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BRICS bankers will undergird – not undermine – Western financial decadence
By Patrick Bond July 10, 2015 -- originally published by teleSUR English
The main point of the summit of leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa this week was host Vladimir Putin’s demonstration of economic autonomy, given how much Western sanctions and low oil prices keep biting Russia. In part this sense of autonomy comes from nominal progress made on finally launching the bloc’s two new financial institutions.
But can these new banks address the extraordinary challenges in world finance? For example, more than 60% of Greeks voting in last Sunday’s referendum opposed the neoliberal dictates of Brussels-Berlin-Washington, thus raising hopes across Southern Europe and among victims of “odious debt” everywhere.
Meanwhile, bubbly Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets were crashing by $3 trillion from peak levels in just 17 days, a world-historic meltdown, at a time Chinese housing prices were also down 20% over the prior year. Beijing’s emergency bail-out measures represent vast subsidies to financiers, just like those used in Washington, London, Brussels and Tokyo since 2007.
Change is urgently needed yet the BRICS’ finance bureaucrats – especially two leading appointees from South Africa – won’t deviate from orthodoxy. Ongoing financial turbulence should offer a gap for the $100 billion Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA), which is anticipated to open its doors next month. However, it carries not only a strange name that even many insider experts often get wrong, but is dollar-denominated and structurally hard-wired to support the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
To illustrate, according to CRA rules agreed at last year’s BRICS Fortaleza summit, after 30% of a country’s quota is borrowed – based on double the amount of its own contributions (China at $41 billion, and Brazil, Russia and India at $18 billion each, and South Africa at $5 billion) – then the borrower must next sign a neoliberal IMF agreement.
For South Africa this could prove painful in the period ahead, after Pretoria finds itself borrowing from the CRA to repay the country’s soaring foreign debt. Inheriting $25 billion in apartheid odious debt in 1994, Nelson Mandela’s government worked diligently to repay. But over the past decade, outflows of profits, dividends and interest soared as the largest Johannesburg-based firms (Anglo American, DeBeers, etc) shifted their financial headquarters to London.
The foreign debt ballooned to its present $145 billion, the same level compared to the size of the economy that was hit thirty years ago when PW Botha’s apartheid regime declared a default. To repay short-term debt in a crisis would soon exhaust the $3 billion Pretoria is permitted to immediately access from the CRA, and then the IMF will march in.
New Development Bank to take over World Bank’s nastiest projects
Sadly, even with Greece’s new mandate, there appears no hope for bucking the IMF and European bankers on debt repayment by finding a new bail-out partner in Russia this week. Early rumours that Moscow would invite Athens to join the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) proved cruelly deceptive.
Once launched next April, the NDB could well fund specific projects in other non-BRICS countries, even Greece if profits there ensure repayment – such as its controversial Chinese port privatisation. However, these are likely to be the sorts of pro-corporate infrastructure deals that even the World Bank finds increasingly difficult to support due to sustained protest against community displacement and climate change, e.g. land grabs, mega-dams and coal-fired power plants.
At the “BRICS-Civil” conference in Moscow last week, the Delhi-based Vasudha Foundation’s Srinivas Krishnaswamy told the BRICS Post that the NDB should be considered “in the light of a new World Bank Energy Strategy which restricted funding of coal projects for developing economies. This was opposed by India, South Africa and other countries dependent on coal to satisfy their energy requirement.”
The BRICS banks will thus ‘complement’ the Bretton Woods Institutions, thanks to a self-mandate dating to early 2014. As Brazil’s finance ministry reminded last week, the CRA “will contribute to promoting international financial stability, as it will complement the current global network of financial protection. It will also reinforce the world’s economic and financial agents’ trust.”
But shouldn’t we question trust in the world’s top financial "agents"? Two examples from South Africa, appointed to the top tier of the NDB last Tuesday, remind us why.
Karl Marx prefaced Das Kapital with a concern that “Individuals are dealt with here only in so far as they are the personifications of economic categories, the bearers of particular class-relations and interest.” Biographies sometimes perform a useful exercise, if we want to understand why an institution in the making will not in any way "threaten" the hegemony of Washington’s financial agents.
Pretoria’s neoliberal appointees
Relegitimisation of world financial imperialism is explicitly reflected in Pretoria’s two new appointees to NDB leadership:
* NDB vice president Leslie Maasdorp was the main privatiser of South Africa’s state assets and also worked in the local leadership of Bank of America and Barclays – both charged in recent weeks with currency manipulation worth billions of dollars.
* NDB board director Tito Mboweni, who in 2001 was Euromoney’s "Central Bank Governor of the Year", regularly bragged of learning from the US Federal Reserve’s notorious free-marketeer and financial-liberaliser, Alan Greenspan. From 1999-2009, Mboweni was the most conservative central banker in modern South African history. He not only loosened exchange controls dozens of times, but as a result then had to push interest rates to painful highs while local bank profits soared to among the world’s highest rates.
The two South Africans deployed to the NDB have long enjoyed leadership and key advisory roles at the Johannesburg office of Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank partly responsible for the 2007-09 global financial meltdown thanks to rampantly illegal lending practices. Its managers first got bail-outs and then faced multi-billion dollar fines but were spared criminal prosecution thanks to carefully cultivated revolving-door relationships in Washington, Pretoria and many other capitals.
Goldman’s lead strategist Jim O’Neill even coined the "BRIC" meme in 2001 to argue that imperialism in the form of the G7 should incorporate the emerging powers. In South Africa, Goldman’s local chief executive Colin Coleman regularly articulates a cringe-worthy pro-government stance, for example, writing in the Financial Times last year, “As one of the five BRICS, South Africa will play a decisive role in global economic development in the coming decades.”
According to Maasdorp in an interview with Independent Online this week, ‘decisive’ is actually ameliorative: “When it comes to the design, engineering and financial packaging of new projects I suspect we will work very closely with the Development Bank of Southern Africa, African Development Bank, the World Bank and others. We will and should benefit from the long years and decades of experience of these institutions.”
He added, “As international adviser of Goldman Sachs from 2002, I played a leading role in expanding the reach of the firm into new market segments including the public sector and the rest of the continent.” As translated by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibi, “The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
Maasdorp also witnessed the highest-profile corruption in African infrastructure finance, not only because his South African big business allies are considered to be the "world champs" of money-laundering, bribery and corruption, procurement fraud, asset misappropriation and cybercrime. “I served for example as chairman of TransCaledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA), which is a state-owned enterprise with a mandate to finance and implement bulk raw water infrastructure projects in South Africa, and played an oversight role from a governance perspective for seven years of large infrastructure projects.”
TCTA pipes run from Africa’s highest dams in Lesotho to Johannesburg, which led to what was the world’s most infamous case of construction company bribery in World Bank lending history. More than $2 million flowed from a "dirty dozen" multinational corporations to the Swiss accounts of the leading Lesotho dam official, Masupha Sole, who served 9 years in jail but was then, to everyone’s astonishment, reinstated thanks to his political influence.
Although the World Bank debarred some of the most corrupt companies, thus catalysing the bankruptcy of Canada’s once formidable civil engineering firm Acres International, nothing was done to punish the firms by Pretoria officials, including Maasdorp at the TCTA. Several then reappeared in a construction collusion case involving white-elephant World Cup 2010 stadiums and other mega-projects in which billions of dollars were ripped off.
BRICS has been rife with mega-project corruption, and as just one example, the World Bank last year debarred the China Three Gorges Corporation’s subsidiary building dams in Africa. The World Bank "Vice President – Integrity" (sic) responsible, Leonard McCarthy, was himself declared by the finest South African newspaper editor, Ferial Haffajee, to have “ruined our criminal justice system” because of his own political corruption when serving as lead prosecutor of current South Africa's President Jacob Zuma. In this cesspool, international infrastructure financing is bound up with cronyism; South Africans are well placed to help the money flow.
Mboweni had a central role in the IMF’s 1993 financing deal, one of South Africa’s historic capitulations to neoliberalism. As Mboweni explained in a 2004 speech, he knew that “the apartheid government was trying to lock us into an IMF structural adjustment programme via the back door, thereby tying the hands of the future democratic government… We did not sell out!”
He did indeed: the $850 million loan came with severe economic policy and even personnel conditions attached. Former ANC minister of intelligence Ronnie Kasrils in 2013 termed this deal “the fatal turning point. I will call it our Faustian moment when we became entrapped – some today crying out that we ‘sold our people down the river’.”
As South African Reserve Bank governor, Mboweni braved similar controversy to the IMF’s repeated applause, especially with extreme interest rate increases. As he left, the only major economy with higher rates was Russia’s, and shortly after that, the only one among South Africa’s trading partners where capital cost more was Greece.
Keeping inflation low – since banks hate the devaluation of their main asset, money – was the main reason for Mboweni’s sado-monetarism. Yet self-interestedly, on the eve of the 2008 world financial meltdown he rewarded himself a 28% personal pay raise at a time his institution had declared a 6% maximum inflation target.
Remarked business ezine Moneyweb (normally fans of neoliberalism), “The high-living governor already has a reputation for excessive ego, after attempting to censor what pictures of him are released into the public domain.” The reference is to Mboweni banning photographers from the Reserve Bank because they were “taking pictures when I was wiping off my sweat.”
Is another BRICS possible?
Ironically, at the time Durban hosted the BRICS summit in early 2013, Mboweni used a speech to regional business elites to attack the NDB as “very costly. I would rather take that money and build the Coega Petro SA oil refinery here in Port Elizabeth.” Mboweni also chairs a local oil company.
Will men like Maasdorp and Mboweni fight the poverty, ecological destruction and climate change, privatisation and corruption, illicit financial flows and Resource Cursing associated with current global lending, or will they amplify these features?
A genuine alternative to imperialist finance would be based upon
The sort of default on unpayable, unjustifiable debt that Argentina managed to accomplish in 2002;
Exchange controls that countries like Malaysia (in 1998) and Venezuela (in 2003) imposed on their elites (as did Greece last week);
New regional currency arrangements such Ecuador’s proposed sucre; and
Socially and ecologically conscious financing strategies tied to compatible trade (like ALBA) such as were once proposed and seed-funded by the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez in the stillborn Bank of the South.
Given NDB and CRA positioning and personnel, it is foolish and perhaps dangerous to invest hope in the BRICS’ fake alternative.
“This book is a uniquely valuable resource for development scholars, students and activists. It includes outstanding contributions written by a stellar group of authors. They pierce through every aspect of the discourse around the BRICS, showing the reality beneath the politically engineered triumphalism.” – Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor of Political Economy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
BRICS An Anti-Capitalist Critique
Edited by Patrick Bond and Ana Garcia
THIS BOOK AIMS TO FILL a gap in studies of the BRICS grouping of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). It provides a critical analysis of their economies, societies and geopolitical strategies within the framework of a global capitalism that is increasingly predatory, unequal and ecologically self-destructive – no more so than in the BRICS countries themselves.
In unprecedented detail and with great innovation, the contributors consider theoretical traditions in political economy as applied to the BRICS, including ‘sub-imperialism’, the World System perspective and dynamics of territorial expansion. Only such an approach can interpret the potential for a ‘brics-from-below’ uprising that appears likely to accompany the rise of the BRICS.
Patrick Bond directs the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Civil Society in Durban and is senior professor of development studies; he is also professor of political economy at Wits University in Johannesburg. His books include South Africa: The Present as History (with John Saul), Elite Transition, and Politics of Climate Justice.
Ana Garcia teaches history and international relations at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro and is an associate of the Institute of Alternative Policies in the Southern Cone of Latin America.
Contributors: Elmar Altvater, Baruti Amisi, Patrick Bond, Omar Bonilla, Einar Braathen, Pedro Henrique Campos, Ruslan Dzarasov, Virginia Fontes, Ana Garcia, Ho-fung Hung, Richard Kamidza, Karina Kato, Claudio Katz, Mathias Luce, Farai Maguwu, Judith Marshall, Gilmar Mascarenhas, Sam Moyo, Leo Panitch, Bobby Peek, Gonzalo Pozo, Vijay Prashad, Niall Reddy, William Robinson, Susanne Soederberg, Celina Sørbøe, Achin Vanaik, Immanuel Wallerstein and Paris Yeros.
South Africa/Jacana: http://www.jacana.co.za/new-releases/new-releases-6593/brics-an-anti-capitalist-critique-detail
India/Aakar: http://aakarbooks.com/"http://aakarbooks.com
UK/Pluto:http://www.plutobooks.com/downloads/catalogues/PlutoNewBooksAW2015.pdf
US/Haymarket:http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/BRICS
Neoliberals dominate. How will this affect Brics' bank?
Patrick Bond (The Star, Johannesburg) 15 July 2015
The RussiaToday tv interview by President Jacob Zuma and the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (Brics) summit’s Ufa declaration last week together left no doubt about the New Development Bank (NDB) mandate, with $50 billion in capital, of which South Africa’s immediate $5 billion (R62.5 bn) contribution will strain the budget not inconsiderably. “The NDB shall serve as a powerful instrument for financing infrastructure investment and sustainable development projects.”
This excellent-sounding phrase motivates much more open critiques of Washington’s two ‘Bretton Woods Institutions,’ founded in 1944 to reboot a world economy in desperate need of order. In Ufa, as IOL’s Shannon Ebrahim put it, “the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) got a clear message from the world’s most important emerging economies: don’t use your economic power to threaten us or dictate the terms of our development any longer.”
Zuma was even more blunt about the two Washington institutions, which “want to dictate what you should do. You can’t utilize that kind of assistance the way you want. So, in a sense, it has conditions that will keep you dependent all the time. That’s what we’re trying to take ourselves out of.”
Perhaps unwittingly, is Zuma reiterating his nemesis Ronnie Kasrils’ criticism of the IMF’s $850 million loan to South Africa six months before democracy dawned? The former ANC Minister of Intelligence in 2013 termed this deal “the fatal turning point. I will call it our Faustian moment when we became entrapped – some today crying out that we ‘sold our people down the river’.” Economic policy overly influenced by Washington has failed South Africa, ever since.
Pretoria’s new non-executive director to the NDB, Tito Mboweni, had a central role in the IMF deal and subsequent neoliberal strategies such as record-high interest rates and exchange control liberalisation. As Mboweni explained in a 2004 speech, he knew that “the apartheid government was trying to lock us into an IMF structural adjustment programme via the back door, thereby tying the hands of the future democratic government.” But, he claims, “We did not sell out!”
Greek prime minister Alex Tsipras is trying to explain exactly the same circumstances to the Greek people this week. Though 21 years apart, both countries witnessed 61% votes against neoliberalism (the ANC’s alternative was the Reconstruction and Development Programme). Yet by invoking power far greater than mere democratic elections, the IMF imposed severe policy conditions in both countries: budget cuts, higher Value Added Tax on poor people’s consumption, privatisation, labour casualisation and deregulation.
Tsipras’ Monday morning agreement with the IMF and European Union authorities will worsen Greek austerity, just as Pretoria’s budget cuts of 3% for poor people’s grants this year prove that locally, neoliberals remain dominant. Higher inequality, unemployment and social unrest will logically follow, in both countries.
In South Africa’s case, even personnel conditions were attached to the initial deal: Mboweni had to wait an extra five years to become central bank governor because IMF head Michel Camdessus insisted informally in a January 1994 meeting with Nelson Mandela that apartheid-era neoliberals Chris Stals at the Reserve Bank and finance minister Derek Keys be reappointed to their jobs.
Will the BRICS’ NDB and its $100 billion ‘Contingent Reserve Arrangement’ (CRA) fund for stabilisation during financial crisis prove any different? Probably not, for as Peter Fabricius points out (‘Brics bank not entirely free of IMF’), “According to its own articles, the CRA will barely be able to function without IMF backing.” Once Pretoria needs just $3 billion to service a foreign debt which now exceeds $140 billion, the CRA orders that it take on an IMF agreement before more credit is granted.
Indeed the CRA is – like the NDB – initially denominated in US dollars, and repayment of those can be a wicked challenge, as the Passenger Rail Agency of SA learned this week, what with its failure to contemplate the 50% rand devaluation since 2011 and hence a 40% price mark-up on imported locomotives. The BRICS have a great potential for non-$-denominated lending and it would be ideal to break reliance on the US Federal Reserve’s unreasonable power of world money creation, to be sure.
However, asks Fabricius about the NDB and CRA, “Whether they are also politically skewed in their funding, by imposing pro-Western conditionalities, is less clear.” This is indeed the critical question, especially on foreign policy matters where anti-imperialist rhetoric comes easy. You can hear the ‘talk left’ but are you watching the ‘walk right’?
Unfortunately, Pretoria’s neoliberal agenda becomes most visible when considering the personnel deployed to lead the NDB. Mboweni and NDB vice president Leslie Maasdorp are senior advisors to international financier Goldman Sachs and have a long history of endorsing Washington bankers’ logic. Maasdorp was in charge of privatising South Africa’s state assets and chaired a parastatal – the TransCaledon Tunnel Authority – notorious for turning a blind eye to extreme Lesotho mega-dams corruption.
Mboweni joined an elite group of IMF reform advisors in 2006, men like former US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, who simply shifted some of the deck chairs. China thus got more voting power and African countries less. By 2012 when the BRICS put $75 billion into bailing out the IMF when it needed more money, the only conditionality I found discussed in public was SA finance minister Pravin Gordhan’s Moneyweb interview when he advocated that the IMF be more ‘nasty’ to Europeans (like Tsipras) in need of emergency loans.
In other words, if Pretoria’s neoliberal bloc remains in control, the NDB’s allegedly ‘sustainable’ infrastructure could include items from Eskom chair Brian Molefe’s Brics Business Council project wish-list: new coal-fired generators, Operation Phakisa off-shore oil drilling, and Durban’s $25 billion new port. Even worse, Mboweni last week told Bloomberg, the proposed R1 trillion nuclear deal “falls squarely within the mandate of the NDB”.
Since the same corrupt construction companies will be building NDB-financed infrastructure given our ongoing lack of state building capacity, and since we are still paying off white elephant soccer stadiums that were an unintended adverse consequence of the bribe-laden 2010 World Cup bid, it is time to ask harder questions about ‘sustainable’ Brics infrastructure. We may find that the worst tendencies of the World Bank and IMF are actually amplified in the allegedly alternative financial institutions.
Bond, a joint professor of political economy at UKZN and Wits, is co-editor with Ana Garcia of a new Jacana book, BRICS.
BRICS Establishes A Development Bank
Patrick Bond is the director of the Center for Civil Society and a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Bond is the author of the books, South Africa - The Present as History (with John Saul) and the 3rd edition of Elite Transition.
BRICS Establishes a Development Bank
SHARMINI PERIES, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to the Bond Report on the Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore.
BRICS, the economic bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, met in Ufa, Russia this week. One of its key objectives is to form a New Development Bank considered an alternative to the World Bank and the IMF. The bank will be located in Shanghai and chaired by Indian banker K V Kamath for the first six years. Then Brazil and Russia will take their respective turns. Each country is expected to contribute its lion's share to the bank. The upper house of Russia just allocated $100 billion in foreign reserves for the bank. The pool is intended to protect national currencies from the volatility of global markets. The idea is that in the event of a financial emergency like that of Greece at the moment, the BRICS countries would no longer have to depend on the likes of a Troika.
But will the BRICS development bank be any different? Will this new formation be able to address the issues faced by struggling and ailing economies of China and Russia, India, Brazil, and South Africa? Here to discuss all of this with me is Patrick Bond. He is joining us from Durban, South Africa. He has recently edited a book on BRICS with Ana Garcia titled BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique.
Patrick, thank you so much for joining us today.
PATRICK BOND, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR CIVIL SOCIETY: Thank you very much. Great to be back with you, Sharmini.
PERIES: So Patrick, in the past two years the Russian economy has tanked. The stock market in China was in a freefall on the eve of this meeting. Are these large economies now looking to BRICS alliance to reinvigorate their economies?
BOND: Well, that would be a mistake. Because in fact, all the BRICS, especially now with China's $3 trillion crash of the main stock markets from the peak just about three weeks ago to today, and the 20 percent crash over the last year of its property market, the sort of horrible potential of a hard landing that would send the world economy into a tailspin, that now is certainly possible. And certainly the Brazilian economy's very, very weak at about 1 percent. South Africa will grow 1 percent or go into recession. India has not been as strong as past years. And the currencies of all of the BRICS is also under great threat. Because as the United States begins to move towards higher interest rates, that'll take liquid capital out.
So I think the broader, macroeconomic perspective for BRICS as a potential backstop for world economic growth that we had seen the last 15, 20 years, that potentially is now over. That would be very sad, because certainly Europe's in a deep depression and the U.S. economy's not doing very well, either.
However, the merits of a slower growth might be more balancing, because we've seen such extraordinary, uneven development. Extreme differentiation, inequality, and ecological destruction. So whether the period ahead can be managed now is a question. Maybe the BRICS financial institutions will be part of that management.
PERIES: Which reminds me of, the main purpose of the meeting itself was to form a development bank. What of any significance came out of it?
BOND: Yes. Well, you're right. The 2015 BRICS summit in Ufa had as its centerpiece the actual naming of the directors of the bank and more of the details, and promised that by April 2016 the BRICS New Development Bank, the NDB, will be up and running and making project loans.
That's different than the other function, the continent reserve arrangement, CRA. The CRA, a strange name for what is in effect a short-term financial monetary emergency fund, $100 billion. That's probably going to be important for at least one of the BRICS, South Africa, as we move into potential debt crisis. Our debt is 40 percent of GDP level, our foreign debt, and that is the same level in 1985, about 30 years ago where we suffered a default, and a run that even put enough pressure on the white minority government, the apartheid regime, that forced it to make concessions and nine years later to agree to democracy.
So these financial moments in a country's political life can be important, as we're certainly seeing with Greece. But the other four countries have enough reserves that I don't think the continent reserve arrangement is going to be used anytime soon. It's really a notional reserve. And if it were to take the currency that China is now spending on buying U.S. Treasury bills, that would be a terribly important step. However, all the indications are that China is continuing to buy T bills and maintains a record holding. That's very unfortunate. It basically locks China into a buying relationship with the U.S. in terms of T bills, the Treasury bills, at which point the U.S. has enough debt that it can allow its consumers to borrow and then to buy Chinese goods. And that's the sort of death grip of the world economy that locks in these extreme imbalances that we've been having.
PERIES: Now, Patrick, you just edited a book with a number of your colleagues on the BRICS. And what are some of the pros and cons you saw coming forth?
BOND: Well, we've really heard from progressive analysts a mixed message. And there is a, especially third world-ist, if I may say, a sort of pro-South position that is welcoming the BRICS. And you see it on a number of the easings and some important writers have been welcoming BRICS as a potential alternative to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and maybe a geopolitical power relationship.
However, our careful study shows a couple of things that I think the book, which is being published in the U.S. by Haymarket and Britain by Pluto, here in South Africa by Jacana, and in India by Aakar. The book, with about 25 key authors from many of the BRICS countries and international experts, does a couple of things.
One is to show that internally the BRICS are extremely uneven and the balance of forces largely favors neoliberal or market-oriented pro-corporate figures. And that is very much shown today by the new BRICS directors of the New Development Bank from South Africa, who are two of the most extreme neoliberals we've had in economic policy. The new vice president of the BRICS, Leslie Maasdors, previously in charge of the privatization of South Africa's state assets and the former central bank governor is now a director of the New Development Bank, is named Tito Mboweni, and he's really known as one of the most austerity-oriented governors that the central bank here's ever had.
And that means the second part of what we're arguing, which is that there's a tendency to fit in rather than oppose the world financial elites. That is to say it's not going to be against world finance, but accompanying world finance that the New Development Bank lends project loans. It will be picking up some of the worst loans that even the World Bank won't do. Dirty energy loans, megadams, maybe land grabbing, especially here in Africa. That's one concern.
And especially a concern, secondly, that the International Monetary Fund will be actually empowered by the contingent reserve arrangement. And the reason is that the CRA is set up that after you borrow 30 percent of what you can legitimately borrow from that CRA, 30 percent of your quota, before you get the next 70 percent you have to go to the IMF to get a standby agreement, a structural adjustment austerity policy.
So one of the great hopes we've had in this, Sharmini, is that the Greeks would say we don't like the IMF, we're going to default. We might exit the Euro so that we aren't under the same sort of pressure from European Union and the European Central Bank to basically be part of a German bank-centric model. And then we're going to borrow from a foreign power. Maybe Russia, there was some talk, and maybe China with all the money they have, and be able to keep afloat while we default and arrange a default. Much like Argentina did, and therefore not go into complete panic, crisis, bank closures and all the rest of it.
Now, that probably isn't going to happen. That was our big hope, that the BRICS would be an alternative geopolitical arrangement. But I think it would be wishful thinking for progressive analysts, now that they know much more about the details of the BRICS New Development Bank, to actually argue that Greece has any hope there. Greece is going to have to take this very strong, courageous stand that's so overdue to introduce its own currency and not hope that it can just borrow from the BRICS bank and therefore pay off the IMF. And the reason is that the BRICS bank will make project loans in April 2016, only. It's not ready to do anything yet.
And that would mean the kinds of loans that, what would be bankable in Greece, something like port privatization of the Chinese. That's strongly opposed by the dock workers in Greece, and I don't think then there's any scope for the contingent reserve arrangement to fund Greece, because you have to be a member of BRICS. And they really have limited membership to just the five main countries.
So all of those together, Sharmini, mean if you're still arguing and hoping that the BRICS will be some kind of anti-imperialist answer, you should look more closely. Our sense, using Ruy Mauro Marini, the great Brazilian dependency theorist's argument, is that instead of anti-imperialist we are looking at sub-imperialist relationships.
PERIES: Patrick Bond, thank you so much for your take on BRICS. And we look forward to having you back on and perhaps debating somebody that is pro-BRICS.
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Dominic Brown CCS Webinar: Funding the Basic Income Grant (BIG) in SA Post Covid-19. Wednesday 17 June 2020 |
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Mark Heywood CCS Webinar: The South African Civil Society Response to Covid-19: The good, the bad and the ugly. Wednesday 10 June 2020 |
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Lubna Nadvi CCS Webinar: South Africa’s Covid-19 Response and Political Leadership. Wednesday 3 June, 2020 |
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Brian Minga Amza CCS Seminar: The uncomfortable place of spirituality and religion in the struggle for liberation. Wednesday 18 March 2020 |
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Andries Motau CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: Documentary Screening "Thank you for the rain." Wednesday, 27 February 2020 |
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Danford Chibvongodze Documentary Screening: City of Joy to mark 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children. Wednesday, 20 November 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: The pedreiro and the master planner(Part 6). Wednesday 30 October |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Rebel Architecture Documentary Series: Working on water (Part 5), Wednesday 23 October |
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Andries Motau CCS in collaboration with docLOVE: A documentary screening of “This Land”. Thursday 24 October 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Greening the city (Part 4). Wednesday 9 October 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: The architecture of violence (Part 3). Wednesday 9 October 2019 |
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Oliver Mtapuri, CCS Seminar – Why innovation matters: To invent or Not invent (at own peril). Thursday 26 September 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture (Part 2). Thursday, 19 September 2019 |
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Akshi Behari, Michael Rout & Ronald Bafana Documentary Series: Rebel Architecture. Thursday, 12 September 2019 |
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Andries Motau, CCS & docLOVE Documentary Screening: JOZI GOLD – A Human Catastrophe, A Toxic City, An Unlikely Activist. Thursday 29 August 2019 |
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Mvu Ngcoya CCS Seminar: Why Cuba’s Agricultural Revolution Puts South Africa’s Agrarian Programmes to Shame. Thursday 8 August 2019 |
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Mzamo Zondi, CCS Seminar: Activist Co-Optation: Tasting State Power. Wednesday 31 July 2019 |
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Philisiwe Mazibuko, Andre de Bruin and Patricia Ipileng Agnes Dove, CCS Special Seminar Series – Race and Identity Facilitated by Mvuselelo Ngcoya. Tuesday 30 July 2019 |
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Danford Chibvongodze, CCS Documentary Screening – The Power of Us. Thursday 18 July 2019 |
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Joyce Chitja, Discussants: Tapiwa Muzerengi and Xolisile Ngumbela. CSS Seminar: Uncomfortable Tensions in the Food (In) Security Conundrum - The Role of Communities in Southern African Contexts. Thursday 27 June 2019 |
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Daniel Byamungu Dunia, CCS and ASONET Seminar: SA Legislation on the Socioeconomic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Wednesday 12 June 2019 |
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Lara Lee, Documentary Screening - BURKINABE BOUNTY. Wednesday, 5th June 2019 |
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Isaac Khambule, CCS Seminar: A 5 Year Review of South Africa’s National Development Plan and its Developmental State Ambition. Wednesday 29 May 2019 |
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CCS Documentary Screening: Everything Must Fall. Thursday 30 May 2019 |
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Patrick Bond, Lisa Thompson & Mbuso Ngubane, CCS and African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy Seminar: The Local-Global Political Economy of Durban. Friday 17 May 2019 |
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Judith Ojo-Aromokudu CCS Seminar: Understanding the spatial language of informal settlements in Durban: Informing upgrading programs for self-reliant and sustainable communities. Tuesday 7 May 2019 |
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CCS and φowerfest! Free Public Screening: Shadow World. Thursday 25 April 2019 |
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Lubna Nadvi, CCS and UKZN School of Social Sciences Seminar – What do party lists reveal about political parties contesting the 2019 SA Elections? Wednesday 24 April 2019 |
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Lukhona Mnguni, CCS and the UKZN Maurice Webb Race Relations Unit Seminar: Elections 2019 and South Africa’s 25 years of Democracy "Where to from here?". Wednesday 18 April 2019 |
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Sthembiso Khuluse and Daniel Dunia, CCS and the Right2Know Campaign Seminar: Your Right To Protest in South Africa. Friday 12 April 2019 |
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Lerato Malope CCS Seminar: Service Delivery and Citizen Participation in Cato Manor. Wednesday 10 April 2019 |
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Ranjita Mohanty, Ilya Matveev, Brian Meir CCS Seminar: Democratising Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice – An Indian Case Study. Friday 5 April 2019 |
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Nduduzo Majozi, CCS Seminar: Housing Service Delivery in Cato Manor. Wednesday 27 March 2019 |
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Danford Chibvongodze, CCS Documentary Screening: An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela. Friday 29 March 2019 |
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Geoff Harris and Tlohang Letsie CCS Seminar - Demilitarising Lesotho: The Peace Dividend - A Basic Income Grant? Wednesday 20 March 2019 |
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Thobani Zikalala CCS Seminar: Wokeness vs Consciousness. Wednesday 13 March 2019 |
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Nisha Naidoo, CCS: Impact Strategy Workshop. Thursday 7 March 2019 |
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Philisiwe Mazibuko & Percy Nhau, CCS Seminar: The ‘#Data Must Fall’ Campaign. Wednesday 6 March 2019 |
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Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Empowering Communities to Self-Mobilise: The TAC Method. Wednesday 27 February 2019 |
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Nisha Naidoo, CCS: Impact Strategy Workshop. Wednesday 13 February 2019 |
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Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally, CCS Seminar: History's Schools: Past Struggles and Present Realities. Tuesday 27 November 2018 |
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CCS & Powerfest Public Screening "The Public Bank Solution: How can we own our oewn banks?". Thursday 8 November 2018 |
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Dr Victor Ayeni, CCS and African Ombudsman Research Centre Seminar: Improving Service Delivery in Africa. Tuesday 6 November 2018 |
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Alude Mahali, CCS & HSRC Present Documentary Screening & Seminar: Ready or Not!. Thursday 22 November 2018 |
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CCS & Powerfest, Public Screening of "Busted: Money Myths and Truths Revealed". Thursday 25 October 2018 |
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Henrik Bjorn Valeur, A Culture of Fearing ‘The Other’: Spatial Segregation in South Africa. Wednesday 7 November 2018 |
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Danford Chibvongodze, Seminar Six: "Half Man, Half Amazing"- The Gift of Nasir Jones' Music to African Collective Identity. Thursday, 11 October 2018 |
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Brian Minga Amza and Dime Maziba, CCS Seminar: 31 Years Later - A Consideration of the Ideas of Thomas Sankara. Wednesday, 24 October 2018 |
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Ajibola Adigun CCS Seminar: African Pedagogy and Decolonization: Debunking Myths and Caricatures. Thursday 18 October 2018 |
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CCS & Powerfest! Public Screening of "FALSE PROFITS: SA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS". Wednesday, 26 September 2018 |
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CCS Seminar: Co-Production of Knowledge - Lessons from Innovative Sanitation Service Delivery in Thandanani and Banana City informal Settlements, Durban. Wednesday 17 October 2018 |
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Mxolisi Nyuswa, CCS Community Scholars Seminar: Complexities and Challenges for Civil Society Building and Unity: Perspectives from the KZN Civil Society Coalition. Thursday 27 September 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Rural Development and Livelihoods in South Africa. Thursday 13 September 2018 |
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Simbarashe Tembo, CCS Seminar: Constitutionalism in Zimbabwe: An Interrogation of the 2018 Election. Wednesday, 19 September 2018 |
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Thobani Zikalala, CCS Seminar: Adopting a Black Consciousness Analysis in Understanding Land Expropriation in South Africa. Wednesday, 12 September 2018 |
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CCS Community Scholar Workshop Activism and Technology. Wednesday, 29 August 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Canada's Dark Secret. Thursday 30 August 2018 |
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CCS UKZN & Powerfest!: Festival of Powerful Ideas, Public Screening: The D.I.Y Economy. Friday, 24 August 2018 |
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Daniel Byamungu Dunia, CCS Seminar: Building capacity and skills for effective and successful integration of refugee communities in South Africa. Wednesday 8 August 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: Human Trafficking, Thursday 19 July 2018 |
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CCS UKZN & Powerfest!: Festival of Powerful Ideas, Public Screening of AUTOGESTIo. Thursday 12 July 2018 |
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Wenche Dageid, CCS Seminar: Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development – prospects for health and equity. Monday 9 July 2018 |
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Sachil Singh, CCS Seminar: Questioning the Medical Value of Data on Race and Ethnicity: A case study of the DynaMed Point of Care tool. Thursday 5 July 2018 |
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CCS Seminar: Should I stay or should I go? Exploring mobility in the context of climatically-driven environmental change, Wednesday 27 June 2018 |
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Gerald Boyce, CCS Seminar: From blackest night to brightest day, Thursday 28 June 2018 |
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CCS, UKZN and Powerfest Festival of Powerful Ideas: Cuba-An African Odyssey, 14 June 2018 |
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Mvu Ngcoya, CCS and Critical Times, Critical Race Project Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018: Land as a multi-splendorous thing: Kwasi Wiredu on how to think about land, Wednesday 30 May 2018 |
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Deborah Ewing, Emma Goutte-Gattat, Aron Hagos Tesfai CCS and AIDS Foundation Seminar: Using technology to improve refugee and migrant access to sexual and reproductive health care?,Thursday 31 May 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: White Helmets, Thursday 24 May 2018 |
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CCS, UKZN & Powerfest! Festival of Powerful Ideas: Celebrating Africa Month Stealing Africa, Wednesday 16 May 2018 |
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Chris Desmond CCS Seminar: Liberation Studies: Development through Recognition, Wednesday 9 May 2018 |
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Andrew Lawrence CCS Seminar - Obstacles to realising the 'Million Climate Jobs' Vision: Which policy strategies can work? When? How?, Friday 18 May 2018 |
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CCS, UKZN, Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas (FREE FILM AND POPCORN SERIES), Thursday 26 April 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: April Theme Earth Day "Seeds of Sovereignty" & "Cowspiracy"...Discover environmentalism. 19 April 2018 |
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Alfred Moraka, How Not To Despoil Yourself of African Wonders: Oyeronke Oyewumi’s work as African Epistemological Enchantment. Wednesday 18 April 2018 |
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Dr Joseph Rudigi Rukema, CCS Seminar: Entrepreneurship through Research - Converting Research into Community Projects. Wednesday 11 April 2018 |
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Philile Langa, Centre for Civil Society and Critical Times, Critical Race Project Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018. Thursday 29 March 2018 |
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The Centre for Civil Society and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas 2018 Free Film and Popcorn Series. Wednesday 28 March 2018 |
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Professor Siphamandla Zondi, CCS and International Relations, School of Social Sciences Seminar: Hearing Africa Speak Again - Amilcar Cabral’s Seven Theses on the African Predicament Today. Tuesday 27 March 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS Documentary Screening: #MeToo vs. Time's Up & We Should All Be Feminists. Thursday 22 March 2018 |
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Documentary Screening, CCS and KZN Palestine Forum Documentary Screening: Anti Black Racism and Israel’s White Supremacy, 14 March 2018 |
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Mary de Haas, Of Corruption and Commissions but no Conclusions Seminar Series: The Moerane Commission, 15 March 2018 |
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Jay Johnson, CCS Seminar: Contested Rights and Spaces in the City: the Case of Refugee Reception Offices in South Africa, 13 March 2018 |
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Daniel Byamungu Dunia,CCS and Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Seminar: The Trials of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa , 1 March 2018 |
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King Sibiya, CCS and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas, 27 February 2018 |
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97% Owned, CCS and Powerfest: Festival of Powerful Ideas 2018, Documentary Screening Series 2018, 28 February 2018 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart, CCS: Documentary Screening , 22 February 2018 |
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Siviwe Mdoda, Right 2 Know (R2K) Campaign Seminar: Public Interest Information vs Private Information: Jacques Pauw’s ‘The President’s Keepers’ Case, 1 February 2018 |
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Shaun Ruggunan CCS Seminar: Waves of Change: Globalisation and Labour Markets, 15 November 2017 |
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Gerard Boyce The Dentons Commission, 1 November 2017 |
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Ndumiso Dladla Prolegomenon to an Africanist Historiography in South Africa: Mogobe Ramose’s Critical Philosophy of Race, 25 October 2017 |
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Eliza Solis-Maart CSS Seminar: Young Civil Society and Contemporary Issues, 11 October 2017 |
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Rozena Maart Great African Thinkers Seminar Series 2017 / 2018 , 27 September 2017 |
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Gerard Boyce CCS Seminar: Of Corruption and Commissions but no Conclusions Seminar Series, 20 September 2017 |
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Shauna Mottiar CCS Seminar: Everyday Forms of Resistance in Durban, 1 September 2017 |
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Mhlobo Gunguluzi and Thabane Miya Centre for Civil Society and Right2Know Campaign Seminar: The Right to Protest, 27 July 2017 |
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Bandile Mdlalose, Daniel Dunia and Nisha Naidoo, The Peoples Economic Forum Responds to the World Economic Forum, 1 June 2017 |
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Mvu Ngcoya, Rozena Maart, Shaun Ruggunan, Mershen Pillay Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Decolonising Curricula, 25 May 2017 |
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Peter Sutoris, Environmental Activism and Environmental Education: (De) Politicising Struggles in India and South Africa, 18 May 2017 |
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Lubna Nadvi, Lukhona Mnguni, Shauna Mottiar, The April 7th Protests, 20 April 2017 |
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John Devenish, CCS Seminar: The use of interactive maps and scatter graphs to study protest in the BRICS countries, 13 April 2017 |
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Shauna Mottiar, Mvuselelo Ngcoya BOOK LAUNCH: Philanthropy in South Africa - Horizontality, ubuntu and social justice, 22 March 2017 |
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Peter McKenzie Photo Exhibition - Durbanity, 09 March 2017 |
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Elisabet Van Wymeersch On change, conflicts and planning theory: the transformative potential of disruptive contestation, 2 March 2017 |
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Daniel Byamungu Dunia, Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Community Building Workshop: CRIMINALISATION OF HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH, 24 February 2017 |
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Jasper Finkeldey, Centre for Civil Society Seminar: (No) Limits to extraction? Popular Mobilization and the Impacts of the Extractive Industries in KZN, 9 February 2017 |
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Bandile Mdlalose, New Urban Agenda’ – Report Back from Habitat III, United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development Ecuador, 28 November |
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Patrick Bond, From Trump to BRICS, where is civil society headed? 18 November |
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Gerard Boyce, Arguments in favour of putting the South African government's nuclear plans to a popular referendum, 28 October |
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Duduzile Khumalo, Sibongile Buthelezi, Cathy Sutherland, Vicky Sim, Social constructions of environmental services in a rapidly densifying peri-urban area under dual governance in eThekwini Municipality, 26 October |
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Alex Hotz CCS Seminar: Challenging Secrecy and Surveillance: Building Anti-Surveillance Activism, 19 August |
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Itai Kagwere, Daniel Byamungu Dunia and Gabriel Hertis CCS Seminar: Challenges of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa, 26 August |
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Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: Sight on the target: Tackling destructive fishing, 12 August |
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Carolijn van Noort CCS Seminar: “Strategic narratives of infrastructural development: is BRICS modernizing the tale?”, 26 July |
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CCS Co-Hosts: The Governance and Politics of HIV AIDS, 19 July |
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Moises Arce CCS Seminar: The Political Consequences of Mobilizations against Resource Extraction, 12 July |
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Zimbabwe's Despondent Political Economy - a Durban workshop to honour Sam Moyo 13-14 June 2016 |
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Patrick Bond gives political economy lecture to Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Women in Business Forum, 26 April 2016 |
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CCS hosts mining critics for press conference, 7 April |
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Assassination in Xolobeni: Film screening and memorial meeting for Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, 6 April |
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Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia launch BRICS in Toronto, 31 March |
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Akin Akikboye CCS Seminar: KZN's Internally Displaced People, 31 March |
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Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia present critique of world ports, New York, 30 March |
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Dieter Lünse CCS Seminar: Strength of nonviolent action, 22 March |
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Hafsa Kanjwal CCS Seminar: India in Turmoil, 23 March |
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Patrick Bond testifies at public hearing on Transnet's South Durban plans, 21 March |
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Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and Pan-Africanism, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 15 March |
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Yaa Ashantewaa K. Archer-Ngidi CCS Seminar: The role of Black women in liberation, 10 March |
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Patrick Bond reports on research into urban economic and ecological violence, IDRC & UKAID conference, Johannesburg, 8 March |
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Patrick Bond addresses Women in Mining (Womin) conference on movement building, Johannesburg, 7 March |
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Allen & Barbara Isaacman CCS Seminar: Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development, 4 March |
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Patrick Bond presents South Durban paper in Merebank, 2 March |
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Andrew Lawrence CCS Seminar: Why nuclear energy is bad for South Africa, bad for the world—and how it can be opposed, 29 February 2016 |
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China Ngubane , Chumile Sali & Dalli Weyers CCS Seminar: Social Justice Coalition Citizen Oversight of Policing in Khayelitsha Court Case Presentation, 26 February |
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CCS hosts groundWork, SDCEA and FrackFreeSA for climate and energy workshop, 25 February |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Can the SA budget afford #FeesMustFall demands and other social spending? 23 February |
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Patrick Bond joins Mondli Hlatshwayo & Aziz Choudry to launch Just Work, Ike's Books, 22 February |
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Peter Cole CCS Seminar: A History of Dockers, Social Movements and Transnational Solidarity in Durban and San Francisco, 17 February |
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Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS at Univ of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 15 February |
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Delwyn Pillay, Jorim Gerrad, Madaline George & Nozipho Mkhabela CCS Seminar: A return to MUTOKO, Zimbabwe, 10 February |
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Nick Turse CCS Seminar: AFRICOM’s New Math and “Scarier” Times Ahead in Africa, 5 February |
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Menzi Maseko & Mandla Mbuyisa CCS Seminar: Black Consciousness, Fees Must Fall and Lessons from the Life of Ongkopotse Tiro, 1 February |
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Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane & Daniel Dunia CCS Seminar: Central African and Zimbabwean geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society II, 27 January |
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Patrick Bond keynote at Tata Institute Development Studies conference, 23 January |
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Patrick Bond, Thando Manzi, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane present urban analysis at Tata Institute, Mumbai, 19-22 January |
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Patrick Bond, Achin Vanaik, Ajay Patnaik & Alka Acharya launch BRICS book, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 18 January |
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Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane, Daniel Dumia & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: African geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society I, 11 January |
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Events Index 2015 |
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CCS students Boaventura Monjane, Mithika Mwenda, Tabitha Spence & Celia Alario at the COP21 climate summit, Paris, 1-12 December |
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Jorim Gerrard & Paul Steffen CCS Seminar: Influencing society's views of refugees, 9 December |
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Workshop on Climate Change and Environmental Justice with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 7-10 December |
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Ashwin Desai, Betty Govinden, Crispin Hemson & Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: The Gandhi debate, 27 November |
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Stefano Battain & Daniela Biocca CCS Seminar: Alternative development or alternative to development? 27 November |
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Patrick Bond debates Sihle Zikalala & Vasu Gounden on the state of South Africa, eThekwini Progressive Professionals Forum, 25 November |
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CCS Seminar: Remembering Sam Moyo, 25 November |
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Christelle Terreblanche debates Ubuntu at the University of Pretoria, 23 November |
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Patrick Bond & Toendepi Shonhe CCS Seminar: BRICS crumble, commodities crash and Africa's climate changes, 20 November |
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Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS banking at University of Cape Town School of Economics, 16 November |
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Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: KZN civil society responses to the Paris Climate Change Conference, 9 November |
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Patrick Bond with Numsa and BRICS climate critique at Historical Materialism conference, London, 5-6 November |
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Patrick Bond seminar on BRICS as sub-imperialism at Open University, 4 November |
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Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: Black First! but what is Black? 4 November |
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Patrick Bond debates BRICS and climate change at Sussex University, 3 November |
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Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Numsa, technological change and politics at ArcelorMittal's Vanderbijlpark plant, 22 October |
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Tri Continental Film Festival Screenings at CCS 21-24 October |
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Patrick Bond launches BRICS book in New York 19 October |
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Patrick Bond delivers keynote at Cyprus conference on mining and sustainable development, 16 October |
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Brian Minga Anza, Mwamba Kalombo Thithi & Sinqobangaye Magestic Pro Sibisi CCS Seminar: Creative challenges to xenophobia, 15 October 2015 |
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Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Inequality, the criminalisation of protest and internecine social conflict, 9 October |
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Patrick Bond delivers sustainability keynote to SA Public Health Association conference, 8 October |
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Patrick Bond debates UN Sustainable Development Goals, ClassicFM, Johannesburg, 1 October |
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Patrick Bond talks on African uprisings at Mapungubwe Institute, Pretoria, 30 September |
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Patrick Bond debates Africa in the world economy, Channel Africa, Johannesburg, 29 September |
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Ana Garcia presents BRICS critique at Geopolitical Economy conference, Winnipeg, 26 September |
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Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth in Berlin, 16 September |
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CCS welcomes World Social Science Forum to Durban, with talks by Vuyiseka Dubula, Patrick Bond & others in CCS, 13 - 16 September |
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CCS welcomes Codesria and WSSF to Ike's Books, 12 September |
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CCS hosts the South-South Institute during the World Social Science Forum, 10-18 September |
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Patrick Bond lectures at Codesria/Osisa Economic Justice Institute, 8-9 September |
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Patrick Bond, Boaventura Monjane & Mithika Mwenda at Africa Climate Talks, Dar es Salaam, 3-5 September |
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Vladimir Slivyak What's wrong with Russia's nuclear energy deal-making? 4 September |
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John Devenish CCS Seminar: Mapping social unrest in South Africa, 1 September |
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Patrick Bond lectures on climate and deglobalisation alternatives at Attac University, Marseille, 26 August |
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Patrick Bond lecture on legacy of Rosa Luxemburg at New School for Social Research, New York, 21 August |
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China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia as symptom, 20 August |
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Justine van Rooyen CCS Seminar: The Social Inclusion/Exclusion of Intersex South Africans, 12 August |
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Patrick Bond keynote speech at BRICS-in-Africa conference, Livingstone, 7-11 August |
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Patrick Bond and Sam Moyo speak at Trust Africa conference on Illicit Financial Flows, Harare, 3 August |
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Patrick Bond delivers paper on climate and the blue economy, Wits University, 2 August |
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Patrick Bond in economic debate at M&G Literary Festival, Johannesburg, 1 August |
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Yaa Ashantewaa Ngidi CCS Seminar: The state of the Pan Africanist movement, 30 July |
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Ryan Solomon CCS Seminar: Belonging, inclusion and South African civil society in the campaigns against AIDS and xenophobia, 29 July |
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Patrick Bond moderates UKZN College of Humanities debate on xenophobia and higher ed transformation, 28 July |
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Lloyd Sachikonye CCS Seminar: Social research and civil society in Zimbabwe, 28 July |
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Patrick Bond & Mithika Mwenda at Climate Futures symposium, Italy, 13-17 July |
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China Ngubane, Bandile Mdlalose & Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: The state of social activism against xenophobia, human rights violations and mining exploitation - three case sites, 3 July |
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CCS co-hosts (with Chris Hani Institute) World Association for Political Economy, Johannesburg, 19-21 June |
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CCS workshop with ASONET, Action Support Centre and South African Liaison Office, on South Africa, Peace and Security in the post-2015 Development Agenda, 10-11 June |
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CCS/ASONET workshop on xenophobia, 5 June |
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Alf Nilsen launches his book We Make Our Own History, at Ike's Books, 4 June |
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Patrick Bond addresses civil society electricity crisis summit on load-shedding, Johannesburg, 2 June |
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Patrick Bond talks on extractivism, BRICS sub-imperialism and South Africa at Left Forum, New York, 30-31 May |
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China Ngubane, Gabriel Hertis, Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Persistent Durban xenophobia and Operation Fiela, 20 May |
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CCS hosts Colgate University students for social movement research, June |
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Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: Xolobeni mining, unobtanium-titanium battle update, 14 May |
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Patrick Bond lecture on carbon markets and climate debt, Gyeongsang University, Jinju, Korea, 12 May |
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Patrick Bond speaks on South African political economy, Hong Kong Reader bookshop, 11 May |
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Gcina Makoba, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Rhodes' walls must fall! 30 April |
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CCS Film Screening: The GAMA Strike A victory for all workers, 24 April |
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Faith ka Manzi & Bandile Mdlalose at Climate Justice strategy meeting, Maputo, April 21-23 |
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Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth and the green economy, Berlin, 21 April |
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Paul Kariuki, Bandile Mdlalose, China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Durban, 14 April |
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CCS joins Greenpeace and R2K in solidarity meeting with Somkhele coal victims, northern KZN, 12 April |
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Patrick Bond lecture on water commodification and resistance at Zimbabwe Sustainable Economics Forum, Harare, 9 April |
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China Ngubane & Jean-Pierre Lukamba CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Isipingo, 7 April |
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Alice Thomson, Desmond D’Sa & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Liberal and radical approaches to Environmental Justice campaigning, 1 April |
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Patrick Bond speaks on coalitions for national economic sovereignty, World Social Forum, University of Tunis el Manar, 25 March |
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Akin Akiboye & Jorim Gerrard CCS Seminar: Xenophobia and displacement, 17 March |
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Sofie Hellberg CCS Seminar: Water, life and politics in Durban, 10 March |
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Faith kaManzi, Nonhle Mbuthuma, Melissa Hansen & others International Women’s Day at the UKZN Centre for Civil Society: Resistance to Resource Cursing in KZN, the Eastern Cape and the DRC, 9th March |
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Israeli Apartheid Week Events 2 - 8 March |
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Baruti Amisi and Boaventura Monjane speak at US Power Africa conference, University of Illinois, 2-4 March |
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Baruti Amisi, Gerard Boyce & Patrick Bond CCS Workshop: 'False solutions' to climate and energy crises, 26 February |
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Carlos Cardoso CCS Seminar: Knowledge production and intellectual formation in Africa from Codesria's perspective, 20 February |
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Benny Wenda CCS Seminar: The campaign to free West Papua, 19 February |
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Gcina Makoba & Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Campaigning against coal in KZN, 18 February |
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Patrick Bond debates BRICS sherpa Anil Sooklal, UCT Centre for Conflict Resolution, 16 February |
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Desmond D'Sa, David Le Page, Bhavna Deonarain, Winnie Mdletshe & others: Launch of Fossil Free KZN, 13 February |
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Angus Joseph CCS Seminar: Climate justice and solidarity from Lima to Paris, 13 February |
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Nhamo Chikowore & China Ngubane Zimbabwe's new conjuncture and SA's new xenophobia, 6 February |
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Baruti Amisi, Brain Amza & and Jacky Kabidu DRC uprising, repression and solidarity, 5 February |
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Chris Coward CCS Seminar: New spaces of social activism, 28 January |
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Immanuel Ness CCS Seminar: Lessons from the labour movements of China and India, 27 January |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Electricity crisis scenarios, 20 January |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Oil spills, coal digs, resource cursing and resistance, 12 January |
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Events Index 2014 |
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Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: United Front Preparatory Assembly assessment, 22 December |
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Thando Manzi, Au Loong Yu & John Devenish CCS Seminar: BRICS-from-below struggles for justice, 19 December |
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CCS hosts South Durban climate camp, 8-11 December |
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Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose, Shauna Mottiar, Themba Mchunu & China Ngubane CCS press conference and workshop: Durban politics stressed to break-point, 5 December |
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Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Organised labour's losses since 1994, worker-community relations after 2014, 28 November |
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Patrick Bond critiques World Bank at UWC poverty conference, 27 November |
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CCS hosts launch of Fossil Free South Africa, 27 November |
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Faith ka-Manzi debates SA social protest at Gumede Lecture, Durban History Museum, 27 November |
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Melissa Hansen CCS Seminar: Struggles over conservation space in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, 24 November |
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Patrick Bond lectures on Africa's Resource Curse, Stellenbosch University, 20 November |
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Vuyiseka Dubula, Faith ka-Manzi & Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Treatment Action Campaign reaches the knife-edge, 18 November, 2014 |
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CCS hosts Durban environmental network, 15 November |
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Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: Learning and research in social movements, 14 November |
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Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: NGOization, 'civil society' and social change: Complicity, contradictions and prospects, 13 November |
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Gun Free South Africa workshop with CCS, 12 November |
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Creesen Naicker CCS Seminar: Sport for Development in South Africa, 11 November |
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Patrick Bond joins SA panel at Historical Materialism conference, London, 7 November |
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Patrick Bond lectures on neoliberalism and social policy at South-South Institute in Bangkok, 5 November |
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Patrick Bond keynote address on African IT, to the International Development Informatics Association, 3 November |
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Patrick Bond debates GDP with SA government, Pretoria, 31 October |
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Patrick Bond debates GDP reform at University of Pretoria, 28 October |
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China Ngubane and Patrick Bond at UKZN Geography workshop on community politics, 24 October |
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CCS hosts CT Social Justice Coalition training on sanitation advocacy, 22 October |
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CCS hosts Greenpeace film on climate and Arctic oil, Black Ice, 14 October |
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Diana Buttu CCS Seminar: The situation in Palestine, 8 October |
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Mithika Mwenda lecture on climate justice at Climate Change and Development Conference, Morocco, 7 October |
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Stefan Cramer CCS Seminar on Karoo fracking, 7 October |
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Omar Shaukat CCS Seminar: Thinking through ISIS, 1 October |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA social policy at University of Burgundy, Dijon, 25 September |
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Patrick Bond debates Mark Weisbrot on BRICS at IPS, Washington, 23 September |
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Mithika Mwenda and Patrick Bond talk on climate justice, Converge for Climate at Graffiti Church, New York City, 20 September |
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Awethu! network meets at CCS, 20 September |
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Patrick Bond lecture on South Africa at City University of New York, 18 September |
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John Saul and Patrick Bond launch books at Cape Town Open Book Fair, 17 September |
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Gcina Makoba update on recyclables project in Inanda, 15 September |
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The UKZN Centre for Civil Society and Palestine Solidarity Forum host a Gaza Documentary Screening, 11 September |
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Patrick Bond debates the causes and implications of Marikana at the Durban Democracy and Development Programme, 10 September |
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Mnikeni Phakathi & Asha Moodley CCS Seminar (with the Right to Know Campaign): Student Protest at UKZN 2014, 5 September |
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Patrick Bond debates climate and energy at Univ of Leipzig 'Degrowth' conference, Germany, 5 September |
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Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond Durban water and sanitation policies, projects and politics, 1 September |
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Patrick Bond input on BRICS at Centre for Conflict Resolution seminar, Pretoria, 31 August |
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Patrick Bond on Resource Curses and antidotes, at Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Maputo, 28 August |
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China Ngubane & Sizwe Shiba Southern African people's solidarity dynamics, 28 August |
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Patrick Bond lecture on South Durban strategy, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, 22 August |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA political economy at Chinese Academy of Marxism, Beijing, 20 August |
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Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Climate change and global policy battles, 15 August |
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Niall Reddy CCS Seminar: BRICS after Fortaleza, 14 August |
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Ilan Pappé Dennis Brutus Memorial Lecture: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine, 5 August |
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UKZN CCS Masters Student Mithika Mwenda testifies on Climate Justice on Our Common Planet, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, 4 August |
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Loraine Dongo & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Climate, oil and activism in South Africa, 31 July |
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Patrick Bond debates Intensive Energy User Group's Shaun Nel on energy, SAfm, 23 July |
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Patrick Bond debates SACP's Alex Mashilo on SA politics, SA Democratic Teachers Union KZN Province, Durban, 24 July |
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Susan Spronk Contesting Water Privatisation through an Efficiency Narrative, 23 July |
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Matt Meyer The State of the Art in Non-violent Civil Disobedience, 22 July |
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Patrick Bond discusses infrastructure finance, Fortaleza, 15 July |
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CCS-Brazilian collaboration at the 2014 BRICS Summit, 14-16 July in Fortaleza |
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Patrick Bond debates JP Landman on SA poli econ, Ike's Books, 9 July |
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Bhekinkosi Moyo CCS Seminar: Southern African civil society, 7 July |
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Jack Dyer CCS Seminar: The economic consequences of Durban's port expansion, 25 June 2014 |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA macroeconomic conditions, at UKZN SA Research Chair initiative workshop, 20 June |
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Patrick Bond debates SA soccer leader Danny Jordaan on the World Cup's legacy, BBC radio, 18 June |
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John Devenish CCS Seminar: Protests in India, South Africa & Brazil The issues participants & tactics, 17 June 2014 |
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Patrick Bond debates the SA economy with MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu, UKZN Business School, 11 June |
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Patrick Bond debates sustainability at Governance Innovation conference, University of Pretoria, 5 June |
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CCS hosts mineworker solidarity event, 31 May |
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Patrick Bond lecture on South African water commodification, University of London, 30 May |
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Patrick Bond debates 'Africa Rising (or Uprising?)' in Maputo at Frelimo Political School, 29 May 2014 |
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Patrick Bond speaks on global finance at the World Association for Political Economy, Hanoi, 24 May |
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Shauna Mottiar presents at 'Contentious Politics' seminar, University of Johannesburg, 22 May |
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Patrick Bond & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: BRICS from above, the middle and below: which directions for alliances and conflicts? 16 May |
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Patrick Bond debates BRICS civil society, SA Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, 13 May |
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Patrick Bond presentation on climate justice governance via skype to Linkoping University, Sweden, 8 May |
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Gcina Makoba and Thuli Hlela host Miners Shot Down in Durban townships, 1 May |
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Admos Chimhowu CCS Seminar: Food Sovereignty Discourses, Land and Labour in Southern Africa, 30 April |
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Patrick Bond presents on BRICS geopolitics and BRICS banking, Rio de Janeiro, 28-29 April |
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Shauna Mottiar delivers paper on popular protest in South Africa, Oxford University, 26 April |
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Floyd Shivambu, Innocent Ndiki, Louise Colvin and Patrick Bond CCS Workshop: Which critiques of post-Apartheid malgovernance - and which counter strategies - come next?, 25 April |
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Bram Buscher CCS Seminar: ‘I  Nature’: Web 2.0, Social Media and the Political Economy of Conservation, 25 April |
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Patrick Bond discusses DeSutcliffisation at Durban University of Technology Urban Futures Centre, 24 April |
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Patrick Bond talk on SA@20 in New York, 19 April |
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Patrick Bond keynote lecture on climate, health and risk, University of Washington, Seattle, 17 April |
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Ken Walibora Waliaula CCS Seminar: Remembering and Disremembering Africa, 16 April |
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Ben Turok School of Social Sciences & CCS Seminar: With my head above the parapet: An insider account of the ANC in power, 15 April |
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Thando Manzi CCS Seminar: Brazilian civil society contests the World Cup, economic injustice and BRICS, 10 April |
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Patrick Bond gives three talks at the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, 10 April |
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Patrick Bond on comparative solidarity with Palestine and South Africa, Johns Hopkins University, 7 April |
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Patrick Bond paper on Climate Change, Debt and Justice in Africa at University of North Carolina conference, 5 April |
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Zackie Achmat, Thando Manzi, Paul Routledge Dennis Brutus Memorial Debate: The state of our social movements, from SA to BRICS to the world 31 March |
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Paul Routledge CCS/Development Studies seminar on politics of climate change, 31 March |
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Zackie Achmat and Ndifuma Ukwazi offer activist Autumn School, 31 March - 2 April |
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Prince Mashele CCS Seminar: The fall of the ANC, 28 March |
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Patrick Bond seminar on a Redistributive Eco-Debt Payment system, University of Lund, 28 March |
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Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Identity formation amongst immigrant traditional healers, 27 March |
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Charles Mangongera & Toendepi Shonhe CCS Seminar: Who rules Zimbabwe - and what should civil society do now? , 25 March |
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Patrick Bond and Xolani Dube debate 20 years of liberation (plus booklaunch), Time of the Writer festival, 20 March |
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Lukhona Mnguni, Molaudi Sekake & Lesiba Seshoka (invited)CCS Seminar: UKZN student woes and freedom of expression, 20 March |
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Patrick Bond responds to Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim foreign policy presentation, 19 March |
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Vanessa Burger and Faith kaManzi support Durban harbour mobilisation, Dalton Hostel, 16 March |
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Israeli Apartheid Week talk by Miko Peled, CCS co-sponsorship with Palestine Solidarity movement, 14 March |
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Peter McKenzie CCS Seminar: Cato Manor Between hope and Possibility, 13 March |
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Patrick Bond testimony on water politics at SA Human Rights Commission, 11 March |
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Patrick Bond lecture at Rosa Luxemburg centenary of Accumulation of Capital, Berlin, 9 March |
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Patrick Bond seminar on SA's Resource Curse, Harare, 28 February |
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Sreeram Chaulia CCS Seminar on Brazil-Russia-India-China-SA, 25 February |
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Patrick Bond seminar on 'tokenistic' social policy at UKZN Development Studies, 19 February |
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China Ngubane addresses conference on Community Serving Humanity, UKZN, 12 February |
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Patrick Bond addresses PanAfrican Climate Justice Alliance challenges, Dakar, 10 February |
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Vishwas Satgar runs workshop on the United Front approach, 30 January |
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Patrick Bond addresses Numsa shopstewards on economic crises, Johannesburg, 25 January |
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Patrick Bond testifies to Parliament against mega-projects, 16 January |
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Shauna Mottiar Protest and participation in Cato Manor, Merebank and Wentworth, 15 January |
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Patrick Bond lecture on development and political economy and method, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine, 6 January |
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Events Index 2013 |
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China Ngubane and Patrick Bond speak at the People's Dialogue BRICS strategy session, Johannesburg, 10-12 December |
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Thando Manzi and Patrick Bond discuss Durban slum research at the Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, 10 December |
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Patrick Bond, Farai Maguwu and Khadija Sharife testify to African Union commission against corruption, Arusha, 7 December |
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Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Report-back from Warsaw climate summit, 6 December |
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Patrick Bond debates natural capital and GDP at Wits University, Johannesburg, 5 December |
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CCS hosts Democracy from Below citizenship movement 30 November - 1 December |
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Giuliano Martinello CCS Seminar: Dispossession and resistance to SA agribusiness in the new scramble for Southern and Eastern African land, 28 November |
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Patrick Bond at South Durban BRICS-from-below campaign against port-petrochemical expansion, Wentworth, 27 November |
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Film Screenings: Non-Violence as a Strategy for Social Change: CCS Seminar room, 19 September, 17 October, 21 November |
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Patrick Bond debates climate and capitalism at COP19 in Warsaw, 17 November |
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CCS participates in South Durban People's Climate Camp, 14-17 November |
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Patrick Bond lectures on global finance in Brussels, 13-15 November |
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Patrick Bond presents on Commoning, Rights and Praxis at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, 8 November |
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Patrick Bond public lecture on the New Africa Scramble in Berlin, 7 November |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Financial crises and social resistance, from household to global scales, 6 November |
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Gcina Makoba & Muna Lakhani CCS Seminar: Mapping Waste From Cradle to Grave: the Inkanyezi Community Recyclers and Global Zero-Waste Movement, 31 October |
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CCS founder Adam Habib launches South Africa's Suspended Revolution, Ike's Books, 29 October |
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Brutus Memorial Debate: "From democracy to kleptocracy", 26 October |
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Faith Manzi CCS Seminar: The Anatomy of a Cato Manor 'Popcorn Protest', 24 October |
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Patrick Bond critiques financial markets at Unemployment Insurance Fund board meeting, 15 October |
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Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Cartooning race and class after Marikana, 10 October |
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Molaudi Sekake, Christelle Terreblanche & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Commoning as an antidote to uneven development in Southern Africa, 9 October |
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CCS PhD student Vuyiseka Dubula leads AIDS research workshop, Johannesburg, 4 October |
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CCS co-organises workshop on 'Beyond Uneven Development' in Maputo, 1-3 October |
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Patrick Bond on Durban's urban neoliberalism, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, NYC, 29 September |
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Margherita di Paola Film Screening - On the Art of War, 20 September |
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Patrick Bond speaks on the World Economic Crisis and BRICS, at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 13 September |
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Patrick Bond speaks at 'Rising Powers' workshop, Fudan University, Shanghai, 12 September |
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Patrick Bond at Shanghai Academy of Social Science, 11 September |
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Patrick Bond lecture on geopolitics at Institute for International Relations, Prague, 9 September |
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Patrick Bond at G20 Post-Globalisation Initiative G20 counter-summit, St Petersburg/Moscow, 2-6 September |
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Geoff Harris & Sylvia Kaye CCS Seminar: Nonviolence in social-change strategy and tactics, 30 August |
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Patrick Bond on BRICS and 'natural capital' at Centre for Natural Resource Governance, Harare, 29 August |
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Khadija Sharife at 'No REDD in Africa Network,' Maputo, 27-29 August |
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China Ngubane helps launch Diakonia's KZN School of Activism, Albert Falls, 27 August |
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Patrick Bond at Durban Flatdwellers conference, 24 August |
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China Ngubane, Joy Mabenge & Tafadzwa Maguchu Regional and Zimbabwean civil society challenged, 22 August |
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Ed Harriman, Khadija Sharife & Sarah Bracking CCS Workshop: Corruption, corporate bribery, arms deals and social critique, 21 August |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza & Richard Kamidza CCS Seminar: Neoliberal water, neoliberal trade, 19 August |
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Simphiwe Magwaza, Simangele Manzi, Thando Manzi, Niki Moore, Knut Nustad, Jabulile Wanda & Philani Zulu CCS seminar on Cato Manor politics, Thursday, 15 August |
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Patrick Bond debates BRICS, UKZN Student Union, 14 August |
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Patrick Bond discusses SA's economic crisis at National Union of Metalworkers, Johannesburg, 8 August |
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Christine Jeske CCS Seminar: Social conceptualizations of work, unemployment, and blame in KwaZulu-Natal, 6 August |
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Larry Swatuk CCS Seminar on water resource conflicts, 1 August |
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Lorenzo Fioramonti Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Gross Domestic Problem, 18 July 2013 |
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CCS hosts Open Society's Sustainable Development course for Southern Africa, 15-27 July |
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Faith ka-Manzi, Anne-Marie Debbané & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar on Durban hotspots (Cato Manor service delivery and South Durban privatised wastewater and port/petrochem expansion), 10 July |
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Thamsanqa Mthembu & Hylton Alcock Video Screening: Participatory video as a tool for social transformation, 4 July |
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Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja CCS Seminar: Southern Africa and the Challenge of the Congo, 27 June |
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Patrick Bond debates Blade Nzimande on 21st Century Socialism, Chris Hani Institute, Johannesburg, 25 June |
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China Ngubane & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The state of eco-social justice campaigning in East Asia and the Americas, 18 June |
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Khadija Sharife and Shauna Mottiar Analysis of illicit flight presented at the UN Economic Commission on Africa conference on illicit capital flight, Lusaka, 18 June |
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Patrick Bond at Ecuador conference on eco/economic crises, Quito, 12 June |
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Patrick Bond at Left Forum,New York City, 7-9 June |
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Patrick Bond lecture on Enviro Impact Assessments at Savannah School of Law in Georgia, 6 June |
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Amanda Huron, Amanda Thomas & Victoria Habermehl CCS Seminar: Geographies of Justice: experiences from three continents, 3 June |
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China Ngubane speaks at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development counter-summit, 1 June |
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Nik Theodore & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Migration and the Struggle for Urban Space, from Chicago to Durban, 28 May |
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CCS hosts Antipode Institute for the Geographies of Justice, 27 May to 1 June |
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Abby Neely CCS Seminar: Local Biologies, and ART Protocols: A Political Ecology of Tuberculosis and the Body, 24 May |
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Silke Trommer CCS Seminar: Transformations in Trade Politics - Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa, 23 May |
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Patrick Bond at AIDC National Development Plan seminar, Cape Town 22 May |
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Thuli Hlela CCS Seminar: Mapping Water/Sanitation Services in KwaNyuswa, Valley of 1000 Hills, 21 May |
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China Ngubane participates in the Gumede Lecture Series 17 May |
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Maia Green CCS Seminar: Youth empowerment on South Africa's Wild Coast, 14 May |
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Patrick Bond talk on African poli-econ at OilWatch-Africa conference, Johannesburg, 13 May |
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China Ngubane, Joy Mabenge & Tafadzwa Maguchu CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe's Election Preparations and Civil Society Politics, 10 May |
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Blessing Karumbidza CCS Seminar: Government Clumsiness in Rural Entrepreneurial and Coop Support, 30 April |
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Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond presentation on climate finance at SADC Basic Income Group strategic workshop, 25 April, Johannesburg |
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Sarah Bracking & Patrick Bond at SDCEA workshop, Clairwood, 20 April |
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Patrick Bond, Des D'Sa, Megan Lewis, China Ngubane and Bobby Peek CCS Seminar: Assessing BRICS, Friday 19 April |
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Patrick Bond paper on geopolitics at Univ of California-Riverside, 13 April |
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Patrick Bond presents on South Durban to Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 10 April |
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Patrick Bond on territorial alliances at International Studies Association, 6 April | |
