CCS Seminar – Why innovation matters: To invent or Not invent (at own peril)
Speaker: Professor Oliver MtapuriDate: Thursday 26 September 2019Time: 13:00-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic:Countries of the world have catapulted their huge populations out of poverty through their own
CCS Seminar: Why Cuba’s Agricultural Revolution Puts South Africa’s Agrarian Programmes to Shame
Speaker: Mvu NgcoyaDate: Thursday 8 August 2019Time: 12:30-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN TopicThere are numerous reasons why Cuba offers useful counterpoints to South Africa’s endless and pitiful agrarian
CCS Seminar: Activist Co-Optation: Tasting State Power
Speaker: Mzamo ZondiDate: Wednesday 31 July 2019Time: 13:00-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic:A key concern for social movements and activists is the risk of co-optation or being ‘captured’
CCS Special Seminar Series – Race and Identity Facilitated by Mvuselelo Ngcoya
Following the end of apartheid’s legal racial classifications, what do we make of the enduring legacy of our racialised identities? This seminar series interrogates the enduring and complex racialised identities
CSS Seminar: Uncomfortable Tensions in the Food (In) Security Conundrum – The Role of Communities in Southern African Contexts
Speakers: Joyce Chitja Discussants: Tapiwa Muzerengi and Xolisile NgumbelaDate: Thursday 27 June 2019Time: 12:30-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN One of the key questions of our time is whether
CCS and ASONET Seminar: SA Legislation on the Socioeconomic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Speaker: Daniel Byamungu DuniaDate: Wednesday 12 June 2019Time: 13:00-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic:The South African government is ambivalent in its protection of refugees and asylum-seekers. The Refugees
CCS Seminar: A 5 Year Review of South Africa’s National Development Plan and its Developmental State Ambition
Speaker: Isaac KhambuleDate: Wednesday 29 May 2019Time: 13:00-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic:In 2017, South Africa marked the first five years since the adoption of the country’s National
Centre for Civil Society (CCS) and African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy (ACCEDE) Seminar
Date: Friday 17 May 2019Time: 13:00-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Speakers:Patrick Bond: On Just Transition debates in local-global perspectiveLisa Thompson: On the Political Economy
CCS Seminar: Understanding the spatial language of informal settlements in Durban: Informing upgrading programs for self-reliant and sustainable communities
Speaker: Judith Ojo-AromokuduDate: Tuesday 7 May 2019Time: 13:00-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic:This seminar will focus on the findings from Judith’s PhD thesis. Her research seeks to reconsider
CCS and φowerfest! Free Public Screening: Shadow World
The Centre for Civil Society, UKZN and φowerfest! Festival of Powerful IdeasInvites you to aFree Public Screening of Shadow World Date: Thursday 25 April 2019Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone
CCS and UKZN School of Social Sciences Seminar – What do party lists reveal about political parties contesting the 2019 SA Elections?
Speaker: Lubna NadviDate: Wednesday 24 April 2019Time: 13:00-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic:The lead up to the 2019 national and provincial elections has seen the South African electorate
CCS and the UKZN Maurice Webb Race Relations Unit Seminar: Elections 2019 and South Africa’s 25 years of Democracy “Where to from here?”
Speaker: Lukhona MnguniDate: Wednesday 18 April 2019Time: 13:00-14:00Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic:The 2019 National and Provincial General Elections take place on the 25th anniversary of South Africa’s