SA budget a tragedy for poor and #FeesMustFall CCS Seminar: Can the SA budget afford #FeesMustFall demands and other social spending? Speaker: Patrick Bond Date: Tuesday 23 February 2016 Time: 12:30-14:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room 602, 6th Floor, MTB Tower, Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal More The poor face double-digit inflation Patrick Bond (Mail&Guardian) 26 February 2016 Look beyond the fawning and you’ll see some horrifying flaws in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget, writes Patrick Bond. So much in what Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced to Parliament in his budget speech on Wednesday was pleasing, such as the myriad developmental accomplishments, and yet so much more is truly ¬horrifying. Apparently, achieving a balanced assessment is beyond most commentators trying to steady our feet on the SA Titanic, what with world financial markets roiling the rand. In spite of bending over backwards to meet financial markets’ demands for a lower budget deficit (he promised just 2.4% of gross domestic product by 2018, down from 3.8%), Gordhan was pummelled by an immediate 3.2% currency collapse in the minutes after he spoke. Frankly, most of us who pore over the budget speech are, in class terms, petit bourgeois or above. That’s revealed in the kinds of budget reviews that dominate media such as the Mail & Guardian. When at theconversation.com a normally humane, democratic political scientist like Ongama Mtimka blithely praises Gordhan because “the increase in social grants continues to provide a social security net to millions of South Africans, keeping them out of extreme poverty,” he subliminally ignores the substantial after-inflation cuts to poor people’s grants. So does another Conversation contributor, Leon Schreiber, when he says: “The fact that government has avoided cuts to social assistance grants is a politically shrewd move.” Lads, here’s a fact check: Gordhan provides just a 3.5% nominal increase to foster care providers (who play such a vital role, given our catastrophic Aids orphan rate) and a 6.1% rise for mothers who are child support grant recipients. These poor families face double-digit inflation this year thanks to food, electricity and transport hikes. So Gordhan’s “real” – after-inflation – cuts to welfare grants of several percent hurt us (in the petit-bourgeoisie) the least, yes, but 16.5-million recipients from South Africa’s lumpen-proletariat will struggle to find more holes in their frayed belts to tighten up, given that 63% of our compatriots – mostly women – already live below the poverty line. Mtimku endorses South Africa proudly taking our financial place within the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) bloc: “The R2 billion allocated to the New Development Bank (NDB) focused on investments in Africa should be welcomed." .” Reality check: what Tito Mboweni in 2013 termed the “very costly” NDB – for which taxpayers in each of the Brics countries will cough up $10-billion in capital – is run by hard-core neoliberals best known for privatisation and high-interest monetarism. The nonsensical “Africa rising” meme has come to a crashing end thanks to post-2011 commodity price implosions. The continent’s current account deficit is soaring since excess multinational corporate profits are expatriated so quickly, not only through illicit financial flows (knocking South Africa for R330-billion a year since 2004) but also through licit outflows, because exchange controls have been removed. And partly as a result, Africa’s foreign debt has doubled since 2006 to $400-billion – just as South Africa’s has doubled to $145-billion since Gordhan first took over the finance portfolio in 2009. That puts the continent back in the 1980s when fears of a developing countries debt crisis drove finance ministers into self-destructive fits of austerity and structural adjustment. And so, directly as a result, the chaps who really yank Gordhan’s chain are not those of us in the vain intelligentsia overflowing with advice, praise or critique. Let’s worry more about upper-class twits running Standard & Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s international credit rating agencies, and financiers such as New York-based Goldman Sachs, which helped raid our currency on January 11, sending it to R17.99 to the dollar in a few minutes of flash-crash speculation, just after telling its traders that globally, the rand’s decline is the bank’s second most aggressive bet for 2016 (after the dollar’s rise). These men can obviously be charged with malicious economic self-interest to the extent that in coming months it is likely they will hit Gordhan with junk-minister status. To that end, they’re still selling our currency short. But, more complicated than mere ill will, recall that back in 2009, when International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn advocated deficit spending to save world capitalism from implosion, Moody’s actually upgraded Gordhan after his soaring 7.3% deficit-to-GDP rise that year by raising our credit rating from BBB+ to A-. With similar wild abandon, Moody’s clowns also rated Lehman Brothers as “investment grade” just days before it crashed. But now we see the impact of their turn from the whimsical to the wicked. Partly to their credit, these agencies have put pressure on Gordhan to throw cold water on President Jacob Zuma’s $100-billion nuclear follies. And to Gordhan’s credit, he dodged that round of Russian roulette by kicking the bullet over to Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson to do “preparatory work for investment in nuclear power.” But what else might be pleasing to a lefty like me, twice trained by Gordhan in Marxist revolutionary theory alongside Natal Indian Congress youth at Mahatma Gandhi’s Phoenix ashram 31 years ago? On the horrifying side, Gordhan announced a whopping R600-million increase in funds for the notorious public order policing unit – the unpunished Marikana hit men who joked about defective muti while planting weapons on their victims – instead of replacing it with skilled peace-broking units. But on the other hand, this remark was uplifting: “Spending on defence, public order and safety services will rise from R172-billion this year to R204-billion in 2018-2019.” Pleasing? Yes, because without being blatant about it, Gordhan just chopped out R8-billion of securocrat funds compared with Nene’s medium-term budget allocation last October. But it was when Gordhan bragged of the state’s most active spending that leaders of my residential community grew furious. After living on Durban’s Bluff for the past seven years, the highlight of budget day was reviewing the carnage with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance in a long strategy session two hours after Gordhan finished speaking. In the basement of a Wentworth community hall that Gordhan himself once frequented, as rusty fans blew Durban’s humid air back at us, two dozen hardened activists of all races, classes, genders and ages mulled over his generosity towards Transnet, and how that will ¬ultimately be etched on our wretched landscape. Gordhan would not be the first politician accused of pandering to the KwaZulu-Natal construction mafia by turning a blind eye to repeated collusion and overpricing here. The current outrage is Transnet’s racist rerouting of the often exploding pipeline that doubles petrol-pumping capacity to Johannesburg from the Engen and Shell/BP plants here at Africa’s largest refining complex, sandwiching the Indian suburb of Merebank, whose Settlers Primary School has an asthma rate that was not long ago measured at 52%, the world’s highest. Last month’s cost estimate on what Transnet originally priced at R6-billion is now R29-billion. When Mtimku celebrates that Gordhan’s “investment in infrastructure aimed at stimulating the economy is continuing, with over R870 billion planned,” he should first dissect how much of that vast sum goes to Zuma’s KwaZulu-Natal white elephant breeding project. In south Durban, we look at the Baltic Dry Index that measures shipping capacity: it’s now at its lowest in history (about 300 after a 2008 peak of 12 000). And fossil fuel prices have hit the floor, casting a dark spell over Gordhan’s bragging that “work has begun on a new gas terminal and oil and ship repair facilities at Durban”. Ironically perhaps, this sentence came just after Gordhan praised the Paris Cop21 summit’s (highly dubious) commitment to fighting climate change. He continued: “We need to accelerate infrastructure investment in the period ahead. So we must broaden the range and scope of our co-funding partnerships with private-sector investors. In taking this forward, we are able to draw on our experience in road funding concessions.” Oops, he hasn’t been briefed by Premier David Makhura about the impact of those concessions on the ANC’s Gauteng voter base. Worst of all, violating both climate and economic common sense, Gordhan bragged about Transnet’s financing of the lead presidential infrastructure co-ordinating commission project, with its planet-threatening goal of rail-to-ship transfer of 18-billion tonnes of coal. That Waterberg-Richards Bay line – also costing in the hundreds of billions of rands – may have looked profitable in 2008 with coal at $170 a tonne, but now the price is $50 a tonne. Yet the project trundles on. Further south, describing frustrating delays in getting Durban’s dig-out port up and running in 2012, Toyota boss Johan van Zyl (whose plant is adjacent to the old airport site) complained: “If return on investment is the line of thinking, we may never see the infrastructure.” Amid rumours of a two-year dig-out port delay, in December Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Zeph Ndlovu insisted on adding this large white elephant to the herd: “We have to press ahead and if we are to unseat our competitors up north, we can’t win this battle if we pull back every now and then and look at accounting principles.” Whether Gordhan goes ahead with reducing the state payroll by tens of thousands of public servants or continues his nudge-nudge-wink-wink towards corporations’ illicit financial flows, it’s in the coddling of accounting-challenged KwaZulu-Natal cronies and the crackdown on welfare grant recipients that Gordhan has most decisively intervened in South Africa’s world-leading class struggle. Pleasing to some, yes, and hopefully horrifying to most. Patrick Bond is director of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Civil Society and a professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand. (This article was adapted following theconversation.com's reattribution of quotations.) http://mg.co.za/article/2016-02-25-the-poor-face-double-digit-inflation Pravin Gordhan tried to reassure capitalist investors - NUMSA Irvin Jim 25 February 2016 Irvin Jim says Treasury must accept their right-wing policies are responsible for the economy being in junk status Numsa statement on the Budget 2016 The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa is not disappointed with the 2016 Budget delivered by Pravin Gordhan, because the trajectory of the budget continued to sing to the tune of international and local finance capital, white monopoly capital and credit rating agencies. As so often in recent years, the budget speech can only be described as an exercise in “business as usual”, a speech which gave no hint that the minister understands the depth of the crisis facing the poor, working class majority of South Africans. There were some passing references to “the challenges of tough economic times and difficult adjustments”, “the retreat of capital” and “emerging patterns of predatory behaviour and corruption” but nothing about the devastating quadruple crisis of unemployment, poverty, inequality, corruption. He was obviously trying to reassure capitalist investors - and appease credit rating agencies who have threatened to downgrade the South African economy to ‘junk’ status - by pretending that everything is under control and no radical changes are required to the neo-liberal policies the ANC government has been following for the last two decades, which have so clearly failed. The Minister’s approach was a continuation of the GEAR strategy, now enshrined in the National Development Plan, for neoliberal, free-market capitalist policies. Notwithstanding the revolving door of finance ministers, Treasury has maintained its neoliberal path through successive annual austerity budgets. The 2016 budget is no different. It contains the hallmarks of austerity, some of which include: - A reduced budget deficit projected at 3.2% and declining to -2.4% in the medium term; - Freezing of so-called “non-critical vacant posts” in the public service through which the reduction in the expenditure ceiling of R25 billion will be achieved over the next three years; - Projected real annual average growth in expenditure to be limited to 0.8% in the medium term; - Opening the door to privatisation of state-owned enterprises, despite the Minister refusing to describe it as that On inequality there was not even the expected token gesture to raise taxes on the very rich, just the incredibly evasive statement that “our current taxes on wealth are under review by the Davis Committee”. Within a context of shortfalls in revenue collection it would have been appropriate to finally introduce a wealth tax, with added benefit of reducing rising inequality. One of the biggest reasons for the massive levels of inequality is the illicit flows of capital to tax havens and what Gordhan himself describes as “abusive practices by multinational corporations and wealthy individuals”. Yet the best he can offer as a solution to these problems is a promise that “with effect from 2017, international agreements on information sharing will enable tax authorities to act more effectively against them”. This lame statement demonstrates that the ANC government acts in the best interest of capitalists with no political will whatsoever to stem the tide of illicit flows of capital. But while putting off action to tackle millionaire tax dodgers, there is no good news for the poor. Last year Nene cut the welfare grants budget in real terms by several per cent. In this year's budget, there is a 6.4% nominal increase for the larger grants: "Old age‚ disability and care dependency grants will rise by R80 to R1‚500 in April 2016‚ and by a further R10 to R1‚510 in October." So R1505 is the average 2016-17 payment to people, an increase per month of R90 (6.36%). The child support grant will rise by R20 to R350 (up 6.1%). The foster care grant rises by R30 to R890 (3.5%). Given however the anticipated double-digit food prices, a potential 16% Eskom increase and high transport price rises, inflation for poor people will be more than 10%, so there will be a real cut in living standards, as the increase for the average grant recipient is in the range of 3.5% to 7%. There was nothing concrete on the long-promised National Minimum Wage, Comprehensive Social Security Plan and National Health Insurance system. All he could say was that “Progress has been made towards a minimum wage framework, and to reduce workplace conflict. The National Health Insurance White Paper has been published, and proposals for comprehensive social security will be released by mid-year”. The only crumb of comfort is that he took a similar vague view on the planned nuclear energy deal, which Numsa strongly opposes. All he said was that “Minister Joemat-Pettersson is overseeing our renewable energy, coal and gas IPP programme, and preparatory work for investment in nuclear power.” Such a half-hearted reference to what President Zuma saw as a key project, suggests that it may also have been put on the back burner. On higher education the minister did nothing more than Jeff Radebe had already announced. He has given R5.4 billion a year "additional" to the R63.7 billion "Post-School Education and Training" line item. An additional R16.3 billion has been allocated for higher education over the next three years. R5.7 billion of this addresses the shortfall caused by keeping fees for the 2016 academic year at 2015 levels, and the carry-through costs over the MTEF period. R2.5 billion goes to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to clear outstanding student debt, along with a further R8 billion over the medium term to enable current students to complete their studies. But this R5.4 billion additional funding is tokenistic compared to the R35 billion a year that even the neoliberal Democratic Alliance has advocated. As even that party pointed out, [the Ministerial Committee] found that South Africa’s budget for universities as a percentage of GDP was only 0.75%, lower than the Africa-wide proportion of 0.78%, the world-wide proportion of 0.84% and the proportion spent by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries of 1.21%. “The report also noted that between 2000 and 2010, state funding per full-time equivalent student fell by 1.1% annually in real terms, while fees per each of these students increased by 2.5% annually in the same period…” (Democratic Alliance, Oct 2015) The minister announced the tabling of the draft Revenue Laws Amendment Bill, which is intended to postpone by two years the compulsory annuitisation of provident funds. As Numsa has previously indicated this is too late as the Taxation Laws Amendment Act is scheduled to be implemented in less than a week on 1 March. Furthermore this belated bill will not address constitutional problems in the original act as it was incorrectly processed as a money bill. The budget is presented within a context of threats of further investment ratings downgrades for the country by international credit ratings agencies, and makes the admission that debt-service costs are the “fastest growing category of spending”, with an annual increase of 11.4% over the medium term. The bulk of this is drawn from foreign funding sources, which leaves us at the mercy of volatile exchange rate fluctuations and foreign interest rates that slavishly respond to the tyranny of credit ratings agencies, thereby increasing debt servicing costs. The time has come to consider local sources of financing. The Public Investment Corporation (PIC), for example, controls assets worth over R1, 8 trillion, the bulk of which is composed of the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF), and much of which is ironically invested in foreign financial markets. One of the worst aspects of the budget speech, however, is Gordhan’s frequent references to what he insisted is not “privatisation”, but in reality is. For example he says: “We must broaden the range and scope of our co-funding partnerships with private sector investors. This requires an appropriate framework to govern concession agreements and associated debt and equity instruments, and appropriate regulation of the market structure”. He reported that Minister Brown is in discussion with Transnet’s leadership on measures to accelerate private sector participation in the ports and freight rail sector. The Budget Review also says government is looking at “strategic partnerships” to allow SAA “to draw on private sector capital and technical expertise to improve its performance and expand its network”. “The recent tremors felt by emerging markets,” he said, “are a warning that we need to take corrective steps urgently or we will be worse off. At the same time, we need to move forward to mobilise the resources and capacity of all our people, large and small enterprises, civil society organisations and public-private partnerships.” As the Daily Maverick correctly concluded minutes after the speech, “Gordhan puts state-owned companies on notice”. Numsa notes with concern that special economic zones and employment-intensive sectors with export potential have been prioritised for support by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). This is however happening at a time when IDC has refused to fund or to buy Evraz Highveld Steel, a plant that employees about 18 000 workers. If it closes the whole of Emalahleni in Mpumalanga would become a ghost town like many towns which are victims of deindustrialisation. Why will this government throw money to IDC, which has been spending billions on green field projects for years, but won't spend money to save so many jobs? If this capacity is destroyed it will never come back? Numsa demands the following immediate steps: 1. The Numsa ANC government must nationalise Evraz Highveld Steel or, through the IDC, they must buy it for R150 Million - a drop in the ocean in comparison to splashing billions to green fields and to so-called black industrialists. 2. Numsa calls on the black industrialists who are now swimming in no less than R23 billion to invest their free allocated money in buying this company, as we are completely uninformed as to what they will be investing this huge allocation on. 3. Government must appreciate that our country is facing a national crisis of a job loss bloodbath - a national emergency; action is needed now not tomorrow and in the light of this crisis Numsa demand that government nationalise the steel Industry and the entire value chain in manganese, coal, iron ore and vanadium. This government, in particular the Treasury, must accept that their right-wing conservative policies are directly responsible for the economy being in a junk status, whose results has been mass poverty, unemployment, inequalities. This chosen path resembles the old apartheid capitalist colonialism and this can only mean that apartheid and a system of racism through a new dispensation in our country has continued by other means and both systems have successfully kept blacks and Africans at the bottom of the food chain. This government must act swiftly and urgently so as to cut interest rates, bring back capital controls to stimulate the economy and to stop capital flights, both legal and illegal. All capitalist right-wing wing ideological priests must accept that for the past 21 years there has been no socialism in SA and they must take full responsibility for the mess, including Tito Mboweni, Trevor Manuel and the Free Market Foundation led by Herman Mashaba who is anti-worker and a union basher who has now made himself available for an opportunist project to be Mayor of Johannesburg for the DA. He is challenging in court collectively negotiated agreements in order to reverse all workers’ hard-won gains, their improvements, benefits and conditions of work. This very desperate greedy capitalist and exploiter still wants to win elections through the carcasses of the slaves he is determined to keep exploiting. Numsa, unlike the Current ANC of Gwede Mantashe, the SACP of Blade Nzimande and the Cosatu of Sdumo Dlamini, sees itself as an embodiment of what the revolutionary alliances of Chris Hani, Oliver Tambo, Joe Slovo and Harry Gwala were about; that is why we demand an economy and a budget, that must be based on: - Concrete measures to fast-track the redistribution of land - A concrete programme of nationalisation of the commanding heights of the economy in order to restore the wealth of the country to the people as a whole – thereby ending poverty and unemployment, and freeing the genius of all our people to contribute to create wealth for themselves - Full employment for all who need work, which is both a duty and a right - Full social security for all human beings - Full free medical services for all - Housing for all, as a human right - Abolition of all racial, gender and other forms of discrimination in wages, the work place, communities and culture - Full state funding for education from birth to death, for all - Proper conditions of work and decent pay for all public sector workers, and the protection of their right to demand wage increases - Creation and restoration of the manufacturing capacity of South Africa, under popular working class control and ownership - Abolition of the apartheid geography, economic and cultural landscape that continues to scar our country, 22 years into the so-called democracy. The measures we propose above are perfectly possible, and doable. They are a fundamentally important step if we are serious about pulling the country out of the triple crisis of poverty, unemployment and inequalities rather then responding to the propaganda of rating agencies. Our true measure of the development and growth of our economy and country must be determined on the basis of the demands we make above, and not on the growth of profits in a sea of growing poverty, unemployment and inequalities. South Africa, just like the rest of Africa is too rich to fail to provide for all its peoples. The problem is the current concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of a dominant but tiny filthy rich parasitic capitalist class and mass poverty for the majority - the system called capitalism. The challenge we face is how to reach and educate every worker and every poor rural dweller, about the real causes of their poverty and suffering, and how to end it. This year we must dedicate ourselves to organising, mobilising and educating ourselves for the overthrow of the God of Profit and its tiny filthy rich followers and parasites in government. The alternative is to starve to death in a rich country. Numsa reiterates its total opposition to privatisation and all policies whose aim it is to placate white monopoly capitalism and their credit rating agencies. We call on all workers, employed and unemployed, to join us in our United Front, in the work we are involved in to create a new federation, in the work of forming and developing a genuine revolutionary socialist political party of the working class and in defence of Numsa. This budget, and the ANC government’s commitment to the neoliberal National Development Plan, makes it more necessary than ever to form such a party to fight for the nationalisation of the big capitalist monopolies and the building of a democratic socialist society. Working together, we cannot fail! Organise or starve to death! Statement issued by Irvin Jim, Numsa General Secretary, 25 February 2016 Budget: Pensioners and children will be poorer Social grant increases are below inflation Elroy Paulus 25 February 2016 Grant recipients will have less money to spend following the Minister of Finance's budget announcement yesterday. Photo: Government website With more than one third of South Africa’s population dependent on social grants, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s announcement that grants are not even going to keep pace with inflation is disappointing. Social Grant Grant amount in rands 2016/17 Grant amount in rands 2015/16 % increase (inflation is 6.2%) Child Support Grant 350 330 6.1 Grant-in-Aid 350 330 6.1 Foster Child Grant 890 860 3.5 War Veteran's Grant 1,520 1,440 5.6 Care Dependency Grant 1,500 (1,510 from October) 1,420 5.6 (6.3 from October) Disability Grant 1,500 (1,510 from October) 1,420 5.6 (6.3 from October) Older Person's Grant 1,500 (1,510 from October) 1,420 5.6 (6.3 from October) In his speech yesterday the Minister described the context as a "combination of multiple demands and constrained resources". He asked how the state should deal with such complexity and what should be prioritised. One of the key state instruments to reduce extreme inequality and poverty remains the significant rollout of social grants and the strengthening of social security reform initiatives. We commend his stated intention to extend the social safety net. State allocations by government to those who rely on social grants in our nation, especially at this time, are utterly crucial. We are disappointed that the increases made to these grants do not even keep pace with inflation. This was acknowledged by senior Treasury officials yesterday and we cannot endorse this decision. Whilst we appreciate that the 2016 Budget was a fine balancing act in difficult times, we think that this decision will again affect persons in the lower income categories disproportionately. As the table above shows,for instance, the older person’s grant goes up only 4.2% this year while inflation is running at 6.2% a year. Food inflation is even higher. This means recipients of the grant are actually getting poorer in terms of what they can buy with their money. The behaviour of some financial service providers that are responsible for predatory practices against social grant beneficiaries in particular, needs to be challenged more urgently. These predatory institutions are wreaking great harm, especially on grant beneficiaries. We should reject with contempt the practices of these financial service companies – including some insurance, credit, and funeral companies. The judgement in the Flemix case against those seeking unlawful emolument attachment orders against farmworkers, sadly revealed that even some in the legal fraternity (involved in debt collection agencies and loan companies), are guilty of these predatory practices. Now working class families increasingly have to assist their aged parents, our disabled sisters and brothers affected by these disputed or fraudulent social grant deductions. This is over and above those fearing extortion by loan sharks. They have to stretch their already stretched own income. Whilst this happens to one cohort of South Africans, another cohort, the wealthy owners of businesses, enrich themselves on these deductions. This practice not only erodes the gains made by the State, but also contributes to so much social tension and fuels inequality. We hope that the raft of legislation and regulations addressing these immoral practices by some companies and individuals will finally stop these deductions and unacceptable practices from social grants. On the revenue generation side, we welcome the decision not to raise VAT, which is an easy way to increase revenue collections. An increase in VAT would have had a seriously adverse effect on the already strained consumption patterns of lower income earners and the working class. Much more could have been done to cut public spending. Appointed and elected officials paid from public money could lead by example when calling for austerity measures themselves. A lot of public respect would have been gained if Ministers and the highest earning public servants took even a small cut in their salaries, as has happened in countries such as Brazil, Bolivia and Tanzania. Paulus is National Advocacy Manager and spokesperson for Black Sash. Alternative Information and Development Centre, AIDC on the 2016/17 Budget: Caught between the credit ratings agencies and the local government elections The 2016/17 budget will hurt, but the real pain is still to come. The Minister of Finance has cleverly deferred the real pain to non-electoral years. As for now, the budget is a prisoner of the demands from the credit ratings agencies and the need to stop the further alienation of the ANC’s electoral base before the forthcoming local government elections. It is however doubtful that the measures announced by Finance Minister Gordhan will satisfy the credit ratings agencies and prevent a down grade to junk level. Should a down grading occur, it will throw out most of the calculations that this budget is based on. The Treasury promises that such an event will be met by “aggressive austerity measures” (Budget Review p.30), obviously believing that this is politically and socially possible. In the current climate of increased social tensions, this is delusional. But the government is trapped in the neo-liberal cage and the longer it stays the same, the worse it will get. The Fees Must Fall movement will be deeply disappointed with this budget. It fails to put free higher education on the radar, never mind suggesting a free education and insourcing plan. R16bn is reallocated to post school education and training, but the allocation in real terms per student over the coming three years will fall! The budget perpetuates a development path that has failed and which has brought us to this crisis point. It contains no perspective of dealing with South Africa’s nightmarish unemployment and inequality levels. What is the government’s strategy to deal with the current wave of retrenchments affecting the heart land of the country’s industrial base (mining and mineral processing)? The budget has nothing to say. The indecisiveness of the government is evident. The poor will get poorer as a result of this budget. While the social grants are increased by 6.1-6.4% (the foster care grant by a mere 3.4%), the cost of living will rise much more among the poorest households. Already in Statistics SA’s inflation report for January, the inflation that hits the poor is measured at 6.6% year on year. Food inflation alone is expected to rise to well above 10% this year, further eroding the grant increases. The insufficient increases of the social grants are especially appalling since there was a political space before the budget for increased taxation of high income earners. Surprisingly, the government did not use the space. Instead it balances a slight increase of personal taxation (through the effect of inflation on tax brackets) by increasing the tax credit for medical insurance. Given the government’s commitment to a national health insurance scheme, one must wonder why this tax credit is not instead gradually withdrawn. On the individual level, the net effect of the adjustments in fact becomes a tax cut across the board, even for income millionaires (p. 143 in the Budget Review)! The major tax increases hit consumption and are regressive. The increase of the fuel levy by 30 cents per litre adds R6.8bn to the revenue, but this will hit the working class and the poor harder, as they spend a larger share of their income on transports, just as is the case with food inflation. In this budget the Treasury is further cutting the size of the public sector, by reducing the budget deficit more aggressively than was indicated in the Midterm Budget policy statement. This is what the credit ratings agencies wanted and demanded. A smaller public sector will increase the social crisis for the majority. Minister Gordhan has also strongly signalled that privatisation is back on the government’s agenda. This will be pursued through the sale of “non-performing assets”, but it has greater significance in the form of private public partnerships in the delivery of mega infrastructure projects in transport, energy e t c. The renewable energy industry has already been handed over to big multinational corporations. Now the government intends to do the same with coal fire power stations and even nuclear. This will accelerate the increase in tariffs for basic services, such as electricity, transport and possibly water and sanitation. In the coming year, South Africa will require new alliances of students, workers and poor communities to bury austerity, privatisation and the neo liberal trajectory that this government is wedded to under the tutelage of the creditors and predatory financiers. Further comments: Brian Ashley: 0820857088 and Dick Forslund: 0828957947 Gordhan’s complacency paints over SA’s grim reality Zwelinzima Vavi 26 February 2016 #Budget2016 / If a visitor from another planet was sitting in the South African Parliament on Wednesday, listening to Pravin Gordhan’s Budget speech, he or she would conclude that South Africa is a wealthy, peaceful country, with maybe just a few little problems here and there, caused by worldwide economic stagnation and the drought, neither of which the government can be blamed for. The contrast between the finance minister’s bland and complacent picture of the country and the grim reality of desperate poverty, sky-high unemployment, widening inequality and epidemic levels of corruption that are facing the majority of its people could not be greater. His guiding principle appeared to be to tell international credit rating agencies that they have nothing to worry about, certainly nothing to justify downgrading South Africa to “junk” status, because everything is under control and the country is on the brink of an economic revival. The reality is that the crisis is getting even worse and this Budget contained nothing to suggest that it would be getting better any time soon. On the contrary, the minister maintained the path he and his predecessors have pursued in successive austerity budgets, based on the neoliberal Gear strategy of the 1990s and its continuation in the National Development Plan. On inequality Comrade Gordhan did not even make the widely expected token gesture of raising taxes on the very rich, only an assurance that “our current taxes on wealth are under review by the Davis Committee”. One of the biggest reasons for South Africa becoming the world’s most unequal society is the illicit flow of capital to tax havens, depriving Sars of trillions of rands of unpaid taxes, the minister could only promise that “with effect from 2017, international agreements on information sharing will enable tax authorities to act more effectively against them”. No good news for poor But while he is putting off action to tackle millionaire tax dodgers for a year, there is no similar good news for the poor. Social grants are to be increased, but by amounts well below the expected levels of inflation for poor families, given a potential 16 percent Eskom tariff hike and the anticipated double-digit food prices as a result of the drought and the fall in the rand. So real inflation for the poorest families will be above 10 percent, while the increase for the average grant recipient is between 3.5 percent and 7 percent. Nor was there any good news on the long-awaited National Minimum Wage, Comprehensive Social Security Plan and National Health Insurance system. The best he could promise was that “Progress has been made towards a minimum wage framework, and to reduce workplace conflict. The National Health Insurance White Paper has been published, and proposals for comprehensive social security will be released by mid-year”. I noted that the minister said he was tabling a draft Revenue Laws Amendment Bill, which was intended to postpone by two years the compulsory annuitisation of provident funds, which all workers were so angry about. But he was too late, as the Taxation Laws Amendment Act was scheduled to be implemented on Tuesday. I welcome the additional R16.3 billion for higher education over the next three years, but credit for this must go not to the minister but the students whose #FeesMustFall campaign compelled government to keep fees for the 2016 academic year at 2015 levels. But it remains a scandal that South Africa’s budget for universities as a percentage of gross domestic product is lower, at 0.75 percent, than the African average of 0.78 percent, the world-wide proportion of 0.84 percent and the proportion spent by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries of 1.21 percent. For me the most alarming features of the Budget speech, was what Comrade Gordhan insisted on not calling “privatisation”, but was clearly just that. He says: “We must broaden the range and scope of our co-funding partnerships with private sector investors. This requires an appropriate framework to govern concession agreements and associated debt and equity instruments, and appropriate regulation of the market structure.” Private sector Minister Lynne Brown, he reported, was in discussion with Transnet’s leadership on measures to accelerate private sector participation in the ports and freight rail sector. The Budget Review also says government is looking at “strategic partnerships to allow SAA “to draw on private sector capital and technical expertise to improve its performance and expand its network”. “The recent tremors felt by emerging markets,” he said, “are a warning that we need to take corrective steps urgently or we will be worse off. At the same time, we need to move forward to mobilise the resources and capacity of all our people, large and small enterprises, civil society organisations and public-private partnerships.” This is without doubt a policy of creeping privatisation, a green light to capitalist hyenas to start preparing to get their teeth into publically owned enterprises and run them to maximise profits, rather than operate a public service. In conclusion I repeat what I said in my response: “The Budget speech today, like all other before, simply does not represent any new direction. It blatantly refuses to accept the deepening crisis of poverty, unemployment and inequalities or even the scale of corruption. It is the continuation of the old business as usual ignoring the plight of the black working class and the poor.” Zwelinzima Vavi is the former Cosatu general secretary. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of Independent Media. Budget 2016: A strong society and economy is built on its people: social grant allocations inadequate. PACSA Media release 24 February 2016 Minister Gordhan budget seeks to build stronger foundations for our future society and economy. Human capital is core to building a stronger foundation. At the most basic level, greater public investment is needed so that households can access sufficient and nutritious food. The increase of R90 on an old-age pension and R20 on a child support grant will not allow that. The implications of not ensuring the core foundational aspect of society is met by ensuring the household base is strong and able to absorb increasingly unpredictable and massive price fluctuations undermines our social and economic outcomes. Underspending on food will further impact on the public health sector; result in low work place productivity; and underutilization of investments in education and public health. The social grant increases announced by the Minister will neither stop people from falling into poverty nor help them escape poverty. The increases on social grants would not absorb the high levels of food price inflation projected at beyond 15% in 2016. The February 2016 PACSA food price data shows: • Food price inflation on the food baskets which low-income households try and buy each month has increased by +R231.14 (14%) over the last 3 months from R1 648.10 in November 2015 to R1879.24 in February 2016. • The PACSA food basket increased by +R82.20 (4.6%) in the last month from R1 797.04 in January 2016 to R1 879.24 in February 2016. • The cost of feeding a small child (3-9 years) a nutritional but basic diet for a month; cost R546.80 per child in February 2016. Month-on-month, the cost of feeding a small child has increased by R18.55 (3.5%) from R528.25 in January 2015 to R546.80 in February 2016. • The cost in February 2016 of a 10kg pocket of potatoes is R70.63; a loaf of brown bread is R9.92; 2 cabbages cost R27.95; a 5kg bag of sugar beans is R86.49; 4 litres of cooking oil is R90.48; and 2 litres of milk is R24.66. Minister Gordhan has increased the state pension by R90 (6.3%) from R1 420 to R1510 (R10 is staggered till October); and the child support grant by R20 (6.1%) from R330 to R350. These increases do not take into account the projected CPI peak of 7.8% by the end of 2016. The CSG’s rand value of R350 is not enough to meet the nutritional requirements of a small child in February 2016: R350 vs R546.80. This is an underspend of 36% on the plates of children. The R20 increase on the grant has almost already been eroded since the month-on-month increased by R18.55 between January 2016 and February 2016. The state pension supports entire families. The total pension, with the R90 increase – if every cent was used on food - is not enough to afford a basket of food for households in February 2016: R1 510 vs. R1 879.24. Between January 2016 and February 2016, the food basket increased by R82.20, already eroding the first tranche of R80. The increase in the fuel levy by 30 cents as well as the possible electricity increases will also contribute to rising food inflation and will make public transport more expensive – these directly impact on low-income households. In the light of rising food prices, projected to increase beyond 15% in 2016, with STATS SA projecting an 11% increase towards the end of the year, and the severe household indebtedness and financial stress at household level; we expected that the Minister would have taken bold steps to relieve some of these pressures on low-income households, who make up the majority of households in South Africa. Low-income households are the majority of households in South Africa. South Africa’s low labour absorption rates, low baseline wages earned by the majority of workers, and low social grant levels do not allow households to support themselves whilst ensuring a buffer to absorb price fluctuations. Annual increases in wages and grants are not keeping up with high levels of inflation (well beyond headline CPI) on goods and services for low-income households. This situation, over the last several years has become more severe. Households, unable to absorb shocks by spending more money have been viciously cutting back on expenditures and taking on higher levels of and more expensive unsecured credit. This strategy is now being found wanting, with deprivations acting to undermine health, education and productivity. These 3 aspects are the foundational elements of an economy – with its core in households having access to affordable, good quality nutritious and sufficient food and municipal and public services. About PACSA The Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA) is a faith-based social justice and development NGO that has been in operation since 1979. PACSA tracks the price of a basket of 36 basic food items from six different retail stores servicing the lower-income market in Pietermaritzburg and issues a monthly food price barometer which serves as an index for food price inflation and provides insight into the affordability of food and other essential household requirements for working class households. PACSA media contact: MERVYN ABRAHAMS PACSA Director PACSA | Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action 170 Hoosen Haffejee Street, Pietermaritzburg, 3201 | P O Box 2338, Pietermaritzburg, 3200 Tel +27 33 342 0052 | Fax +27 33 342 0303 mervyna@pacsa.org.za www.pacsa.org.za www.facebook.com/PACSAPMB  Back

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