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SA SOCIAL PROTEST OBSERVATORY |
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WHATS NEW AT THE CCS |
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CLIMATE JUSTICE NEWS |
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Climate Justice Protests at the US Consulate
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Electricity prices and runaway trucks will embarrass Durban’s COP17 |
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Patrick Bond (Mercury Eye on Society column) 27 September 2011
Environment minister Edna Molewa announced yesterday at the International Convention Centre provincial climate meeting, that the Durban climate summit starting in just two months will be “a conference of hope,” generating an “outcome all of us will be happy about.”
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Climate-dumb Durban's greenwash manual |
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Will the host city for the November-December world climate summit, COP17, clean up its act? The August 23 launch of a major Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) report, Towards a Low Carbon City: Focus on Durban – offers an early chance to test whether new municipal leaders are climate greenwashers, attempting to disguise high-carbon economic policies with pleasing rhetoric, as did their predecessors.
Click the cover page for the manual:
Towards a low carbon city
http://links.org.au/node/2469
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Why we question COP17: Climate Justice for Durban? |
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The Climate Justice movement in Durban is trying to ensure the COP17, from Nov 28 to Dec 9, isn’t simply another failed, elite summit-hop. It will be that, because:
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Leaving oil in the soil, from Durban’s coast to Ecuador’s Amazon |
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By Patrick Bond, presentation from CCS Seminar 2 April 2011
There’s no way around it: to solve the worsening climate crisis requires we must accept both that the vast majority of fossil fuels must now be left underground, and that through democratic planning, we must collectively reboot our energy, transport, agricultural, production, consumption and disposal systems so that by 2050 we experience good living with less than a quarter of our current levels of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fighting the minerals-petroleum-coal complex’s wealth and woes in Durban |
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Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife 19 July 2011
When African National Congress youth leader Julius Malema recently proposed the mining industry’s partial nationalization – and last week asked, quite legitimately, ‘what is the alternative?’ to those in the SA Communist Party (SACP) and Business Leadership South Africa who threw cold water at him – a debate of enormous ideological magnitude opened in public, which workers, communities and environmentalists have already joined in their myriad struggles.
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The second Young Researchers Philanthropy Initiative report is based on a research project focusing on understandings of Ubuntu and local level forms of giving in Maphumulo, KwaZulu-Natal. It was carried out in 2010 by SDS Masters Student Siphamandla Chili and SDS PhD Student Anne Murenha. It is entitled ‘How and why poor people help each other: A perspective from the Maphumulo rural community in KwaZulu-Natal’.
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The great billion dollar drug scam: Part 2 |
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Part two of a two-part series examining methods used by multinational
drug corporations to control markets - and lives.
Khadija Sharife 29 Jun 2011
Vaccines are often priced 40 - 100 times more than the cost of
production, and drug companies cite research expenses as the culprit [EPA]
This is the second of a two-part series examining the methods by which
multinational drug corporations inflate their expenses and justify their
pricing strategies. The first part revealed how, far from costing the
reported (and widely accepted) $1bn to bring a drug to market, actual
costs may be less than a fifth of that, thanks to accounting tactics and
corporate tax breaks.
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South Africa’s coming fight over capital flight |
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Patrick Bond 16 September 2011
At a time South African trade unions are under fierce attack from big business for winning above-inflation wage increases through strikes, and for opposing both informal labor outsourcing and a state-subsidized sub-minimum wage for youth, the sibling of former president Thabo Mbeki is helping restore balance. According to businessman-intellectual Moeletsi Mbeki, speaking last week to the white-dominated opposition party, “Big companies taking their capital out of South Africa are a bigger threat to economic freedom than African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema.”
International Monetary Fund analysis of SA: the 2011 'Article IV Consultation'
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Women’s organisations and the struggle for water and sanitation services in Chatsworth and Inanda, Durban: The Westcliff Flats Residents Association and the Didiyela Women’s Group
Shauna Mottiar, Orlean Naidoo and Dudu Khumalo
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Palestine solidarity |
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Erez (Gaza border) protest on Nakba day, 15 May 2011
Will neoliberal financiers paralyse Palestine and chill the Arab Spring?
Patrick Bond 1 June 2011
Part 1: Washington’s seeding of the Arab democratic revolution
An incident two and a half years ago in Carthage spoke volumes about power politics and economic ideology. As he was given the country’s main honour, the Order of the Tunisian Republic, on account of his “contribution to the reinforcement of economic development at the global level,” International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned the favour, offering the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali a warm embrace, which turned out to be the kiss of death.
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Hypocritical Washington raises Middle East tensions
Can democracy activists undo US and IMF damage?
Patrick Bond 23 May 2011
Here in Palestine, disgust expressed by civil society reformers about Barack Obama’s May 19 policy speech on the Middle East and North Africa confirms that political reconciliation between Washington and fast-rising Arab democrats is impossible.
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Climate finance leadership risks global bankruptcy |
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Patrick Bond 26 April 2011
South Africa’s most vocal neoliberal politician, Trevor Manuel, was just named as co-chair of the Green Climate Fund. On April 28-29 in Mexico City, Manuel and other elites meet to design the world’s biggest-ever replenishing pool of aid money: a promised $100 billion of annual grants by 2020, more than the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and allied regional banks put together.
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Khadija Sharife on xenophobia |
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It's dangerous out there!": Struggles of Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa
by Khadija Sharife
For Zimbabweans who cross into South Africa in search of work, robbery, rape and extortion at the border is just the beginning of their problems.
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DURBAN SINGS REMIXES AFRICAN ORAL HISTORY |
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Dennis Brutus: A Small Tribute to a Giant Man |
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DENNIS BRUTUS ONLINE ARCHIVE
Beverly Bell 22 December 2010
The luminary Dennis Brutus ‑ freedom fighter, economic and environmental justice activist, professor, and poet ‑ died last year on December 26. We republish this eulogy because of the transcendent lessons Dennis’ life offers to Haiti, the U.S., and all places where people seek greater justice and humaneness.
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'Mubaraking' Muammar, Maliki, Mugabe, Michael... |
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Patrick Bond 28 February 2011
February 27, 2011 –Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The late South African anti-apartheid poet-activist Dennis Brutus occasionally used “Seattle”, the name of a city in the northwestern United States, as a verb. We should “seattle Copenhagen”, he said in late 2009, to prevent the global North from doing a climate deal in their interests, against Africa’s.
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World Cup Watch |
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Click on the picture for WORLD CUP WATCH
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CCS Reality Tours |
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When critically‑minded people visit Durban and seek out a 'reality tour'
typically denied by the mainstream tourist circuit, one of the stops is the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu‑Natal. Located at the highest point in Durban (the top floors of Memorial Tower Building in Glenwood), the Centre introduces sympathetic visitors to the work of leading social activists and environmentalists. The sites that
kombi‑taxis arranged by CCS reach include an inner‑city tense with resistance to xenophobia and gentrification, the largest petrochemical
complex in a residential area in Africa, a variety of shack settlements and working‑class 'African', 'Indian' and 'coloured' neighbourhoods, the hotly‑contested source of Durban's water at Inanda Dam, and the university environs.
Contacts: Patrick Bond ‑ bondp@ukzn.ac.za or Lungi Keswa (27 31 260 3195)
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CCS Wired DVD & Community Video Project |
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Centre for Civil Society report on 2009 activities |
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As 2009 drew to a close, the formal resolutions we had waited a year for finally passed the university of KwaZulu-Natal Council and Senate, giving CCS permanent status within the school of Development Studies. This followed a very positive 2007-08 UKZN Review and then an inexplicable mid-2008 UKZN Administration threat to close the Centre, in turn rebuffed by the Howard College Faculty Board after local and international outcries, but not without damage to CCS’s staff complement and morale. The team limped through 2009, and only in September were we authorized to grant contracts longer than three months’ duration.
Then on December 26, we mourned the death of our politico-cultural mentor, Dennis Brutus.
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FATIMA MEER OBITUARY |
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The Centre for Civil Society was one of the most fortunate beneficiaires
of Fatima Meer's wisdom, energy and love. We were inspired again and
again, and Fatima's support for us in hard times will never be forogotten.
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Recent SA political-economic analysis |
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New Funder for the CCS Website |
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Patrick Bond on the Global Economic Crisis |
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Centre for Civil Society report on 2007 activities |
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In a context of dramatic increases in ‘Gatherings Act’ incidents reported by the SA police (10 000 per year in 2005-07, up from 5800 in 2004-05) and worsening inequality, our guiding CCS objective is of even more relevance: the advance of socio-economic and environmental justice through developing critical knowledge about, for and in dialogue with civil society.
Our research work benefits from praxis-based production of knowledge, in which we learn how power relations are challenged by civil society organisations – in the streets, the courts, the media, negotiating fora, theatres and cultural clubs, sportsfields and other sites - thus generating new information about systems and organisational strengths and weaknesses. We then feed back research into the society through both arms-length and participatory analysis, in the forms of books and articles, films and DVDs, tours and lectures.
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CCS UKZN Review 29 February 2008
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CNN Interview with Adam Habib |
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Banned from the U.S., Professor says He's a Victim of Ideological Exclusion
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Events Index 2011 |
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Rehana Dada CCS Seminar: The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign, 4 November |
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Lars Gausdal CCS Seminar: Bolivia at the Crossroads, 3 November 2011 |
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Patrick Bond, Dudu Khumalo, Orlean Naidoo, Thando Manzi, Molefi Ndlovu & Noah Zimba Wolpe Lecture: Community Climate Summit, 28 October |
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Patrick Bond on water politics, the IMF and climate in Dublin, 25‑26 October |
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Patrick Bond on energy as a public good in Rome, 24 October |
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Patrick Bond talks on climate justice in Stockholm, 22 October |
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Patrick Bond on climate, land and Africa's exploitation, at Uppsala University, Sweden, 20-21 October |
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Shailja Patel CCS Seminar: Seen And Unseen: Windows On The ICC-Kenya Trials, 18 October |
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Patrick Bond on COP17 mobilisations at PanAfrican Climate Justice conference in Addis Ababa, 15‑16 October |
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Fidelis Allen CCS Seminar: Climate Change, Poverty and Public Policy in Nigeria's Niger Delta, 11 October 2011 |
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Patrick Bond on electricity and climate crises, Newlands and Meerbank, 10-11 October |
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Marie Kennedy & Chris Tilly Latin America’s third left: Autonomy and participation in the new political landscape, 6 October |
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Peter Waterman Emancipatory Global Labour Studies and Social Movements, 5 October |
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Patrick Bond on climate and capitalism at the International Labour Rights Information Group Globalization School, Cape Town, 3 October |
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Trevor Ngwane CCS seminar on protest ideology, 30 September |
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John Saul & Trevor Ngwane Wolpe lecture on South Africa's transition, 29 September |
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CCS hosts Democratic Left Front climate conference, 23-25 September |
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Climate Justice Now! South Africa meets at CCS, 22-23 September |
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Patrick Bond at People's Dialogue on climate politics, 21 September |
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Patrick Bond on Electricity Prices and Climate Crisis at SDCEA, 21 September |
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Solani Ngobeni CCS Seminar: Challenges facing scholarly publishers in South Africa: Towards a turnaround strategy or tilting at windmills, cancelled |
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Anton Harber & Ruth Teer-Tomaselli Amnesty International seminar on the Secrecy Bill, 15 September |
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Sarah Bracking CCS Seminar: How do investors value the environment? Why a pile of stones is not a house, 13 September |
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Climate Justice Protest US, Consulate, 9 September |
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Ashwin Desai & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The World Conference Against Racism and 9/11 ten years after, 8 September |
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Patrick Bond on climate injustice and the World Bank, London, 5 September |
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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 |
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Climate Justice Protest at the US Consulate, 31 August |
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Otieno, Wamuchiru, Todd, Lorimer CCS Seminar: In Hot Water ‑ Climate change and water adaptation in Nairobi and Durban, 26 August |
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Patrick Bond on climate finance to SADC parliamentarians, Johannesburg, 25 August |
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Wolpe lecture by Mustafa Barghouti on how to free Palestine, 25 August |
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Shauna Mottiar at the ISTR African Civil Society Research Network conference, 24 August |
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Patrick Bond addresses metalworker shopstewards, Durban, 22 August |
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Kate Skinner seminar on media democracy, 22 August |
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Patrick Bond on climate at the Johannesburg Book Fair, 8 August |
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Paul Routledge CCS Seminar: Translocal Climate Justice Solidarities, 5 August |
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Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Lessons for Durban from Ecuador's 'leave the oil in the soil' eco/indigenous movement, 2 August |
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Patrick Bond on the 'green economy' at New Global Hegemonies conference, Quito, 21‑22 July |
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Franco Barchiesi CCS Seminar: Labour and Precarious Liberation, 20 July |
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Patrick Bond on climate and Just Transition at National Union of Metalworkers of SA in Johannesburg, 18 July |
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Sarah Ives CCS Seminar: “Rooibos land is high sentiment, low potential: Preliminary Reflections on a Year in Rooibos Country, 18 July |
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Danny Schechter CCS Seminar: Citizen Media Advocacy, 15 July |
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Chene Redwood CCS Seminar: Voices of the Subaltern: Music within community struggles against environmental degradation in South Durban, 14 July 2011 |
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Patrick Bond on SA political economy at Renmin Univ (China) conference via skype, 11 July |
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Patrick Bond on climate and justice at UKZN Peace Studies conference, 9 July |
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Philip Rizk CCS Seminar: Critiquing the Nation State: The Gaza Strip, 8 July |
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Philip Rizk CCS Seminar: Multi-media presentation: “The hard hit is still to come”- An Intifada Imaginary, 7 July 2011 |
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Ida Susser CCS Seminar: Organic intellectuals and AIDS social movements: jumping scales, postponed |
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Patrick Bond on neoliberal climate policy at Nature, Inc conference (via skype), The Hague, 30 June |
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Patrick Bond input on African economies to International Labour Organisation industrial relations conference at UCT Business School (via skype), 28 June |
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Peter McKenzie & Doung Jahangeer CCS Seminar: People in Spaces Make Places, 28 June 2011 |
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Immanuel Wallerstein Wolpe Lecture on the Arab revolt, the US and Africa, 23 June |
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Patrick Bond on SA climate policy at UKZN Business School, 23 June |
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Patrick Bond seminar on the global climate justice movement, 21 June |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza & Mary Galvin on sanitation politics, 20 June |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza and Geasphere debate water and climate at Alliance Francaise, 9 June |
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Mvuselelo Ngcoya & Shauna Mottiar Seminar: Understanding horizontal philanthropy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2 June |
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Patrick Bond at Univ of Georgia Antipode Institute for Geographies of Justice, Athens, 30‑31 May |
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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 |
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Patrick Bond on climate politics at Korean conference, Jinju, 27 May |
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Florian Kunert, Phillip Hol & Justin Davy Wolpe Lecture: Shack Theatre, 26 May |
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CCS and Zimbabweans celebrate Africa Day, 25 May |
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Patrick Bond on dangers of a neoliberal Palestine, at TIDA-Gaza, Gaza City, 19 May |
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Chris Morris Seminar: Notes on Pharmaceutical Patent Lawfare: The Umckaloabo Case, 19 May 2011 |
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Durban Community Video Collective workshop, 14 May |
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Patrick Bond at City Univ of NY conference on precarious labour and socialism, 13 May |
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Patrick Bond on environmental justice at Autonomous University of Barcelona, 28 April |
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Mazibuko Jara, Alan Murphy & Orlean Naidoo Wolpe Lecture Panel on the Local Government Elections, 21 April 2011 |
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Patrick Bond at Univ of San Francisco sustainability symposium, 19 April |
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Patrick Bond in Montreal for Cochabamba+1 climate justice conference, 15‑17 April |
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Ron Carver Reflections on organising US labour and community campaigns, 13 April |
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Patrick Bond on Palestine & Durban at American Association of Geographers conference, Seattle, 12‑14 April |
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Shauna Mottiar at the International Research Society for Public Management Conference, Dublin, 11- 13 April |
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Wiebe Nauta CCS Seminar: Civic Engagement and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea ‑ Lessons for South Africa, 5 April |
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Patrick Bond on climate politics with Polaris Institute/Ontario Public Interest Research Group at Univ of Toronto, 31 March |
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Patrick Bond climate lecture at Carleton Univ, Ottawa, 29 March |
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Adekeye Adebajo CCS/SDS Seminar: The Curse of Berlin: Africa after the Cold War, 23 March |
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Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu at Keleketla Library Johannesburg, 21-31 March 2011 |
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John Devenish Seminar CCS research on protests in South Africa 2009 - 2011, 17 March |
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Nancy Lindisfarne & Jonathan Neale Seminar: Climate Justice, Global Alliance-Building and Climate Jobs, 22 March |
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Patrick Bond in seminar on Palestine, water and the University of Johannesburg, 16 March |
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Seminar: Documentary Screening of 'Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds, 10 March |
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Patrick Bond gives lectures in Michigan and California, 8-14 March |
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Patrick Bond on climate justice, Northern overconsumption & African resistance at '6 Billion Ways' conference in London, 5 March |
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Wolpe Lecture by Hein Marais: Song & Dance: Power, Consent and the ANC, 3 March |
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China Ngubane hosts Zimbabwe monitoring discussion, 1 March |
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Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada, Blessing Karumbidza & Molefi Ndlovu Seminar on the 2011 World Social Forum, 25 February |
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Patrick Bond delivers Brutus Memorial Lecture, Nelson Mandela Metro Univ, 23 February |
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Danielle Carter seminar on Sources of State Legitimacy in Contemporary SA, 22 February |
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Blessing Karumbidza, Siziwe Khanyile, Bongani Mthembu, Bobby Peek in Wolpe Lecture 'Climate Teach-In', 19 February |
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Niall Bond Seminar: The history of 'civil society', 14 February |
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Molefi Ndlovu, Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond CCS seminars at the WSF, Dakar, 6-11 February |
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Teppo Eskelinen Seminar: Global justice - some emerging topics and responses 25 January 2011 |
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Patrick Bond at Zuma's Own Goal booklaunch, Bluestockings, NYC, 24 January |
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Patrick Bond on climate justice in Sacramento, CA, 20 January |
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Patrick Bond at Resource Rights conference and Eskom protest, Washington, 13-14 January |
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Events Index 2010 |
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Patrick Bond radio debate on climate justice politics, 22 December |
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Film screening: The Uprising of Hangberg, 14 December |
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Patrick Bond at global climate summit, 6‑11 December, Cancun |
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Pumla Gqola, Andile Mngxitama, Baruti Amisi & others Seminar on Xenophobia and Racism in SA, 10 December |
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Patrick Bond lecture on uneven development, migration and xenophobia to Univ.Delhi conference, 25 November |
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Patrick Bond, Horace Campbell, Patricia Daley and Eunice Sahle panel at African Studies Association, SF, 21 November |
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CCS Wolpe film screenings with Pamela Ngwenya and community videomakers 20 November |
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Cesia Kearns Seminar: Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign: Transforming the US Electric Sector, 19 November 2010 |
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Patrick Bond on oil and financial crises with Attac-Norway in Oslo, 18-19 November |
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Baruti Amisi skype seminar on xenophobia to Roskilde University, 17 November |
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Patrick Bond at Race, Class & Developmental State conference in PE, via Skype, 16 November |
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Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed Wolpe Lecture in Honour of Fatima Meer, 16 |
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Patrick Bond seminar on ecosocialism at Inst of Social Studies, The Hague, 16 November |
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Patrick Bond at Historical Materialism conference, London, 12-14 November |
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John Harvey Seminar: US Philanthropy and the Global South: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges, 8 November |
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Patrick Bond at The ‘Progress’ in Zimbabwe Conference, 4-6 November |
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Nicholas Smith Seminar: Lynch Violence and the Governance of Evil, 26 October |
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Ela Gandhi & Dilip Menon Wolpe Lecture: Indians in South Africa: 150 Years, 21 October 2010 |
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Patrick Bond seminar on climate justice at Univ of California-Davis, 18 October |
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Mariem el Bourhimi and Peter McKenzie Seminar: Saharawi liberation struggle status, 15 October |
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Rolf Schwermer Seminar: pro-poor technology, 14 October |
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Patrick Bond seminar on climate politics at Trinity College Dublin, 1 October |
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Baruti Amisi lecture on xenophobia for National Association of Democratic Lawyers, KwaZulu‑Natal Law Society, Pietermaritzburg, 30 September |
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Patrick Bond in Ramallah on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, 26 September |
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Patrick Bond on transition-neoliberalism at Birzeit Univ conference, Palestine, 28 September |
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Patrick Bond and Lungisile Ntsebeza launch Zuma's Own Goal at African Studies Association-UK conference, Oxford University, 19 September |
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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 |
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Dudu Khumalo, Baruti Amisi, Molefi Ndlovu,Daniel Ribeiro, Terri Hathaway, Lori Pottinger Seminar: Civil society v Southern African dams, 10 September |
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Patrick Bond and Rick Rowden on the IMF and public health, San Francicso, 7 & 14 September |
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Brij Maharaj, Ashwin Desai, Patrick Bond launch new book Zuma's Own Goal, Elangeni Hotel, Durban, 5pm on 3 September |
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Patrick Bond speaks on rights/commons debate at the International Commission of Jurists Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Camp, 31 August, Johannesburg |
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Margaret Gärding Donor power in the international aid industry, 27 August |
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Makhosi Khoza, Fikile Moya, Patrick Mkhize, Tony Carnie, Pritz Dullay and Brij Maharaj on the Wolpe Lecture Panel: Media Information & Freedom, 26 August 2010 |
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Ralph Borland Seminar: Radical Plumbers and PlayPumps - Objects in development, 25 August |
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Patrick Bond speaks at Jubilee South Africa conference on ecological debt, 21 August, Johannesburg |
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Dudu Khumalo and Simphiwe Nojiyeza presentation on sanitation at Umphilo waManzi seminar, 13 August, Durban |
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Patrick Bond at South Africa‑Norway climate research seminar, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, 12 August 2010 |
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Patrick Bond at Southeast Asia climate justice seminar, Focus on the Global South, Chulalungkorn University, Bangkok, 10 August |
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Trevor Ngwane at Solidarity Peace Trust report on Zimbabwe, 30 July, Johannesburg |
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Wolpe Lecture: Social justice ideas in Civil society politics, global & local: A Colloquium of scholar activists, 29 July |
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Press Conference on Xenophobia, 28 July |
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Padraig Carmody Seminar: Chinese Geogovernance in Africa: Evidence from Zambia, 20 July |
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CCS and Gyeongsang University Institute for Social Science (Korea) joint seminar on political economy of social movements, 14 July |
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Giuliano Martiniello seminar on Inanda's socio-spatial change, 9 July |
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Pamela Ngwenya Seminar on Video as a tool for outreach, communication, advocacy and community expression, 8 July |
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Anti Xenophobia Rally City Hall 3 July |
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Renee Horne Seminar on Black Economic Empowerment, 2 July |
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Roithmayr, Adonis, Galvin, Bond, Khumalo CCS Colloquium on Water, Rights, Prices, 28 June (skypecast) |
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Blessing Karumbidza seminar on climate change and carbon trading controversies in Tanzania, 24 June |
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Trevor Ngwane and Rehana Dada at workshop on climate advocacy at the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 22 June |
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Wolpe Lecture: Durban Social Forum members, 'World Cup for All!', Durban City Hall, 16 June |
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David J. Roberts Serminar: Re-branding Durban through the 2010 World Cup, 14 June |
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Patrick Bond (with Briggs Bomba and Dave Zirin) on the World Cup, Washington, 9 June |
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Patrick Bond on global justice movements, at Grantmakers without Borders conference, SF, 8 June |
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Patrick Bond presents on climate justice at conference, Alter-globalization movements and the alternative ideas of Korea, Seoul, 28 May |
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Patrick Bond lecture on National Health Insurance with Oxfam, 26 May |
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Patrick Bond on 'Poli Econ of the World Cup' in Seoul, 27 May |
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Jessie Lazar Knott Identity/Spatial Relations: scholar‑activism in the greater Kei region of the Eastern Cape, 25 May |
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Patrick Bond at Osisa conference on climate and development in Africa, Pretoria, 21 May |
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Patrick Bond on energy policy and the World Bank, at Democracy and Development Programme, Durban, 20 May |
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Eunice N. Sahle Wolpe Lecture: World orders, Ike's Books, 5pm, 20 May |
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Barak Hoffman & Orlean Naidoo Seminar: Chatsworth politics and municipal advocacy, 17 May |
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Patrick Bond on SA climate policy on TEDxUKZN, 14 May |
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Khadija Sharife & Eunice Sahle Seminar: Oil, minerals and maldevelopment in Africa, 13 May |
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Patrick Bond speaks on climate debt to the Economic Justice Network, Johannesburg, 5 May |
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Erin McCandless & Shepherd Zvavanhu Seminar on Zimbabwe Civil Society, 3 May |
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Nathan Geffen (with Faith ka Manzi) Seminar: Debunking Delusions: The inside Story of The Treatment Action Campaign, 29 April |
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Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife address African tax authorities, 29 April 2010 |
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Alan Freeman & Radhika Desai Seminar on The world capitalist crisis, 23 April |
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Memorial Tribute to Professor Fatima Meer, 23 April |
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Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu facilitates Krogerup College and Durban Sings, 18‑20 April |
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Patrick Bond on carbon trading at Manchester conference on environment and finance, 15‑16 April |
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Patrick Bond in Boston v WB-Eskom loan, 9 April |
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Patrick Bond at Clark University, 8 April |
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World Bank protest, 7 April, Washington |
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Patrick Bond seminar on climate politics, City Univ of NY, 6 April |
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Patrick Bond at NYU on South African political economy, 5 April |
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Patrick Bond in SF Bay Area on World Bank loan to Eskom, 4 April |
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Trevor Ngwane at Marxism 2010 conference, Melbourne, 1-4 April |
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Patrick Bond on water commons, Syracuse University, 29-30 March |
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Trevor Ngwane seminar on activism and global campaigns, Univ of Helsinki, 26 March |
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CCS/VANSA KZN Panel discussion: 'What is Art and what is not?', March 25 |
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Patrick Bond on 'Organising for Climate Justice', Left Forum, NYC, 21 March |
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Workers, Zama Hlatshwayo, Trevor Ngwane Seminar on UKZN labour outsourcing crisis 19 March |
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Carol Thompson seminar on resisting agro‑industry, 18 March |
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David Zirin Seminar on Fifa's Looting of SA, 13 March |
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Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar on SA's social protest wave, 9 March |
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Dennis Brutus memorial, 11 March |
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Patrick Bond testifies to parliament on economic policy, 2 March |
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Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener seminar at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, 2 March |
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CCS anti‑xenophobia research workshop, 27 February |
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Patrick Bond speaks on The ebb and flow of water rights, Univ of Cape Town Department of Public Law, 25 February |
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Press Conference: Keep our South African Coal in the Hole! 22 February 2010 |
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Patrick Bond at Power Indaba privatisation conference, 22 February |
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CCS Economic Justice course, with Trevor Ngwane, Samson Zondi and Patrick Bond, from 20 Feb‑29 May |
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Climate Justice Now! SA‑KZN chapter hosted at CCS, 13 February |
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Hallowes, D'Sa, Ngwane, Bond , Dada: Seminar on proposed World Bank coal loan to Eskom, Friday, 12 February* |
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Durban renewable energy site visits by Minnesh Bipath, SA National Energy Research Institute with Muna Lakhani and Patrick Bond 10 February 2010 |
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Patrick Bond paper for Socialist Register workshop, 6 February |
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Susan Galleymore Seminar: A Dearth of Imagination Leads to Wasting Perfectly Good Waste, 5 February |
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Durban Sings Follow-up and planning session with 8 Editorial Collectives, 4 February |
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Patrick Bond on climate change & Dennis Brutus Memorial at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, 28 January |
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Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond Seminar: Copenhagen Climate and Eskom Energy Conflicts, 26 January |
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Dennis Brutus tribute, with Social Movements Indaba and Durban community groups, 23 January |
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Peter McKenzie & Doung Jahangeer Seminar: The Saharawi,Warwick Junction and Footsak Politics, 20 January |
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Patrick Bond debates NHI at Idasa, CT, 19 January |
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CCS cohosts Climate Justice Now! on electricity hearings strategy, 15 January |
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Events Index 2009 |
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Patrick Bond at SF protest against Danish repression of civil society and Copenhagen climate 'deal', and radio interview, 18 December |
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Patrick Bond addresses climate seminar at Univ of Lund Business School, 15 December |
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Kristine Wasrud Participation and Influence in Water Policy in Durban, South Africa, 11 December |
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Climate Justice Film Festival, 10 December |
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Umesh de Silva Seminar: Traditional farming in Umzinyathi, 9 December |
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Oliver Meth at the CCS Workshop on women & child abuse Cato Crest Library, 8 December |
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Patrick Bond at Roskilde Univ Civil Society Centre, 7 December |
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Patrick Bond keynotes Leeds 'Democratisation in Africa' conference, 4 December |
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Sinegugu Zukulu & John Clarke Seminar: Resilience, Resolarisation and Relocalisation, 30 November |
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Nick Smith Seminar Politics of protection/crime/policing, 26 November |
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Patrick Bond speaks at Mandela Foundation about SA economic disasters, 26 November |
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Seminar on outsourced and contract workers at UKZN, 24 November |
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3rd Climate Justice Now! KZN meeting, 20 November |
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CCS and Durban Sings! at the Global Crisis and Africa: Struggles for Alternatives hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; Randburg, Johannesburg 19-21 November |
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MAKE SOME NOISE! Concert 6 November |
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Immanuel Wallerstein Wolpe Lecture: Crisis of the Capitalist System Where to from Here?, 5 November |
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Solidarity with Durban's oppressed: Bottom-up resistance strategies of shackdwellers, pollution victims and labour-brokered workers, 4 November |
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The Crises and the Commons: Durban debates on politics, economics and environment 4-7 November |
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Seminar on Problems faced by UKZN workers, Westville campus, 28 October |
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Faith Manzi & Oliver Meth at the Gender Based Violence Workshop, Durban 27 & 28 October |
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Bengt Brülde & Stellan Vinthagenand Seminar: Ethics, Resistance and Global Justice, 26 October |
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Baruti Amisi, Trevor Ngwane & Patrick Bond Anti-Xenophobia research project with Strategy&Tactics; 19- 20 October |
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Durban Sings (Molefi Ndlovu & Claudia Wegener) at National Oral History Conference, 13-16 October |
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Tri-Continental Film Festival Durban community screenings – (hosted by Oliver Meth) at Inanda, Chatsworth, Wentworth, CBD, & Folweni, 1-12 October |
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Patrick Bond lectures at Suffolk Univ, Boston, 29 Sept-2 Oct |
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Helen McCue Seminar: Grassroots Mobilising within Refugee Communities: Perspectives on Palestine and Australia, 18 September |
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Patrick Bond Booklaunch: Climate Change, Carbon Trading & Civil Society, 18 September |
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Dennis Brutus honored by War Resisters League, 18 September |
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Patrick Bond skypecast on climate and ecological debt to Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, Copenhagen, 16 September |
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Oliver Meth People to People International Documentary Conference, 10-12 September |
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Dick Forslund & Patrick Bond Seminar: South Africa's capitalist crisis and civil society, 7 September |
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Dudu Khumalo on the Durban public transport crisis, 1 September |
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Patrick Bond National Health Insurance: Can SA afford it?, 24 August |
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John Berg Seminar: Barack Obama's presidency and civil society reactions, 24 August |
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Norman Finkelstein Wolpe Lecture: Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Gandhi, 20 August |
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Seminar with outsourced workers at UKZN, 12 August |
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Patrick Bond debates Sampie Terreblanche (Stellenbosch), 6 August, UCT |
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Patrick Bond addresses Ecuador eco-finance conference (videolink), 4 August |
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Dr Essop Pahad Thinking about the Legacy of Mbeki's Politics, 4 August |
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Patrick Bond at the South African Civil Society Energy Caucus Meeting, 29-30 July |
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Barak Hoffman Seminar: Democracy and Civil Society Research in Ghana and SA, 27 July |
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CCS hosts free screenings of Durban International Film Festival, 25 July - 1 August |
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Sean Flynn & Maj Fiil Seminar on water rights, ( SKYPECAST ) 24 July |
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Patrick Bond lecture at carbon trading conference, Johannesburg, 22 July |
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Sein Win Seminar by Burmese prime minister (exiled) on solidarity (SKYPECAST), 21 July |
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Tunde Adegbola A Pan-African Harold Wolpe Lecture & cultural events, 16 July |
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Patrick Bond lecture on SA Political Economy, San Francisco socialist conference, 4 July |
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Orlean Naidoo on participation at DDP seminar, 30 June |
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Patrick Bond speaks on 'World Slump: Financial Crisis and Emerging Class Struggles in the Global South', 28 June, Toronto |
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Patrick Bond on African social resistance to economic crisis, 26 June, Moscow |
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Oliver Meth and Orlean Naidoo facilitate Diakonia Council of Churches Democracy Course, 24 -26 June |
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Alex Callinicos Wolpe Lecture: Economic crisis and prospects for social revolution, 18 June* |
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Blair Rutherford Seminar: Zimbabwe farm labour, social justice and citizenship, 17 June |
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Trevor Ngwane Seminar: Community resistance to energy privatisation and ecological degradation, 11 June |
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DURBAN SINGS central editorial workshops, 8 & 22 June |
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Gaby Bikombo, Judy Mulqueeny, Harry Ramlal, Caroline Skinner Seminar: War of Warwick Junction, 9 June |
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Patrick Bond, Abedian, Dumisa, Maharaj et al on 'Zumanomics', UKZN Biz School, 3 June |
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Rehana Dada keynote address to Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute AGM, 2 June |
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Patrick Bond on African underdevelopment at Sussex IDS conference (via skypecast), 1 June |
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Trevor Ngwane presents at the International Conference on Ideas and Strategies in the Alterglobalisation Movement, Seoul, 29 May |
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Peter McKenzie cultural seminar on 'Footsak: On the Ball for 2010', 28 May |
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Björn Surborg Seminar: Contesting Johannesburg's extractive industries, 25 May |
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Paul Verryn, Methodist Bishop of Johannesburg: Wolpe Lecture: Poverty and xenophobia, 21 May |
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Robert Jensen, Univ of Texas: Seminar: Whiteness and social change in the US, 21 May |
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Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute: Seminar: The state of the world water wars, 15 May |
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Patrick Bond debates 'The G20 Global Deal' at Wits/Osisa, Johannesburg, 12 May |
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Molefi Ndlovu, Seminar: Azania Rising: The demise of the 1652 class project, 13 May |
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Rehana Dada, Seminar: Climate mitigation case studies, 11 May |
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CCS/DYFS - Anti-xenophobia film screening facilitators workshop, 9 May |
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Orlean Naidoo, Seminar: Chatsworth upgrading struggles and victories, 8 May |
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Patrick Bond, Joburg Wolpe Lecture at Wits Univ, 7 May |
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Patrick Bond at Cosatu electricity workshop, Joburg, 6 May |
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Joan Canela and Helena Olcina Seminar: Social movements in Bolivia and Catalan, 5 May |
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William Gumede Wolpe Lecture: SA’s “Democracy Gap”, 30 April |
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Three representatives of the Tamil liberation movement youth Seminar: The Tamil people under seige, 21 April |
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Leading eco-social spokespersons from political parties and civil society Seminar: Environmental confrontations - Political parties meet civil society, POSTPONED |
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Rehana Dada at York Univ climate ecojustice conference, Toronto, 16-17 April |
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John Minto Seminar: The Legacy of Anti-apartheid Sports Boycotts, 16 April |
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Dennis Brutus celebrations, honorary doctorates conferred at both Rhodes Univ and Mandela Univ, 16-17 April |
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Nelson Muhirwa & Jean Chrisostome Kanamugire Seminar: The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years On, 8 April |
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Oliver Meth Seminar: Wentworth Crime, Gangs and Civil Society, 7 April |
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Ida Susser booklaunch, 'AIDS, Sex and Culture', with Quarraisha Abdool Karim, at Ike's Books, 2 April |
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Dennis Brutus on Reconciliation and Memory in Post-Apartheid SA, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, 2-3 April |
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Sofie Hellberg Seminar: Governing lives through hydropolitics in eThekwini , 1 April 2009 |
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Claudia Wegener & Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu Digital Soiree Durban Sings Internet Radio project, 24 March |
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Simone Claar Seminar: Post-Apartheid Political Economy and State Policy, 19 March |
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Oliver Meth presents at the HSRC Violent Crime and Democratization in the Global South Conference, 18-20 March |
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Simphiwe Nojiyeza Seminar: African Development Bank water projects, 12 March |
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Deniz Kellecioglu Seminar: Zimbabwe Civil Society confronts Mugabe's Economy, 11 March |
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Patrick Bond debates ANC economic policy, 9 March, Durban |
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Kalinca Copello Seminar: ICTs and social movements: From Chiapas to Brazil to South Africa, 6 March |
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Lisa Ramsay & Schwarzanne Leafe Seminar & Film: Climate Change and Eco-Social Resistance in South Durban, 27 February |
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Patrick Bond presents to ActionAid/Nepad conference on global financial crisis, 24 February, Midrand |
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Molefi Ndlovu Johannesburg: Market Photo Workshop, 22-28 February |
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Orlean Naidoo & Patrick Bond seminar on Free Basic Water, and screening of Flow, 18 February |
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Ida Susser Seminar: AIDS, Sex, Culture and Civil Society, 11 February |
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Dennis Brutus and Moya Atkinson film/seminar on US anti-war movement, 9 February |
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Patrick Bond seminar on the ongoing global financial crisis, University of Johannesburg, 6 February |
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Durban Sings internet audio and community radio with Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener, 2-6 February |
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Patrick Bond in dialogue with Jeremy Cronin on financial crisis, Johannesburg, 28 January |
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Dennis Brutus, Lubna Nadvi, Monica Rorvik and Salim Vally Seminar: Should Israel be boycotted? If so, how?, 27 January |
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Giyani Dube, Lubna Nadvi, Kate Griffiths and Timothy Rukombo Wolpe Lecture: Civil Society Internationalism - from Lindela to Gaza to Washington, 22 January |
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Pamela Ngwenya, Molefi Ndlovu, Claudia Wegener Seminar: Participatory community audio/video as a tool for social research, 21 January |
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Dale McKinley, Orlean Naidoo, Dudu Khumalo, Bryan Ashe Seminar on the World Water Forum, 19 January |
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Mavuso Dingani film/seminar on the Zimbabwean exile in Durban, 6 January |
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