World Bank again blindly endorses SA fiscal conservatism, ignoring civil society's more genuine anti-poverty activism Harsh South African realities about which the World Bank dare not speak Patrick Bond (SAST) 10 February 2016 Sometimes silences speak volumes. In his seminal book The Anti-Politics Machine Stanford University anthropologist James Ferguson criticised the World Bank’s 1980s understanding of Lesotho as a “traditional subsistence peasant society.” Apartheid’s migrant labour system was explicitly ignored by the bank, yet remittances from Basotho workers toiling in mines, factories and farms across the Caledon River accounted for 60% of rural people’s income: Acknowledging the extent of Lesotho’s long-standing involvement in the modern capitalist economy of South Africa would not provide a convincing justification for the “development” agencies to “introduce” roads, markets and credit. Using Michel Foucault’s discourse theory, Ferguson showed why some things cannot be named. To do so would violate the bank’s foundational dogma, that the central problems of poverty can be solved by applying market logic. Yet the most important of Lesotho’s market relationships – exploited labour – was what caused so much misery. Three decades on, not much has changed. Today, the bank’s main South Africa research team reveals a similar ‘Voldemort’ problem. Like the wicked villain whose name Harry Potter dared not utter, some hard-to-hear facts evaporate into pregnant silences within the bank’s new South African Poverty and Inequality Assessment Discussion Note. Bank staff and consultants are resorting to extreme evasion tactics worthy of Harry, Ron and Hermione. The bank’s point of view South Africa spent more than other countries on its social programs, with this expenditure successfully lifting around 3.6 million individuals out of poverty (based on US$2.5 a day on a purchasing power parity basis) and reducing the Gini coefficient from 0.76 to 0.596 in 2011. This is worth unpacking. 1) “Spent more than other countries”? Of the world’s 40 largest countries, only four - South Korea, China, Mexico and India - had lower social spending than South Africa, measured in 2011 as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 2) “Millions lifted out of poverty?” In fact many millions have been pushed down into poverty since 1994. Unmentioned is poverty that can be traced to neoliberal policies such as the failed 1996-2001 Growth, Employment and Distribution plan co-authored by two bank economists. This made South Africa far more vulnerable to global capitalist criss. The bank’s South Africa poverty line is $2.5/day, which was R15.75/day (R473/month) in 2011, the date of the last poverty census. In contrast, StatsSA found that food plus survival essentials cost R779/month that year, and the percentage of South Africans below that line was 53%. University of Cape Town economists led by Josh Budlender argue that StatsSA was too conservative and the ratio of poor South Africans is actually 63%. For a net 3.6 million people, more than 7% of South Africans, to have been “lifted out of poverty” is plausible only if the bank’s much lower R473/month line is used. But by local standards, the number of poor people has soared by around 10 million given the 15 million population rise since 1994. 3) The bank adjusts the Gini Coefficient (measuring income inequality on a 0-to-1 scale) “from 0.76 to 0.596” by including state social spending that benefits poor households. But here another silence screams out. The bank dare not calculate pro-corporate subsidies and other state spending that raise rich people’s effective income through capital gains. Such wealth accruing through rising corporate share prices is enjoyed mainly by richer people when companies benefit from new, state-built infrastructure in their vicinity. Also ignored by the bank, radically lower corporate taxes mainly benefit the rich in the same way. South Africa’s after-tax profits have been among the world’s highest, according to the International Monetary Fund in 2013. Indeed the Treasury’s single biggest fiscal policy choice has been to condone “illicit financial flows.” These escape through bogus invoicing and other tax avoidance strategies. The Washington NGO Global Financial Integrity estimates they cost South Africa an annual $21 billion from 2004-13, peaking in 2009 at $29 billion. The bank dare not mention these flows or the resulting capital gains enjoyed by South African shareholders. 4) The Bank was most impressed by government’s provision of free basic services (mainly water, sanitation, electricity, and refuse removal), and social protection mainly in the form of social grants, primary health care, education (specifically no-fee paying schools), enhancing access to productive assets by the poor (e.g. housing and land), as well as job creation through the Expanded Public Works Program. But the bank evades vital details, such as how “free basic water” was piloted in Durban in 1999 before becoming national policy in 2001. After a tokenistic 6 free kiloliters (kl) per month, the price of the second block of the water within the tariff increased dramatically. Overall by 2004 the price had doubled. In response, the lowest-income third of households lowered monthly consumption from 22kl to 15kl, while the highest-income third cut back by just 3kl/month, from 35kl to 32kl. 5) Another unmentionable concerns the bank’s largest-ever project loan: $3.75 billion granted in 2010 for the corruption-riddled, oft-delayed Medupi coal-fired power plant. Eskom’s repayment of that loan plus other financing has hiked the price of electricity to poor people by more than 250% since 2007. But neither the loan, the borrower, the project nor the soaring price of electricity are mentioned. Nor are Eskom’s special pricing agreements with BHP Billiton and Anglo that lower electricity prices to a tenth as much as poor households pay. 6) The bank applauds a grant that now reaches 11.7 million children. Grant payments have risen from 2.9% of GDP and now amount to 3.1%. But a meagre 0.2% of GDP suggests the amounts provided are tokenistic. The child grant of just R340/month is about a third of today’s StatsSA after-inflation poverty line. The South Africans who cannot be named The bank endorses government’s “apparently sound policy” on redistribution because its researchers cannot grapple with the core problem that best explains why South African capitalism causes poverty and inequality: extreme exploitation systems amplified after apartheid by neoliberal policies. The most cited scholarly research about post-apartheid exploitation is by local political economists like Sampie Terreblanche, Hein Marais, William Gumede and Gillian Hart – but the bank dare not reference these books. To truly tackle poverty and inequality, only one force in society has unequivocally succeeded since 1994. That force is the social activist. Their successes include raising life expectancy from 52 to 62 over the past decade, reversing municipal services privatisation, cutting pollution and raising apartheid wages. But the organisations responsible – such as the Treatment Action Campaign, Anti-Privatisation Forum, South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and trade unions – are also, from the bank’s viewpoint, South Africans who cannot be named. https://theconversation.com/the-harsh-realities-about-south-africa-that-the-world-bank-dare-not-speak-54349 About the Author Patrick Bond is a Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand. Patrick Bond is affiliated with the National Union of Metalworkers Research and Policy Institute as a volunteer advisory board member. Through April 2016 he also directs the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society. Do government spending and taxation really reduce inequality, or do we need more thorough measurements? A response to the World Bank researchers Patrick Bond 10 February 2016 World Bank staff and consultants claim that South Africa’s progressive taxation and pro-poor social spending reduce the Gini inequality coefficient from 0.77 to 0.59. But their data and methodology are deficient: their research ignores large areas of government spending and taxation that may significantly increase inequality. Thus their conclusion that fiscal policy is redistributive is overhasty and unfounded – whilst it is prone to be used, or misused, to promote a budget-cutting political agenda. Introduction ‘South Africa can claim to have one of the world’s most redistributive public purses,’ claims Business Day associate editor Hilary Joffe (2015), drawing upon World Bank research findings (Inchauste et al. 2014, Inchauste et al. 2015, World Bank 2014), which were recently reiterated by Woolard et al. (Econ 3x3, October 2015). In response to the question: ‘How much is inequality reduced by progressive taxation and government spending?,’ their answer is that, when they adjust household incomes ‘comprehensively’ for the impact of government revenue and expenditure, the Gini coefficient (which measures income inequality) is reduced from 0.77 to 0.59.[1] This claim is regularly repeated by economists and high-profile commentators, often in support of fiscal austerity (see Bond 2015). Although I have no easy answer in rebuttal, there is a significant problem. The research ignores large areas of state spending that would probably raise the Gini if included. As a brief glance at the national budget shows, the types of expenditure that the World Bank researchers took into account ignore other categories of expenditure that also have strong distributional effects. Likewise, their selection of taxes omits important components of corporate taxation – including the plethora of tax allowances, credits, loopholes and incentives embedded therein, all of which increase capital gains to holders of company shares. There also are other problems, e.g. regarding the quality of services (see below). The Bank’s research on this vital matter is not only deficient due to its incompleteness, but is politically biased in a way that largely supports the status quo’s perspective on inequality, namely that there is little fiscal space for further redistribution. Although a key member of the research team has acknowledged the validity of my critical questions and the limitations of the methodology (Lustig 2015), World Bank staff and consultants go on repeating their findings, as in the Econ3x3 article – and most recently in a draft document for a collaborative World Bank project (2016: 22) to assess poverty and inequality in SA.[2] World Bank researchers acknowledge weaknesses, but . . . The fiscal tools examined by the Bank researchers (i.e. Inchauste et al.) were only those related to household taxation, social spending, and municipal services – and even there they made assumptions that are dubious in the South African context. To be sure, while repeatedly claiming ‘comprehensive’ coverage, the Bank’s staff and consultants have felt compelled to admit the following data and methodological ‘limitations’: • the analysis does not take into account the quality of services delivered by the government; • the analysis excludes some important taxes and spending such as taxes (and tax expenditures/subsidies) on corporate income, international trade and property, and spending such as infrastructure investments, apparently due to the lack of an established methodology for assigning the impact of these outlays across households; • it does not capture how asset accumulation and returns to capital affect income inequality; and • there are questions about the lack of adequate information on the income of households at the top of the income distribution (World Bank, 2014: 26; Inchauste et al. 2015: 15). However, if they fail to address the biases implicit in these shortcomings, it is impossible to conclude that ‘(n)ot only are South Africa’s main fiscal instruments progressive overall, the degree and structure of progressiveness is such that these instruments achieve significant reductions in income inequality’ (Woolard et al., Econ3x3, October 2015: 7). Consider some of these drawbacks (for more detail, see Bond, forthcoming). Ignoring quality in state spending: the case of education Education, the single largest budgetary commitment, illustrates how dubious the alleged social spending benefits for recipients can be. Most public schools produce extremely low-quality education, thus locking in inequality with regard to life chances. The World Economic Forum’s (2015) Global Competitiveness Report 2015–16 rated South African education as the worst of 140 countries in terms of science and mathematics training, and 138th in overall quality. As Spaull (2013: 10) remarks after studying the 1994–2011 outcomes: ‘South Africa has the worst education system of all middle-income countries that participate in cross-national assessments of educational achievement.’ The OECD (2010: 248) notes that ‘in 2008, only 1.4% of working-age Africans held a [university] degree, compared to almost 20% of working-age Whites. This proportion for Africans has hardly increased since 1993, while the proportion for Whites has grown by 5.4%.’ Given these outcomes, it could just as easily be argued that inequality is amplified by the manner in which public education is provided to the low-income majority. This story is fairly typical of maldistributed state resources; similar concerns have been raised regarding the quality of health services to the poor. As National Treasury senior official Andrew Donaldson acknowledges (in a 2014 Econ3x3 article): ‘In areas such as education, health care and urban transport, service provision tends to evolve in differentiated ways […] the result is a fragmented, unequal structure in which the allocation of resources and the quality of services diverge.’ Combined with semi-privatised systems, such public spending, he admits, ‘entrenches inequality between rich and poor.’ Spending ignored by the World Bank analysts The social spending items taken into account by the World Bank researchers account for 43% of total government spending (for fiscal year 2010/11). The October 2015 medium-term budget statement anticipates R1.45 trillion in 2016–17 spending, of which R219 billion (15%) is allocated to basic public education subsidies and R170 billion (12%) to public health (with the quality variances across income groups a main caveat for both these types of spending, as discussed above). But other major areas were not analysed by the Bank researchers, though they have vital distributional implications: • R184 billion (13%) for ‘Defence, public order and safety,’ which is likely to have a strong bias towards protecting the lives and property of wealthier classes; • R143 billion (10%) for debt servicing, for which wealthy financiers and other bondholders are the main beneficiaries, taking their gains in deferred income (although a fraction of the working class who are fortunate to have a retirement fund also invests indirectly in debt securities); and • R129 billion (9%) for aspects of ‘Economic affairs’ – economic infrastructure at R76 billion, industrial development and trade at R32 billion, and science, technology innovation and the environment at R21 billion – items that, arguably, disproportionately benefit corporations and the higher-income groups that own their shares. No one (myself included) has done the difficult work required to put numbers to the distributive effect of the biases within these spending categories. But, without having done so, Bank staff and consultants should not make expansive claims about a ‘post-fiscal’ Gini coefficient improvement. Likely regressive state spending: a first look Although the World Bank (2014: 21) claims to ‘comprehensively assess the distributional impact of government taxation and spending’ using a ‘comprehensive fiscal incidence analysis’ (Inchauste et al, 2015: 9), its researchers ignore major items that appear to subsidise the accumulation of capital gains to wealthier households. Consider the following: 1. State subsidies to capital/corporations/corporate shareholders (‘corporate welfare’): • Indirect subsidies are enormous, because most of the economic infrastructure created through taxation and user fees – roads and other transport, industrial districts, the world’s cheapest electricity during most of the post-apartheid era, R&D subsidies – is likely to overwhelmingly benefit geographically-proximate corporations and their shareholders. (There may be some job creation, but mega-projects tend to have very low long-term employment multipliers). • Direct subsidies occur in the form of overt grants or, more often, tax provisions that business can utilise, e.g. accelerated write-offs of capital expenditure, incentives for capital-intensive industry, intended or unintended tax benefits/loopholes (e.g. export processing zones), motor vehicle industry schemes and other industrial development incentives. The direct employment benefits of these schemes are quite limited (as Black showed on Econ3x3). • To illustrate, the highly-subsidised Medupi and Kusile power plants provide benefits that mainly go to construction companies and subsequent corporate users (three dozen companies consume around 45% of national electricity, at much lower rates than those paid by ordinary firms and households). The same applies to the coal export line from Limpopo to Richards Bay and the Durban dig-out port. The hundreds of billions of rands going to these projects probably have a major distributional effect in favour of upper-income South Africans (and foreign shareholders). As would be required in properly assessing the value of education and healthcare investment, the Bank and other researchers could estimate the distribution of the benefits from these investments across the income and wealth spectrum. It is vital for researchers who investigate inequality to assess how much such state subsidies (corporate welfare) add to firms’ longer-term asset bases. This translates into capital gains on shares, a benefit accruing mainly to the rich.[3] Shares on the JSE represent a vast component of household wealth. 2. Other state spending (superficially) considered by the Bank’s researchers includes the provision of household water and electricity, whether by an Eskom or municipalities. • First, these continue to exhibit serious problems of quality and under-provision, signified by widespread service delivery protests and high levels of disconnection. In 2003, some 275 000 of all households attributed the interruptions of the water supply to cut-offs for non-payment (Muller 2004); this extrapolates to more than 1.5 million people affected that year. Today, while a notional 95% of South Africans have ‘access’ to water, the state concedes that only 65% of households enjoy an actual supply in their taps (Kings 2014). • Secondly, the 1998 national electricity policy called for the parastatal agency, Eskom, to apply ‘cost-reflective’ tariffs in order to make profits or at least break even. This led to much higher charges for poor people. By the early 2010s, households faced much higher prices and new technologies for disciplining non-paying people, notably the prepaid meter system (which prevents cross-subsidisation). These approaches went counter to the explicit redistributive intentions of the 1994 RDP’s pursuit of ‘lifeline’ electricity and water, based on the progressive principle of cross-subsidisation through block tariffs.[4] 3. Treasury regulations also have significant distributional effects. For example, its deregulatory attitude to transnational corporate profit expatriation has allowed a great deal of income to flow to firms’ overseas financial headquarters (thus supporting future capital gains for wealthy households). Global Financial Integrity estimates the average annual illicit outflows at $21 billion for 2004–2013 (Kar & Spanjers 2015). Such tax laxity towards ‘base erosion and profit shifting’ by multinational corporates is a most important negative-redistributive aspect of fiscal policy not measured by the Bank. 4. Whether fiscal policy favours the wealthy as opposed to the (long-term) interests of the poor also depends on ‘natural capital accounting’, i.e. putting a value on non-renewable resource depletion associated with corporate extraction of minerals. The World Bank (2011: 193) estimated the impact of natural capital shrinkage on South African gross national income in 2005 to be negative 9%. Not to tax mineral wealth is a distributional fiscal policy choice which allows the proceeds of the depletion of non-renewable resources to shift from society as a whole to wealthier shareholders (even though workers in mines, smelters, transport and other downstream beneficiation industries also benefit).[5] Conclusion The World Bank researchers have meticulously measured something. But what they have measured is not the whole picture. While selected elements of state taxation and spending have an inequality-reducing effect on a selected component of well-being (household income) – as measured using a selected quantitative measure, the Gini coefficient – this is not a satisfactory basis from which to draw overarching distributional conclusions. Bank staff and researchers have ignored systemic state-induced inequalities that shape distributions of income and of wealth (including capital gains) and broad human welfare. Indeed, the so-called ‘market distribution’ or ‘pre-fiscal’ distribution of income is already the systemic outcome of an inequality-producing economy that is substantially shaped and supported by state action that has long favoured wealthier people and the corporations in which they invest. As the influence of the World Bank researchers’ project grew in the past year, I queried the work and received a series of (ultimately bureaucratic) emails from its officials (Bond 2015). Fortunately, upon asking the main consultant, Nora Lustig of Tulane University, why more accurate assessments of the state’s pro-corporate fiscal benefits were not attempted so as to offset the bias from only considering social spending, she took up the challenge with honesty: ‘Your questions are very valid. Regretfully, we have yet to figure out a solid methodological approach to allocate the burden/benefit to households of the list of interventions you list’ (Lustig 2015). The question is: should Bank staff and allied researchers have been so hasty to publish research findings that had major implications for fiscal and budgetary policy when the methodology is evidently too limited to thoroughly answer the question they have posed? This is especially important in 2016 when even more pressure has risen from financial markets and credit rating agencies to reduce social spending – following the 2015 Budget of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene that cut the real value of welfare grants. Beyond the critical flaws in measurement, the main risk of the World Bank research on ‘post-fiscal’ South African inequality is political bias: it promotes, or can be misused to promote, the budget-cutting agenda of the most regressive faction of corporate capital, i.e. financiers. To mitigate this damage, the research task ahead for the World Bank and other inequality researchers is surely to attempt to properly measure the distributive impact of all government spending and all taxation (including allowances). That would make a real contribution to the battle against inequality and could inform appropriate tax and expenditure policies and projects (including planned ‘white-elephant’ mega-projects). Until that research has been accomplished, would it not be better for economists, when asked about the distributional effect of fiscal policy in South Africa, to simply say: we do not yet know enough to answer that question? http://econ3x3.org/article/do-government-spending-and-taxation-really-reduce-inequality-or-do-we-need-more-thorough#sthash.KeNSi2BK.dpuf References Bond P. 2015. Bretton Woods Institution narratives about inequality and economic vulnerability on the eve of South African austerity. 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Washington DC, Global Financial Integrity. http://www.gfintegrity.org/report/illicit-financial-flows-from-developing-countries-2004-2013/ Kings S. 2014. Our water troubles still run deep. Mail & Guardian, 13 February. Lustig N. 2015. Email correspondence with P. Bond. 20 January. McDonald D & Pape J eds. 2002. Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa. London, Zed Books. Muller M. 2004. Turning off the taps. Mail & Guardian, 26 June. OECD 2010. Tackling Inequalities in Brazil, China, India and South Africa: The Role of Labour Market and Social Policies. Paris, OECD. Spaull N. 2013. South Africa’s Education Crisis: The quality of education in South Africa 1994–2011. Centre for Development and Enterprise Working Paper, October. Van der Berg S. 2009. Fiscal incidence of social spending in South Africa. 2006. Working Paper 10/2009, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University. Woolard I, Metz R, Inchauste G, Lustig N, Maboshe M & Purfield C. 2015. How much is inequality reduced by progressive taxation and government spending? Econ3x3, 28 October. World Bank 2011. The Changing Wealth of Nations. Washington, DC. World Bank 2014. Fiscal policy and redistribution in an unequal society. South Africa Economic Update 6. Washington DC. World Bank 2016. South African Poverty and Inequality Assessment. Draft discussion note, Pretoria, January. World Economic Forum 2015. Global Competitiveness Report 2015–16. Davos. [1] The estimate of Van der Berg (2009) for the fall in Gini is even larger: from 0.69 to 0.47. [2] A World Bank Group consultation workshop to initiate this project is being held at the University of Johannesburg on 15 February, 2016. [3] Capital gains are extremely important in raising the wealth levels of those who are already wealthy. For example, the United States Congressional Budget Office calculated that, in 2011, the share of total income from capital gains enjoyed by that country’s top 1% of earners was 36%; for the bottom 95% it was only 4%. Shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange constitute much of household wealth. For aggregate South African households in 2011, wealth was composed of an extremely high 77% in the form of financial assets and 23% non-financial assets (in contrast to India where the ratio was 12% financial to 88% non-financial assets). [4] For example, even though minister Ronnie Kasrils decided to implement a free basic water policy in 2001, by that time the commercialisation instinct was thoroughly accepted by municipalities (based in part on World Bank recommendations inordinately hostile to cross-subsidisation). As a result, the right to water ended up being delivered in a tokenistic way, i.e. free for merely the first 6 kilolitres per household per month, with huge price increases beyond 6 kilolitres very common. In the Durban pilot, this led to a doubling of the real price from R2 to R4/kl and in turn, the lowest-income third of the metered customer base cut back their demand from 22 to 15 kl/hh/m from 1997–2004: i.e. a price elasticity of 0.55, compared to 0.11 for the wealthiest third of customers. [5] It is the extractive-industry corporations which, by the end of the commodity price super-cycle, were the world’s most profitable firms, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development. And the intergenerational distribution of mineral wealth – from future low-income South African citizens who no longer have access to such (now-depleted) natural capital – must also be considered, just as the damage from climate change is also now being calculated with more temporal sophistication. Tags: Gini coefficient, Taxation, Government spending Topics: Inequality and income distribution - See more at: http://econ3x3.org/article/do-government-spending-and-taxation-really-reduce-inequality-or-do-we-need-more-thorough#sthash.KeNSi2BK.dpuf Reducing poverty and inequality has been the cornerstone of development policy in South Africa since the advent of democracy. Such goals gave impetus to the Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP), guiding government’s policy framework in 1994; they are the inspiration behind the National Development Plan of 2012. The government’s commitment to eliminate poverty is also reflected in fiscal policy: the equitable share formula, which is used to determine transfers to the different spheres of government, contains a poverty component as a redistributive measure. South Africa has made significant strides towards enhancing the wellbeing of its citizens by reversing the adverse effects of apartheid and broadening opportunities for all. This has, however, been challenged by variable economic growth prospects which have specifically been quite modest in recent years. The relatively high and consistent growth experienced following the end of apartheid began to taper off when structural constraints and bottlenecks dampened growth; reaching a historical low in 2009 when the global financial crisis led to the country plunging into its first recession in 17 years. GDP growth rose to 3.6 percent in 2011. Persistent structural weaknesses and new vulnerabilities such as those observed in the mining sector over the past two years, compromised the economy’s ability to sustain such growth, so that the growth reading was a paltry 1.9 percent in 2013, 1.5 percent in 2014, and the economy was projected to grow by only 1.4 percent in 2015. The economic gains made since the end of apartheid have enabled the government to use a variety of mechanisms through which it aims to reduce poverty and inequality. These are reflected in what is broadly termed the social wage which basically refers to the redistributive elements of the government budget. Notable gains have been made as a result of these interventions: these measures have been argued to be the drivers of the observed reduction in poverty in South Africa, with recent statistics showing that the poverty headcount rate reduced significantly between 2006 and 2011. However and despite its upper middle income status, the country still faces persistent socio-economic challenges which the South African government describes as its triple challenge (poverty, unemployment and inequality), a triple epidemic (malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis), and a triple burden of malnutrition (under-nutrition, hidden hunger and over-nutrition). The persistence of these challenges, 22 years after the advent of democracy, calls for a comprehensive assessment of trends, dynamics, policy, impact and monitoring. This is especially pertinent given that the last comprehensive national poverty and inequality assessment was published in 1998 and commissioned by the Government of South Africa with assistance from the UK Department for International Development, UNDP, World Bank and the Dutch Government. The proposed Poverty and Inequality Assessment will document South Africa’s progress in reducing poverty from 1994 to 2015. It aims to contribute towards South Africa’s realization of its national targets of eliminating extreme poverty and reducing inequality. This is important given that although South Africa has achieved significant transformation in terms of improving access to services, education, health care and economic opportunities, the reduction of the prevalence and depth of poverty has met the aspirations of neither the government nor South Africans. This is despite the recognized success of fiscal policies for redistribution through a social wage of free basic services and access to facilities, expenditure on health and education that exceeds that of many similar countries, and the provision of comprehensive social protection. The co-existence of apparently sound policy, significant government expenditure but slender returns in terms of impact suggests the potential that greater efficiencies can be achieved. The objectives of the proposed Poverty and Inequality Assessment are twofold: First, the proposed report aims to contribute to an enhanced understanding of how the government can achieve greater efficiencies in its efforts to tackle the problem of poverty and inequality. This way, the report will contribute to policy dialogues towards the attainment of the NDP vision of eliminating poverty and reducing inequality. The Assessment will do this not only by providing poverty trends but also by examining the drivers of changes in poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid in 1994; investigating the extent to which economic growth has been pro-poor; and dissecting and proposing possible solutions to the challenges that South Africa faces in the fight against poverty and inequality. In addition, a forward looking forecasting exercise will be undertaken and is envisaged to inform policy discussions, formulation and planning. Second, in April 2013, the World Bank set two goals to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity (World Bank, 2013). This implies a focus not only on the pace of economic growth but also on its pattern. Promotion of shared prosperity means working towards increasing the incomes and welfare of the poor. For the World Bank, monitoring progress made towards shared prosperity implies measuring and tracking the income or consumption growth amongst a country’s bottom 40 percent. It is an indicator of economic growth with equity and inclusion and can thus be used to measure the impact of policies targeted at reducing poverty and inequality. Growth is said to lack inclusiveness if the income or expenditure growth of the bottom 40 percent is consistently lower than the average income or consumption growth of the total population. The objective to “foster income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population” includes most of those categorized by two of the national poverty lines used in South Africa even though levels of extreme poverty as defined by the World Bank are comparatively low. The proposed Assessment will both guide the Bank’s future transformational engagement with South Africa and provide a peer reviewed and independent assessment of the policy/implementation nexus that can be used by the South African government and civil society. Overall, the assessment will identify key knowledge and policy gaps and provide new analysis that addresses selected gaps or complements existing work on these topics. It will build on substantial existing work and knowledge base that includes large sample surveys, panel data, detailed evaluations and impact assessments, as well as qualitative studies undertaken by South African universities. Data from the recently completed Living Conditions Survey 2015 by Statistics South Africa create an opportunity for providing an up to date picture on poverty and inequality in the country. Data from the four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) permit the analysis of poverty dynamics. The Assessment will feed into national planning and poverty monitoring activities. This discussion paper outlines the context for the Assessment, provides suggestions for the content of the report, the process to be followed in its preparation, and identifies existing key studies and possible data sources. More  Back

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