Durban Water angers activists, impresses Stockholm judges The Mercury, 3 September 2013 Water and sanitation become a living nightmare in Durban’s Inanda township Gcina Makoba (The Mercury) 3 September 2013 Does eThekwini municipality deserve to win the Stockholm Water Industry Award, which will be granted to the Water and Sanitation Department this week? In Inanda, we residents expect ‘development’ to at least include adequate access to water, flush sanitation, a well-built decent-sized house, affordable electricity, waste removal and air clean enough to breathe. But especially in wards 44, 55 and 56, we are underdeveloping. At the end of apartheid, even these basic need goods were better supplied and cheaper in Inanda. Something changed in 1994 – and it was not just our liberation from racism. There was a trade-off, it now appears, leaving poor people facing new miseries. Our communities are now very concerned with the polluted air we breathe, with raw sewage flowing into our streams and with the small size and fragility of the RDP houses built here in 2011. The stream running through our wards was once clean and clear, but it is now doubtful whether there are any species living there. Fish and riverine animals that had been common have since died. Besides our sewer crisis, the worst service might be the communal toilets within shipping containers that have recently been installed in Durban’s townships and shack settlements. In ward 56, 150 houses are sharing two containers with just two showers and three toilets each. About 500 houses in ward 44 share four communal toilets, and 320 houses in ward 55 share four communal toilets. There are numerous challenges that accompany these toilets, including cleanliness and queues, and most of us are not happy about them. Listen to the voices of my neighbours, such as Lindani (age 39): “Our norms do not allow us to share the toilets. Using these toilets is an insult to us, telling us directly that we have no value. I have never used these toilets ever since they came, because I am angry about them. They were imposed on us.” The container communal toilets are not accessible to the greater part of our community. They have restrictive opening and closing times. They are not secure spaces in any case, and lead to increased crime such as rape. Many containers also have broken taps, which is a health hazard because it is impossible for us to wash hands after use. The toilets themselves are often blocked. Some are closed, which leads to males and females sharing the same toilets. Most of us, especially those living where these container toilets are placed, feel that our lives are more difficult since these were introduced. Because they do not have sufficient drains, water is directed into the yards of nearby houses, so we are soaked in water day and night and our kiddies cannot play in the yards. In some cases, our houses are falling apart due to water coming from these toilets. As another Inanda resident living next to a communal container toilet, Bongiwe Mnqaba (age 56), told me, “if we were consulted about these toilets, we would have disputed this type of development. We expected flush toilets per household, not this. If taps are broken it can be that people are sending the message to the Municipality that we do not want these toilets.” Another neighbour, Mxolisi (age 18) complained, “Now that a dead body was found [hanging in a container toilet] early this year, everybody is scared to go there….I think they can now be removed because they have turned to be useless. Even more, tsotsis are hiding there to mug people who are coming from work [because] they are dark!” Then we have an unnecessary financial expense because we pay R2 for 25 liters which we must buy, since by the time we reach home at 7pm the communal taps are already closed (it used to be 9pm). Most of the people who are living in Inanda’s RDP houses, which do have individual water taps, have a problem with the high billing costs. The new water meters being installed are not for everyone. For most of us, there are no standpipes nearby to provide us with water, so we ended up diverting the pipes to our yards so that we can get access to water. The Municipality must remember that we decided to connect water on our own because we were neglected. Water is a basic need and a human right. We are waiting for a meeting where these new meters will be discussed, but if they impose these, we will make sure that they are removed from each and every house, as we are tired of water and sanitation being imposed on us. For example, while others in eThekwini enjoy their flush toilet inside their house, 80 000 households in black communities are denied this right by the municipality, as they were given the ‘Urinary Diversion’ toilets in small rooms outside the house, without water. These are similar to the old-style bucket system, and are now recognised as a failed experiment. The greatest fear of this type of ‘development’ is that it is permanent. The question in our Inanda wards remains: how long will our community be forced to live under these conditions, if a world water award makes our politicians smug? (Gcina Makoba is a Dennis Brutus Community Scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society.) FOLLOWING MAKOBA’S ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING DEBATE TOOK PLACE ON SEVERAL LISTSERVES IN SEPTEMBER 2014 PB: More quick banter, below, but I must say, I sometimes just don't know what to believe when I read Neil's replies, e.g. "The eThekwini municipality has not built VIP toilets" (i.e., Ventilated Improved Pitlatrines - the prior fad of neoliberal water management). Evidence below suggests that Bill Gates thinks otherwise. Re: [Bubbles] [Debate-List] (Fwd) Durban's big water award on Tuesday (Stockholm Water Industry) 7 September 2014 NM: Dear Vanessa I think that you are confusing issues here. I have never heard the city or our government say that citizens do not have a right to a clean environment or access to a basic supply of water necessary to sustain life. PB: If you don't hear that, no surprise, for it would be unconstitutional for a city official to say it. But there's lots of talk-left walk-right rhetoric and practice in South Africa. So this sentence seems disingenuous, given the record of disconnections and extreme cutbacks enforced on the city's poorest third who were already provided a metered supply - i.e. a reduction from 22 kl/hh/month to 15 kl/hh/month because of the doubling of the real water price from 1997-2004, during which time, at the peak of rights-denial, 4000 households per week were disconnected from a full water supply due to non-payment. The 200 l/hh/day (now 300) came in the form of yard tanks, again a system for the poor (never seen in my Bluff neighbourhood) which ignores the critical role of water pressure in assuring hygiene and the safety of the water. Rights violations were legion, as the case of the late Christina Manquele proved already 15 years ago (see her on video here). NM: It seems that many have forgotten that the Durban metro municipality introduced the concept of free basic water rather than basic water that had to be paid for. PB: Two serious problems here, that I don't think Neil can rebut: 1) as noted above, if during the FBW's pilot phase and city-wide roll-out, consumption by the poorest 1/3 simultaneously declined (during pandemics of cholera, AIDS and diarhhoea), because the overall water price doubled from R2/kl to R4/kl (after correction for inflation), the Durban version of FBW was diabolical, not something to brag about. Here are the 1997-2004 data from the municipality's own staff person, Reg Bailey: 2) what was the rationale for FBW being introduced, based on the Durban pilot? According to the water minister at the time (Ronnie Kasrils), the Durban pilot convinced him that ‘It would save money because local authorities would not be saddled with the problem of administering large numbers of small accounts’ (Business Day, 11 February 2000). Again, nothing to brag about if this was a matter of fiscal savings. (Also, it makes little sense as the basis for public policy, because if one then consumes 6001 liters, this logic is to charge the customer for the whole 6001, not just for 1 liter.) NM: It was also one of the first to start emptying pit toilets once every 5 years for free and now the UD toilets every two years for free. PB: But again, Neil, why brag about what is now explicitly acknowledged to be a class-'discriminatory' system, in your own words? Those pit toilets and UD are now acknowledged to fail the tests of dignity and fairness; they should never have been introduced as a 'sanitation solution', since now they must be replaced. NM: When our interaction with communities through the Water Dialogues and subsequently our user platforms and focus groups, PB: If this is true, I was mistaken, then, to think that water activists had anything to do with the pressure put on Durban municipality to change its rights-violating policies. (If this is true. But it would not be in any municipal official's interest to acknowledge that activists had anything to do with changing policy.) NM: led us to understand that 200 litres a day was not enough water for basic living in a tropical climate, PB: Why such a weasel word? "Tropical"? In non-tropical Joburg, the equivalent FBW allocation was from 6 to 10 (not 9) kl/hh/month, just before the court judgement in 2008 found that Soweto citizens' rights were violated by Suez - which had designed Joburg Water's FBW in alliance with the national strategy put in place in mid-2001 by the Palmer Development Group. Ian Palmer had earlier been the most vigorous advocate I ever met of denying people a FBW allocation; somehow or other, his consultancy was put in charge of FBW design. Neil was on the board of Joburg Water when it implemented its pre-payment meters (for black not white neighbourhoods), inhumane 'shallow sewer' strategy and VIPs. NM: the Council increased it to 300 litres per family per day. To imply that the city is unresponsive is incorrect. PB: The critique is not that Durban officials do not change and are unresponsive. Everyone acknowledges that there is a marginal improvement over the years, as activist critiques hit home. The durable concern, though, is that there is a tendency to continue new innovations in water apartheid: not using race as the explicit dividing line, but instead class. NM: The eThekwini municipal area is covered with water pipes PB: The critique is that there is a residual (and ongoing) apartheid logic to the verb "cover". For example, a "sanitation edge" was declared that has very little geographical logic (look at the many white areas that have sanitation services outside the 'edge'). It is based on a class-centric assessment of communities. NM: intended to provide water to any customer who applies to be connected. Many of the illegal connections have not been made by poor families but by families living in large houses in the Ingonyama Trust areas, houses that would sell for millions of Rand if they were located in Umhlanga Rocks or Reservoir Hills. PB: This is the sort of class analysis that is helpful. What's the logical conclusion? Enforce a stronger water credit control policy on people who can afford to pay but who don't, and charge them much higher amounts for hedonistic consumption. NM: Then there are those in shack areas who have connected to the supply lines leading to public standpipes and as a result no water comes out of the taps at the end of the line, depriving the really poor of access to sufficient water. PB: This is not just a problem in shack areas; Mike Muller can testify that this is the way ordinary people have responded to the inadequacy of off-site water access all over the country. They put pipes and hoses into water systems so as to achieve yard-based access. Many of the projects were set up with a design specification of 25 l/c/d which was what some of the water experts says is what a woman can carry each day for her household for a targeted maximum of 200 meters. The possibility of a community increasing its population or moving up a 'ladder' of consumption to yard or in-house supply was not taken into account. The public health, gender equity and micro-economic benefits of moving to the PB: For that I blame the policy people and municipal designers who provide too few taps, too far away. Worse, they cite "RDP standards" to justify this - when in reality the RDP has much more generous medium-term targets. (The short-term emergency mandate, to be provided by water tankers if necessary, was at least 25 lcd; the medium-term was on-site 50-60 lcd.) NM: Instead the water runs out of ‘private’ taps at individual shacks - taps that are hardly ever closed. PB: Where are these taps for private individuals that are 'hardly ever closed'? What is the water being used for? If these shack settlements typically have no soakaways or drains, why would an individual private tap owner let water run constantly? NM: We monitor consumption per house in these shack areas and it is far more than 300 litres per family per day, but the excessive consumption is not being paid for by those responsible. PB: I find it hard to believe that shack settlements have that kind of per household consumption if they are not sharing their supply with immediate neighbours, as I know so many do, who are illegally connected to water or electricity grids. NM: Our research has shown that there are businesses active in making these illegal connections for a cost that typically is around R600. We have been given the pamphlets that are handed out by these companies and that offer unlimited free water for ever. We have approached the police to take action against them, but nothing seems to have been done. PB: So why not solve that problem by putting in municipal taps? NM: Sadly there is also evidence that some of the contractors and employees working for EWS are also involved in making illegal, unmetered connections for a fee. PB: Why does eThekwini hire so many crooks, especially in Public Private Pilfering partnerships? (See Manase Report for a small sampling, or for a particularly telling example, how about Carver Media trying to loot a WWF award. Or just recall Mike Sutcliffe's overall looting spree. Or Mayor Obed Mlaba's R3 bn tender hijack.) Don't the activists critics have a point, about tenderpreneurship being a primitive mode of class formation? Why can't the water department at least hire its own staff and not outsource its work - especially wastewater treatment here in South Durban - to a criminal operation (Veolia) that is involved in internationally-recognised illegal Occupation-related services in East Jerusalem, for example? The impression that Durban municipality gives the world is unending corruption; surely the celebrated Water and Sanitation group can work against that trend, not amplify it? NM: So the eThekwini municipality has a plan to make water available in the form of metered connections to individual homes and communal ablution blocks in dense shack areas. We have connected 1,3 million people to safe drinking water since 2000, another fact that is overlooked by the critics of EWS. PB: No, it is the exorbitant price rises over that period to all those connected that is most disconcerting (as the Bailey/Buckley data above indicate). NM: 280 000 families who are legally connected to the network do not pay for water each month. PB: But they don't get enough water, do they, nor with sufficient pressure to meet the society's public health and hygiene objectives. NM: Our experience over the past 22 years has shown that the water ‘consumption’ for families who use water through unmetered connections is generally three times more than those who are supplied through metered connections. PB: Are they then also commoning the water, sharing with others? (I would, if in that situation.) NM: Johannesburg Water saw an even more dramatic drop in consumption in unbilled areas after the installation of meters (from an average of 60 kl per month to less than 15kl per month) PB: And they also witnessed the world's second greatest water war (after Cochabamba). NM: Threatening to vandalise meters and remove them is a clear indication of an attitude that does not relate to poverty or to human rights – in my view it is plain anarchy or criminality. PB: If the meter charges too much to allow water to be consumed by poor people, and if the authorities refuse to permit a generous FBW allowance, then surely it's better to have that meter sabotaged than face the public health and personal household burdens of inadequate water access. As a taxpayer and a fellow citizen, that cost-benefit analysis makes sense to me. NM: Turning to the toilet issue, the cost of providing water borne sanitation to the 370 000 families living in rural and shack areas would cost more than R60 billion. PB: What, R162 000 per household? For a simple low-flush and on-site septic tank in peri-urban and rural areas, and for a much more generous approach to shack settlement sanitation? That sounds like an exaggeration. NM: The ongoing additional operational costs that would have to be funded from a revenue source would exceed R1,5 million a day. PB: That amount - if true (like the R162 000 per hh?) - is barely 1.5% of the municipal budget. Since Durban is one of the most unequal countries in the world, that kind of redistribution is justifiable. We spend so little of the fiscus on water and on social spending as it is. NM: Please also remember that most residential areas in our municipality did not have piped water borne sanitation for 120 years PB: Here we need some rudimentary racial analysis, and post-apartheid retribution too. NM: and it was only in the 1970’s that the sewering of these areas began. Many suburbs in the Highway area and parts of Westville still rely on private septic tanks systems for sewage disposal. PB: Right, here we have race analysis, but the euphamism is "suburbs in the Highway area and parts of Westville" (i.e. still mainly whites). The point about 'private septic tanks' is interesting: what percentage of the historically-white areas (on high ground) have these, and why can't they be subsidised for peri-urban and rural areas across the country? NM: It is just too expensive to construct sewers in these areas, never mind the rural areas where it would cost 10 to 20 times more per household to construct sewers, compared to the denser urban areas. PB: I don't know anyone who suggests full-flush system through sewage lines in rural areas, do you? But a rudimentary septic tank with enough of a flush to move the excrement out is certainly feasible. How much would that cost? An average of R162 000 per unit? I doubt it. NM: So even if the Moses Mabhida stadium had not been built and tenders had not been given to the companies you mention, the prohibitive cost of sewering large areas of our municipality would still remain. PB: Can we please get accurate costing, not the R162 000/unit alleged? NM: This is not an attempt to deny the poor access to sanitation – even in first world countries in Europe and America there are families without piped sewerage systems who are left to fend for themselves. PB: The end of the sentence appears a justification for denying the poor access to sanitation. It's just this kind of double-talk that critics find exasperating. NM: London generally had no sewers or flushing toilets until the early 1900’s – PB: Actually, London's Metropolitan Commission of Sewers started the process of sewage installation after the Great Stink and cholera epidemic in the 1850s. NM: you used a pit toilet in the garden! Currently national policy as per the Strategic Framework Document for Water and Sanitation Services says that basic sanitation is effectively a VIP toilet. PB: This is national neoliberal water policy, sure. But Durban is one of the richest municipalities in the country. So in that context, justifying Durban's class-apartheid policy because of an awful national policy - one that many of us fought on the policy front these last 20 years - is not satisfactory. NM: The eThekwini municipality has not built VIP toilets. PB: Well, if not, your department has been fooling local citizenry and internet viewers: and this rich poverty tourist seeking a technological silver bullet: NM: In my view if families want more expensive options than that envisaged as basic sanitation, they should do what everyone else in the world (rich and poor alike)does and make a plan themselves instead of waiting for government. PB: And if people are too poor, then tough shit, eh. The name for that, as public policy, is 'class apartheid'. NM: My personal view is that the issue is not about flush toilets, but is rather about having access to a toilet that is clean with no bad odours, is easy and safe to use and that is not dark inside. There is also the popular view that the flushing toilet is the only acceptable solution – a facility that uses about 150 litres a day of treated clean water (for a family of 5) to flush away 5 litres of human excreta. This 155 litres of water then has to be transported to a treatment works PB: Doesn't have to be: site-based treatment is possible, either through biogas digestion in built-up areas, or through septic tanks in rural areas. NM: to remove the 5 litres of ‘pollution’. The energy consumption to treat the water to drinking water quality, deliver it to the home and then remove the sewage and treat it, is huge. Dry sanitation has to be the solution of the future for everybody and many organisations around the world are working towards that goal. The flushing toilet was first put into common use in the 1860’s and has hardly changed since then – we have to do better than that in a world where water and energy are becoming scarce. We need a 21st century toilet that is used by all, both rich and poor. PB: Great, that last sentence is fine. But given the track record of only experimenting - mainly unsuccessfully - on poor people and black people, when will the rich - or even middle-class - try out a new system? Count me in as a guinea pig, please. Cheers, Patrick NM: Regards Neil Macleod Re: [PORT] Re: [Bubbles] [Debate-List] (Fwd) Durban's big water award on Tuesday (Stockholm Water Industry) 6 September 2014 NM: "...the writer seems to see the right to a clean environment to be the right to a flushing toilet and the right to basic water to be the right to an illegal connection so unlimited quantities of water can be stolen." VB: It is interesting that the eThekwini Municipality always manages to associate poverty with crime, be it the homeless, illegal connections, shack dwellers - the struggle for survival and basic human dignity by the poor is naturally assumed to be of criminal intent. VB: I would like to ask, however, which is the REAL crime here: that of a poor family, often single-mother households, resorting to an illegal water connection to obtain some measure of access to a basic human right when service delivery fails; or the municipality's continued diversion of ratepayers' money into the back pockets of the already obscenely wealthy? I refer to such questionable practices as repetitious tenders awarded to construction companies owned by the likes of the Mpisane's, Jay Singh, etc, the list is too long to mention all. VB: Or the municipality's continued squander of budgetary resources on 'nice to haves but hardly essential when one considers the existing inequality,' such as the Moses Mabhida Stadium and all the other white elephants which cost us millions to maintain each month? And for what long term benefit and to whom? VB: Or the bloated costs of ward councillors' bodyguards? And, and, and...again the list is too long to detail. VB: So which is the REAL crime here Mr Mcleod? VB: How many proper sanitation projects and flush toilets could the city have built if this money, alleged by many (such as has been detailed in the Manase Report for eg and in countless other corruption investigations that are simply ignored) to have been 'stolen' or wasted or 'irregularly spent' - and continues to be - hadn't been? Or had to be paid back? VB: It is not only our president that should "Pay back our money" to enable a "Better life for all." A better life which SHOULD include ready access to a liveable amount of water and being able to use a toilet without fear of disease or rape. Vanessa Subject: [PORT] Re: [Bubbles] [Debate-List] (Fwd) Durban's big water award on Tuesday (Stockholm Water Industry) 6 September 2014 Two quick replies: first to Neil, then Mike. (This is a debate on the 'Bubbles' listserve but since Neil and Mike both cc-ed several other listserves, people who are interested are invited to chime in on this dispute.) (And in case the quotation function disappears, my replies are preceded by PB: for clarity's sake.) On 2014/09/06 03:46 PM, Neil Macleod wrote: NM: I intend writing to the paper to set the record straight. My summary of the article is that the writer seems to see the right to a clean environment to be the right to a flushing toilet PB: Right then, it seems that we're backtracking to Gandhi: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." We've apparently moved along this trajectory from ignoring to ridiculing, even though water activists like Gcina Makoba - who does indeed see the right to a clean environment in her township as entailing a flush toilet inside her house (as do I) - might have had the impression that she was winning. After all, over the past five years or so, slowly but surely, Durban officials seemed to be listening to the activists' grievances; they at least changed previously unacceptable policies and projects, such as Ventilated Improved Pitlatrines (now out of fashion) and the Free Basic Water supply of 200 liters/household/day (it's now up to 300). NM: and the right to basic water to be the right to an illegal connection so unlimited quantities of water can be stolen. PB: Neil, is there a single activist who believes that the solution to the household water crisis is "an illegal connection so unlimited quantities of water can be stolen"? I've never met one. My impression is that the township activists who have workshopped the various policy options invariably promote the 1994 Reconstruction and Development Programme promises as their ideal policy. Aside from the SA Municipal Workers Union which advocated 100 liters per day lifeline supply per capita (not 50-60 lcd as the RDP recommends) about 15 years ago, I've never encountered an activist who demanded more than the RDP. Am I wrong on this? PB: As for stealing? Look, as a temporary measure in the event an inhumane municipality (such as Durban back in the day) disconnects 1000 families per day, well then yes, a human right to water strategy should surely include the urgent and if necessary illegal reconnection of poor people, especially women-headed households. Sometimes court injunctions against disconnections are slow, expensive or rejected by conservative judges. As a fellow taxpayer, don't you agree that encouraging illegal water reconnections under those circumstances (such as Thulisile Chrisina Manquele's famous case 15 years ago) makes sense, so that our health bills don't skyrocket as a result of this extremist municipal disconnection rate? The gory details are in an Oxford DPhil thesis about Durban's awful past, by Alex Loftus: A Political Ecology of Water Struggles in Durban, South Africa NM: I do not need to defend our service delivery and innovation record - PB: Ok but if you change your mind, we would love to have a public dialogue, including activists like Gcina, Orlean Naidoo, MamaDudu Khumalo, etc. NM: those who we respect have done it for us repeatedly. PB: Maybe, but surely the best analysis of Durban's unacceptable service delivery and innovation record is actually this quote from someone who admits that the past strategy was unacceptable to low-income black people: "containers with toilets and showers and wash troughs, and the construction of 80 000 urine-diverting toilets speak to our past. But what we've realised is that into the future, we need to find new technologies that meet people's expectations. The reality is that everyone believes that the flushing toilet is the best solution to sanitation.... we'll bring safe sanitation at an acceptable level to rich and poor alike and we'll do away with this perceived discrimination where the flushing toilet is seen to be for rich people and dry sanitation is seen to be a solution for poor people. Our challenge is to do away with that differentiation." PB: Hear hear! I'm impressed, because that sounds like a sensible official who realises that the service delivery and innovation record of the past - a sanitation apartheid that also had rather obvious racial overtones - is simply not acceptable, and simply didn't meet people's expectations. Perhaps a very low-flush technological solution can be found that might, ideally, entail bio-gas digestion and the same quality of indoor, non-odor standards for rich and poor alike. That would be excellent. Meantime, why ridicule activists who also believe that the challenge for EWS in future is to do away with that durable water-apartheid differentiation? On 2014/09/04 07:32 PM, Mike Muller wrote: MM: Of course, the difference between Neil and all the many progressive environmental and social activists is that he tried to implement some of their proposals. PB: In a way this is correct... as you saw above and can listen to here, Neil now concedes that the current system - the 'sanitation edge' denying water-borne sanitation in peri-urban areas (and also close-in shack settlements) - is widely perceived to be discriminatory. And yes, as noted, he implemented an increased Free Basic Water supply after consistent critique of his disconnection policy. (Ok, that 300 liters/household/day amount is still not enough for many larger families, especially when there are special events like funerals, and it comes with a new version of neoliberal indigency policy, and hence is not universal as promised in the 2000 ANC election campaign. Nor is the block tariff steep enough to redistribute properly. So the FBW strategy still needs fixing.) Sadly though, these changes came only after the huge social engineering mistakes were made, e.g. installation of what I gather are not 80 000 UDs, as Neil says in the video, but instead (we learned in seminar from an EWS official), 140 000. What an enormous waste. PB: Warnings against UDs were made early on, e.g. in 2007, 2008, and again in 2012 - and I think that two superb campaigners - MamaDudu Khumalo and Simphiwe Nojiyeza - laid out better than anyone what was wrong, at an early stage in the process. Their concerns were ignored for years. Here are slides with their critique, and see way below. Until the UD experiment failed, Durban municipality seemed committed to not supplying decent sanitation to these residents. Now maybe there is a way forward, if we take time and trouble - and dispense with prejudices, Mike - to listen and learn from activists on the frontline of the sanitation wars. MM: Those UD toilets are an example; they are designed both to reduce water use PB: By who? Poor people? Black people? Do you know how many were imposed on the residents of my (mainly white middle-class) neighbourhood (the Bluff)? (Zero.) It's this race/class (and by implication gender) discrimination that, finally, is acknowledged to be a fatal flaw. Do you not get that? MM: and to capture the nutrients PB: In a bucket-system contraption similar to apartheid's, in a city with the highest number of HIV+ people, and hence a huge diarrhoea problem (which chamber?) and abnormally high levels of pathogens... and so with Durban's humid weather (hence difficulty in drying the excrement), with erratic bucket-emptying strategies, with urban agriculture inappropriate for human excrement, and with consistent failure to gain community ownership of this strategy, the nutrients are not so easy to capture, are they. MM: that otherwise go down the drain while still offering safe and convenient sanitation. PB: No, the UDs have proven unsafe (hygienically) and inconvenient (located outside the house). And terribly smelly as well. Mike, in all these respects, do watch the interview and learn from Neil. He says he is trying to get beyond them, in part for safety reasons. Let's learn why. MM: The Greens love them. PB: Which 'Greens' do you mean? Have you not met 'red-greens' committed to Environmental Justice, who put dignity, equity and reparations into the mix? MM: Until someone tries to implement them and discovers that all these easy solutions are not quite as easy as they appear. Then they are suddenly very absent or very ready to point fingers. PB: Ah, but we also point fingers inward, by the way, not just at the 'water fraternity'. Sad and convoluted experiences on the biogas digester in Cato Manor convinces me that the efforts made there were inadequate. I was associated (as a voluntary board member) of an NGO that was involved. That exercise was a huge mistake, mainly because of lack of community ownership. MM: Shame! PB: Mike, shame is an emotion usefully invoked by Herman Daly, pioneer of ecological economics, when thinking about something similar to UD advocacy: degrowth advocacy applied to the poor. Daly advocated degrowth (or 'steady-state economics') for the Global North but is aware that you cannot make this transfer to the Global South, and his argument applies equally well to the UD debate: "It is absolutely a waste of time as well as morally backward to preach steady-state doctrines to underdeveloped countries before the overdeveloped countries have taken any measure to reduce either their own population growth or the growth of their per-capita resource consumption. Therefore, the steady-state paradigm must first be applied in the overdeveloped countries…. One of the major forces necessary to push the overdeveloped countries toward a…steady-state paradigm must be Third World outrage at their overconsumption." - Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1991), p.19 PB: Here's an interesting essay that, not entirely taking my point of view, nevertheless puts the UD into this vital context. Living as we do, Mike, in the world's most unequal major country, it's a shame to have to remind of this context. UD social/ equity issues: Are UDs a dignified form of sanitation? Dudu Khumalo and Simphiwe Nojiyeza, UKZN Centre for Civil Society Positive Effects of UD Toilets It improves dry sanitation facilities by: (1) Reducing odours if properly constructed and operated (2) Facilitating maintenance of the system It contributes to improved health through: (1) Easier and more hygienic handling of the faeces (2) Reduces risk of pathogen transport to groundwater It can provide more permanent interventions compared to VIPs,chemical toilets, buckets and other inadequate sanitation facilities through: (1) Simplified emptying that increases the toilet lifetime (2) It facilitates nutrient cycling and creates possibilities to increase food security Positive Effects of UD Toilets (1) Urine contains the majority of nutrients found in excreta (2) Urine is an excellent fertilizer, suitable for all crops needing quick- acting nitrogen (3) Urine has an extremely low content of micropollutants such as heavy metals Urine diversion systems are not expensive than similar conventional technologies Positive Cost effects Dry urine diversion is cheaper to install than VIPs, VIP emptying is expensive and facilities are sometimes non- existent It is the cheapest alternative for on-site sanitation, when it is full, households can build new ones It is estimated that over a ten year period, the full toilet investment can be paid for solely by the value of nitrogen and phosphorus in the urine Environmental and Sustainable Development Urine diversion systems contribute less to environmental contamination than conventional sanitation systems: (1) There is reduced risk of groundwater pollution for dry urine diversion systems (2) There is reduced risk of surface water pollution for water- flushed urine diversion systems Motives for eThekwini to introduce UDs There were 140 193 households without adequate sanitation especially in rural areas The use of VIPs requires mechanical desludging which is expensive, vulnerable to failure, inaccessible (site), unable to cope with heavy sludge and solid waste in pits. It is unsafe and unpleasant to do manual emptying of VIPs using shovels and buckets The cost of using tanker emptying of VIPs is around R1536 per pit if the service is subsidized and each household pay R120, possibility of saving from construction additional Waste Water Treatment Plants VIP latrines are financially unsustainable, especially subsidizing the empting of such using tankers UDs are maintained by users themselves, therefore it is cost saving Motives for eThekwini Replacement of about 100 000 old pit latrines without ventilation toilets with UDs that are allowing faeces and urine to dry and decompose faster In 2006 eThekwini commissioned Pollution Research Group of UKZN to investigate whether UD solid waste can be used as fertilizer, and the results according to UKZN biologist Mike Smith were promising Motives for eThekwini Another study funded by eThekwini Municipality and WHO suggested a 30% reduction in diarrheal diseases among households with UD toilets compared with similar households using pit toilets According to Stephen Knight of Nelson Mandela School of Medicine access to UD toilets helped avert an average of one diarrhea episode per person every 2 years, with the benefits of good sanitation three times greater for children under the age of 5 than for other age ranges. Challenges of UD roll out Risks associated with UDs is the lack of quality and construction of the toilets and piping systems which result in people reverting back to open defecation and use of traditional latrines. The focus is on the number of toilets constructed and how closer we are to meeting MDGs Zero regular health and hygiene education, no operating manuals and instructions, no maintenance guidelines are provided, no spare parts and support is given Users are not accepting the system because of the top down nature of delivery systems, because in some areas there are different sanitation technologies, some use UD and others ( elite and aristocratic class) have flush toilets Handling of urine and faeces not explained and also not acceptable to communities Other Challenges No programme to re-circulate urine and faces to agriculture, operation and maintenance of urine and faeces is more demanding than conventional piping which results in blockages In most instances , there are no piping, storage and collection (transportation) tanks systems that are put in place As a user you are on your own, eThekwini is reducing costs and creating health impacts! Other challenges Lack of compliance with building codes which results in improper running of the system The sizing and inclination of pipes, documentation and accessibility are mistakes that lead to failure of the system No municipal collection of urine is provided for, and therefore urine harvested is not used for agricultural purposes The construction of UDs did not cater for appropriate collection and storage capacity for the urine. Social costs of UDs Although there is minimal risk of disease transmission when urine is used without prior storage in the home garden, the risk could be great due to lack of urine storage guidelines. The waiting period of one month between last application of urine and harvest is not adhered to as education is often not provided There is a serious lack of stakeholder participation, which result in UDs not being accepted by households The agricultural benefits ( fertilizing effects of urine and faeces) of UDs are not properly explained to farmers Most of the UD toilets are becoming storage facilities UDs designed so far are not taking into cognizance that men and women excrete urine in different ways Social Impacts of UD Toilets The bowls are not designed so that urine is collected in an appropriate way from both women and men using the toilet Therefore there is a need for designing different urinals for men and women The current UD is gender insensitive, inadequate and unsafe Faeces and urine contain low pesticide residues that could harm people if no safe removal devices and storage facilities are provided Informed choice In most instances communities did not play any role in technology choice Double vaults or single vaults were prescribed and communities had no say UD toilets are situated far away from existing houses and may make users vulnerable to criminal activities when using them at night, the other motivation is that UD toilets smell very bad despite ash and sew dust being used Most households that have UD toilets complain about responsibilities of emptying vaults, difficulty to operate and maintain, construction mistakes, handling of faeces and their preference of a flush toilet The vaults are also too deep and difficult to clean, urine pipes often blocks, Urine is disposed to soaked pits and in few instances it is piped to velds for fertilizer making Economic Issues The implementation of UD in Durban did not result in improved environment, food security for households and safer handling of waste flow from the households The externalities are borne by households that operate and maintain their latrines without any form of subsidy Ashe and sew dust is not provided, whereas in most rural areas there is electricity and people are no longer using fire for cooking and other domestic services The double piping system is expensive in terms of installation costs The costs of removing and resealing the slab of the vault that are borne by households Training and Children usage Training on usage, health and hygiene provided in some instances was not adequate to enhance behavioural change. Children under the age of 10 are not using UD toilets because (1) They are too small and too young to use the seat properly, they might fall in the vault, they may defecate in the urine receptacle (2) They don’t know how to use the toilet Failure to use UDs by children resulted in exposing them to health risks as they openly defecate in bushes Some households are neither using ash no soil to cover faeces after defecation Excreta Removal Most users are objecting to emptying the vault and disposing of the excreta because: (1) They do not want to work with excreta. (2) The municipality must take the excreta away as nobody is willing to empty the vault and handle faeces (3) It is not easy to dispose of the contents of the vault and emptying of the vault is not easy (4) Use of Faeces and Urine as Fertilizer Most users are not willing to use neither faeces nor urine as fertilizer because: (1) They don’t like to handle faeces. (2) It is unhealthy to use excreta in the garden (3) Faeces smell, no matter how dry they are (4) Urine kills plants Way forward Sanitation committees need to elected in a transparent and participatory manner, sanitation technology choices made need to meet the needs of the users and not imposed by eThekwini Currently households regard UDs as punishment for being poor, black and Zulu and some form of degradation and humiliation Training, operation and maintenance, emptying of the vaults and safe disposal methods to be re visited , health and hygiene education to be given a priority, improvement in construction of UDs need to take place, use of excreta and urine for fertilizer to be re looked Emptying of vaults need to be subsidised together with transportation for agricultural use of both faeces and urine, gender sensitivity of construction of UDs  Back

Events Index 2023  Ben Madokwe CCS Special Webinar Series :2024 Election Voter Education and Registration.   Ruth Seopedi Motau CCS Webinar: 21st Century Women in Activism, Redefining the Struggle.   Natasha Wagiet CCS Webinar: 21st Century Women in Activism, Redefining the Struggle.   Alexandra Rose Howland CCS Webinar: Applying Photography to Trace the Slow Violence of Environmental Disaster.   Thandanani Gasa CCS Webinar: The Hidden Economy of Creative Industries.   Princess A Sibanda CCS Webinar: Reflections on Black struggles and achievements in bettering activism in our time.   Madoda Cuphe CCS Webinar: Building Counter Power. 17 November 2022   Sylvia Mbataru CCS Webinar: CIVICUS MONITOR: Tracking the World’s Civic Space. 06 Oct 2022   Andrew Firmin CCS Webinar: Reflecting on the 2022 CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report. 29 Sept 2022   Samuel Matsikure CCS Webinar: Struggle to Decolonising Queer movement in Zimbabwe. 21 July 2022    Welcome Mandla Lishivha CCS Webinar: Boy on the Run. 14 July 2022    Mary Elizabeth Lange, Bhekithemba Dlamini, Noluthando Shandu and Rachelle Ngalula Mukendi CCS Webinar: Arts ... Reflections on Phone Call to the world. Thursday 28 April 2022   Debora Ley Webinar: Climate Resilient Development Pathways from IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Thursday, 21 April 2022   Jean-Marc Akakpo CCS Webinar: Climate change and conflict in Africa: A Reflection on COP 26. Thursday, 17 March 2022   Radha D'Souza CCS Webinar: What do the Indian Farm Laws Say and Why Are the Farmers Protesting Against Them?. Thursday, 11 November 2021   Tori Cooper CCS Webinar: All Black Lives Matter: The Black Trans Lives Movement in America. Thursday, 14 October 2021   Fisayo Soyombo CCS Webinar: The Future of Effective Movements: Lessons from Nigeria's #EndSARS Protest. Thursday, 09 September 2021   Eva Ptašková  CCS Webinar: How to get an abortion legally when it’s illegal? Thursday, 26 August 2021   Lysa John CCS Webinar: Why is the Right to Protest under attack across the world? Thursday, 19 August 2021   Paasha Mahdavi CCS Webinar: Extractive Resource Nationalization. Thursday 12 August 2021   Nathan Andrews Thinking Beyond the Resource Curse? Oil, Globalized Assemblages and Development in Ghana. Wednesday 4 August 2021   Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Webinar: The Curse of Titanium - The Amadiba Crisis Committee and Community Struggles in the Eastern Cape. Wednesday 28 July 2021   Andrew Firmin CCS Webinar: 'Solidarity in the Time of Covid' - Civil Society Responses to the Pandemic. Wednesday 14 July 2021   Inés Pousadela and David Kode CCS Webinar: The State of Civil Society: Findings from the 2021 CIVICUS Report. Wednesday 7 July 2021   Philip Owen The Impacts of Industrial Timber Plantations on Environmental and Social Justice. Thursday 20 May 2021   Guy Donald Abassombe CCS Webinar: Oil palm cultivation and socio-ecological changes A challenge for Sustainable Development in Cameroon. Thursday 13 May 2021   Kumi Naidoo CCS Webinar: Climate Work and Climate Justice Work. Thursday, 29 April 2021   Cathy Elando Kodiemoka, Nomfundo Mkhaba, Ngazini Ngidi, Lucas Ngoetjana & Tinashe Njanji Community Scholar Workshop "The Covid-19 Vaccine Debate". Wednesday 21 April 2021   Alex Lenferna CCS Webinar: A Green New Eskom? Wednesday 14 April 2021   N. Shange, M.A Varghese, S. Ngubane & N. Mbuthuma CCS Webinar: Young Civil Society and Contemporary Issue. Wednesday 31 March 2021   Saliem Fakir CCS Webinar:Unpacking South Africa's Just Transition-A conversation with Saliem Fakir. Tuesday 23 March 2021   Bruce Baigrie What Is The Ecological Crisis and How Do We Halt It? Wednesday 10 March 2021   Vishwas Satgar CCS Webinar: The Climate Justice Charter Response to the Worsening Climate Crisis and South Africa’s Carbon Democracy. Wednesday 3 March 2021   Clint Le Bruyns, Saajidha Sader & Fikile Vilakazi. CCS Webinar: “Coloniality is not over: it is all over” On reconstituting the deconstituted in and through the humanities. Wednesday 25 November 2020   Rosalind Hampton, CCS Webinar: Haunting colonial legacies in-and-of the Canadian University. Wednesday 18 November 2020   Remi Joseph-Salisbury, CCS Webinar: Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism as Decolonial Praxis in British Universities. Wednesday 11 November 2020   Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi CCS Webinar: The use of ‘Decolonial Methodologies’ to Foster Political Agency. Wednesday 4 November 2020   Tana Joseph CCS Webinar: Decolonising the Sciences. Wednesday 21 October 2020   Leigh-Ann Naidoo CCS Webinar: Statues Must Fall. Wednesday 16 September 2020   Marjaan Sirdar, CCS Webinar: George Floyd and the Minneapolis Uprising. Wednesday 9 September 2020   Hamid Khan CCS Webinar: Defund the Police, Abolish the Stalker State – A Global Fight. Wednesday 2 September 2020   Danford Chibvongodze & Andries Motau, CCS Webinar: The Organizing Principle - Understanding the Erasure of Black Women in Liberation Movements from enslaved... Wednesday 26 August 2020   Tiffany Caesar CCS Webinar: Black Mothers and Activism In The Black Lives Matter Movement. Wednesday 19 August 2020   David Austin CCS Webinar: #BlackLivesMatter - Igniting A Global Call For Change. Wednesday 12 August 2020   Avena Jacklin CCS Webinar: Covid-19 and Environmental Regulations in South Africa: Curtailing Public Participation. Wednesday 22 July 2020   Thami Nkosi CCS Webinar Curbing Covid-19: Restrictions on Civil and Political Rights. Wednesday 29 July 2020   Vuyiseka Dubula CSS Webinar: The Impact of Covid-19 on the South African Health System. Wednesday, 15 July 2020   Patrick Bond CSS Webinar: A Global Political Economy of Covid-19 Social Struggles. Wednesday, 8 July 2020   Gillian Maree CSS Webinar: The Spatial Distribution of Risks and Vulnerabilities: The GCRO Covid-19 Gauteng Map. Wednesday, 1 July 2020   Thobani Zikalala CCS Webinar: Covid-19 Challenges in Higher Education – A Student’s Perspective. Wednesday 24 June 2020   Dominic Brown CCS Webinar: Funding the Basic Income Grant (BIG) in SA Post Covid-19. Wednesday 17 June 2020   Mark Heywood CCS Webinar: The South African Civil Society Response to Covid-19: The good, the bad and the ugly. Wednesday 10 June 2020   Lubna Nadvi CCS Webinar: South Africa’s Covid-19 Response and Political Leadership. Wednesday 3 June, 2020   Brian Minga Amza CCS Seminar: The uncomfortable place of spirituality and religion in the struggle for liberation. Wednesday 18 March 2020   Andries Motau CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: Documentary Screening "Thank you for the rain." Wednesday, 27 February 2020   Danford Chibvongodze Documentary Screening: City of Joy to mark 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children. Wednesday, 20 November 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: The pedreiro and the master planner(Part 6). Wednesday 30 October   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: Working on water (Part 5), Wednesday 23 October   Andries Motau CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: A documentary screening of “This Land”. Thursday 24 October 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Greening the city (Part 4). Wednesday 9 October 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: The architecture of violence (Part 3). Wednesday 9 October 2019   Oliver Mtapuri, CCS Seminar – Why innovation matters: To invent or Not invent (at own peril). Thursday 26 September 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture (Part 2). Thursday, 19 September 2019   Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture. Thursday, 12 September 2019   Andries Motau, CCS & docLOVE Documentary Screening: JOZI GOLD – A Human Catastrophe, A Toxic City, An Unlikely Activist. Thursday 29 August 2019   Mvu Ngcoya CCS Seminar: Why Cuba’s Agricultural Revolution Puts South Africa’s Agrarian Programmes to Shame. Thursday 8 August 2019   Mzamo Zondi, CCS Seminar: Activist Co-Optation: Tasting State Power. Wednesday 31 July 2019   Philisiwe Mazibuko, Andre de Bruin and Patricia Ipileng Agnes Dove, CCS Special Seminar Series – Race and Identity Facilitated by Mvuselelo Ngcoya. Tuesday 30 July 2019   Danford Chibvongodze, CCS Documentary Screening – The Power of Us. Thursday 18 July 2019   Joyce Chitja, Discussants: Tapiwa Muzerengi and Xolisile Ngumbela. CSS Seminar: Uncomfortable Tensions in the Food (In) Security Conundrum - The Role of Communities in Southern African Contexts. Thursday 27 June 2019   Daniel Byamungu Dunia, CCS and ASONET Seminar: SA Legislation on the Socioeconomic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Wednesday 12 June 2019   Lara Lee, Documentary Screening - BURKINABE BOUNTY. Wednesday, 5th June 2019   CCS Documentary Screening: Everything Must Fall. Thursday 30 May 2019   Isaac Khambule, CCS Seminar: A 5 Year Review of South Africa’s National Development Plan and its Developmental State Ambition. Wednesday 29 May 2019   Patrick Bond, Lisa Thompson & Mbuso Ngubane, CCS and African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy Seminar: The Local-Global Political Economy of Durban. Friday 17 May 2019   Judith Ojo-Aromokudu CCS Seminar: Understanding the spatial language of informal settlements in Durban: Informing upgrading programs for self-reliant and sustainable communities. Tuesday 7 May 2019   CCS and φowerfest! Free Public Screening: Shadow World. Thursday 25 April 2019   Lubna Nadvi, CCS and UKZN School of Social Sciences Seminar – What do party lists reveal about political parties contesting the 2019 SA Elections? Wednesday 24 April 2019   Lukhona Mnguni, CCS and the UKZN Maurice Webb Race Relations Unit Seminar: Elections 2019 and South Africa’s 25 years of Democracy "Where to from here?". Wednesday 18 April 2019   Sthembiso Khuluse and Daniel Dunia, CCS and the Right2Know Campaign Seminar: Your Right To Protest in South Africa. Friday 12 April 2019   Lerato Malope CCS Seminar: Service Delivery and Citizen Participation in Cato Manor. Wednesday 10 April 2019   Ranjita Mohanty, Ilya Matveev, Brian Meir CCS Seminar: Democratising Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice – An Indian Case Study. Friday 5 April 2019   Nduduzo Majozi, CCS Seminar: Housing Service Delivery in Cato Manor. Wednesday 27 March 2019   Danford Chibvongodze, CCS Documentary Screening: An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela. Friday 29 March 2019   Geoff Harris and Tlohang Letsie CCS Seminar - Demilitarising Lesotho: The Peace Dividend - A Basic Income Grant? Wednesday 20 March 2019   Thobani Zikalala CCS Seminar: Wokeness vs Consciousness. Wednesday 13 March 2019   Nisha Naidoo, CCS: Impact Strategy Workshop. Thursday 7 March 2019   Philisiwe Mazibuko & Percy Nhau, CCS Seminar: The ‘#Data Must Fall’ Campaign. Wednesday 6 March 2019   Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Empowering Communities to Self-Mobilise: The TAC Method. Wednesday 27 February 2019   Nisha Naidoo, CCS: Impact Strategy Workshop. Wednesday 13 February 2019   Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally, CCS Seminar: History's Schools: Past Struggles and Present Realities. Tuesday 27 November 2018   CCS & Powerfest Public Screening The Public Bank Solution: How can we own our oewn banks?. Thursday 8 November 2018   Dr Victor Ayeni, CCS and African Ombudsman Research Centre Seminar: Improving Service Delivery in Africa. Tuesday 6 November 2018   Alude Mahali, CCS & HSRC Present Documentary Screening & Seminar: Ready or Not!. Thursday 22 November 2018   CCS & Powerfest, Public Screening of "Busted: Money Myths and Truths Revealed". Thursday 25 October 2018   Henrik Bjorn Valeur, A Culture of Fearing ‘The Other’: Spatial Segregation in South Africa. Wednesday 7 November 2018   Danford Chibvongodze, Seminar Six: "Half Man, Half Amazing"- The Gift of Nasir Jones' Music to African Collective Identity. Thursday, 11 October 2018   Brian Minga Amza and Dime Maziba, CCS Seminar: 31 Years Later - A Consideration of the Ideas of Thomas Sankara. Wednesday, 24 October 2018   Ajibola Adigun CCS Seminar: African Pedagogy and Decolonization: Debunking Myths and Caricatures. Thursday 18 October 2018   CCS & Powerfest! Public Screening of "FALSE PROFITS: SA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS". Wednesday, 26 September 2018   Mxolisi Nyuswa, CCS Community Scholars Seminar: Complexities and Challenges for Civil Society Building and Unity: Perspectives from the KZN Civil Society Coalition. Thursday 27 September 2018   CCS Seminar: Co-Production of Knowledge - Lessons from Innovative Sanitation Service Delivery in Thandanani and Banana City informal Settlements, Durban. Wednesday 17 October 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Rural Development and Livelihoods in South Africa. Thursday 13 September 2018   Simbarashe Tembo, CCS Seminar: Constitutionalism in Zimbabwe: An Interrogation of the 2018 Election. Wednesday, 19 September 2018   Thobani Zikalala, CCS Seminar: Adopting a Black Consciousness Analysis in Understanding Land Expropriation in South Africa. Wednesday, 12 September 2018   CCS Community Scholar Workshop Activism and Technology. Wednesday, 29 August 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Canada's Dark Secret. Thursday 30 August 2018     CCS UKZN & Powerfest!: Festival of Powerful Ideas, Public Screening: The D.I.Y Economy. Friday, 24 August 2018   Daniel Byamungu Dunia, CCS Seminar: Building capacity and skills for effective and successful integration of refugee communities in South Africa. Wednesday 8 August 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Human Trafficking, Thursday 19 July 2018   CCS UKZN & Powerfest!: Festival of Powerful Ideas, Public Screening of AUTOGESTIo. Thursday 12 July 2018   Wenche Dageid, CCS Seminar: Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development – prospects for health and equity. Monday 9 July 2018    Sachil Singh, CCS Seminar: Questioning the Medical Value of Data on Race and Ethnicity: A case study of the DynaMed Point of Care tool. Thursday 5 July 2018    CCS Seminar: Should I stay or should I go? Exploring mobility in the context of climatically-driven environmental change, Wednesday 27 June 2018   Gerald Boyce, CCS Seminar: From blackest night to brightest day, Thursday 28 June 2018   CCS, UKZN and Powerfest Festival of Powerful Ideas: Cuba-An African Odyssey, 14 June 2018   Mvu Ngcoya, CCS and Critical Times, Critical Race Project Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018: Land as a multi-splendorous thing: Kwasi Wiredu on how to think about land, Wednesday 30 May 2018   Deborah Ewing, Emma Goutte-Gattat, Aron Hagos Tesfai CCS and AIDS Foundation Seminar: Using technology to improve refugee and migrant access to sexual and reproductive health care?,Thursday 31 May 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: White Helmets, Thursday 24 May 2018   CCS, UKZN & Powerfest! Festival of Powerful Ideas: Celebrating Africa Month Stealing Africa, Wednesday 16 May 2018   Chris Desmond CCS Seminar: Liberation Studies: Development through Recognition, Wednesday 9 May 2018   Andrew Lawrence CCS Seminar - Obstacles to realising the 'Million Climate Jobs' Vision: Which policy strategies can work? When? How?, Friday 18 May 2018   CCS, UKZN, Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas (FREE FILM AND POPCORN SERIES), Thursday 26 April 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: April Theme Earth Day "Seeds of Sovereignty" & "Cowspiracy"...Discover environmentalism. 19 April 2018   Alfred Moraka, How Not To Despoil Yourself of African Wonders: Oyeronke Oyewumi’s work as African Epistemological Enchantment. Wednesday 18 April 2018   Dr Joseph Rudigi Rukema, CCS Seminar: Entrepreneurship through Research - Converting Research into Community Projects. Wednesday 11 April 2018   Philile Langa, Centre for Civil Society and Critical Times, Critical Race Project Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018. Thursday 29 March 2018   Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The Centre for Civil Society and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas 2018 Free Film and Popcorn Series. Wednesday 28 March 2018   Professor Siphamandla Zondi, CCS and International Relations, School of Social Sciences Seminar: Hearing Africa Speak Again - Amilcar Cabral’s Seven Theses on the African Predicament Today. Tuesday 27 March 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: #MeToo vs. Time's Up & We Should All Be Feminists. Thursday 22 March 2018   Documentary Screening, CCS and KZN Palestine Forum Documentary Screening: Anti Black Racism and Israel’s White Supremacy, 14 March 2018   Mary de Haas, Of Corruption and Commissions but no Conclusions Seminar Series: The Moerane Commission, 15 March 2018   Jay Johnson, CCS Seminar: Contested Rights and Spaces in the City: the Case of Refugee Reception Offices in South Africa, 13 March 2018   Daniel Byamungu Dunia,CCS and Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Seminar: The Trials of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa , 1 March 2018    97% Owned, CCS and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas 2018, Documentary Screening Series 2018, 28 February 2018   King Sibiya, CCS and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas, 27 February 2018   Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS: Documentary Screening , 22 February 2018   Siviwe Mdoda, Right 2 Know (R2K) Campaign Seminar: Public Interest Information vs Private Information: Jacques Pauw’s ‘The President’s Keepers’ Case, 1 February 2018   Shaun Ruggunan CCS Seminar: Waves of Change: Globalisation and Labour Markets, 15 November 2017   Gerard Boyce The Dentons Commission, 1 November 2017   Ndumiso Dladla Prolegomenon to an Africanist Historiography in South Africa: Mogobe Ramose’s Critical Philosophy of Race, 25 October 2017   Eliza Solis-Maart CSS Seminar: Young Civil Society and Contemporary Issues, 11 October 2017   Rozena Maart Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018 , 27 September 2017   Gerard Boyce CCS Seminar: Of Corruption and Commissions but no Conclusions Seminar Series, 20 September 2017    Shauna Mottiar CCS Seminar: Everyday Forms of Resistance in Durban, 1 September 2017   Mhlobo Gunguluzi and Thabane Miya Centre for Civil Society and Right2Know Campaign Seminar: The Right to Protest, 27 July 2017   Bandile Mdlalose, Daniel Dunia and Nisha Naidoo, The Peoples Economic Forum Responds to the World Economic Forum, 1 June 2017   Mvu Ngcoya, Rozena Maart, Shaun Ruggunan, Mershen Pillay Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Decolonising Curricula, 25 May 2017   Peter Sutoris, Environmental Activism and Environmental Education: (De) Politicising Struggles in India and South Africa, 18 May 2017   Lubna Nadvi, Lukhona Mnguni, Shauna Mottiar, The April 7th Protests, 20 April 2017   John Devenish, CCS Seminar: The use of interactive maps and scatter graphs to study protest in the BRICS countries, 13 April 2017    Shauna Mottiar, Mvuselelo Ngcoya BOOK LAUNCH: Philanthropy in South Africa - Horizontality, ubuntu and social justice, 22 March 2017   Peter McKenzie Photo Exhibition - Durbanity, 09 March 2017   Elisabet Van Wymeersch On change, conflicts and planning theory: the transformative potential of disruptive contestation, 2 March 2017   Daniel Byamungu Dunia, Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Community Building Workshop: CRIMINALISATION OF HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH, 24 February 2017   Jasper Finkeldey, Centre for Civil Society Seminar: (No) Limits to extraction? Popular Mobilization and the Impacts of the Extractive Industries in KZN, 9 February 2017   Bandile Mdlalose, New Urban Agenda’ – Report Back from Habitat III, United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development Ecuador, 28 November   Patrick Bond, From Trump to BRICS, where is civil society headed? 18 November   Gerard Boyce, Arguments in favour of putting the South African government's nuclear plans to a popular referendum, 28 October    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    Alex Hotz CCS Seminar: Challenging Secrecy and Surveillance: Building Anti-Surveillance Activism, 19 August   Itai Kagwere, Daniel Byamungu Dunia and Gabriel Hertis CCS Seminar: Challenges of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa, 26 August   Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: Sight on the target: Tackling destructive fishing, 12 August   Carolijn van Noort CCS Seminar: “Strategic narratives of infrastructural development: is BRICS modernizing the tale?”, 26 July   CCS Co-Hosts: The Governance and Politics of HIV AIDS, 19 July   Moises Arce CCS Seminar: The Political Consequences of Mobilizations against Resource Extraction, 12 July   Zimbabwe's Despondent Political Economy - a Durban workshop to honour Sam Moyo 13-14 June 2016   Patrick Bond gives political economy lecture to Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Women in Business Forum, 26 April 2016   CCS hosts mining critics for press conference, 7 April   Assassination in Xolobeni: Film screening and memorial meeting for Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, 6 April   Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia launch BRICS in Toronto, 31 March   Akin Akikboye CCS Seminar: KZN's Internally Displaced People, 31 March   Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia present critique of world ports, New York, 30 March   Hafsa Kanjwal CCS Seminar: India in Turmoil, 23 March   Dieter Lünse CCS Seminar: Strength of nonviolent action, 22 March   Patrick Bond testifies at public hearing on Transnet's South Durban plans, 21 March   Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and Pan-Africanism, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 15 March   Yaa Ashantewaa K. Archer-Ngidi CCS Seminar: The role of Black women in liberation, 10 March   Patrick Bond reports on research into urban economic and ecological violence, IDRC & UKAID conference, Johannesburg, 8 March   Patrick Bond addresses Women in Mining (Womin) conference on movement building, Johannesburg, 7 March   Allen & Barbara Isaacman CCS Seminar: Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development, 4 March    Patrick Bond presents South Durban paper in Merebank, 2 March   Andrew Lawrence CCS Seminar: Why nuclear energy is bad for South Africa, bad for the world—and how it can be opposed, 29 February 2016    China Ngubane , Chumile Sali & Dalli Weyers CCS Seminar: Social Justice Coalition Citizen Oversight of Policing in Khayelitsha Court Case Presentation, 26 February   CCS hosts groundWork, SDCEA and FrackFreeSA for climate and energy workshop, 25 February   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Can the SA budget afford #FeesMustFall demands and other social spending? 23 February    Patrick Bond joins Mondli Hlatshwayo & Aziz Choudry to launch Just Work, Ike's Books, 22 February   Peter Cole CCS Seminar: A History of Dockers, Social Movements and Transnational Solidarity in Durban and San Francisco, 17 February   Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS at Univ of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 15 February   Delwyn Pillay, Jorim Gerrad, Madaline George & Nozipho Mkhabela CCS Seminar: A return to MUTOKO, Zimbabwe, 10 February    Nick Turse CCS Seminar: AFRICOM’s New Math and “Scarier” Times Ahead in Africa, 5 February   Menzi Maseko & Mandla Mbuyisa CCS Seminar: Black Consciousness, Fees Must Fall and Lessons from the Life of Ongkopotse Tiro, 1 February    Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane & Daniel Dunia CCS Seminar: Central African and Zimbabwean geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society II, 27 January    Patrick Bond keynote at Tata Institute Development Studies conference, 23 January   Patrick Bond, Thando Manzi, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane present urban analysis at Tata Institute, Mumbai, 19-22 January   Patrick Bond, Achin Vanaik, Ajay Patnaik & Alka Acharya launch BRICS book, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 18 January   Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane, Daniel Dumia & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: African geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society I, 11 January   Events Index 2015   CCS students Boaventura Monjane, Mithika Mwenda, Tabitha Spence & Celia Alario at the COP21 climate summit, Paris, 1-12 December   Jorim Gerrard & Paul Steffen CCS Seminar: Influencing society's views of refugees, 9 December    Workshop on Climate Change and Environmental Justice with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 7-10 December    Ashwin Desai, Betty Govinden, Crispin Hemson & Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: The Gandhi debate, 27 November   Stefano Battain & Daniela Biocca CCS Seminar: Alternative development or alternative to development? 27 November   Patrick Bond debates Sihle Zikalala & Vasu Gounden on the state of South Africa, eThekwini Progressive Professionals Forum, 25 November   CCS Seminar: Remembering Sam Moyo, 25 November    Christelle Terreblanche debates Ubuntu at the University of Pretoria, 23 November   Patrick Bond & Toendepi Shonhe CCS Seminar: BRICS crumble, commodities crash and Africa's climate changes, 20 November   Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS banking at University of Cape Town School of Economics, 16 November   Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: KZN civil society responses to the Paris Climate Change Conference, 9 November   Patrick Bond with Numsa and BRICS climate critique at Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-6 November   Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: Black First! but what is Black? 4 November   Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS as sub-imperialism at Open University, 4 November   Patrick Bond debates BRICS and climate change at Sussex University, 3 November   Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Numsa, technological change and politics at ArcelorMittal's Vanderbijlpark plant, 22 October   Tri Continental Film Festival Screenings at CCS 21-24 October   Patrick Bond delivers keynote at Cyprus conference on mining and sustainable development, 16 October   Patrick Bond launches BRICS book in New York 19 October   Brian Minga Anza, Mwamba Kalombo Thithi & Sinqobangaye Magestic Pro Sibisi CCS Seminar: Creative challenges to xenophobia, 15 October 2015   Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Inequality, the criminalisation of protest and internecine social conflict, 9 October   Patrick Bond delivers sustainability keynote to SA Public Health Association conference, 8 October   Patrick Bond debates UN Sustainable Development Goals, ClassicFM, Johannesburg, 1 October   Patrick Bond talks on African uprisings at Mapungubwe Institute, Pretoria, 30 September   Patrick Bond debates Africa in the world economy, Channel Africa, Johannesburg, 29 September   Ana Garcia presents BRICS critique at Geopolitical Economy conference, Winnipeg, 26 September   Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth in Berlin, 16 September   CCS welcomes World Social Science Forum to Durban, with talks by Vuyiseka Dubula, Patrick Bond & others in CCS, 13 - 16 September    CCS welcomes Codesria and WSSF to Ike's Books, 12 September   CCS hosts the South-South Institute during the World Social Science Forum, 10-18 September   Patrick Bond lectures at Codesria/Osisa Economic Justice Institute, 8-9 September   Patrick Bond, Boaventura Monjane & Mithika Mwenda at Africa Climate Talks, Dar es Salaam, 3-5 September   Vladimir Slivyak What's wrong with Russia's nuclear energy deal-making? 4 September    John Devenish CCS Seminar: Mapping social unrest in South Africa, 1 September    Patrick Bond lectures on climate and deglobalisation alternatives at Attac University, Marseille, 26 August   Patrick Bond lecture on legacy of Rosa Luxemburg at New School for Social Research, New York, 21 August   China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia as symptom, 20 August    Justine van Rooyen CCS Seminar: The Social Inclusion/Exclusion of Intersex South Africans, 12 August   Patrick Bond keynote speech at BRICS-in-Africa conference, Livingstone, 7-11 August   Patrick Bond and Sam Moyo speak at Trust Africa conference on Illicit Financial Flows, Harare, 3 August   Patrick Bond delivers paper on climate and the blue economy, Wits University, 2 August   Patrick Bond in economic debate at M&G Literary Festival, Johannesburg, 1 August   Yaa Ashantewaa Ngidi CCS Seminar: The state of the Pan Africanist movement, 30 July   Ryan Solomon CCS Seminar: Belonging, inclusion and South African civil society in the campaigns against AIDS and xenophobia, 29 July   Patrick Bond moderates UKZN College of Humanities debate on xenophobia and higher ed transformation, 28 July   Lloyd Sachikonye CCS Seminar: Social research and civil society in Zimbabwe, 28 July   Patrick Bond & Mithika Mwenda at Climate Futures symposium, Italy, 13-17 July   China Ngubane, Bandile Mdlalose & Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: The state of social activism against xenophobia, human rights violations and mining exploitation - three case sites, 3 July   CCS co-hosts (with Chris Hani Institute) World Association for Political Economy, Johannesburg, 19-21 June   CCS workshop with ASONET, Action Support Centre and South African Liaison Office, on South Africa, Peace and Security in the post-2015 Development Agenda, 10-11 June   CCS/ASONET workshop on xenophobia, 5 June   Alf Nilsen launches his book We Make Our Own History, at Ike's Books, 4 June   Patrick Bond addresses civil society electricity crisis summit on load-shedding, Johannesburg, 2 June    Patrick Bond talks on extractivism, BRICS sub-imperialism and South Africa at Left Forum, New York, 30-31 May   China Ngubane, Gabriel Hertis, Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Persistent Durban xenophobia and Operation Fiela, 20 May   CCS hosts Colgate University students for social movement research, June   Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: Xolobeni mining, unobtanium-titanium battle update, 14 May   Patrick Bond lecture on carbon markets and climate debt, Gyeongsang University, Jinju, Korea, 12 May   Patrick Bond speaks on South African political economy, Hong Kong Reader bookshop, 11 May   Gcina Makoba, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Rhodes' walls must fall! 30 April    CCS Film Screening: The GAMA Strike A victory for all workers, 24 April   Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth and the green economy, Berlin, 21 April   Faith ka Manzi & Bandile Mdlalose at Climate Justice strategy meeting, Maputo, April 21-23   Paul Kariuki, Bandile Mdlalose, China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Durban, 14 April   CCS joins Greenpeace and R2K in solidarity meeting with Somkhele coal victims, northern KZN, 12 April   Patrick Bond lecture on water commodification and resistance at Zimbabwe Sustainable Economics Forum, Harare, 9 April   China Ngubane & Jean-Pierre Lukamba CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Isipingo, 7 April   Alice Thomson, Desmond D’Sa & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Liberal and radical approaches to Environmental Justice campaigning, 1 April   Patrick Bond speaks on coalitions for national economic sovereignty, World Social Forum, University of Tunis el Manar, 25 March   Akin Akiboye & Jorim Gerrard CCS Seminar: Xenophobia and displacement, 17 March   Sofie Hellberg CCS Seminar: Water, life and politics in Durban, 10 March   Faith kaManzi, Nonhle Mbuthuma, Melissa Hansen & others International Women’s Day at the UKZN Centre for Civil Society: Resistance to Resource Cursing in KZN, the Eastern Cape and the DRC, 9th March   Israeli Apartheid Week Events 2 - 8 March   Baruti Amisi and Boaventura Monjane speak at US Power Africa conference, University of Illinois, 2-4 March   Baruti Amisi, Gerard Boyce & Patrick Bond CCS Workshop: 'False solutions' to climate and energy crises, 26 February   Carlos Cardoso CCS Seminar: Knowledge production and intellectual formation in Africa from Codesria's perspective, 20 February   Benny Wenda CCS Seminar: The campaign to free West Papua, 19 February   Gcina Makoba & Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Campaigning against coal in KZN, 18 February   Patrick Bond debates BRICS sherpa Anil Sooklal, UCT Centre for Conflict Resolution, 16 February   Desmond D'Sa, David Le Page, Bhavna Deonarain, Winnie Mdletshe & others: Launch of Fossil Free KZN, 13 February   Angus Joseph CCS Seminar: Climate justice and solidarity from Lima to Paris, 13 February   Nhamo Chikowore & China Ngubane Zimbabwe's new conjuncture and SA's new xenophobia, 6 February   Baruti Amisi, Brain Amza & and Jacky Kabidu DRC uprising, repression and solidarity, 5 February   Chris Coward CCS Seminar: New spaces of social activism, 28 January   Immanuel Ness CCS Seminar: Lessons from the labour movements of China and India, 27 January   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Electricity crisis scenarios, 20 January   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Oil spills, coal digs, resource cursing and resistance, 12 January   Events Index 2014   Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: United Front Preparatory Assembly assessment, 22 December   Thando Manzi, Au Loong Yu & John Devenish CCS Seminar: BRICS-from-below struggles for justice, 19 December   CCS hosts South Durban climate camp, 8-11 December   Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose, Shauna Mottiar, Themba Mchunu & China Ngubane CCS press conference and workshop: Durban politics stressed to break-point, 5 December   Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Organised labour's losses since 1994, worker-community relations after 2014, 28 November   Patrick Bond critiques World Bank at UWC poverty conference, 27 November   CCS hosts launch of Fossil Free South Africa, 27 November   Faith ka-Manzi debates SA social protest at Gumede Lecture, Durban History Museum, 27 November   Melissa Hansen CCS Seminar: Struggles over conservation space in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, 24 November    Patrick Bond lectures on Africa's Resource Curse, Stellenbosch University, 20 November   Vuyiseka Dubula, Faith ka-Manzi & Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Treatment Action Campaign reaches the knife-edge, 18 November, 2014   CCS hosts Durban environmental network, 15 November   Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: Learning and research in social movements, 14 November   Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: NGOization, 'civil society' and social change: Complicity, contradictions and prospects, 13 November   Gun Free South Africa workshop with CCS, 12 November   Creesen Naicker CCS Seminar: Sport for Development in South Africa, 11 November   Patrick Bond joins SA panel at Historical Materialism conference, London, 7 November   Patrick Bond lectures on neoliberalism and social policy at South-South Institute in Bangkok, 5 November   Patrick Bond keynote address on African IT, to the International Development Informatics Association, 3 November   Patrick Bond debates GDP with SA government, Pretoria, 31 October   Patrick Bond debates GDP reform at University of Pretoria, 28 October   China Ngubane and Patrick Bond at UKZN Geography workshop on community politics, 24 October   CCS hosts CT Social Justice Coalition training on sanitation advocacy, 22 October   CCS hosts Greenpeace film on climate and Arctic oil, Black Ice, 14 October   Diana Buttu CCS Seminar: The situation in Palestine, 8 October   Mithika Mwenda lecture on climate justice at Climate Change and Development Conference, Morocco, 7 October   Stefan Cramer CCS Seminar on Karoo fracking, 7 October   Omar Shaukat CCS Seminar: Thinking through ISIS, 1 October   Patrick Bond lecture on SA social policy at University of Burgundy, Dijon, 25 September   Patrick Bond debates Mark Weisbrot on BRICS at IPS, Washington, 23 September   Mithika Mwenda and Patrick Bond talk on climate justice, Converge for Climate at Graffiti Church, New York City, 20 September   Awethu! network meets at CCS, 20 September   Patrick Bond lecture on South Africa at City University of New York, 18 September   John Saul and Patrick Bond launch books at Cape Town Open Book Fair, 17 September   Gcina Makoba update on recyclables project in Inanda, 15 September   The UKZN Centre for Civil Society and Palestine Solidarity Forum host a Gaza Documentary Screening, 11 September    Patrick Bond debates the causes and implications of Marikana at the Durban Democracy and Development Programme, 10 September   Mnikeni Phakathi & Asha Moodley CCS Seminar (with the Right to Know Campaign): Student Protest at UKZN 2014, 5 September   Patrick Bond debates climate and energy at Univ of Leipzig 'Degrowth' conference, Germany, 5 September   Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond Durban water and sanitation policies, projects and politics, 1 September   Patrick Bond input on BRICS at Centre for Conflict Resolution seminar, Pretoria, 31 August   Patrick Bond on Resource Curses and antidotes, at Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Maputo, 28 August   China Ngubane & Sizwe Shiba Southern African people's solidarity dynamics, 28 August   Patrick Bond lecture on South Durban strategy, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, 22 August   Patrick Bond lecture on SA political economy at Chinese Academy of Marxism, Beijing, 20 August   Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Climate change and global policy battles, 15 August   Niall Reddy CCS Seminar: BRICS after Fortaleza, 14 August   Ilan Pappé Dennis Brutus Memorial Lecture: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine, 5 August   UKZN CCS Masters Student Mithika Mwenda testifies on Climate Justice on Our Common Planet, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, 4 August   Loraine Dongo & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Climate, oil and activism in South Africa, 31 July    Patrick Bond debates Intensive Energy User Group's Shaun Nel on energy, SAfm, 23 July   Patrick Bond debates SACP's Alex Mashilo on SA politics, SA Democratic Teachers Union KZN Province, Durban, 24 July   Susan Spronk Contesting Water Privatisation through an Efficiency Narrative, 23 July   Matt Meyer The State of the Art in Non-violent Civil Disobedience, 22 July   Patrick Bond discusses infrastructure finance, Fortaleza, 15 July   Patrick Bond debates JP Landman on SA poli econ, Ike's Books, 9 July   CCS-Brazilian collaboration at the 2014 BRICS Summit, 14-16 July in Fortaleza   Bhekinkosi Moyo CCS Seminar: Southern African civil society, 7 July   Jack Dyer CCS Seminar: The economic consequences of Durban's port expansion, 25 June 2014   Patrick Bond lecture on SA macroeconomic conditions, at UKZN SA Research Chair initiative workshop, 20 June   Patrick Bond debates SA soccer leader Danny Jordaan on the World Cup's legacy, BBC radio, 18 June   John Devenish CCS Seminar: Protests in India, South Africa & Brazil The issues participants & tactics, 17 June 2014   Patrick Bond debates the SA economy with MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu, UKZN Business School, 11 June   Patrick Bond debates sustainability at Governance Innovation conference, University of Pretoria, 5 June   CCS hosts mineworker solidarity event, 31 May   Patrick Bond lecture on South African water commodification, University of London, 30 May   Patrick Bond debates 'Africa Rising (or Uprising?)' in Maputo at Frelimo Political School, 29 May 2014   Patrick Bond speaks on global finance at the World Association for Political Economy, Hanoi, 24 May   Shauna Mottiar presents at 'Contentious Politics' seminar, University of Johannesburg, 22 May   Patrick Bond & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: BRICS from above, the middle and below: which directions for alliances and conflicts? 16 May   Patrick Bond debates BRICS civil society, SA Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, 13 May   Patrick Bond presentation on climate justice governance via skype to Linkoping University, Sweden, 8 May   Gcina Makoba and Thuli Hlela host Miners Shot Down in Durban townships, 1 May   Admos Chimhowu CCS Seminar: Food Sovereignty Discourses, Land and Labour in Southern Africa, 30 April   Patrick Bond presents on BRICS geopolitics and BRICS banking, Rio de Janeiro, 28-29 April   Shauna Mottiar delivers paper on popular protest in South Africa, Oxford University, 26 April   Floyd Shivambu, Innocent Ndiki, Louise Colvin and Patrick Bond CCS Workshop: Which critiques of post-Apartheid malgovernance - and which counter strategies - come next?, 25 April   Bram Buscher CCS Seminar: ‘I Nature’: Web 2.0, Social Media and the Political Economy of Conservation, 25 April   Patrick Bond discusses DeSutcliffisation at Durban University of Technology Urban Futures Centre, 24 April   Patrick Bond talk on SA@20 in New York, 19 April   Patrick Bond keynote lecture on climate, health and risk, University of Washington, Seattle, 17 April   Ken Walibora Waliaula CCS Seminar: Remembering and Disremembering Africa, 16 April   Ben Turok School of Social Sciences & CCS Seminar: With my head above the parapet: An insider account of the ANC in power, 15 April   Thando Manzi CCS Seminar: Brazilian civil society contests the World Cup, economic injustice and BRICS, 10 April   Patrick Bond gives three talks at the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, 10 April   Patrick Bond on comparative solidarity with Palestine and South Africa, Johns Hopkins University, 7 April   Patrick Bond paper on Climate Change, Debt and Justice in Africa at University of North Carolina conference, 5 April   Zackie Achmat, Thando Manzi, Paul Routledge Dennis Brutus Memorial Debate: The state of our social movements, from SA to BRICS to the world 31 March    Paul Routledge CCS/Development Studies seminar on politics of climate change, 31 March   Zackie Achmat and Ndifuma Ukwazi offer activist Autumn School, 31 March - 2 April   Prince Mashele CCS Seminar: The fall of the ANC, 28 March   Patrick Bond seminar on a Redistributive Eco-Debt Payment system, University of Lund, 28 March   Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Identity formation amongst immigrant traditional healers, 27 March    Charles Mangongera & Toendepi Shonhe CCS Seminar: Who rules Zimbabwe - and what should civil society do now? , 25 March   Patrick Bond and Xolani Dube debate 20 years of liberation (plus booklaunch), Time of the Writer festival, 20 March   Lukhona Mnguni, Molaudi Sekake & Lesiba Seshoka (invited)CCS Seminar: UKZN student woes and freedom of expression, 20 March    Patrick Bond responds to Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim foreign policy presentation, 19 March   Vanessa Burger and Faith kaManzi support Durban harbour mobilisation, Dalton Hostel, 16 March   Israeli Apartheid Week talk by Miko Peled, CCS co-sponsorship with Palestine Solidarity movement, 14 March   Peter McKenzie CCS Seminar: Cato Manor Between hope and Possibility, 13 March   Patrick Bond testimony on water politics at SA Human Rights Commission, 11 March   Patrick Bond lecture at Rosa Luxemburg centenary of Accumulation of Capital, Berlin, 9 March   Patrick Bond seminar on SA's Resource Curse, Harare, 28 February   Sreeram Chaulia CCS Seminar on Brazil-Russia-India-China-SA, 25 February   Patrick Bond seminar on 'tokenistic' social policy at UKZN Development Studies, 19 February   China Ngubane addresses conference on Community Serving Humanity, UKZN, 12 February   Patrick Bond addresses PanAfrican Climate Justice Alliance challenges, Dakar, 10 February   Vishwas Satgar runs workshop on the United Front approach, 30 January   Patrick Bond addresses Numsa shopstewards on economic crises, Johannesburg, 25 January   Patrick Bond testifies to Parliament against mega-projects, 16 January   Shauna Mottiar Protest and participation in Cato Manor, Merebank and Wentworth, 15 January    Patrick Bond lecture on development and political economy and method, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine, 6 January   Events Index 2013   China Ngubane and Patrick Bond speak at the People's Dialogue BRICS strategy session, Johannesburg, 10-12 December   Thando Manzi and Patrick Bond discuss Durban slum research at the Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, 10 December   Patrick Bond, Farai Maguwu and Khadija Sharife testify to African Union commission against corruption, Arusha, 7 December   Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Report-back from Warsaw climate summit, 6 December   Patrick Bond debates natural capital and GDP at Wits University, Johannesburg, 5 December   CCS hosts Democracy from Below citizenship movement 30 November - 1 December   Giuliano Martinello CCS Seminar: Dispossession and resistance to SA agribusiness in the new scramble for Southern and Eastern African land, 28 November    Patrick Bond at South Durban BRICS-from-below campaign against port-petrochemical expansion, Wentworth, 27 November   Film Screenings: Non-Violence as a Strategy for Social Change: CCS Seminar room, 19 September, 17 October, 21 November   Patrick Bond debates climate and capitalism at COP19 in Warsaw, 17 November   CCS participates in South Durban People's Climate Camp, 14-17 November   Patrick Bond lectures on global finance in Brussels, 13-15 November   Patrick Bond presents on Commoning, Rights and Praxis at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, 8 November   Patrick Bond public lecture on the New Africa Scramble in Berlin, 7 November   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Financial crises and social resistance, from household to global scales, 6 November   Gcina Makoba & Muna Lakhani CCS Seminar: Mapping Waste From Cradle to Grave: the Inkanyezi Community Recyclers and Global Zero-Waste Movement, 31 October   CCS founder Adam Habib launches South Africa's Suspended Revolution, Ike's Books, 29 October   Brutus Memorial Debate: "From democracy to kleptocracy", 26 October   Faith Manzi CCS Seminar: The Anatomy of a Cato Manor 'Popcorn Protest', 24 October   Patrick Bond critiques financial markets at Unemployment Insurance Fund board meeting, 15 October   Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Cartooning race and class after Marikana, 10 October   Molaudi Sekake, Christelle Terreblanche & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Commoning as an antidote to uneven development in Southern Africa, 9 October   CCS PhD student Vuyiseka Dubula leads AIDS research workshop, Johannesburg, 4 October   CCS co-organises workshop on 'Beyond Uneven Development' in Maputo, 1-3 October   Patrick Bond on Durban's urban neoliberalism, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, NYC, 29 September   Margherita di Paola Film Screening - On the Art of War, 20 September   Patrick Bond speaks on the World Economic Crisis and BRICS, at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 13 September   Patrick Bond speaks at 'Rising Powers' workshop, Fudan University, Shanghai, 12 September   Patrick Bond at Shanghai Academy of Social Science, 11 September    Patrick Bond lecture on geopolitics at Institute for International Relations, Prague, 9 September   Patrick Bond at G20 Post-Globalisation Initiative G20 counter-summit, St Petersburg/Moscow, 2-6 September   Geoff Harris & Sylvia Kaye CCS Seminar: Nonviolence in social-change strategy and tactics, 30 August   Patrick Bond on BRICS and 'natural capital' at Centre for Natural Resource Governance, Harare, 29 August   Khadija Sharife at 'No REDD in Africa Network,' Maputo, 27-29 August   China Ngubane helps launch Diakonia's KZN School of Activism, Albert Falls, 27 August   Patrick Bond at Durban Flatdwellers conference, 24 August   China Ngubane, Joy Mabenge & Tafadzwa Maguchu Regional and Zimbabwean civil society challenged, 22 August   Ed Harriman, Khadija Sharife & Sarah Bracking CCS Workshop: Corruption, corporate bribery, arms deals and social critique, 21 August   Simphiwe Nojiyeza & Richard Kamidza CCS Seminar: Neoliberal water, neoliberal trade, 19 August   Patrick Bond debates BRICS, UKZN Student Union, 14 August   Simphiwe Magwaza, Simangele Manzi, Thando Manzi, Niki Moore, Knut Nustad, Jabulile Wanda & Philani Zulu CCS seminar on Cato Manor politics, Thursday, 15 August   Patrick Bond discusses SA's economic crisis at National Union of Metalworkers, Johannesburg, 8 August   Christine Jeske CCS Seminar: Social conceptualizations of work, unemployment, and blame in KwaZulu-Natal, 6 August   Larry Swatuk CCS Seminar on water resource conflicts, 1 August   Lorenzo Fioramonti Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Gross Domestic Problem, 18 July 2013   CCS hosts Open Society's Sustainable Development course for Southern Africa, 15-27 July   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   Thamsanqa Mthembu & Hylton Alcock Video Screening: Participatory video as a tool for social transformation, 4 July   Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja CCS Seminar: Southern Africa and the Challenge of the Congo, 27 June   Patrick Bond debates Blade Nzimande on 21st Century Socialism, Chris Hani Institute, Johannesburg, 25 June   China Ngubane & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The state of eco-social justice campaigning in East Asia and the Americas, 18 June   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    Patrick Bond at Ecuador conference on eco/economic crises, Quito, 12 June   Patrick Bond at Left Forum,New York City, 7-9 June   Patrick Bond lecture on Enviro Impact Assessments at Savannah School of Law in Georgia, 6 June   Amanda Huron, Amanda Thomas & Victoria Habermehl CCS Seminar: Geographies of Justice: experiences from three continents, 3 June   China Ngubane speaks at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development counter-summit, 1 June   Nik Theodore & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Migration and the Struggle for Urban Space, from Chicago to Durban, 28 May   CCS hosts Antipode Institute for the Geographies of Justice, 27 May to 1 June   Abby Neely CCS Seminar: Local Biologies, and ART Protocols: A Political Ecology of Tuberculosis and the Body, 24 May   Silke Trommer CCS Seminar: Transformations in Trade Politics - Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa, 23 May   Patrick Bond at AIDC National Development Plan seminar, Cape Town 22 May   Thuli Hlela CCS Seminar: Mapping Water/Sanitation Services in KwaNyuswa, Valley of 1000 Hills, 21 May   China Ngubane participates in the Gumede Lecture Series 17 May   Maia Green CCS Seminar: Youth empowerment on South Africa's Wild Coast, 14 May   Patrick Bond talk on African poli-econ at OilWatch-Africa conference, Johannesburg, 13 May   China Ngubane, Joy Mabenge & Tafadzwa Maguchu CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe's Election Preparations and Civil Society Politics, 10 May   Blessing Karumbidza CCS Seminar: Government Clumsiness in Rural Entrepreneurial and Coop Support, 30 April   Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond presentation on climate finance at SADC Basic Income Group strategic workshop, 25 April, Johannesburg   Sarah Bracking & Patrick Bond at SDCEA workshop, Clairwood, 20 April   Patrick Bond, Des D'Sa, Megan Lewis, China Ngubane and Bobby Peek CCS Seminar: Assessing BRICS, Friday 19 April    Patrick Bond paper on geopolitics at Univ of California-Riverside, 13 April   Patrick Bond presents on South Durban to Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 10 April   Patrick Bond on territorial alliances at International Studies Association, 6 April   Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: UMkhumbane (Cato Manor) ilokishi elithuthuka ngamandla kodwa elibhekene nezingqinamba ezahlukahlukene, 5 April   Patrick Bond on 'Making of Global Capitalism', International Studies Association, 4 April   Patrick Bond presentation on BRICS at International Studies Association, San Francisco, 3 April   Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and the Dennis Brutus legacy, University of Pittsburgh, 2 April   Patrick Bond on skype to World Social Forum, 28 March   Ondøej Horký-Hlucháò CCS Seminar: The depoliticisation of civil society in post-communism, 28 March   Ashwin Desai & Kagiso Molope seminar on SA oppressions, 22 March   BRICS EVENTS 22 -27 MARCH   Patrick Bond at Ejolt workshop in Abuja, Nigeria, 20-21 March   Susan Abul Hawa workshop on Palestine liberation today, 20 March   Patrick Bond lectures on climate justice, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 15 March   Candido Grzybowski BRICS seen from Rio, 13 March 2013   Patrick Bond at community BRICS briefing, Wentworth, 11 March   Choice Mahridzo, China Ngubane & Toendepi Shone CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe's future, from inside and out, Thursday 7 March   Patrick Bond gives UKZN Development Studies seminar on BRICS, 6 March   Patrick Bond debates Ebrahim Ebrahim on BRICS, ActionAid in Joburg, 28 February   Patrick Bond panel sessions on climate and BRICS at the Global Studies Conference, Univ of California-Santa Barbara, 23 February   Gcina Makoba & Thuli Hlela CCS Seminar: Mapping Inanda rubbish and Valley of 1000 Hills sanitation, 21 February   Patrick Bond talks about climate justice at Institute for Policy Studies in Washington on 19 February   Thandokuhle Manzi & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Mapping Cato Manor sewage, animals and protest; and an Umlazi update, 13 February   Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Mapping AIDS, from body to city, 11 February   Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: A recent spatial history of Durban student unrest, 7 February   Patrick Bond briefing on BRICS at AIDC, Cape Town, 1 February   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: BRICS as Pretoria's next site to 'talk left, walk right' 31 January   Patrick Bond at crisis & inequality seminar at Focus on the Global South, Bangkok, 28-29 January   China Ngubane, Patrick Bond & the Brutus Community Scholars CCS Seminar on social conflict mapping in Durban, 22 January   Patrick Bond testimony to NERSA against Eskom price hikes, Durban, 17 January   Bill Carroll CCS Seminar: Global corporate power and a new transnational capitalist class? 17 January   Don Chen CCS Seminar: Smart growth, urban equality and environmental justice, 16 January   Bill Carroll CCS Seminar: Research institutes dedicated to social justice - a global survey, 15 January   Mfundo Mtshwelo CCS Seminar: New critiques of South Africa's ruling party post-Mangaung, 11 January (Cancelled)   Phillip Lühl & Guillermo Delgado CCS Seminar: Unitary urbanism, towards maximal difference, 8 January    Events Index 2012   Khadija Sharife, Min-Jung Kim, Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Doha's COP18 crash and climate justice (skypecast), 20 December   Patrick Bond lecture on BRICS in Moscow, 15 December   Patrick Bond lecture on Marikana and SA Resource Curse, Institute for African Studies, Moscow, 13 December   Patrick Bond lecture on environmental commodification, Manchester, 11 December   Khadija Sharife presentation on land-grabbed Africa at South South Forum 2, Chongqing China, 8 December   Patrick Bond lecture to African economic journalists on global economic governance, 6 December   Patrick Bond at IG Metall conference on inequality, 6 December   Patrick Bond on debt at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, 30 November   Faith ka-Manzi delivers UKZN World AIDS Day Lecture, 29 November   Khadija Sharife Illicit flight and mining presentation at Economic Justice Network regional tax conference 27-29 November    Patrick Bond keynote address on Climate Justice to Norwegian Development Association, Oslo, 27 November   Pamela Ngwenya CCS Course: An introduction to video production 26-30 November   Patrick Bond on water rights and climate at Norwegian Development Studies panel, Oslo, 26 November   Primrose Sonti, Mbuso Ngubane, Mametlwe Sebei and Rudolph Dubula at Brutus Memorial Debate on Marikana, 22 November   Patrick Bond on SA's Resource Course at Amandla! colloquium, Gauteng. 16 November   Pamela Ngwenya & Ben Richardson CCS Seminar - Aid for trade and Southern African agriculture: the bittersweet case of Swazi sugar, 15 November   Ruth Castel-Branco CCS Seminar - Why unions still matter: the case of domestic worker organizing in Maputo, 8 November   Patrick Bond on BRICS/G20 at SA Forum for International Solidarity, Johannesburg, 14 November   CCS cohosts State of Zimbabwe Transition, Diakonia, 2 November   Liane Greeff CCS Seminar: ‘You can’t have your gas and drink your water!’ - the incompatibility of fracking to water rights, 29 October   Patrick Bond with Helmi Shawary at the Jozi Book Fair on Fanon in contemporary Africa, 28 October   Patrick Bond on South Africa resource cursed, at Manchester University Development Studies, 26 October   Patrick Bond on Marikana narratives, at Leeds University School of Politics and African Studies, 26 October   Thami Mbatha, Faith ka-Manzi, China Ngubane & Percy Ngonyama Ukucwaswa kwabokufika (CCS seminar on xenophobia, in isiZulu) 26 October   Patrick Bond skype lecture to ClimateMediaFactory, Berlin, 25 October   Patrick Bond on the Politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, at Limerick University, 24 October   Ewok's 'Letters to Dennis' at Poetry Africa, 19 October   Allan Kolski Horwitz Kebbleism, politics and art, 19 October   Philo Ikonya Centre for Civil Society and Centre for Creative Arts Seminar: Are there limits to the freedom of expression? 16 October   Patrick Bond debates Brazilians on the World Cup and human rights, Sao Paolo, 15 October   Maia Green CCS Seminar: Love and Power on the Wild Coast, 15 October   David van Wyk & Chris Molebatsi CCS Seminar: Marikana: Why? What next? 9 October   Peace Workshop, 4 October    Muhammed Desai seminar on Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel, 2 October   Patrick Bond plenary address to Muslim Youth Movement 40th conference, 30 September   Patrick Bond on MDGs, Redi Tlabi Radio 702 show, 25 September   Patrick Bond debates KZN provincial planner, 25 September   GreenSquad Alliance sponsors Nonviolence training, 21 September   CCS film screening about 'post'-shopping, 18 September    Patrick Bond speaks on Resource-Cursed Southern Africa in Harare, 18 September   Milford Bateman CCS Seminar: Civil society's microfinance mistakes, 13 September   Patrick Bond on detoxing South Durban at Umbilo community meeting, 12 September   Patrick Bond briefs OECD-Watch on Marikana and the SA Resource Curse, 11 September, Johannesburg   Melanie Müller CCS Seminar: What did COP17 do to SA environmentalism? 7 September   Patrick Bond at the Lost in Transformation book launch seminar, 6 September   Patrick Bond at Cosatu/AIDC seminar on employment, Port Elizabeth, 6 September   Muhammed Shabat & Asad Asad CCS Seminar: Israeli apartheid's challenge for academics in Gaza, 6 September   Adrian Nel CCS Seminar: Ugandan carbon forestry, community resistance and environmental management, 4 September   Jonathan Nkala CCS anti-xenophobia drama: The Crossing, 1 September   Patrick Bond debates Pravin Gordhan on South Durban's port expansion, Clairwood, 1 September   Youngsu Kim Trade union politics in South Africa and South Korea, 31 August   Patrick Bond on SA transition at Arab Spring conference, Pretoria, 30 August   Patrick Bond paper on environmental and social rights at Christian Michelsen Institute workshop, Norway, 27 August   Molefi Ndlovu on Qwasha! Durban street narratives about COP17, Christian Michelsen Institute, Norway, 26 August    Environmental Teach-In, 25 August    Delwyn Pillay, Dimple Deonath & Vanessa Black South Durban civil society confronts Back of Port planning, 23 August   Sarah Bracking CCS Seminar: Contesting the frontiers of value in society, nature and capitalism, RESCHEDULED FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER FROM 22 August   CCS brainstorm on Marikana Massacre, 21 August   Nonhle Mbuthuma, John Clarke & Luc Hoebeke CCS Seminar: Avatar on the Wild Coast - lessons from Xolobeni against national and global commodification, 21 August   Patrick Bond lecture on White Elephants to S.Durban Community Environmental Alliance at Austerville Community Centre, 21 August   Michael Dorsey CCS Seminar: Can the Green Climate Fund provide appropriate finance to Africa? 20 August   Percy Nhau CCS Seminar: Implications of the Secrecy Bill for Academic Research, 16 August 2012   Farai Maguwu & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Democratic Transitions from Top Down and Bottom Up: Prospects in Zimbabwe, 15 August   Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Izingqinamba ngezemvelo zaseThekwini, 8 August   Neima Adamo, Sergio Brito, Ester Uamba, Patrick Bond & Dimple Deonath CCS Seminar: Climate, water and destructive development from Maputo to South Durban, 3 August   CCS celebrates Brutus legacy at From Roots to Fruits non-violence conference, Durban Univ of Technology, 1 August   Matt Meyer & Elavie Ndura CCS Seminar: Nonviolent pedagogies of Africa's oppressed, from South Africa to the Great Lakes, 31 July 2012    Ravindra Kumar CCS Seminar: Gandhi, Democracy and Fundamental Rights, 30 July    Patrick Bond lecture on African political economy to Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg, 26 July   Ewok does Durban (with a French connection) UKZN Jazz Centre, 6pm, 25 July   Peter Muzambwe & Dean Chahim CCS Seminar: Solidarities of international urban residents and 'development' students, 25 July 2012   Terri Barnes CCS Seminar: Gender, autobiography and social justice, 24 July   Jim Kilgore meets Zimbabweans in central Durban, 23 July   Jim Kilgore CCS Seminar: Freedom never rests, when it comes to water commodification and service delivery protests, 23 July   Shalini Sharma CCS Seminar: Bhopal's catastrophe and representations of social mobilisation, 20 July   Jane Duncan CCS Seminar: Voice, political mobilisation and repression under Jacob Zuma, 19 July   Patrick Bond at Rio+20 reportback, 17 July, Diakonia Centre   Khadija Sharife & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The Decommissioning of Durban's Emissions Trade Pilot, 11 July   Bheki Buthelezi & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Interpreting Umlazi's Unrest, Repression and Occupy Resistance, 9 July   Farai Maguwu CCS Seminar - Resource-cursed Zimbabwe's Marange blood diamonds, 6 July   Eric Baldwin CCS Seminar: Housing Policy and Liberal Philosophy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 5 July   Patrick Bond on climate justice at Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, 5 July   Patrick Bond course lectures on political economy, ecology and social policy, 2-13 July   Khadija Sharife & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar - Rio+20 report-back, 2 July    Monica Fagioli CCS Seminar - State-building in practice: the Somali diaspora and processes of reconstruction in Somaliland, 28 June    Fidelis Allen at African politics conference, Dakar, 26 - 28 June   Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu, Niall McNulty & Lwazi Gwijane CCS Seminar: QWASHA! An online archive of community digital content, 21 June 2012   Patrick Bond on SA subimperialism and resistance, Rio+20 Intercoll.net seminar, 21 June   Patrick Bond on social and environmental justice strategies, Rio+20 Cupula dos Povos plenary, 18 June   Patrick Bond, Khadija Sharife & Baruti Amisi on African CDMs at the International Society for Ecological Economics, Rio de Janeiro, 17 June   Patrick Bond and Eddie Cottle discuss SA World Cup lessons for Brazil, 13 June, Rio   Kim Min-Jung speaks on climate activism and the COP17 at Gyeongsang Univ Institute of Social Studies, Korea, 15 June   Fidelis Allen & Khadija Sharife CCS Seminar: CDM cannot deliver: Lessons from Nigeria, 11 June   Patrick Bond at the Building and Wood Workers International debate on Green Economy and Sustainable Development, 11 June, Rio de Janeiro   Michela Gallo CCS Seminar: Zimbabwean civil society in South Africa, 7 June    Patrick Bond speaks at faculty strike support committee, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 6 June   Patrick Bond lecture on carbon trading at the Brazilian Society of Political Economy, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, 5 June   Patrick Bond on debt crises at Queens University, Canada, 30 May   Dennis Brutus Memorial Debate: Durban's Corruptions & Disruptions, 24 May   Maria Schuld CCS Seminar: Small wars ‑ A micro‑level analysis of violence in KwaZulu‑Natal, 17 May   Patrick Bond on 'Imperial and subimperial interests in neoliberalised nature', keynote address at Sussex Univ SouthGovNet conference, Brighton, 16-17 May   Iain Ewok Robinson MCs the Brutus Sessions, 16 May   Patrick Bond booklaunch on climate justice at Bookmarks, London, 14 May   Film & discussion on Genetic Engineering hosted by Green Squad Alliance, 11 May    Sasha Kramer & Anthony Kilbride CCS Seminar: Improving access to sanitation on a global scale, 10 May   Khadija Sharife talks on Tax Justice to the Economic Justice Network, Cape Town, 9 May   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    Patrick Bond skype lecture on media and climate policy, Bergen, Norway, 7 May   Patrick Bond at Comrade Babble play on Kebbleism, Johannesburg, 5 May   Durban can 'connect‑the‑dots' to climate change with 350.org, 5 May   Patrick Bond unpacks eco-imperialism at People's Dialogue 'Green Economy' seminar, Johannesburg, 5 May   Nosipho Mngoma, Percy Nhau and Murray Hunter CCS seminar on Right2Know for researchers and journalists, 4 May   Patrick Bond skype lecture on Green Capitalism to Rhodes Univ, 3 May   Ransom Lekunze CCS Seminar: Implications of global economic crisis for Africa, 25 April   Patrick Bond talks to Hospice AGM on 'From Caring about Stuff to Caring about Caring' , 25 April    CCS participates in the Global Teach - In 25 April   Michele Maynard CCS Seminar: African climate change and carbon trading politics, 23 April    Fidelis Allen at the Social Theory Forum at Univ.Massachusetts/Boston, 19 April   Baruti Amisi CCS Seminar: Will the Inga Hydropower Project meet Africa’s electricity needs?, 20 April    Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar: Ideology, agency and protest politics, 18 April   Fidelis Allen & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The World Bank presidential race - African interests and personality profiles, 11 April   CCS Seminar: Dennis Brutus' life and times - film documentaries and discussion, 10 April   Molefi Ndlovu at Young Adult Review workshop of COP 17, South Durban Community and Environmental Alliance, 4 April   CCS Seminar: 'Occupy': what kind of social movement is it?, 3 April   Jens Andvig, Tiberius Barasa, Stein Sundstøl Eriksen, Sanjay Kumar, Faith Manzi & Knut Nustad CCS Seminar: Slums, states and citizens in Durban, Nairobi Delhi, 29 March   Henrik Ernstson CCS/DevStudies seminar on urban ecology, 28 March   Ronnie Kasrils CCS Seminar: Corruption, authoritarianism and the challenge for civil society, 23 March   Bahaa Taher CCS Seminar: Post-Arab Spring: Literary freedom of expression in Egypt, 22 March    Zero Fossil Fuels meeting, 20 March   Felix Platz CCS Seminar: Climate Change narratives – experiences from the COP 17, 20 March   Molefi Ndlovu presents at the Foundation for Human Rights event on 19 March   Trevor Ngwane at Rosa Luxemburg anti-xenophobia panel, Johannesburg, 16 March   Patrick Bond reviews RDP for Zim opposition leaders, Nyanga, 16 March 2012   David Hallowes and Tristen Taylor CCS Seminar: A hostile climate - civil society impact on the COP17, 15 March   Leigh Collingwood CCS Seminar: Presentation of book: “Deforestation: Why YOU need to stop it NOW”, 13 March    Lubna Nadvi & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Why boycotting Israeli apartheid follows South Africa’s liberation strategy, 6 March    Simphiwe Nojiyeza CCS Seminar: Durban’s state-sponsored climate change chaos, 1 March   Comrade Fatso CCS Seminar: Zim spoken-word liberation struggles, 29 February    Patrick Bond on service delivery protests, Nadel AGM, Mthatha, 25 February   Patrick Bond on climate justice at Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference, 25 February   Lushendrie Naidu CCS Seminar: The state of South Durban's industrial basin, 23 February    Alex Comninos CCS Seminar: Twitter revolutions and cyber-crackdowns, 22 February   Patrick Bond debates WWF's Saliem Fakier at AIDC, Cape Town, 17 February   Fumhiko Saito CCS Seminar: Shifting to local governance?, 16 February   Patrick Bond delivers New Zimbabwe Lecture, Harare, 15 February   Patrick Bond banned from delivering New Zimbabwe Lecture, Harare, 8 February   Said Ferjani CCS Seminar: The Tunisian democratic revolution, Islam and the left, 1 February   Tom Heinemann, Patrick Bond & Khadija Sharife CCS Seminar/film: Politics of microfinance, 25 January    Patrick Bond booksigning climate justice titles at Sandton Square Exclusives Books, Johannesburg, 24 January    Bobby Peek CCS Seminar: What went right and what went wrong at the COP17?, 19 January   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: What’s going on in China? Boom, bust and battles from below, 10 January    Keyvan Kashkooli CCS Seminar: Governing markets from below? From e-commerce to emissions trading, 6 January   Events Index 2011   Faith Manzi & Oliver Meth CCS Seminar: AIDS, rape and climate, 13 December   Patrick Bond lecture on world financial crisis at Lingnan Univ, Hong Kong, 12 December   Patrick Bond on CJ at TransNational Institute meeting, 10 December   Patrick Bond & Baruti Amisi on climate induced migration at People's Assembly, 7 December    Patrick Bond & Nnimmo Bassey Book Launch, Ike's Books, Durban: 6 December   Patrick Bond on ecological debt, World Council of Churches, 6 December   Patrick Bond on culture and climate at Durban City Hall, 5 December   Pablo Solón Wolpe lecture: “Rights of Nature and Climate Politics”, 2 December   Patrick Bond on puppet statehood and climate, Unctad conference (via video), Geneva, 1 December   Patrick Bond presentation on labour-community-eco solidarity at International Transport Federation, People's Space, 1 December*   CCS Teach‑In on Climate Justice, evenings from 29 Nov‑8 Dec   Patrick Bond, Lars Gausdal, Molefi Ndlovu & Khadija Sharife on climate politics and narratives, South Durban, November 25-26   Everyone's Downstream 25-26 November   Patrick Bond at Rosa Luxemburg Political Cafe on climate/energy, Johannesburg, 21 November   Molefi Ndlovu & Michael Dorsey lead youth/climate workshop, 21 November    Janis Rosheuvel CCS Seminar: U.S. 'Migrant Management' & Grassroots Resistance to Criminalization of Immigrant Life, 18 November   Patrick Bond skype lecture on climate politics to Lahore Cafe Bol series, Pakistan, 16 November   Patrick Bond keynote speech to Cornell Univ development conference, 12 November   Michele Maynard CCS Seminar: The African Peoples Petition: What Durban COP17 must deliver!, 11 November   Emanuele Leonardi CCS seminar: The Environmental Side of the Current Economic Crisis: Toward an Ecological Critique of Neoliberalism, 10 November 2011   Patrick Bond at City Univ of NY on climate justice strategy, 9 November   Patrick Bond on COP17 politics at Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 8 November   Rehana Dada CCS Seminar: The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign, 4 November   Lars Gausdal CCS Seminar: Bolivia at the Crossroads, 3 November 2011    Patrick Bond talk on population and climate, Pretoria, 1 November   Patrick Bond, Dudu Khumalo, Orlean Naidoo, Thando Manzi, Molefi Ndlovu & Noah Zimba Wolpe Lecture: Community Climate Summit, 28 October    Patrick Bond on water politics, the IMF and climate in Dublin, 25‑26 October   Patrick Bond on energy as a public good in Rome, 24 October   Patrick Bond talks on climate justice in Stockholm, 22 October   Patrick Bond on climate, land and Africa's exploitation, at Uppsala University, Sweden, 20-21 October   Shailja Patel CCS Seminar: Seen And Unseen: Windows On The ICC-Kenya Trials, 18 October   Patrick Bond on COP17 mobilisations at PanAfrican Climate Justice conference in Addis Ababa, 15‑16 October   Fidelis Allen CCS Seminar: Climate Change, Poverty and Public Policy in Nigeria's Niger Delta, 11 October 2011    Patrick Bond on electricity and climate crises, Newlands and Meerbank, 10-11 October   Marie Kennedy & Chris TillyCCS Seminar: Latin America’s third left: Autonomy and participation in the new political landscape, 6 October    Peter Waterman Emancipatory Global Labour Studies and Social Movements, 5 October    Patrick Bond on climate and capitalism at the International Labour Rights Information Group Globalization School, Cape Town, 3 October   Trevor Ngwane CCS seminar on protest ideology, 30 September   John Saul & Trevor Ngwane Wolpe lecture on South Africa's transition, 29 September   CCS hosts Democratic Left Front climate conference, 23-25 September   Climate Justice Now! South Africa meets at CCS, 22-23 September   Patrick Bond on Electricity Prices and Climate Crisis at SDCEA, 21 September   Patrick Bond at People's Dialogue on climate politics, 21 September   Solani Ngobeni CCS Seminar: Challenges facing scholarly publishers in South Africa: Towards a turnaround strategy or tilting at windmills, cancelled   Anton Harber & Ruth Teer-Tomaselli Amnesty International seminar on the Secrecy Bill, 15 September   Sarah Bracking CCS Seminar: How do investors value the environment? Why a pile of stones is not a house, 13 September   Climate Justice Protest US, Consulate, 9 September   Ashwin Desai & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The World Conference Against Racism and 9/11 ten years after, 8 September   Patrick Bond on climate injustice and the World Bank, London, 5 September   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   Climate Justice Protest at the US Consulate, 31 August   Otieno, Wamuchiru, Todd, Lorimer CCS Seminar: In Hot Water ‑ Climate change and water adaptation in Nairobi and Durban, 26 August   Wolpe lecture by Mustafa Barghouti on how to free Palestine, 25 August   Patrick Bond on climate finance to SADC parliamentarians, Johannesburg, 25 August   Shauna Mottiar at the ISTR African Civil Society Research Network conference, 24 August    Kate Skinner seminar on media democracy, 22 August   Patrick Bond addresses metalworker shopstewards, Durban, 22 August   Patrick Bond on climate at the Johannesburg Book Fair, 8 August   Paul Routledge CCS Seminar: Translocal Climate Justice Solidarities, 5 August    Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Lessons for Durban from Ecuador's 'leave the oil in the soil' eco/indigenous movement, 2 August    Patrick Bond on the 'green economy' at New Global Hegemonies conference, Quito, 21‑22 July   Franco Barchiesi CCS Seminar: Labour and Precarious Liberation, 20 July   Patrick Bond on climate and Just Transition at National Union of Metalworkers of SA in Johannesburg, 18 July   Sarah Ives CCS Seminar: “Rooibos land is high sentiment, low potential: Preliminary Reflections on a Year in Rooibos Country, 18 July   Danny Schechter CCS Seminar: Citizen Media Advocacy, 15 July    Chene Redwood CCS Seminar: Voices of the Subaltern: Music within community struggles against environmental degradation in South Durban, 14 July 2011   Patrick Bond on SA political economy at Renmin Univ (China) conference via skype, 11 July   Patrick Bond on climate and justice at UKZN Peace Studies conference, 9 July   Philip Rizk CCS Seminar: Critiquing the Nation State: The Gaza Strip, 8 July    Philip Rizk CCS Seminar: Multi-media presentation: “The hard hit is still to come”- An Intifada Imaginary, 7 July 2011    Ida Susser CCS Seminar: Organic intellectuals and AIDS social movements: jumping scales, postponed   Patrick Bond on neoliberal climate policy at Nature, Inc conference (via skype), The Hague, 30 June   Patrick Bond input on African economies to International Labour Organisation industrial relations conference at UCT Business School (via skype), 28 June   Peter McKenzie & Doung Jahangeer CCS Seminar: People in Spaces Make Places, 28 June 2011   Immanuel Wallerstein Wolpe Lecture on the Arab revolt, the US and Africa, 23 June   Patrick Bond on SA climate policy at UKZN Business School, 23 June   Patrick Bond CCS Seminar on the global climate justice movement, 21 June   Simphiwe Nojiyeza & Mary Galvin on sanitation politics, 20 June   Simphiwe Nojiyeza and Geasphere debate water and climate at Alliance Francaise, 9 June   Mvuselelo Ngcoya & Shauna Mottiar Seminar: Understanding horizontal philanthropy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2 June   Patrick Bond at Univ of Georgia Antipode Institute for Geographies of Justice, Athens, 30‑31 May   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    Patrick Bond on climate politics at Korean conference, Jinju, 27 May   Florian Kunert, Phillip Hol & Justin Davy Wolpe Lecture: Shack Theatre, 26 May    CCS and Zimbabweans celebrate Africa Day, 25 May   Patrick Bond on dangers of a neoliberal Palestine, at TIDA-Gaza, Gaza City, 19 May   Chris Morris CCS Seminar: Notes on Pharmaceutical Patent Lawfare: The Umckaloabo Case, 19 May 2011    Durban Community Video Collective workshop, 14 May   Patrick Bond at City Univ of NY conference on precarious labour and socialism, 13 May   Patrick Bond on environmental justice at Autonomous University of Barcelona, 28 April   Mazibuko Jara, Alan Murphy & Orlean Naidoo Wolpe Lecture Panel on the Local Government Elections, 21 April 2011   Patrick Bond at Univ of San Francisco sustainability symposium, 19 April   Patrick Bond in Montreal for Cochabamba+1 climate justice conference, 15‑17 April   Ron Carver Reflections on organising US labour and community campaigns, 13 April   Patrick Bond on Palestine & Durban at American Association of Geographers conference, Seattle, 12‑14 April   Shauna Mottiar at the International Research Society for Public Management Conference, Dublin, 11- 13 April   Wiebe Nauta CCS Seminar: Civic Engagement and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea ‑ Lessons for South Africa, 5 April   Patrick Bond on climate politics with Polaris Institute/Ontario Public Interest Research Group at Univ of Toronto, 31 March   Patrick Bond climate lecture at Carleton Univ, Ottawa, 29 March   Adekeye Adebajo CCS/SDS Seminar: The Curse of Berlin: Africa after the Cold War, 23 March   Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu at Keleketla Library Johannesburg, 21-31 March 2011    John Devenish Seminar CCS research on protests in South Africa 2009 - 2011, 17 March   Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale Seminar: Climate Justice, Global Alliance-Building and Climate Jobs, 22 March   Patrick Bond seminar on Palestine, water and the University of Johannesburg, 16 March   Seminar: Documentary Screening of 'Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds, 10 March   Patrick Bond gives lectures in Michigan and California, 8-14 March   Patrick Bond on climate justice, Northern overconsumption & African resistance at '6 Billion Ways' conference in London, 5 March   Wolpe Lecture by Hein Marais: Song & Dance: Power, Consent and the ANC, 3 March    China Ngubane hosts Zimbabwe monitoring discussion, 1 March   Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada, Blessing Karumbidza & Molefi Ndlovu Seminar on the 2011 World Social Forum, 25 February   Patrick Bond delivers Brutus Memorial Lecture, Nelson Mandela Metro Univ, 23 February   Danielle Carter CCS Seminar on Sources of State Legitimacy in Contemporary SA, 22 February   Blessing Karumbidza, Siziwe Khanyile, Bongani Mthembu, Bobby Peek in Wolpe Lecture 'Climate Teach-In', 19 February   Niall Bond Seminar: The history of 'civil society', 14 February   Molefi Ndlovu, Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond CCS seminars at the WSF, Dakar, 6-11 February   Teppo Eskelinen Seminar: Global justice - some emerging topics and responses 25 January 2011   Patrick Bond at Zuma's Own Goal booklaunch, Bluestockings, NYC, 24 January   Patrick Bond on climate justice in Sacramento, CA, 20 January   Patrick Bond at Resource Rights conference and Eskom protest, Washington, 13-14 January   Events Index 2010   Patrick Bond radio debate on climate justice politics, 22 December   Film screening: The Uprising of Hangberg, 14 December    Patrick Bond at global climate summit, 6‑11 December, Cancun   Pumla Gqola, Andile Mngxitama, Baruti Amisi & others Seminar on Xenophobia and Racism in SA, 10 December   Patrick Bond lecture on uneven development, migration and xenophobia to Univ.Delhi conference, 25 November   Patrick Bond, Horace Campbell, Patricia Daley and Eunice Sahle panel at African Studies Association, SF, 21 November   CCS Wolpe film screenings with Pamela Ngwenya and community videomakers 20 November   Cesia Kearns Seminar: Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign: Transforming the US Electric Sector, 19 November 2010   Patrick Bond on oil and financial crises with Attac-Norway in Oslo, 18-19 November   Baruti Amisi skype seminar on xenophobia to Roskilde University, 17 November   Patrick Bond at Race, Class & Developmental State conference in PE, via Skype, 16 November   Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed Wolpe Lecture in Honour of Fatima Meer, 16     Patrick Bond at Historical Materialism conference, London, 12-14 November   Patrick Bond seminar on ecosocialism at Inst of Social Studies, The Hague, 16 November   John Harvey Seminar: US Philanthropy and the Global South: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges, 8 November   Patrick Bond at The ‘Progress’ in Zimbabwe Conference, 4-6 November   Nicholas Smith Seminar: Lynch Violence and the Governance of Evil, 26 October   Ela Gandhi & Dilip Menon Wolpe Lecture: Indians in South Africa: 150 Years, 21 October 2010   Patrick Bond seminar on climate justice at Univ of California-Davis, 18 October   Mariem el Bourhimi and Peter McKenzie Seminar: Saharawi liberation struggle status, 15 October   Rolf Schwermer CCS Seminar: pro-poor technology, 14 October   Patrick Bond seminar on climate politics at Trinity College Dublin, 1 October   Baruti Amisi lecture on xenophobia for National Association of Democratic Lawyers, KwaZulu‑Natal Law Society, Pietermaritzburg, 30 September   Patrick Bond in Ramallah on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, 26 September    Patrick Bond on transition-neoliberalism at Birzeit Univ conference, Palestine, 28 September   Patrick Bond and Lungisile Ntsebeza launch Zuma's Own Goal at African Studies Association-UK conference, Oxford University, 19 September    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    Dudu Khumalo, Baruti Amisi, Molefi Ndlovu, Daniel Ribeiro, Terri Hathaway, Lori Pottinger Seminar: Civil society v Southern African dams, 10 September   Patrick Bond and Rick Rowden on the IMF and public health, San Francicso, 7 & 14 September   Brij Maharaj, Ashwin Desai, Patrick Bond launch new book Zuma's Own Goal, Elangeni Hotel, Durban, 5pm on 3 September   Patrick Bond speaks on rights/commons debate at the International Commission of Jurists Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Camp, 31 August, Johannesburg   Margaret Gärding Donor power in the international aid industry, 27 August    Makhosi Khoza, Fikile Moya, Patrick Mkhize, Tony Carnie, Pritz Dullay and Brij Maharaj on the Wolpe Lecture Panel: Media Information & Freedom, 26 August 2010   Ralph Borland Seminar: Radical Plumbers and PlayPumps - Objects in development, 25 August    Patrick Bond speaks at Jubilee South Africa conference on ecological debt, 21 August, Johannesburg   Dudu Khumalo and Simphiwe Nojiyeza presentation on sanitation at Umphilo waManzi seminar, 13 August, Durban   Patrick Bond at South Africa‑Norway climate research seminar, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, 12 August 2010   Patrick Bond at Southeast Asia climate justice seminar, Focus on the Global South, Chulalungkorn University, Bangkok, 10 August   Trevor Ngwane at Solidarity Peace Trust report on Zimbabwe, 30 July, Johannesburg   Wolpe Lecture: Social justice ideas in Civil society politics, global & local: A Colloquium of scholar activists, 29 July   Press Conference on Xenophobia, 28 July    Padraig Carmody Seminar: Chinese Geogovernance in Africa: Evidence from Zambia, 20 July    CCS and Gyeongsang University Institute for Social Science (Korea) joint seminar on political economy of social movements, 14 July   Giuliano MartinielloCCS Seminar on Inanda's socio-spatial change, 9 July   Pamela Ngwenya Seminar on Video as a tool for outreach, communication, advocacy and community expression, 8 July   Anti Xenophobia Rally City Hall 3 July   Renee Horne CCS Seminar on Black Economic Empowerment, 2 July   Roithmayr, Adonis, Galvin, Bond, Khumalo CCS Colloquium on Water, Rights, Prices, 28 June (skypecast)    Blessing Karumbidza CCS Seminar on climate change and carbon trading controversies in Tanzania, 24 June   Trevor Ngwane and Rehana Dada at workshop on climate advocacy at the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 22 June   Wolpe Lecture: Durban Social Forum members, 'World Cup for All!', Durban City Hall, 16 June   David J. RobertsCCS Seminar: Re-branding Durban through the 2010 World Cup, 14 June   Patrick Bond (with Briggs Bomba and Dave Zirin) on the World Cup, Washington, 9 June   Patrick Bond on global justice movements, at Grantmakers without Borders conference, SF, 8 June   Patrick Bond presents on climate justice at conference, Alter-globalization movements and the alternative ideas of Korea, Seoul, 28 May   Patrick Bond on 'Poli Econ of the World Cup' in Seoul, 27 May   Patrick Bond lecture on National Health Insurance with Oxfam, 26 May   Jessie Lazar KnottCCS Seminar: Identity/Spatial Relations: scholar‑activism in the greater Kei region of the Eastern Cape, 25 May   Patrick Bond at Osisa conference on climate and development in Africa, Pretoria, 21 May   Patrick Bond on energy policy and the World Bank, at Democracy and Development Programme, Durban, 20 May   Eunice N. Sahle Wolpe Lecture: World orders, Ike's Books, 5pm, 20 May    Barak Hoffman & Orlean Naidoo Seminar: Chatsworth politics and municipal advocacy, 17 May   Patrick Bond on SA climate policy on TEDxUKZN, 14 May   Khadija Sharife & Eunice SahleCCS Seminar: Oil, minerals and maldevelopment in Africa, 13 May   Patrick Bond speaks on climate debt to the Economic Justice Network, Johannesburg, 5 May   Erin McCandless & Shepherd Zvavanhu CCS Seminar on Zimbabwe Civil Society, 3 May    Nathan Geffen (with Faith ka Manzi) CCS Seminar: Debunking Delusions: The inside Story of The Treatment Action Campaign, 29 April     Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife address African tax authorities, 29 April 2010   Memorial Tribute to Professor Fatima Meer, 23 April   Alan Freeman & Radhika Desai CCS Seminar on The world capitalist crisis, 23 April    Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu facilitates Krogerup College and Durban Sings, 18‑20 April   Patrick Bond on carbon trading at Manchester conference on environment and finance, 15‑16 April   Patrick Bond in Boston v WB-Eskom loan, 9 April   Patrick Bond at Clark University, 8 April   World Bank protest, 7 April, Washington   Patrick Bond seminar on climate politics, City Univ of NY, 6 April   Patrick Bond at NYU on South African political economy, 5 April   Patrick Bond in SF Bay Area on World Bank loan to Eskom, 4 April   Trevor Ngwane at Marxism 2010 conference, Melbourne, 1-4 April   Patrick Bond on water commons, Syracuse University, 29-30 March   Trevor Ngwane seminar on activism and global campaigns, Univ of Helsinki, 26 March   CCS/VANSA KZN Panel discussion: 'What is Art and what is not?', March 25   Patrick Bond on 'Organising for Climate Justice', Left Forum, NYC, 21 March    Workers, Zama Hlatshwayo, Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar on UKZN labour outsourcing crisis 19 March   Carol ThompsonCCS Seminar on resisting agro‑industry, 18 March   David Zirin Seminar on Fifa's Looting of SA, 13 March    Dennis Brutus memorial, 11 March   Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar on SA's social protest wave, 9 March   Patrick Bond testifies to parliament on economic policy, 2 March   Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener seminar at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, 2 March   CCS anti‑xenophobia research workshop, 27 February   Patrick Bond speaks on The ebb and flow of water rights, Univ of Cape Town Department of Public Law, 25 February    Patrick Bond at Power Indaba privatisation conference, 22 February   Press Conference: Keep our South African Coal in the Hole! 22 February 2010   CCS Economic Justice course, with Trevor Ngwane, Samson Zondi and Patrick Bond, from 20 Feb‑29 May   Climate Justice Now! SA‑KZN chapter hosted at CCS, 13 February   Hallowes, D'Sa, Ngwane, Bond , Dada: Seminar on proposed World Bank coal loan to Eskom, Friday, 12 February*   Durban renewable energy site visits by Minnesh Bipath, SA National Energy Research Institute with Muna Lakhani and Patrick Bond 10 February 2010   Patrick Bond paper for Socialist Register workshop, 6 February   Susan Galleymore CCS Seminar: A Dearth of Imagination Leads to Wasting Perfectly Good Waste, 5 February   Durban Sings Follow-up and planning session with 8 Editorial Collectives, 4 February    Patrick Bond on climate change & Dennis Brutus Memorial at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, 28 January   Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond Seminar: Copenhagen Climate and Eskom Energy Conflicts, 26 January   Dennis Brutus tribute, with Social Movements Indaba and Durban community groups, 23 January    Peter McKenzie & Doung Jahangeer Seminar: The Saharawi,Warwick Junction and Footsak Politics, 20 January   Patrick Bond debates NHI at Idasa, CT, 19 January   CCS cohosts Climate Justice Now! on electricity hearings strategy, 15 January   Events Index 2009   Patrick Bond at SF protest against Danish repression of civil society and Copenhagen climate 'deal', and radio interview, 18 December   Patrick Bond addresses climate seminar at Univ of Lund Business School, 15 December   Kristine Wasrud Participation and Influence in Water Policy in Durban, South Africa, 11 December    Climate Justice Film Festival, 10 December    Umesh de Silva Seminar: Traditional farming in Umzinyathi, 9 December   Oliver Meth at the CCS Workshop on women & child abuse Cato Crest Library, 8 December    Patrick Bond at Roskilde Univ Civil Society Centre, 7 December   Patrick Bond keynotes Leeds 'Democratisation in Africa' conference, 4 December   Sinegugu Zukulu & John Clarke CCS Seminar: Resilience, Resolarisation and Relocalisation, 30 November    Patrick Bond speaks at Mandela Foundation about SA economic disasters, 26 November   Nick Smith CCS Seminar Politics of protection/crime/policing, 26 November   Seminar on outsourced and contract workers at UKZN, 24 November   3rd Climate Justice Now! KZN meeting, 20 November   CCS and Durban Sings! at the Global Crisis and Africa: Struggles for Alternatives hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; Randburg, Johannesburg 19-21 November   MAKE SOME NOISE! Concert 6 November    Immanuel Wallerstein Wolpe Lecture: Crisis of the Capitalist System Where to from Here?, 5 November   Solidarity with Durban's oppressed: Bottom-up resistance strategies of shackdwellers, pollution victims and labour-brokered workers, 4 November   The Crises and the Commons: Durban debates on politics, economics and environment 4-7 November    Seminar on Problems faced by UKZN workers, Westville campus, 28 October   Faith Manzi & Oliver Meth at the Gender Based Violence Workshop, Durban 27 & 28 October   Bengt Brülde & Stellan Vinthagenand Seminar: Ethics, Resistance and Global Justice, 26 October    Baruti Amisi, Trevor Ngwane & Patrick Bond Anti-Xenophobia research project with Strategy&Tactics 19- 20 October   Durban Sings (Molefi Ndlovu & Claudia Wegener) at National Oral History Conference, 13-16 October   Tri-Continental Film Festival Durban community screenings – (hosted by Oliver Meth) at Inanda, Chatsworth, Wentworth, CBD, & Folweni, 1-12 October   Patrick Bond lectures at Suffolk Univ, Boston, 29 Sept-2 Oct   Dennis Brutus honored by War Resisters League, 18 September   Helen McCueCCS Seminar: Grassroots Mobilising within Refugee Communities: Perspectives on Palestine and Australia, 18 September   Patrick Bond Booklaunch: Climate Change, Carbon Trading & Civil Society, 18 September   Patrick Bond skypecast on climate and ecological debt to Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, Copenhagen, 16 September   Oliver Meth People to People International Documentary Conference, 10-12 September    Dick Forslund & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: South Africa's capitalist crisis and civil society, 7 September   Dudu Khumalo on the Durban public transport crisis, 1 September    John Berg CCS Seminar: Barack Obama's presidency and civil society reactions, 24 August    Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: National Health Insurance: Can SA afford it?, 24 August    Norman Finkelstein Wolpe Lecture: Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Gandhi, 20 August    CCS Seminar with outsourced workers at UKZN, 12 August    Patrick Bond debates Sampie Terreblanche (Stellenbosch), 6 August, UCT   Patrick Bond addresses Ecuador eco-finance conference (videolink), 4 August   Dr Essop Pahad CCS Seminar: Thinking about the Legacy of Mbeki's Politics, 4 August   Patrick Bond at the South African Civil Society Energy Caucus Meeting, 29-30 July    Barak Hoffman CCS Seminar: Democracy and Civil Society Research in Ghana and SA, 27 July   CCS hosts free screenings of Durban International Film Festival, 25 July - 1 August    Sean Flynn & Maj Fiil CCS Seminar on water rights, ( SKYPECAST ) 24 July   Patrick Bond lecture at carbon trading conference, Johannesburg, 22 July   Sein Win Seminar by Burmese prime minister (exiled) on solidarity (SKYPECAST), 21 July   Tunde Adegbola A Pan-African Harold Wolpe Lecture & cultural events, 16 July   Patrick Bond lecture on SA Political Economy, San Francisco socialist conference, 4 July    Orlean Naidoo on participation at DDP seminar, 30 June   Patrick Bond speaks on 'World Slump: Financial Crisis and Emerging Class Struggles in the Global South', 28 June, Toronto   Patrick Bond on African social resistance to economic crisis, 26 June, Moscow   Oliver Meth and Orlean Naidoo facilitate Diakonia Council of Churches Democracy Course, 24 -26 June   Alex Callinicos Wolpe Lecture: Economic crisis and prospects for social revolution, 18 June*    Blair Rutherford CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe farm labour, social justice and citizenship, 17 June   Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar: Community resistance to energy privatisation and ecological degradation, 11 June   Gaby Bikombo, Judy Mulqueeny, Harry Ramlal, Caroline Skinner CCS Seminar: War of Warwick Junction, 9 June   DURBAN SINGS central editorial workshops, 8 & 22 June   Patrick Bond, Abedian, Dumisa, Maharaj et al on 'Zumanomics', UKZN Biz School, 3 June   Rehana Dada keynote address to Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute AGM, 2 June   Patrick Bond on African underdevelopment at Sussex IDS conference (via skypecast), 1 June   Trevor Ngwane presents at the International Conference on Ideas and Strategies in the Alterglobalisation Movement, Seoul, 29 May   Peter McKenzie cultural seminar on 'Footsak: On the Ball for 2010', 28 May   Björn SurborgCCS Seminar: Contesting Johannesburg's extractive industries, 25 May    Paul Verryn, Methodist Bishop of Johannesburg: Wolpe Lecture: Poverty and xenophobia, 21 May   Robert Jensen, Univ of Texas: CCS Seminar: Whiteness and social change in the US, 21 May   Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute: CCS Seminar: The state of the world water wars, 15 May   Patrick Bond debates 'The G20 Global Deal' at Wits/Osisa, Johannesburg, 12 May   Molefi Ndlovu CCS Seminar: Azania Rising: The demise of the 1652 class project, 13 May   Rehana Dada,CCS Seminar: Climate mitigation case studies, 11 May   CCS/DYFS - Anti-xenophobia film screening facilitators workshop, 9 May   Orlean Naidoo CCS Seminar: Chatsworth upgrading struggles and victories, 8 May   Patrick Bond, Joburg Wolpe Lecture at Wits Univ, 7 May   Patrick Bond at Cosatu electricity workshop, Joburg, 6 May   Joan Canela and Helena OlcinaCCS Seminar: Social movements in Bolivia and Catalan, 5 May   William Gumede Wolpe Lecture: SA’s “Democracy Gap”, 30 April    Three representatives of the Tamil liberation movement youthCCS Seminar: The Tamil people under seige, 21 April    Leading eco-social spokespersons from political parties and civil society Seminar: Environmental confrontations - Political parties meet civil society, POSTPONED   Rehana Dada at York Univ climate ecojustice conference, Toronto, 16-17 April   John Minto CCS Seminar: The Legacy of Anti-apartheid Sports Boycotts, 16 April   Dennis Brutus celebrations, honorary doctorates conferred at both Rhodes Univ and Mandela Univ, 16-17 April   Nelson Muhirwa & Jean Chrisostome Kanamugire CCS Seminar: The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years On, 8 April   Oliver Meth Seminar: Wentworth Crime, Gangs and Civil Society, 7 April    Ida Susser booklaunch, 'AIDS, Sex and Culture', with Quarraisha Abdool Karim, at Ike's Books, 2 April   Dennis Brutus on Reconciliation and Memory in Post-Apartheid SA, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, 2-3 April   Sofie Hellberg CCS Seminar: Governing lives through hydropolitics in eThekwini , 1 April 2009   Claudia Wegener & Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu Digital Soiree Durban Sings Internet Radio project, 24 March    Simone Claar Seminar: Post-Apartheid Political Economy and State Policy, 19 March   Oliver Meth presents at the HSRC Violent Crime and Democratization in the Global South Conference, 18-20 March   Simphiwe Nojiyeza CCS Seminar: African Development Bank water projects, 12 March   Deniz Kellecioglu CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe Civil Society confronts Mugabe's Economy, 11 March    Patrick Bond debates ANC economic policy, 9 March, Durban   Kalinca Copello Seminar: ICTs and social movements: From Chiapas to Brazil to South Africa, 6 March   Lisa Ramsay & Schwarzanne Leafe Seminar & Film: Climate Change and Eco-Social Resistance in South Durban, 27 February   Patrick Bond presents to ActionAid/Nepad conference on global financial crisis, 24 February, Midrand   Molefi Ndlovu Johannesburg: Market Photo Workshop, 22-28 February    Orlean Naidoo & Patrick Bond seminar on Free Basic Water, and screening of Flow, 18 February   Ida Susser Seminar: AIDS, Sex, Culture and Civil Society, 11 February   Dennis Brutus and Moya Atkinson film/seminar on US anti-war movement, 9 February   Patrick Bond seminar on the ongoing global financial crisis, University of Johannesburg, 6 February   Durban Sings internet audio and community radio with Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener, 2-6 February   Patrick Bond in dialogue with Jeremy Cronin on financial crisis, Johannesburg, 28 January   Dennis Brutus, Lubna Nadvi, Monica Rorvik and Salim Vally Seminar: Should Israel be boycotted? If so, how?, 27 January   Giyani Dube, Lubna Nadvi, Kate Griffiths and Timothy Rukombo Wolpe Lecture: Civil Society Internationalism - from Lindela to Gaza to Washington, 22 January   Pamela Ngwenya, Molefi Ndlovu, Claudia Wegener Seminar: Participatory community audio/video as a tool for social research, 21 January    Dale McKinley, Orlean Naidoo, Dudu Khumalo, Bryan Ashe Seminar on the World Water Forum, 19 January   Mavuso Dingani film/seminar on the Zimbabwean exile in Durban, 6 January