Association for Political Economy, Hanoi, 24 May |
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Shauna Mottiar presents at 'Contentious Politics' seminar, University of Johannesburg, 22 May |
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Patrick Bond & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: BRICS from above, the middle and below: which directions for alliances and conflicts? 16 May |
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Patrick Bond debates BRICS civil society, SA Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, 13 May |
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Patrick Bond presentation on climate justice governance via skype to Linkoping University, Sweden, 8 May |
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Gcina Makoba and Thuli Hlela host Miners Shot Down in Durban townships, 1 May |
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Admos Chimhowu CCS Seminar: Food Sovereignty Discourses, Land and Labour in Southern Africa, 30 April |
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Patrick Bond presents on BRICS geopolitics and BRICS banking, Rio de Janeiro, 28-29 April |
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Shauna Mottiar delivers paper on popular protest in South Africa, Oxford University, 26 April |
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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 |
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Bram Buscher CCS Seminar: ‘I  Nature’: Web 2.0, Social Media and the Political Economy of Conservation, 25 April |
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Patrick Bond discusses DeSutcliffisation at Durban University of Technology Urban Futures Centre, 24 April |
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Patrick Bond talk on SA@20 in New York, 19 April |
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Patrick Bond keynote lecture on climate, health and risk, University of Washington, Seattle, 17 April |
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Ken Walibora Waliaula CCS Seminar: Remembering and Disremembering Africa, 16 April |
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Ben Turok School of Social Sciences & CCS Seminar: With my head above the parapet: An insider account of the ANC in power, 15 April |
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Thando Manzi CCS Seminar: Brazilian civil society contests the World Cup, economic injustice and BRICS, 10 April |
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Patrick Bond gives three talks at the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, 10 April |
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Patrick Bond on comparative solidarity with Palestine and South Africa, Johns Hopkins University, 7 April |
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Patrick Bond paper on Climate Change, Debt and Justice in Africa at University of North Carolina conference, 5 April |
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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 |
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Paul Routledge CCS/Development Studies seminar on politics of climate change, 31 March |
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Zackie Achmat and Ndifuma Ukwazi offer activist Autumn School, 31 March - 2 April |
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Prince Mashele CCS Seminar: The fall of the ANC, 28 March |
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Patrick Bond seminar on a Redistributive Eco-Debt Payment system, University of Lund, 28 March |
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Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Identity formation amongst immigrant traditional healers, 27 March |
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Charles Mangongera & Toendepi Shonhe CCS Seminar: Who rules Zimbabwe - and what should civil society do now? , 25 March |
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Patrick Bond and Xolani Dube debate 20 years of liberation (plus booklaunch), Time of the Writer festival, 20 March |
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Lukhona Mnguni, Molaudi Sekake & Lesiba Seshoka (invited)CCS Seminar: UKZN student woes and freedom of expression, 20 March |
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Patrick Bond responds to Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim foreign policy presentation, 19 March |
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Vanessa Burger and Faith kaManzi support Durban harbour mobilisation, Dalton Hostel, 16 March |
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Israeli Apartheid Week talk by Miko Peled, CCS co-sponsorship with Palestine Solidarity movement, 14 March |
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Peter McKenzie CCS Seminar: Cato Manor Between hope and Possibility, 13 March |
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Patrick Bond testimony on water politics at SA Human Rights Commission, 11 March |
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Patrick Bond lecture at Rosa Luxemburg centenary of Accumulation of Capital, Berlin, 9 March |
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Patrick Bond seminar on SA's Resource Curse, Harare, 28 February |
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Sreeram Chaulia CCS Seminar on Brazil-Russia-India-China-SA, 25 February |
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Patrick Bond seminar on 'tokenistic' social policy at UKZN Development Studies, 19 February |
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China Ngubane addresses conference on Community Serving Humanity, UKZN, 12 February |
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Patrick Bond addresses PanAfrican Climate Justice Alliance challenges, Dakar, 10 February |
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Vishwas Satgar runs workshop on the United Front approach, 30 January |
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Patrick Bond addresses Numsa shopstewards on economic crises, Johannesburg, 25 January |
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Patrick Bond testifies to Parliament against mega-projects, 16 January |
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Shauna Mottiar Protest and participation in Cato Manor, Merebank and Wentworth, 15 January |
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Patrick Bond lecture on development and political economy and method, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine, 6 January |
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Events Index 2013 |
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China Ngubane and Patrick Bond speak at the People's Dialogue BRICS strategy session, Johannesburg, 10-12 December |
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Thando Manzi and Patrick Bond discuss Durban slum research at the Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, 10 December |
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Patrick Bond, Farai Maguwu and Khadija Sharife testify to African Union commission against corruption, Arusha, 7 December |
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Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Report-back from Warsaw climate summit, 6 December |
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Patrick Bond debates natural capital and GDP at Wits University, Johannesburg, 5 December |
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CCS hosts Democracy from Below citizenship movement 30 November - 1 December |
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Giuliano Martinello CCS Seminar: Dispossession and resistance to SA agribusiness in the new scramble for Southern and Eastern African land, 28 November |
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Patrick Bond at South Durban BRICS-from-below campaign against port-petrochemical expansion, Wentworth, 27 November |
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Film Screenings: Non-Violence as a Strategy for Social Change: CCS Seminar room, 19 September, 17 October, 21 November |
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Patrick Bond debates climate and capitalism at COP19 in Warsaw, 17 November |
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CCS participates in South Durban People's Climate Camp, 14-17 November |
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Patrick Bond lectures on global finance in Brussels, 13-15 November |
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Patrick Bond presents on Commoning, Rights and Praxis at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, 8 November |
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Patrick Bond public lecture on the New Africa Scramble in Berlin, 7 November |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Financial crises and social resistance, from household to global scales, 6 November |
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Gcina Makoba & Muna Lakhani CCS Seminar: Mapping Waste From Cradle to Grave: the Inkanyezi Community Recyclers and Global Zero-Waste Movement, 31 October |
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CCS founder Adam Habib launches South Africa's Suspended Revolution, Ike's Books, 29 October |
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Brutus Memorial Debate: "From democracy to kleptocracy", 26 October |
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Faith Manzi CCS Seminar: The Anatomy of a Cato Manor 'Popcorn Protest', 24 October |
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Patrick Bond critiques financial markets at Unemployment Insurance Fund board meeting, 15 October |
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Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Cartooning race and class after Marikana, 10 October |
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Molaudi Sekake, Christelle Terreblanche & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Commoning as an antidote to uneven development in Southern Africa, 9 October |
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CCS PhD student Vuyiseka Dubula leads AIDS research workshop, Johannesburg, 4 October |
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CCS co-organises workshop on 'Beyond Uneven Development' in Maputo, 1-3 October |
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Patrick Bond on Durban's urban neoliberalism, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, NYC, 29 September |
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Margherita di Paola Film Screening - On the Art of War, 20 September |
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Patrick Bond speaks on the World Economic Crisis and BRICS, at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 13 September |
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Patrick Bond speaks at 'Rising Powers' workshop, Fudan University, Shanghai, 12 September |
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Patrick Bond at Shanghai Academy of Social Science, 11 September |
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Patrick Bond lecture on geopolitics at Institute for International Relations, Prague, 9 September |
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Patrick Bond at G20 Post-Globalisation Initiative G20 counter-summit, St Petersburg/Moscow, 2-6 September |
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Geoff Harris & Sylvia Kaye CCS Seminar: Nonviolence in social-change strategy and tactics, 30 August |
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Patrick Bond on BRICS and 'natural capital' at Centre for Natural Resource Governance, Harare, 29 August |
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Khadija Sharife at 'No REDD in Africa Network,' Maputo, 27-29 August |
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China Ngubane helps launch Diakonia's KZN School of Activism, Albert Falls, 27 August |
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Patrick Bond at Durban Flatdwellers conference, 24 August |
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China Ngubane, Joy Mabenge & Tafadzwa Maguchu Regional and Zimbabwean civil society challenged, 22 August |
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Ed Harriman, Khadija Sharife & Sarah Bracking CCS Workshop: Corruption, corporate bribery, arms deals and social critique, 21 August |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza & Richard Kamidza CCS Seminar: Neoliberal water, neoliberal trade, 19 August |
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Patrick Bond debates BRICS, UKZN Student Union, 14 August |
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Simphiwe Magwaza, Simangele Manzi, Thando Manzi, Niki Moore, Knut Nustad, Jabulile Wanda & Philani Zulu CCS seminar on Cato Manor politics, Thursday, 15 August |
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Patrick Bond discusses SA's economic crisis at National Union of Metalworkers, Johannesburg, 8 August |
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Christine Jeske CCS Seminar: Social conceptualizations of work, unemployment, and blame in KwaZulu-Natal, 6 August |
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Larry Swatuk CCS Seminar on water resource conflicts, 1 August |
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Lorenzo Fioramonti Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Gross Domestic Problem, 18 July 2013 |
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CCS hosts Open Society's Sustainable Development course for Southern Africa, 15-27 July |
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Faith ka-Manzi, Anne-Marie Debbané & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar on Durban hotspots (Cato Manor service delivery and South Durban privatised wastewater and port/petrochem expansion), 10 July |
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Thamsanqa Mthembu & Hylton Alcock Video Screening: Participatory video as a tool for social transformation, 4 July |
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Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja CCS Seminar: Southern Africa and the Challenge of the Congo, 27 June |
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Patrick Bond debates Blade Nzimande on 21st Century Socialism, Chris Hani Institute, Johannesburg, 25 June |
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Khadija Sharife and Shauna Mottiar Analysis of illicit flight presented at the UN Economic Commission on Africa conference on illicit capital flight, Lusaka, 18 June |
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China Ngubane & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The state of eco-social justice campaigning in East Asia and the Americas, 18 June |
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Patrick Bond at Ecuador conference on eco/economic crises, Quito, 12 June |
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Patrick Bond at Left Forum,New York City, 7-9 June |
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Patrick Bond lecture on Enviro Impact Assessments at Savannah School of Law in Georgia, 6 June |
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Amanda Huron, Amanda Thomas & Victoria Habermehl CCS Seminar: Geographies of Justice: experiences from three continents, 3 June |
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China Ngubane speaks at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development counter-summit, 1 June |
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Nik Theodore & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Migration and the Struggle for Urban Space, from Chicago to Durban, 28 May |
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CCS hosts Antipode Institute for the Geographies of Justice, 27 May to 1 June |
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Abby Neely CCS Seminar: Local Biologies, and ART Protocols: A Political Ecology of Tuberculosis and the Body, 24 May |
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Silke Trommer CCS Seminar: Transformations in Trade Politics - Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa, 23 May |
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Patrick Bond at AIDC National Development Plan seminar, Cape Town 22 May |
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Thuli Hlela CCS Seminar: Mapping Water/Sanitation Services in KwaNyuswa, Valley of 1000 Hills, 21 May |
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China Ngubane participates in the Gumede Lecture Series 17 May |
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Maia Green CCS Seminar: Youth empowerment on South Africa's Wild Coast, 14 May |
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Patrick Bond talk on African poli-econ at OilWatch-Africa conference, Johannesburg, 13 May |
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China Ngubane, Joy Mabenge & Tafadzwa Maguchu CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe's Election Preparations and Civil Society Politics, 10 May |
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Blessing Karumbidza CCS Seminar: Government Clumsiness in Rural Entrepreneurial and Coop Support, 30 April |
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Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond presentation on climate finance at SADC Basic Income Group strategic workshop, 25 April, Johannesburg |
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Sarah Bracking & Patrick Bond at SDCEA workshop, Clairwood, 20 April |
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Patrick Bond, Des D'Sa, Megan Lewis, China Ngubane and Bobby Peek CCS Seminar: Assessing BRICS, Friday 19 April |
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Patrick Bond paper on geopolitics at Univ of California-Riverside, 13 April |
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Patrick Bond presents on South Durban to Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 10 April |
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Patrick Bond on territorial alliances at International Studies Association, 6 April |
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Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: UMkhumbane (Cato Manor) ilokishi elithuthuka ngamandla kodwa elibhekene nezingqinamba ezahlukahlukene, 5 April |
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Patrick Bond on 'Making of Global Capitalism', International Studies Association, 4 April |
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Patrick Bond presentation on BRICS at International Studies Association, San Francisco, 3 April |
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Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and the Dennis Brutus legacy, University of Pittsburgh, 2 April |
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Patrick Bond on skype to World Social Forum, 28 March |
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Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň CCS Seminar: The depoliticisation of civil society in post-communism, 28 March |
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Ashwin Desai & Kagiso Molope seminar on SA oppressions, 22 March |
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BRICS EVENTS 22 -27 MARCH |
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Susan Abul Hawa workshop on Palestine liberation today, 20 March |
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Patrick Bond at Ejolt workshop in Abuja, Nigeria, 20-21 March |
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Patrick Bond lectures on climate justice, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 15 March |
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Candido Grzybowski BRICS seen from Rio, 13 March 2013 |
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Patrick Bond at community BRICS briefing, Wentworth, 11 March |
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Choice Mahridzo, China Ngubane & Toendepi Shone CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe's future, from inside and out, Thursday 7 March |
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Patrick Bond gives UKZN Development Studies seminar on BRICS, 6 March |
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Patrick Bond debates Ebrahim Ebrahim on BRICS, ActionAid in Joburg, 28 February |
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Patrick Bond panel sessions on climate and BRICS at the Global Studies Conference, Univ of California-Santa Barbara, 23 February |
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Gcina Makoba & Thuli Hlela CCS Seminar: Mapping Inanda rubbish and Valley of 1000 Hills sanitation, 21 February |
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Patrick Bond talks about climate justice at Institute for Policy Studies in Washington on 19 February |
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Thandokuhle Manzi & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Mapping Cato Manor sewage, animals and protest; and an Umlazi update, 13 February |
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Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Mapping AIDS, from body to city, 11 February |
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Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: A recent spatial history of Durban student unrest, 7 February |
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Patrick Bond briefing on BRICS at AIDC, Cape Town, 1 February |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: BRICS as Pretoria's next site to 'talk left, walk right' 31 January |
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Patrick Bond at crisis & inequality seminar at Focus on the Global South, Bangkok, 28-29 January |
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China Ngubane, Patrick Bond & the Brutus Community Scholars CCS Seminar on social conflict mapping in Durban, 22 January |
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Bill Carroll CCS Seminar: Global corporate power and a new transnational capitalist class? 17 January |
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Patrick Bond testimony to NERSA against Eskom price hikes, Durban, 17 January |
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Don Chen CCS Seminar: Smart growth, urban equality and environmental justice, 16 January |
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Bill Carroll CCS Seminar: Research institutes dedicated to social justice - a global survey, 15 January |
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Mfundo Mtshwelo CCS Seminar: New critiques of South Africa's ruling party post-Mangaung, 11 January (Cancelled) |
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Phillip Lühl & Guillermo Delgado CCS Seminar: Unitary urbanism, towards maximal difference, 8 January |
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Events Index 2012 |
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Khadija Sharife, Min-Jung Kim, Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Doha's COP18 crash and climate justice (skypecast), 20 December |
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Patrick Bond lecture on BRICS in Moscow, 15 December |
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Patrick Bond lecture on Marikana and SA Resource Curse, Institute for African Studies, Moscow, 13 December |
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Patrick Bond lecture on environmental commodification, Manchester, 11 December |
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Khadija Sharife presentation on land-grabbed Africa at South South Forum 2, Chongqing China, 8 December |
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Patrick Bond lecture to African economic journalists on global economic governance, 6 December |
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Patrick Bond at IG Metall conference on inequality, 6 December |
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Patrick Bond on debt at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, 30 November |
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Faith ka-Manzi delivers UKZN World AIDS Day Lecture, 29 November |
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Khadija Sharife Illicit flight and mining presentation at Economic Justice Network regional tax conference 27-29 November |
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Patrick Bond keynote address on Climate Justice to Norwegian Development Association, Oslo, 27 November |
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Pamela Ngwenya CCS Course: An introduction to video production 26-30 November |
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Patrick Bond on water rights and climate at Norwegian Development Studies panel, Oslo, 26 November |
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Primrose Sonti, Mbuso Ngubane, Mametlwe Sebei and Rudolph Dubula at Brutus Memorial Debate on Marikana, 22 November |
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Patrick Bond on SA's Resource Course at Amandla! colloquium, Gauteng. 16 November |
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Pamela Ngwenya & Ben Richardson CCS Seminar - Aid for trade and Southern African agriculture: the bittersweet case of Swazi sugar, 15 November |
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Ruth Castel-Branco CCS Seminar - Why unions still matter: the case of domestic worker organizing in Maputo, 8 November |
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Patrick Bond on BRICS/G20 at SA Forum for International Solidarity, Johannesburg, 14 November |
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CCS cohosts State of Zimbabwe Transition, Diakonia, 2 November |
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Liane Greeff CCS Seminar: ‘You can’t have your gas and drink your water!’ - the incompatibility of fracking to water rights, 29 October |
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Patrick Bond with Helmi Shawary at the Jozi Book Fair on Fanon in contemporary Africa, 28 October |
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Thami Mbatha, Faith ka-Manzi, China Ngubane & Percy Ngonyama Ukucwaswa kwabokufika (CCS seminar on xenophobia, in isiZulu) 26 October |
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Patrick Bond on Marikana narratives, at Leeds University School of Politics and African Studies, 26 October |
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Patrick Bond on South Africa resource cursed, at Manchester University Development Studies, 26 October |
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Patrick Bond skype lecture to ClimateMediaFactory, Berlin, 25 October |
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Patrick Bond on the Politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, at Limerick University, 24 October |
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Ewok's 'Letters to Dennis' at Poetry Africa, 19 October |
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Allan Kolski Horwitz Kebbleism, politics and art, 19 October |
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Philo Ikonya Centre for Civil Society and Centre for Creative Arts Seminar: Are there limits to the freedom of expression? 16 October |
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Patrick Bond debates Brazilians on the World Cup and human rights, Sao Paolo, 15 October |
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Maia Green CCS Seminar: Love and Power on the Wild Coast, 15 October |
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David van Wyk & Chris Molebatsi CCS Seminar: Marikana: Why? What next? 9 October |
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Peace Workshop, 4 October |
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Muhammed Desai seminar on Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel, 2 October |
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Patrick Bond plenary address to Muslim Youth Movement 40th conference, 30 September |
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Patrick Bond on MDGs, Redi Tlabi Radio 702 show, 25 September |
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Patrick Bond debates KZN provincial planner, 25 September |
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GreenSquad Alliance sponsors Nonviolence training, 21 September |
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CCS film screening about 'post'-shopping, 18 September |
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Patrick Bond speaks on Resource-Cursed Southern Africa in Harare, 18 September |
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Milford Bateman CCS Seminar: Civil society's microfinance mistakes, 13 September |
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Patrick Bond on detoxing South Durban at Umbilo community meeting, 12 September |
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Patrick Bond briefs OECD-Watch on Marikana and the SA Resource Curse, 11 September, Johannesburg |
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Melanie Müller CCS Seminar: What did COP17 do to SA environmentalism? 7 September |
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Patrick Bond at the Lost in Transformation book launch seminar, 6 September |
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Muhammed Shabat & Asad Asad CCS Seminar: Israeli apartheid's challenge for academics in Gaza, 6 September |
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Patrick Bond at Cosatu/AIDC seminar on employment, Port Elizabeth, 6 September |
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Adrian Nel CCS Seminar: Ugandan carbon forestry, community resistance and environmental management, 4 September |
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Jonathan Nkala CCS anti-xenophobia drama: The Crossing, 1 September |
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Patrick Bond debates Pravin Gordhan on South Durban's port expansion, Clairwood, 1 September |
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Youngsu Kim Trade union politics in South Africa and South Korea, 31 August |
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Patrick Bond on SA transition at Arab Spring conference, Pretoria, 30 August |
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Patrick Bond paper on environmental and social rights at Christian Michelsen Institute workshop, Norway, 27 August |
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Molefi Ndlovu on Qwasha! Durban street narratives about COP17, Christian Michelsen Institute, Norway, 26 August |
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Environmental Teach-In, 25 August |
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Delwyn Pillay, Dimple Deonath & Vanessa Black South Durban civil society confronts Back of Port planning, 23 August |
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Sarah Bracking CCS Seminar: Contesting the frontiers of value in society, nature and capitalism, RESCHEDULED FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER FROM 22 August |
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Patrick Bond lecture on White Elephants to S.Durban Community Environmental Alliance at Austerville Community Centre, 21 August |
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Nonhle Mbuthuma, John Clarke & Luc Hoebeke CCS Seminar: Avatar on the Wild Coast - lessons from Xolobeni against national and global commodification, 21 August |
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CCS brainstorm on Marikana Massacre, 21 August |
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Michael Dorsey CCS Seminar: Can the Green Climate Fund provide appropriate finance to Africa? 20 August |
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Percy Nhau CCS Seminar: Implications of the Secrecy Bill for Academic Research, 16 August 2012 |
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Farai Maguwu & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Democratic Transitions from Top Down and Bottom Up: Prospects in Zimbabwe, 15 August |
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Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Izingqinamba ngezemvelo zaseThekwini, 8 August |
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Neima Adamo, Sergio Brito, Ester Uamba, Patrick Bond & Dimple Deonath CCS Seminar: Climate, water and destructive development from Maputo to South Durban, 3 August |
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CCS celebrates Brutus legacy at From Roots to Fruits non-violence conference, Durban Univ of Technology, 1 August |
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Matt Meyer & Elavie Ndura CCS Seminar: Nonviolent pedagogies of Africa's oppressed, from South Africa to the Great Lakes, 31 July 2012 |
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Ravindra Kumar CCS Seminar: Gandhi, Democracy and Fundamental Rights, 30 July |
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Patrick Bond lecture on African political economy to Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg, 26 July |
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Ewok does Durban (with a French connection) UKZN Jazz Centre, 6pm, 25 July |
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Peter Muzambwe & Dean Chahim CCS Seminar: Solidarities of international urban residents and 'development' students, 25 July 2012 |
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Terri Barnes CCS Seminar: Gender, autobiography and social justice, 24 July |
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Jim Kilgore meets Zimbabweans in central Durban, 23 July |
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Jim Kilgore CCS Seminar: Freedom never rests, when it comes to water commodification and service delivery protests, 23 July |
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Shalini Sharma CCS Seminar: Bhopal's catastrophe and representations of social mobilisation, 20 July |
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Jane Duncan CCS Seminar: Voice, political mobilisation and repression under Jacob Zuma, 19 July |
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Patrick Bond at Rio+20 reportback, 17 July, Diakonia Centre |
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Khadija Sharife & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The Decommissioning of Durban's Emissions Trade Pilot, 11 July |
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Bheki Buthelezi & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Interpreting Umlazi's Unrest, Repression and Occupy Resistance, 9 July |
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Farai Maguwu CCS Seminar - Resource-cursed Zimbabwe's Marange blood diamonds, 6 July |
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Patrick Bond on climate justice at Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, 5 July |
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Eric Baldwin CCS Seminar: Housing Policy and Liberal Philosophy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 5 July |
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Patrick Bond course lectures on political economy, ecology and social policy, 2-13 July |
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Khadija Sharife & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar - Rio+20 report-back, 2 July |
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Monica Fagioli CCS Seminar - State-building in practice: the Somali diaspora and processes of reconstruction in Somaliland, 28 June |
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Fidelis Allen at African politics conference, Dakar, 26 - 28 June |
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Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu, Niall McNulty & Lwazi Gwijane CCS Seminar: QWASHA! An online archive of community digital content, 21 June 2012 |
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Patrick Bond on SA subimperialism and resistance, Rio+20 Intercoll.net seminar, 21 June |
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Patrick Bond on social and environmental justice strategies, Rio+20 Cupula dos Povos plenary, 18 June |
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Patrick Bond, Khadija Sharife & Baruti Amisi on African CDMs at the International Society for Ecological Economics, Rio de Janeiro, 17 June |
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Kim Min-Jung speaks on climate activism and the COP17 at Gyeongsang Univ Institute of Social Studies, Korea, 15 June |
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Patrick Bond and Eddie Cottle discuss SA World Cup lessons for Brazil, 13 June, Rio |
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Fidelis Allen & Khadija Sharife CCS Seminar: CDM cannot deliver: Lessons from Nigeria, 11 June |
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Patrick Bond at the Building and Wood Workers International debate on Green Economy and Sustainable Development, 11 June, Rio de Janeiro |
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Michela Gallo CCS Seminar: Zimbabwean civil society in South Africa, 7 June |
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Patrick Bond speaks at faculty strike support committee, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 6 June |
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Patrick Bond lecture on carbon trading at the Brazilian Society of Political Economy, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, 5 June |
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Patrick Bond on debt crises at Queens University, Canada, 30 May |
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Dennis Brutus Memorial Debate: Durban's Corruptions & Disruptions, 24 May |
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Maria Schuld CCS Seminar: Small wars ‑ A micro‑level analysis of violence in KwaZulu‑Natal, 17 May |
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Iain Ewok Robinson MCs the Brutus Sessions, 16 May |
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Patrick Bond on 'Imperial and subimperial interests in neoliberalised nature', keynote address at Sussex Univ SouthGovNet conference, Brighton, 16-17 May |
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Patrick Bond booklaunch on climate justice at Bookmarks, London, 14 May |
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Film & discussion on Genetic Engineering hosted by Green Squad Alliance, 11 May |
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Sasha Kramer & Anthony Kilbride CCS Seminar: Improving access to sanitation on a global scale, 10 May |
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Khadija Sharife talks on Tax Justice to the Economic Justice Network, Cape Town, 9 May |
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China Ngubane & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The Africa People's Charter, Zimbabwe People's Convention Charter and South African Reconstruction and Development Programme, 7 May |
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Patrick Bond skype lecture on media and climate policy, Bergen, Norway, 7 May |
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Patrick Bond unpacks eco-imperialism at People's Dialogue 'Green Economy' seminar, Johannesburg, 5 May |
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Durban can 'connect‑the‑dots' to climate change with 350.org, 5 May |
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Patrick Bond at Comrade Babble play on Kebbleism, Johannesburg, 5 May |
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Nosipho Mngoma, Percy Nhau and Murray Hunter CCS seminar on Right2Know for researchers and journalists, 4 May |
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Patrick Bond skype lecture on Green Capitalism to Rhodes Univ, 3 May |
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Ransom Lekunze CCS Seminar: Implications of global economic crisis for Africa, 25 April |
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Patrick Bond talks to Hospice AGM on 'From Caring about Stuff to Caring about Caring' , 25 April |
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CCS participates in the Global Teach - In 25 April |
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Michele Maynard CCS Seminar: African climate change and carbon trading politics, 23 April |
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Fidelis Allen at the Social Theory Forum at Univ.Massachusetts/Boston, 19 April |
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Baruti Amisi CCS Seminar: Will the Inga Hydropower Project meet Africa’s electricity needs?, 20 April |
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Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar: Ideology, agency and protest politics, 18 April |
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Fidelis Allen & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The World Bank presidential race - African interests and personality profiles, 11 April |
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CCS Seminar: Dennis Brutus' life and times - film documentaries and discussion, 10 April |
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Molefi Ndlovu at Young Adult Review workshop of COP 17, South Durban Community and Environmental Alliance, 4 April |
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CCS Seminar: 'Occupy': what kind of social movement is it?, 3 April |
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Jens Andvig, Tiberius Barasa, Stein Sundstřl Eriksen, Sanjay Kumar, Faith Manzi & Knut Nustad CCS Seminar: Slums, states and citizens in Durban, Nairobi Delhi, 29 March |
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Henrik Ernstson CCS/DevStudies seminar on urban ecology, 28 March |
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Ronnie Kasrils CCS Seminar: Corruption, authoritarianism and the challenge for civil society, 23 March |
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Bahaa Taher CCS Seminar: Post-Arab Spring: Literary freedom of expression in Egypt, 22 March |
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Felix Platz CCS Seminar: Climate Change narratives – experiences from the COP 17, 20 March |
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Zero Fossil Fuels meeting, 20 March |
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Molefi Ndlovu presents at the Foundation for Human Rights event on 19 March |
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Trevor Ngwane at Rosa Luxemburg anti-xenophobia panel, Johannesburg, 16 March |
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Patrick Bond reviews RDP for Zim opposition leaders, Nyanga, 16 March 2012 |
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David Hallowes and Tristen Taylor CCS Seminar: A hostile climate - civil society impact on the COP17, 15 March |
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Leigh Collingwood CCS Seminar: Presentation of book: “Deforestation: Why YOU need to stop it NOW”, 13 March |
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Lubna Nadvi & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Why boycotting Israeli apartheid follows South Africa’s liberation strategy, 6 March |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza CCS Seminar: Durban’s state-sponsored climate change chaos, 1 March |
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Comrade Fatso CCS Seminar: Zim spoken-word liberation struggles, 29 February |
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Patrick Bond on service delivery protests, Nadel AGM, Mthatha, 25 February |
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Patrick Bond on climate justice at Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference, 25 February |
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Lushendrie Naidu CCS Seminar: The state of South Durban's industrial basin, 23 February |
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Alex Comninos CCS Seminar: Twitter revolutions and cyber-crackdowns, 22 February |
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Patrick Bond debates WWF's Saliem Fakier at AIDC, Cape Town, 17 February |
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Fumhiko Saito CCS Seminar: Shifting to local governance?, 16 February |
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Patrick Bond delivers New Zimbabwe Lecture, Harare, 15 February |
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Patrick Bond banned from delivering New Zimbabwe Lecture, Harare, 8 February |
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Said Ferjani CCS Seminar: The Tunisian democratic revolution, Islam and the left, 1 February |
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Tom Heinemann, Patrick Bond & Khadija Sharife CCS Seminar/film: Politics of microfinance, 25 January |
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Patrick Bond booksigning climate justice titles at Sandton Square Exclusives Books, Johannesburg, 24 January |
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Bobby Peek CCS Seminar: What went right and what went wrong at the COP17?, 19 January |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: What’s going on in China? Boom, bust and battles from below, 10 January |
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Keyvan Kashkooli CCS Seminar: Governing markets from below? From e-commerce to emissions trading, 6 January |
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Events Index 2011 |
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Faith Manzi & Oliver Meth CCS Seminar: AIDS, rape and climate, 13 December |
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Patrick Bond lecture on world financial crisis at Lingnan Univ, Hong Kong, 12 December |
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Patrick Bond on CJ at TransNational Institute meeting, 10 December |
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Patrick Bond & Baruti Amisi on climate induced migration at People's Assembly, 7 December |
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Patrick Bond on ecological debt, World Council of Churches, 6 December |
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Patrick Bond & Nnimmo Bassey Book Launch, Ike's Books, Durban: 6 December |
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Patrick Bond on culture and climate at Durban City Hall, 5 December |
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Pablo Solón Wolpe lecture: “Rights of Nature and Climate Politics”, 2 December |
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Patrick Bond on puppet statehood and climate, Unctad conference (via video), Geneva, 1 December |
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Patrick Bond presentation on labour-community-eco solidarity at International Transport Federation, People's Space, 1 December* |
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CCS Teach‑In on Climate Justice, evenings from 29 Nov‑8 Dec |
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Patrick Bond, Lars Gausdal, Molefi Ndlovu & Khadija Sharife on climate politics and narratives, South Durban, November 25-26 |
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Everyone's Downstream 25-26 November |
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Molefi Ndlovu & Michael Dorsey lead youth/climate workshop, 21 November |
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Patrick Bond at Rosa Luxemburg Political Cafe on climate/energy, Johannesburg, 21 November |
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Janis Rosheuvel CCS Seminar: U.S. 'Migrant Management' & Grassroots Resistance to Criminalization of Immigrant Life, 18 November |
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Patrick Bond skype lecture on climate politics to Lahore Cafe Bol series, Pakistan, 16 November |
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Patrick Bond keynote speech to Cornell Univ development conference, 12 November |
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Michele Maynard CCS Seminar: The African Peoples Petition: What Durban COP17 must deliver!, 11 November |
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Emanuele Leonardi CCS seminar: The Environmental Side of the Current Economic Crisis: Toward an Ecological Critique of Neoliberalism, 10 November 2011 |
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Patrick Bond at City Univ of NY on climate justice strategy, 9 November |
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Patrick Bond on COP17 politics at Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 8 November |
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Rehana Dada CCS Seminar: The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign, 4 November |
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Lars Gausdal CCS Seminar: Bolivia at the Crossroads, 3 November 2011 |
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Patrick Bond talk on population and climate, Pretoria, 1 November |
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Patrick Bond, Dudu Khumalo, Orlean Naidoo, Thando Manzi, Molefi Ndlovu & Noah Zimba Wolpe Lecture: Community Climate Summit, 28 October |
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Patrick Bond on water politics, the IMF and climate in Dublin, 25‑26 October |
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Patrick Bond on energy as a public good in Rome, 24 October |
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Patrick Bond talks on climate justice in Stockholm, 22 October |
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Patrick Bond on climate, land and Africa's exploitation, at Uppsala University, Sweden, 20-21 October |
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Shailja Patel CCS Seminar: Seen And Unseen: Windows On The ICC-Kenya Trials, 18 October |
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Patrick Bond on COP17 mobilisations at PanAfrican Climate Justice conference in Addis Ababa, 15‑16 October |
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Fidelis Allen CCS Seminar: Climate Change, Poverty and Public Policy in Nigeria's Niger Delta, 11 October 2011 |
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Patrick Bond on electricity and climate crises, Newlands and Meerbank, 10-11 October |
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Marie Kennedy & Chris TillyCCS Seminar: Latin America’s third left: Autonomy and participation in the new political landscape, 6 October |
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Peter Waterman Emancipatory Global Labour Studies and Social Movements, 5 October |
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Patrick Bond on climate and capitalism at the International Labour Rights Information Group Globalization School, Cape Town, 3 October |
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Trevor Ngwane CCS seminar on protest ideology, 30 September |
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John Saul & Trevor Ngwane Wolpe lecture on South Africa's transition, 29 September |
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CCS hosts Democratic Left Front climate conference, 23-25 September |
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Climate Justice Now! South Africa meets at CCS, 22-23 September |
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Patrick Bond on Electricity Prices and Climate Crisis at SDCEA, 21 September |
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Patrick Bond at People's Dialogue on climate politics, 21 September |
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Solani Ngobeni CCS Seminar: Challenges facing scholarly publishers in South Africa: Towards a turnaround strategy or tilting at windmills, cancelled |
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Anton Harber & Ruth Teer-Tomaselli Amnesty International seminar on the Secrecy Bill, 15 September |
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Sarah Bracking CCS Seminar: How do investors value the environment? Why a pile of stones is not a house, 13 September |
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Climate Justice Protest US, Consulate, 9 September |
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Ashwin Desai & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The World Conference Against Racism and 9/11 ten years after, 8 September |
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Patrick Bond on climate injustice and the World Bank, London, 5 September |
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Tehmina Brohi CCS Seminar: Contention in response to neoliberal policies in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of basic services delivery in Durban, 1 September |
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Climate Justice Protest at the US Consulate, 31 August |
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Otieno, Wamuchiru, Todd, Lorimer CCS Seminar: In Hot Water ‑ Climate change and water adaptation in Nairobi and Durban, 26 August |
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Patrick Bond on climate finance to SADC parliamentarians, Johannesburg, 25 August |
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Wolpe lecture by Mustafa Barghouti on how to free Palestine, 25 August |
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Shauna Mottiar at the ISTR African Civil Society Research Network conference, 24 August |
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Kate Skinner seminar on media democracy, 22 August |
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Patrick Bond addresses metalworker shopstewards, Durban, 22 August |
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Patrick Bond on climate at the Johannesburg Book Fair, 8 August |
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Paul Routledge CCS Seminar: Translocal Climate Justice Solidarities, 5 August |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Lessons for Durban from Ecuador's 'leave the oil in the soil' eco/indigenous movement, 2 August |
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Patrick Bond on the 'green economy' at New Global Hegemonies conference, Quito, 21‑22 July |
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Franco Barchiesi CCS Seminar: Labour and Precarious Liberation, 20 July |
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Patrick Bond on climate and Just Transition at National Union of Metalworkers of SA in Johannesburg, 18 July |
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Sarah Ives CCS Seminar: “Rooibos land is high sentiment, low potential: Preliminary Reflections on a Year in Rooibos Country, 18 July |
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Danny Schechter CCS Seminar: Citizen Media Advocacy, 15 July |
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Chene Redwood CCS Seminar: Voices of the Subaltern: Music within community struggles against environmental degradation in South Durban, 14 July 2011 |
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Patrick Bond on SA political economy at Renmin Univ (China) conference via skype, 11 July |
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Patrick Bond on climate and justice at UKZN Peace Studies conference, 9 July |
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Philip Rizk CCS Seminar: Critiquing the Nation State: The Gaza Strip, 8 July |
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Philip Rizk CCS Seminar: Multi-media presentation: “The hard hit is still to come”- An Intifada Imaginary, 7 July 2011 |
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Ida Susser CCS Seminar: Organic intellectuals and AIDS social movements: jumping scales, postponed |
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Patrick Bond on neoliberal climate policy at Nature, Inc conference (via skype), The Hague, 30 June |
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Patrick Bond input on African economies to International Labour Organisation industrial relations conference at UCT Business School (via skype), 28 June |
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Peter McKenzie & Doung Jahangeer CCS Seminar: People in Spaces Make Places, 28 June 2011 |
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Immanuel Wallerstein Wolpe Lecture on the Arab revolt, the US and Africa, 23 June |
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Patrick Bond on SA climate policy at UKZN Business School, 23 June |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar on the global climate justice movement, 21 June |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza & Mary Galvin on sanitation politics, 20 June |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza and Geasphere debate water and climate at Alliance Francaise, 9 June |
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Mvuselelo Ngcoya & Shauna Mottiar Seminar: Understanding horizontal philanthropy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2 June |
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Patrick Bond at Univ of Georgia Antipode Institute for Geographies of Justice, Athens, 30‑31 May |
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Orlean Naidoo, Ma Dudu Khumalo, Thandiwe Zondi, Sam Moodley, Mrs Perumal, Lubna Nadvi, Shauna Mottiar Discussion: Women in Social Movements and Community Organizing 30 May |
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Patrick Bond on climate politics at Korean conference, Jinju, 27 May |
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Florian Kunert, Phillip Hol & Justin Davy Wolpe Lecture: Shack Theatre, 26 May |
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CCS and Zimbabweans celebrate Africa Day, 25 May |
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Patrick Bond on dangers of a neoliberal Palestine, at TIDA-Gaza, Gaza City, 19 May |
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Chris Morris CCS Seminar: Notes on Pharmaceutical Patent Lawfare: The Umckaloabo Case, 19 May 2011 |
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Durban Community Video Collective workshop, 14 May |
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Patrick Bond at City Univ of NY conference on precarious labour and socialism, 13 May |
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Patrick Bond on environmental justice at Autonomous University of Barcelona, 28 April |
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Mazibuko Jara, Alan Murphy & Orlean Naidoo Wolpe Lecture Panel on the Local Government Elections, 21 April 2011 |
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Patrick Bond at Univ of San Francisco sustainability symposium, 19 April |
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Patrick Bond in Montreal for Cochabamba+1 climate justice conference, 15‑17 April |
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Ron Carver Reflections on organising US labour and community campaigns, 13 April |
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Patrick Bond on Palestine & Durban at American Association of Geographers conference, Seattle, 12‑14 April |
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Shauna Mottiar at the International Research Society for Public Management Conference, Dublin, 11- 13 April |
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Wiebe Nauta CCS Seminar: Civic Engagement and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea ‑ Lessons for South Africa, 5 April |
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Patrick Bond on climate politics with Polaris Institute/Ontario Public Interest Research Group at Univ of Toronto, 31 March |
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Patrick Bond climate lecture at Carleton Univ, Ottawa, 29 March |
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Adekeye Adebajo CCS/SDS Seminar: The Curse of Berlin: Africa after the Cold War, 23 March |
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Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu at Keleketla Library Johannesburg, 21-31 March 2011 |
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John Devenish Seminar CCS research on protests in South Africa 2009 - 2011, 17 March |
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Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale Seminar: Climate Justice, Global Alliance-Building and Climate Jobs, 22 March |
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Patrick Bond seminar on Palestine, water and the University of Johannesburg, 16 March |
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Seminar: Documentary Screening of 'Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds, 10 March |
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Patrick Bond gives lectures in Michigan and California, 8-14 March |
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Patrick Bond on climate justice, Northern overconsumption & African resistance at '6 Billion Ways' conference in London, 5 March |
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Wolpe Lecture by Hein Marais: Song & Dance: Power, Consent and the ANC, 3 March |
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China Ngubane hosts Zimbabwe monitoring discussion, 1 March |
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Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada, Blessing Karumbidza & Molefi Ndlovu Seminar on the 2011 World Social Forum, 25 February |
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Patrick Bond delivers Brutus Memorial Lecture, Nelson Mandela Metro Univ, 23 February |
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Danielle Carter CCS Seminar on Sources of State Legitimacy in Contemporary SA, 22 February |
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Blessing Karumbidza, Siziwe Khanyile, Bongani Mthembu, Bobby Peek in Wolpe Lecture 'Climate Teach-In', 19 February |
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Niall Bond Seminar: The history of 'civil society', 14 February |
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Molefi Ndlovu, Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond CCS seminars at the WSF, Dakar, 6-11 February |
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Teppo Eskelinen Seminar: Global justice - some emerging topics and responses 25 January 2011 |
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Patrick Bond at Zuma's Own Goal booklaunch, Bluestockings, NYC, 24 January |
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Patrick Bond on climate justice in Sacramento, CA, 20 January |
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Patrick Bond at Resource Rights conference and Eskom protest, Washington, 13-14 January |
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Events Index 2010 |
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Patrick Bond radio debate on climate justice politics, 22 December |
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Film screening: The Uprising of Hangberg, 14 December |
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Patrick Bond at global climate summit, 6‑11 December, Cancun |
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Pumla Gqola, Andile Mngxitama, Baruti Amisi & others Seminar on Xenophobia and Racism in SA, 10 December |
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Patrick Bond lecture on uneven development, migration and xenophobia to Univ.Delhi conference, 25 November |
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Patrick Bond, Horace Campbell, Patricia Daley and Eunice Sahle panel at African Studies Association, SF, 21 November |
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CCS Wolpe film screenings with Pamela Ngwenya and community videomakers 20 November |
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Cesia Kearns Seminar: Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign: Transforming the US Electric Sector, 19 November 2010 |
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Patrick Bond on oil and financial crises with Attac-Norway in Oslo, 18-19 November |
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Baruti Amisi skype seminar on xenophobia to Roskilde University, 17 November |
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Patrick Bond at Race, Class & Developmental State conference in PE, via Skype, 16 November |
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Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed Wolpe Lecture in Honour of Fatima Meer, 16 |
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Patrick Bond at Historical Materialism conference, London, 12-14 November |
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Patrick Bond seminar on ecosocialism at Inst of Social Studies, The Hague, 16 November |
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John Harvey Seminar: US Philanthropy and the Global South: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges, 8 November |
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Patrick Bond at The ‘Progress’ in Zimbabwe Conference, 4-6 November |
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Nicholas Smith Seminar: Lynch Violence and the Governance of Evil, 26 October |
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Ela Gandhi & Dilip Menon Wolpe Lecture: Indians in South Africa: 150 Years, 21 October 2010 |
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Patrick Bond seminar on climate justice at Univ of California-Davis, 18 October |
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Mariem el Bourhimi and Peter McKenzie Seminar: Saharawi liberation struggle status, 15 October |
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Rolf Schwermer CCS Seminar: pro-poor technology, 14 October |
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Patrick Bond seminar on climate politics at Trinity College Dublin, 1 October |
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Baruti Amisi lecture on xenophobia for National Association of Democratic Lawyers, KwaZulu‑Natal Law Society, Pietermaritzburg, 30 September |
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Patrick Bond in Ramallah on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, 26 September |
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Patrick Bond on transition-neoliberalism at Birzeit Univ conference, Palestine, 28 September |
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Patrick Bond and Lungisile Ntsebeza launch Zuma's Own Goal at African Studies Association-UK conference, Oxford University, 19 September |
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Hayley Leck Seminar: Rising to the Adaptation Challenge? Responding to Global Environmental Change in the Durban metropolitan and Ugu district regions, South Africa, 17 September |
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Dudu Khumalo, Baruti Amisi, Molefi Ndlovu, Daniel Ribeiro, Terri Hathaway, Lori Pottinger Seminar: Civil society v Southern African dams, 10 September |
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Patrick Bond and Rick Rowden on the IMF and public health, San Francicso, 7 & 14 September |
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Brij Maharaj, Ashwin Desai, Patrick Bond launch new book Zuma's Own Goal, Elangeni Hotel, Durban, 5pm on 3 September |
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Patrick Bond speaks on rights/commons debate at the International Commission of Jurists Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Camp, 31 August, Johannesburg |
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Margaret Gärding Donor power in the international aid industry, 27 August |
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Makhosi Khoza, Fikile Moya, Patrick Mkhize, Tony Carnie, Pritz Dullay and Brij Maharaj on the Wolpe Lecture Panel: Media Information & Freedom, 26 August 2010 |
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Ralph Borland Seminar: Radical Plumbers and PlayPumps - Objects in development, 25 August |
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Patrick Bond speaks at Jubilee South Africa conference on ecological debt, 21 August, Johannesburg |
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Dudu Khumalo and Simphiwe Nojiyeza presentation on sanitation at Umphilo waManzi seminar, 13 August, Durban |
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Patrick Bond at South Africa‑Norway climate research seminar, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, 12 August 2010 |
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Patrick Bond at Southeast Asia climate justice seminar, Focus on the Global South, Chulalungkorn University, Bangkok, 10 August |
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Trevor Ngwane at Solidarity Peace Trust report on Zimbabwe, 30 July, Johannesburg |
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Wolpe Lecture: Social justice ideas in Civil society politics, global & local: A Colloquium of scholar activists, 29 July |
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Press Conference on Xenophobia, 28 July |
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Padraig Carmody Seminar: Chinese Geogovernance in Africa: Evidence from Zambia, 20 July |
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CCS and Gyeongsang University Institute for Social Science (Korea) joint seminar on political economy of social movements, 14 July |
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Giuliano MartinielloCCS Seminar on Inanda's socio-spatial change, 9 July |
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Pamela Ngwenya Seminar on Video as a tool for outreach, communication, advocacy and community expression, 8 July |
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Anti Xenophobia Rally City Hall 3 July |
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Renee Horne CCS Seminar on Black Economic Empowerment, 2 July |
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Roithmayr, Adonis, Galvin, Bond, Khumalo CCS Colloquium on Water, Rights, Prices, 28 June (skypecast) |
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Blessing Karumbidza CCS Seminar on climate change and carbon trading controversies in Tanzania, 24 June |
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Trevor Ngwane and Rehana Dada at workshop on climate advocacy at the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 22 June |
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Wolpe Lecture: Durban Social Forum members, 'World Cup for All!', Durban City Hall, 16 June |
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David J. RobertsCCS Seminar: Re-branding Durban through the 2010 World Cup, 14 June |
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Patrick Bond (with Briggs Bomba and Dave Zirin) on the World Cup, Washington, 9 June |
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Patrick Bond on global justice movements, at Grantmakers without Borders conference, SF, 8 June |
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Patrick Bond presents on climate justice at conference, Alter-globalization movements and the alternative ideas of Korea, Seoul, 28 May |
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Patrick Bond on 'Poli Econ of the World Cup' in Seoul, 27 May |
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Patrick Bond lecture on National Health Insurance with Oxfam, 26 May |
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Jessie Lazar KnottCCS Seminar: Identity/Spatial Relations: scholar‑activism in the greater Kei region of the Eastern Cape, 25 May |
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Patrick Bond at Osisa conference on climate and development in Africa, Pretoria, 21 May |
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Patrick Bond on energy policy and the World Bank, at Democracy and Development Programme, Durban, 20 May |
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Eunice N. Sahle Wolpe Lecture: World orders, Ike's Books, 5pm, 20 May |
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Barak Hoffman & Orlean Naidoo Seminar: Chatsworth politics and municipal advocacy, 17 May |
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Patrick Bond on SA climate policy on TEDxUKZN, 14 May |
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Khadija Sharife & Eunice SahleCCS Seminar: Oil, minerals and maldevelopment in Africa, 13 May |
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Patrick Bond speaks on climate debt to the Economic Justice Network, Johannesburg, 5 May |
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Erin McCandless & Shepherd Zvavanhu CCS Seminar on Zimbabwe Civil Society, 3 May |
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Nathan Geffen (with Faith ka Manzi) CCS Seminar: Debunking Delusions: The inside Story of The Treatment Action Campaign, 29 April |
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Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife address African tax authorities, 29 April 2010 |
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Memorial Tribute to Professor Fatima Meer, 23 April |
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Alan Freeman & Radhika Desai CCS Seminar on The world capitalist crisis, 23 April |
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Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu facilitates Krogerup College and Durban Sings, 18‑20 April |
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Patrick Bond on carbon trading at Manchester conference on environment and finance, 15‑16 April |
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Patrick Bond in Boston v WB-Eskom loan, 9 April |
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Patrick Bond at Clark University, 8 April |
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World Bank protest, 7 April, Washington |
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Patrick Bond seminar on climate politics, City Univ of NY, 6 April |
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Patrick Bond at NYU on South African political economy, 5 April |
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Trevor Ngwane at Marxism 2010 conference, Melbourne, 1-4 April |
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Patrick Bond in SF Bay Area on World Bank loan to Eskom, 4 April |
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Patrick Bond on water commons, Syracuse University, 29-30 March |
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Trevor Ngwane seminar on activism and global campaigns, Univ of Helsinki, 26 March |
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CCS/VANSA KZN Panel discussion: 'What is Art and what is not?', March 25 |
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Patrick Bond on 'Organising for Climate Justice', Left Forum, NYC, 21 March |
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Workers, Zama Hlatshwayo, Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar on UKZN labour outsourcing crisis 19 March |
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Carol ThompsonCCS Seminar on resisting agro‑industry, 18 March |
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David Zirin Seminar on Fifa's Looting of SA, 13 March |
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Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar on SA's social protest wave, 9 March |
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Dennis Brutus memorial, 11 March |
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Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener seminar at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, 2 March |
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Patrick Bond testifies to parliament on economic policy, 2 March |
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CCS anti‑xenophobia research workshop, 27 February |
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Patrick Bond speaks on The ebb and flow of water rights, Univ of Cape Town Department of Public Law, 25 February |
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Press Conference: Keep our South African Coal in the Hole! 22 February 2010 |
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Patrick Bond at Power Indaba privatisation conference, 22 February |
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CCS Economic Justice course, with Trevor Ngwane, Samson Zondi and Patrick Bond, from 20 Feb‑29 May |
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Climate Justice Now! SA‑KZN chapter hosted at CCS, 13 February |
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Hallowes, D'Sa, Ngwane, Bond , Dada: Seminar on proposed World Bank coal loan to Eskom, Friday, 12 February* |
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Durban renewable energy site visits by Minnesh Bipath, SA National Energy Research Institute with Muna Lakhani and Patrick Bond 10 February 2010 |
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Susan Galleymore CCS Seminar: A Dearth of Imagination Leads to Wasting Perfectly Good Waste, 5 February |
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Patrick Bond paper for Socialist Register workshop, 6 February |
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Durban Sings Follow-up and planning session with 8 Editorial Collectives, 4 February |
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Patrick Bond on climate change & Dennis Brutus Memorial at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, 28 January |
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Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond Seminar: Copenhagen Climate and Eskom Energy Conflicts, 26 January |
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Dennis Brutus tribute, with Social Movements Indaba and Durban community groups, 23 January |
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Peter McKenzie & Doung Jahangeer Seminar: The Saharawi,Warwick Junction and Footsak Politics, 20 January |
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Patrick Bond debates NHI at Idasa, CT, 19 January |
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CCS cohosts Climate Justice Now! on electricity hearings strategy, 15 January |
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Events Index 2009 |
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Patrick Bond at SF protest against Danish repression of civil society and Copenhagen climate 'deal', and radio interview, 18 December |
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Patrick Bond addresses climate seminar at Univ of Lund Business School, 15 December |
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Kristine Wasrud Participation and Influence in Water Policy in Durban, South Africa, 11 December |
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Climate Justice Film Festival, 10 December |
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Umesh de Silva Seminar: Traditional farming in Umzinyathi, 9 December |
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Oliver Meth at the CCS Workshop on women & child abuse Cato Crest Library, 8 December |
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Patrick Bond at Roskilde Univ Civil Society Centre, 7 December |
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Patrick Bond keynotes Leeds 'Democratisation in Africa' conference, 4 December |
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Sinegugu Zukulu & John Clarke CCS Seminar: Resilience, Resolarisation and Relocalisation, 30 November |
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Patrick Bond speaks at Mandela Foundation about SA economic disasters, 26 November |
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Nick Smith CCS Seminar Politics of protection/crime/policing, 26 November |
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Seminar on outsourced and contract workers at UKZN, 24 November |
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3rd Climate Justice Now! KZN meeting, 20 November |
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CCS and Durban Sings! at the Global Crisis and Africa: Struggles for Alternatives hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; Randburg, Johannesburg 19-21 November |
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MAKE SOME NOISE! Concert 6 November |
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Immanuel Wallerstein Wolpe Lecture: Crisis of the Capitalist System Where to from Here?, 5 November |
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The Crises and the Commons: Durban debates on politics, economics and environment 4-7 November |
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Solidarity with Durban's oppressed: Bottom-up resistance strategies of shackdwellers, pollution victims and labour-brokered workers, 4 November |
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Seminar on Problems faced by UKZN workers, Westville campus, 28 October |
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Faith Manzi & Oliver Meth at the Gender Based Violence Workshop, Durban 27 & 28 October |
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Bengt Brülde & Stellan Vinthagenand Seminar: Ethics, Resistance and Global Justice, 26 October |
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Baruti Amisi, Trevor Ngwane & Patrick Bond Anti-Xenophobia research project with Strategy&Tactics 19- 20 October |
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Durban Sings (Molefi Ndlovu & Claudia Wegener) at National Oral History Conference, 13-16 October |
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Tri-Continental Film Festival Durban community screenings – (hosted by Oliver Meth) at Inanda, Chatsworth, Wentworth, CBD, & Folweni, 1-12 October |
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Patrick Bond lectures at Suffolk Univ, Boston, 29 Sept-2 Oct |
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Helen McCueCCS Seminar: Grassroots Mobilising within Refugee Communities: Perspectives on Palestine and Australia, 18 September |
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Dennis Brutus honored by War Resisters League, 18 September |
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Patrick Bond Booklaunch: Climate Change, Carbon Trading & Civil Society, 18 September |
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Patrick Bond skypecast on climate and ecological debt to Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, Copenhagen, 16 September |
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Oliver Meth People to People International Documentary Conference, 10-12 September |
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Dick Forslund & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: South Africa's capitalist crisis and civil society, 7 September |
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Dudu Khumalo on the Durban public transport crisis, 1 September |
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John Berg CCS Seminar: Barack Obama's presidency and civil society reactions, 24 August |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: National Health Insurance: Can SA afford it?, 24 August |
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Norman Finkelstein Wolpe Lecture: Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Gandhi, 20 August |
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CCS Seminar with outsourced workers at UKZN, 12 August |
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Patrick Bond debates Sampie Terreblanche (Stellenbosch), 6 August, UCT |
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Patrick Bond addresses Ecuador eco-finance conference (videolink), 4 August |
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Dr Essop Pahad CCS Seminar: Thinking about the Legacy of Mbeki's Politics, 4 August |
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Patrick Bond at the South African Civil Society Energy Caucus Meeting, 29-30 July |
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Barak Hoffman CCS Seminar: Democracy and Civil Society Research in Ghana and SA, 27 July |
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CCS hosts free screenings of Durban International Film Festival, 25 July - 1 August |
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Sean Flynn & Maj Fiil CCS Seminar on water rights, ( SKYPECAST ) 24 July |
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Patrick Bond lecture at carbon trading conference, Johannesburg, 22 July |
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Sein Win Seminar by Burmese prime minister (exiled) on solidarity (SKYPECAST), 21 July |
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Tunde Adegbola A Pan-African Harold Wolpe Lecture & cultural events, 16 July |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA Political Economy, San Francisco socialist conference, 4 July |
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Orlean Naidoo on participation at DDP seminar, 30 June |
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Patrick Bond speaks on 'World Slump: Financial Crisis and Emerging Class Struggles in the Global South', 28 June, Toronto |
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Patrick Bond on African social resistance to economic crisis, 26 June, Moscow |
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Oliver Meth and Orlean Naidoo facilitate Diakonia Council of Churches Democracy Course, 24 -26 June |
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Alex Callinicos Wolpe Lecture: Economic crisis and prospects for social revolution, 18 June* |
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Blair Rutherford CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe farm labour, social justice and citizenship, 17 June |
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Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar: Community resistance to energy privatisation and ecological degradation, 11 June |
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Gaby Bikombo, Judy Mulqueeny, Harry Ramlal, Caroline Skinner CCS Seminar: War of Warwick Junction, 9 June |
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DURBAN SINGS central editorial workshops, 8 & 22 June |
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Patrick Bond, Abedian, Dumisa, Maharaj et al on 'Zumanomics', UKZN Biz School, 3 June |
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Rehana Dada keynote address to Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute AGM, 2 June |
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Patrick Bond on African underdevelopment at Sussex IDS conference (via skypecast), 1 June |
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Trevor Ngwane presents at the International Conference on Ideas and Strategies in the Alterglobalisation Movement, Seoul, 29 May |
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Peter McKenzie cultural seminar on 'Footsak: On the Ball for 2010', 28 May |
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Björn SurborgCCS Seminar: Contesting Johannesburg's extractive industries, 25 May |
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Paul Verryn, Methodist Bishop of Johannesburg: Wolpe Lecture: Poverty and xenophobia, 21 May |
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Robert Jensen, Univ of Texas: CCS Seminar: Whiteness and social change in the US, 21 May |
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Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute: CCS Seminar: The state of the world water wars, 15 May |
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Patrick Bond debates 'The G20 Global Deal' at Wits/Osisa, Johannesburg, 12 May |
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Molefi Ndlovu CCS Seminar: Azania Rising: The demise of the 1652 class project, 13 May |
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Rehana Dada,CCS Seminar: Climate mitigation case studies, 11 May |
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CCS/DYFS - Anti-xenophobia film screening facilitators workshop, 9 May |
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Orlean Naidoo CCS Seminar: Chatsworth upgrading struggles and victories, 8 May |
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Patrick Bond, Joburg Wolpe Lecture at Wits Univ, 7 May |
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Patrick Bond at Cosatu electricity workshop, Joburg, 6 May |
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Joan Canela and Helena OlcinaCCS Seminar: Social movements in Bolivia and Catalan, 5 May |
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William Gumede Wolpe Lecture: SA’s “Democracy Gap”, 30 April |
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Three representatives of the Tamil liberation movement youthCCS Seminar: The Tamil people under seige, 21 April |
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Leading eco-social spokespersons from political parties and civil society Seminar: Environmental confrontations - Political parties meet civil society, POSTPONED |
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Rehana Dada at York Univ climate ecojustice conference, Toronto, 16-17 April |
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John Minto CCS Seminar: The Legacy of Anti-apartheid Sports Boycotts, 16 April |
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Dennis Brutus celebrations, honorary doctorates conferred at both Rhodes Univ and Mandela Univ, 16-17 April |
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Nelson Muhirwa & Jean Chrisostome Kanamugire CCS Seminar: The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years On, 8 April |
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Oliver Meth Seminar: Wentworth Crime, Gangs and Civil Society, 7 April |
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Dennis Brutus on Reconciliation and Memory in Post-Apartheid SA, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, 2-3 April |
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Ida Susser booklaunch, 'AIDS, Sex and Culture', with Quarraisha Abdool Karim, at Ike's Books, 2 April |
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Sofie Hellberg CCS Seminar: Governing lives through hydropolitics in eThekwini , 1 April 2009 |
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Claudia Wegener & Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu Digital Soiree Durban Sings Internet Radio project, 24 March |
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Simone Claar Seminar: Post-Apartheid Political Economy and State Policy, 19 March |
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Oliver Meth presents at the HSRC Violent Crime and Democratization in the Global South Conference, 18-20 March |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza CCS Seminar: African Development Bank water projects, 12 March |
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Deniz Kellecioglu CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe Civil Society confronts Mugabe's Economy, 11 March |
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Patrick Bond debates ANC economic policy, 9 March, Durban |
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Kalinca Copello Seminar: ICTs and social movements: From Chiapas to Brazil to South Africa, 6 March |
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Lisa Ramsay & Schwarzanne Leafe Seminar & Film: Climate Change and Eco-Social Resistance in South Durban, 27 February |
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Patrick Bond presents to ActionAid/Nepad conference on global financial crisis, 24 February, Midrand |
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Molefi Ndlovu Johannesburg: Market Photo Workshop, 22-28 February |
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Orlean Naidoo & Patrick Bond seminar on Free Basic Water, and screening of Flow, 18 February |
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Ida Susser Seminar: AIDS, Sex, Culture and Civil Society, 11 February |
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Dennis Brutus and Moya Atkinson film/seminar on US anti-war movement, 9 February |
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Patrick Bond seminar on the ongoing global financial crisis, University of Johannesburg, 6 February |
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Durban Sings internet audio and community radio with Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener, 2-6 February |
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Patrick Bond in dialogue with Jeremy Cronin on financial crisis, Johannesburg, 28 January |
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Dennis Brutus, Lubna Nadvi, Monica Rorvik and Salim Vally Seminar: Should Israel be boycotted? If so, how?, 27 January |
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Giyani Dube, Lubna Nadvi, Kate Griffiths and Timothy Rukombo Wolpe Lecture: Civil Society Internationalism - from Lindela to Gaza to Washington, 22 January |
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Pamela Ngwenya, Molefi Ndlovu, Claudia Wegener Seminar: Participatory community audio/video as a tool for social research, 21 January |
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Dale McKinley, Orlean Naidoo, Dudu Khumalo, Bryan Ashe Seminar on the World Water Forum, 19 January |
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Mavuso Dingani film/seminar on the Zimbabwean exile in Durban, 6 January |
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