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Call for Applicants: Two (2) Research Assistants (MA Level) to work on a project entitled Service Delivery and Political Participation in Cato Manor Durban
Successful candidates will be required to focus their MA dissertations within this subject area. In addition, they will be required to write up project findings under the CCS Working Paper series. Candidates will also be expected to participate in CCS activities including seminars, photographic displays and participatory video initiatives. Closing date for applications: 21 June 2017 More
CCS Director Dr Shauna Mottiar
To all Staff and Students This notice serves to inform the University community of the appointment of Dr Shauna Mottiar as the Director of the Centre for Civil Society which is located in the School of Built Environment and Development Studies within the College of Humanities.More
QES Call for Research Proposals: Ecological Economics, Climate Justice, and Commons Governance
York University in Toronto, Canada, with funding from the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships Advanced Scholars Program (QES-AS), is pleased to offer funding opportunities for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers working internationally on topics related to ecological economics, commons governance, and climate justice. This funding will support research travel, living expenses, and research internships or collaborations with civil society organizations in the context of research partnerships, as well as the public dissemination and sharing of research results. A Universidade York em Toronto, Canadá, com financiamento do Programa de Bolsas de Estudo Canadense Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships Advanced Scholars Program (QES-AS) [adicionar o link do site], tem o prazer de oferecer oportunidades de financiamento para pesquisadores de doutorado e pós-doutorado que trabalham internacionalmente com temas relacionados à economia ecológica, governança de bens comuns e justiça climática. Este financiamento apoiará: Despesas de viagem, subsídio de vida, estágios de pesquisa ou colaborações com organizações da sociedade civil (no contexto de parcerias de pesquisa), assim como divulgação pública e comunicação de resultados de pesquisa.More
Web Researcher (1 Post)
The Centre for Civil Society (CCS) aims to advance socio-economic and environmental justice by developing critical knowledge about, for and in dialogue with civil society through teaching, research and publishing. The successful applicant will report to the Director and should be familiar with research processes and designing / maintaining websites and data bases. He / she will undertake to provide support to the CCS Website in respect of: social media platforms, editing online reports, creation of newsletters, updating data concerning the ‘Social Protest Observatory’ and ‘Xenophobia Watch’ and be able to create and establish data bases relating to Civil Society. Closing date for applications: 19 June 2017 More
Call for Applicants: Call for Applicants Two (2) Small Masters Level Research Grants
The aim of this call is to encourage Masters level research in the area of civil society campaigns in South Africa. Applicants must be registered within SOBEDS with proposed dissertation topics focused on current civil society campaigns. Closing date for applications: 26 June 2017 More
Zimbabwe's Despondent Political Economy - a Durban workshop to honour Sam Moyo
On the 13-14 of June in Durban, the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Built Environment and Development Studies (SoBEDS) and Centre for Civil Society (CCS), invite the public to join more than a dozen friends, colleagues and students of Sam Moyo to remember and build upon his contributions to political economy and political ecology. More
Dennis Brutus Community Scholarships (3 POSTS)
The Centre for Civil Society aims to advance socio-economic and environmental justice by developing critical knowledge about, for and in dialogue with civil society through teaching, research and publishing. Starting in August/September 2016, lasting 6 months, the Dennis Brutus Community Scholarship Initiative invites participation from active members of civil society organisations in KwaZulu-Natal, allowing for exchanges between CCS researchers and Civil SocietyMore
Debating extraction and climate change
Tensions between climate justice activists and NGOs Farai Maguwu and Christelle Terreblanche (CCS PhD students) and outgoing CCS Director Patrick Bond consider civil society narratives, strategies, tactics and alliances.More
Fighting Petmin coal in Somkhele, KZN, activists under attack
In the early hours of March 15, the day after a mass march against local elites, Bongani Pearce's vehicle was torched - possibly by allies of the coal company whose profits are being threatened by the Somkhele community, allied conservationists and climate activists More
A TRIBUTE TO MARTIN LEGASSICK (1940-2016)
ONE OF SOUTH AFRICA'S GREATEST POLITICAL ECONOMISTS More
SA budget a tragedy for poor and #FeesMustFall
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.More
World Bank again blindly endorses SA fiscal conservatism, ignoring civil society's more genuine anti-poverty activism
Reducing poverty and inequality has been the cornerstone of development policy in South Africa since the advent of democracy. Such goals gave impetus to the Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP), guiding government’s policy framework in 1994; they are the inspiration behind the National Development Plan of 2012. The government’s commitment to eliminate poverty is also reflected in fiscal policy: the equitable share formula, which is used to determine transfers to the different spheres of government, contains a poverty component as a redistributive measure.More
PARIS CLIMATE SUMMIT=WEATHER TERROR
Paris witnessed both explicit terrorism by religious extremists on November 13 and a month later, implicit terrorism by carbon addicts negotiating a world treaty that guarantees catastrophic climate change. The first incident left more than 130 people dead in just one evening’s mayhem; the second lasted a fortnight but over the next century can be expected to kill hundreds of millions, especially in Africa.More
CHIMUSORO SAM MOYO 1954-2015
The University of KwaZulu-Natal offers profound condolences to the family, loved ones and colleagues of Sam Moyo, a UKZN Centre for Civil Society Honorary Professor who died in New Delhi, India early on Sunday, November 22. Moyo, 61, was at the peak of his career, having recently presided over the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (2008-11). He had built up the Harare-based African Institute for Agrarian Studies as a leading site for research and teaching.More
#FeesMustFall at UKZN and nationally
The Centre for Civil Society is awed by the #FeesMustFall student protesters' moral power, and their courage to face South Africa's ongoing police brutality. A zero fee increase would cost R2 billion. Pay the future the money! More
THE BRICS BANK EMERGES IN RUSSIA
CCS book documents pro -West bias More
Inequality worsens in SA despite neoliberal spin
Debating the World Bank, IMF and SA Reserve Bank More
CCS co-hosts World Association for Political Economy
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When a community rejects mining, sparks fly
Nonhle Mbuthuma, a Brutus Community Scholar at CCS, has led a campaign to halt titanium mining - the world's tenth richest deposit - by an Australian mining house and its South African state and BEE allies. See the new film, read a new book and sign an Avaaz petitionMore
WORLD CUP 2010 BRIBERY REVELATIONS
FIFA's blatant corruption is finally a matter of world concern. But it is important to go beyond the petty $10 million bribe that bought the 2010 hosting. What of the other red cards for FIFA's destructive reign over South Africa?More
A 2015 climate justice strategy from CT to Tunis to Paris
Missing chances and repeating COP17 mistakes? The World Social Forum climate strategy session on March 23-24 was inspiring but raised the same thorny question the Cape Town Alternative Mining Indaba posed six weeks earlier: does civil society have its act together? More
Occupy Umlazi: Hesitant Steps Towards Political Ideology
by China Ngubane, published in Politikon In Umlazi we leared a variety of lessons from weeks of protest marred by state violence, followed by a Ward Committee election won by the Occupy movement. The ebb and flow of ideology is one such lesson: it is a necessary part of moving from local to global, to address both deep problems and the politicians who sustain them.More
South African oil spill pollutes rich whites’ playground
But suburban Durban’s disaster reveals wider planetary abuse and eco-racism By Patrick Bond Over the holiday season, the front pages of the newspapers in Durban – South Africa’s third-largest city – screamed out again and again about a diesel spill. In the suburb of Hillcrest on December 23, a Durban-Johannesburg pipeline operated by the giant parastatal firm Transnet gushed 220 000 liters into wealthy white residents’ gardens. More
Power cuts: muddle-through, meltdown or miracle?
As the South African state energy utility Eskom careens out of control, the coming fork in the road provides three distinct directions. More
Durban politics stressed to break-point, 5 December
PRESS CONFERENCE, 12PM At 12 noon (sharp), a press conference will be held at CCS offices on the 6th floor of Memorial Tower Building, in which media are invited to view the trashing of Patrick Bond's office. The incident was covered in the Mail & Guardian and EyeWitness News, but announcements will be made on aspects of the investigation not yet publicly revealed. (A press conference at Numsa head office in Johannesburg regarding the 'NumsaExposed' conspiracy document will occur at 10am on Wednesday - contact: Castro Ngobese CastroN@numsa.org.za )WORKSHOP: DURBAN POLITICS STRESSED TO BREAK-POINT Speakers: Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose, Shauna Mottiar, Themba Mchunu and China NgubaneDate: Friday, 5 December 2014Time: 12:30-16:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room 602, 6th Floor, MTB Tower, Howard College, UKZNMore
CLIMATE CRISIS at COP20: Let down in Lima
CCS masters student Mithika Mwenda leads Warsaw COP19 PanAfrican Climate Justice Alliance march contingent in 2013 Articles on the Green Climate Fund foiling civil society; carbon trading crashing; but the Climate Justice movement risingMore
Patrick Bond launches 3rd edition of Elite Transition in London
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Media independence under attack from vested interests
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TEACH-INS ON THE WORLD BANK 10 OCTOBER
For Immediate Release: Monday October 6, 2014join DURBAN, JOHANNESBURG and CAPE TOWN TEACH-INS about THE WORLD BANK in SOUTH AFRICA Friday, 10 October, noon-2pm Durban: UKZN Centre for Civil Society (6th floor, MTB, Howard College) Johannesburg: Earthlife Africa (87 De Korte Street, 5th Floor, Braamfontein) Cape Town: AIDC (129 Rochester Road, Observatory) Civil society, on the streets and at teach-ins, demands an end to World Bank biases South Africa’s teach-in on 10 October will be skype-cast, as ‘creative resistance’ begins at the World Bank Annual Meeting in Washington, and globally **#WorldvsBank | www.ourlandourbusiness.org ** More
Durban Water angers activists, impresses Stockholm judges
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REPORTS FROM THE 400 000-STRONG NYC CLIMATE MARCH
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PATRICK BOND ON MARIKANA
Patrick Bond's analysis of Marikana corporate mismanagement featured in international case study book More
CCS-Brazilian collaboration at BRICS Summit, Fortaleza
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Port petrochemical expansion threatens South Durban
A $25 billion-mega-project-mistake! More
CCS aids environmental-justice mapping project
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South African campaigner wins environmental prize
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Latest infrastructure debate: overpopulating SA's White Elephant herd?
The proposed Infrastructure Development Bill aims to fast-track the biggest money-wasting, eco-destructive projects in SA history, and to get this through parliament a strange alliance has emerged between the Minerals-Energy Complex and nationalists of different stripes. South Durban is one of the main sites of infrastructure inveigling, to the tune of R250 billion (before cost escalations).ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?11,65,3,3121 More
Tribute to the late President Nelson Mandela
On his political victory - and on the principled legacy he left for the rest of the justice agenda More at The Real News Patrick Bond interviewed by Jaisal Noor on the Real News Network 9 December 2013 More
In Prague, Patrick Bond debates political-economic-ecology
Coal-saturated Warsaw hosts ‘Conference of Polluters’, while South Africa increases greenhouse gas output More
Can BRICS rebuild collapsing global financial architecture?
In its most recent world public opinion survey, the Pew Research Centre found that only a third of South Africans identified ‘international financial instability’ as a major threat (third highest, after climate change and Chinese economic competition). But we should, because it is myopic to expect BRICS to deliver financial stability, much less developmental or environmental justice.More
Private sector corruption unveiled in Durban
Based on research drawing on both Durban business and resource extraction, CCS Visiting Scholar Sarah Bracking explores how corruption is framed by respondents and performed by market actors. New types of corruption have emerged due to the increasing complexity of the public-private boundary and the effects of more liberalized markets. Transparency initiatives are largely ineffective. What is acceptable behaviour in the private sector; what is a usable foundational morality? To reduce corruption, Bracking argues, requires that politicians and public sector workers register their private businesses and refrain from related trading; that the state distributes economic opportunity more widely; that political party financing is reformed; and that corporate law is changed to prevent new forms of corruption.More
What did Obama bring South Africa? Advice on gaming Africa!
US President Barack Barack Obama’s weekend trip to South Africa may have the desired effect of slowing the geopolitical realignment of Pretoria to the Brazil-India-Russia-China-South Africa (BRICS) axis. That shift to BRICS has not, however, meant deviation from the hosts’ political philosophy, argues Patrick BondMore
Ordinary Brazilians foot bill for Sepp Blatter to foot Fifa ball
Over the last fortnight, Brazil’s two million street protesters in 80 cities supporting the Free Fare Movement have declared how fed up they are with making multiple sacrifices to Brazilian neoliberalism as revitalized by one Sepp Blatter, the Swiss emperor of Fifa. We should take the opportunity to prod our own three-year-old memories here. After the giddy month of June-July 2010, our own World Cup hangover still requires maxi-strength aspirins for the crushing pain so many South Africans suffer, underfoot Blatter’s white elephant stadiums and elites-only infrastructure.More
Khadija Sharife contributes to debate on post-oil politics
Towards a Post-Oil Civilization. Yasunization and other initiatives to leave fossil fuels in the soil More
Climate funds - who will pay eco-debt?
Khadija Sharife: "Africa pays the price for parasitical and free-riding behaviour of carbon emitters, more so when the financial sector hijacks the path towards which developing nations will access climate funding, by using public funds for private investor interests."xx Sharife and Patrick Bond: "Should society instead move towards retributive payments for ‘ecological debt’ based on both ‘loss and damage’ accounting (introduced at the UNFCCC COP18 in Doha) and environmental justice, in order that the valuing of nature is limited to fines for damages and then prohibitions on further pollution."More
SOUTH DURBAN SURVIVAL (continued)
CCS Visiting Scholar Sarah Bracking: If an oil carrying ship hits the rocks off the Durban coast where I live it will cause a spill that will create many jobs, to pick up all the dead birds from the beaches up and down the coast. Economists who love capitalism do not see a problem with the consumer as shopping machine, because for them consumption contributes to job creation and economic growth, which they also see as completely problem free positive things. I don't.More
A reader for the Durban BRICS Summit
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Who should pay for climate damage?
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BRICS 'anti-imperialism' or 'subimperialism'?
Debate with Ebrahim Ebrahim draws out pro-BRICS journalist on whether critique is just 'old-style communist student politics.' More
McCord Hospital closure could kill
Our city has more HIV+ residents than any in the world, so last week’s news that a great hospital will close due to budget cuts is like a terrorist’s bomb exploding in the middle of town. More
Civil society tells energy regulator to reject Eskom prices
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The World Toilet Summit comes to Durban, December 2012
Durban’s Water Woes: Climate Chaos, Blue Flags Down, Neoliberal Loos, Fish Kills and Sewage Spills The commodification of crap and South Africa’s toilet apartheid DURBAN - This week’s World Toilet Summit offers an opportunity to contemplate how we curate our crap. Increasingly the calculus seems to be cash, generating contradictions ranging from local to global scales, across race, gender, generation and geography. Nowhere are they more evident than in the host city, my hometown of Durban . We’ve suffered an 18-year era of neoliberal-nationalist malgovernance including toilet apartheid , in the wake of more than 150 years of colonialism and straight racial-apartheid. More
Critical essays on South African Sub-Imperialism
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Hard lessons from Hurricane Sandy
Patrick Bond 5 November 2012 More
Who’s to blame for “blood diamond” regulation failure?
Anglo De Beers put in the frame The Kimberley Certification Process (KP) was ostensibly designed to keep “blood diamonds” off global markets. Not only has it failed to do so, but it is actively promoting the human rights atrocities it pledged to wipe out.More
Powerlessness, thanks to BHP Billiton
World's largest mining house gets cut-rate power price and huge profits, subsidised by the poor. The Marikana massacre has unveiled a mining-policing conspiracy against striking miners that links Lonmin shareholder Cyril Ramaphosa to Police Minister Nathi Mthetwa via incriminating emails. But this incident pales in comparison to the decades of damage done by malevolent power relations between BHP Billiton and Pretoria officials, relations that now seem to be shifting because of Eskom’s desperation.More
Washington in Africa, 2012
Who’ll get ‘whacked’ next, to hasten oil extraction and repel Chinese and Islamic threats? By Patrick Bond Address to the Muslim Youth Movement 40th Anniversary Conference University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 30 September 2012 More
MDGs are still 'Maximum Distraction Gimmicks'
if South Africa can't count its broken taps The 2012 Millennium Development Goals report warns that the 2015 deadline is fast approaching and in order to achieve outstanding goals, governments, the international community, civil society and the private sector need to intensify their contributions. South Africa is far away from meeting the deliverables of the Millennium Development Goals as there are no proper audit processes.A interview with Patrick Bond Listen to podcast More
Questions for the mall-builders
Shopping centres are a foolish, destructive investment destination This week, Durban’s International Convention Centre hosts 1300 delegates to a Shopping Centre Congress sponsored by one of South Africa’s most environmentally-destructive financial institutions. (As the country’s second largest coal lender and a proponent of failed carbon trading, also known as the “privatisation of the air”, Nedbank advertises extra aggressively to brainwash us into thinking it’s a “green” bank.) More
Jim Yong Kim Comes To Joburg
Kim's trip to South Africa was just a PR exercise for the World Bank The World Bank president promoted coal, private sector investments and outsourcing, none of which are in the interests of the people of South AfricaMore
Pollution-intensive planning a source of endless conflict
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China Ngubane reports from Durban's latest service delivery protest
Pictures from Mariannridge taken on Wednesday, 25 July. Most of the roads were cleared but it is evident that the protest was big and well organized. More
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Events Index 2017
Mhlobo Gunguluzi and Thabane Miya Centre for Civil Society and Right2Know Campaign Seminar: The Right to Protest, 27 July 2017
Bandile Mdlalose, Daniel Dunia and Nisha Naidoo , The Peoples Economic Forum Responds to the World Economic Forum, 1 June 2017
Mvu Ngcoya, Rozena Maart, Shaun Ruggunan, Mershen Pillay Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Decolonising Curricula, 25 May 2017
Peter Sutoris , Environmental Activism and Environmental Education: (De) Politicising Struggles in India and South Africa, 18 May 2017
Lubna Nadvi, Lukhona Mnguni, Shauna Mottiar, The April 7th Protests, 20 April 2017
John Devenish , CCS Seminar: The use of interactive maps and scatter graphs to study protest in the BRICS countries, 13 April 2017
Shauna Mottiar, Mvuselelo Ngcoya BOOK LAUNCH: Philanthropy in South Africa - Horizontality, ubuntu and social justice, 22 March 2017
Peter McKenzie Photo Exhibition - Durbanity, 09 March 2017
Elisabet Van Wymeersch On change, conflicts and planning theory: the transformative potential of disruptive contestation, 2 March 2017
Daniel Byamungu Dunia , Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) Community Building Workshop: CRIMINALISATION OF HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH , 24 February 2017
Jasper Finkeldey, Centre for Civil Society Seminar: (No) Limits to extraction? Popular Mobilization and the Impacts of the Extractive Industries in KZN, 9 February 2017
Bandile Mdlalose, New Urban Agenda’ – Report Back from Habitat III, United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development Ecuador, 28 November
Patrick Bond , From Trump to BRICS, where is civil society headed? 18 November
Gerard Boyce , Arguments in favour of putting the South African government's nuclear plans to a popular referendum, 28 October
Duduzile Khumalo, Sibongile Buthelezi, Cathy Sutherland, Vicky Sim , Social constructions of environmental services in a rapidly densifying peri-urban area under dual governance in eThekwini Municipality, 26 October
Alex Hotz CCS Seminar: Challenging Secrecy and Surveillance: Building Anti-Surveillance Activism, 19 August
Itai Kagwere, Daniel Byamungu Dunia and Gabriel Hertis CCS Seminar: Challenges of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in South Africa, 26 August
Delwyn Pillay CCS Seminar: Sight on the target: Tackling destructive fishing, 12 August
Carolijn van Noort CCS Seminar: “Strategic narratives of infrastructural development: is BRICS modernizing the tale?”, 26 July
CCS Co-Hosts : The Governance and Politics of HIV AIDS, 19 July
Moises Arce CCS Seminar: The Political Consequences of Mobilizations against Resource Extraction, 12 July
Zimbabwe's Despondent Political Economy - a Durban workshop to honour Sam Moyo 13-14 June 2016
Patrick Bond gives political economy lecture to Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Women in Business Forum, 26 April 2016
CCS hosts mining critics for press conference, 7 April
Assassination in Xolobeni: Film screening and memorial meeting for Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, 6 April
Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia launch BRICS in Toronto, 31 March
Akin Akikboye CCS Seminar: KZN's Internally Displaced People, 31 March
Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia present critique of world ports, New York, 30 March
Dieter Lünse CCS Seminar: Strength of nonviolent action, 22 March
Hafsa Kanjwal CCS Seminar: India in Turmoil, 23 March
Patrick Bond testifies at public hearing on Transnet's South Durban plans, 21 March
Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and Pan-Africanism, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 15 March
Yaa Ashantewaa K. Archer-Ngidi CCS Seminar: The role of Black women in liberation, 10 March
Patrick Bond reports on research into urban economic and ecological violence, IDRC & UKAID conference, Johannesburg, 8 March
Patrick Bond addresses Women in Mining (Womin) conference on movement building, Johannesburg, 7 March
Allen & Barbara Isaacman CCS Seminar: Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development, 4 March
Patrick Bond presents South Durban paper in Merebank, 2 March
Andrew Lawrence CCS Seminar: Why nuclear energy is bad for South Africa, bad for the world—and how it can be opposed, 29 February 2016
China Ngubane , Chumile Sali & Dalli Weyers CCS Seminar: Social Justice Coalition Citizen Oversight of Policing in Khayelitsha Court Case Presentation, 26 February
CCS hosts groundWork, SDCEA and FrackFreeSA for climate and energy workshop, 25 February
Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Can the SA budget afford #FeesMustFall demands and other social spending? 23 February
Patrick Bond joins Mondli Hlatshwayo & Aziz Choudry to launch Just Work, Ike's Books, 22 February
Peter Cole CCS Seminar: A History of Dockers, Social Movements and Transnational Solidarity in Durban and San Francisco, 17 February
Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS at Univ of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 15 February
Delwyn Pillay, Jorim Gerrad, Madaline George & Nozipho Mkhabela CCS Seminar: A return to MUTOKO, Zimbabwe, 10 February
Nick Turse CCS Seminar: AFRICOM’s New Math and “Scarier” Times Ahead in Africa, 5 February
Menzi Maseko & Mandla Mbuyisa CCS Seminar: Black Consciousness, Fees Must Fall and Lessons from the Life of Ongkopotse Tiro, 1 February
Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane & Daniel Dunia CCS Seminar: Central African and Zimbabwean geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society II, 27 January
Patrick Bond keynote at Tata Institute Development Studies conference, 23 January
Patrick Bond, Thando Manzi, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane present urban analysis at Tata Institute, Mumbai, 19-22 January
Patrick Bond, Achin Vanaik, Ajay Patnaik & Alka Acharya launch BRICS book, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 18 January
Gabriel Hertis, China Ngubane, Daniel Dumia & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: African geopolitics and their implications for Durban civil society I, 11 January
Events Index 2015
CCS students Boaventura Monjane, Mithika Mwenda, Tabitha Spence & Celia Alario at the COP21 climate summit, Paris, 1-12 December
Jorim Gerrard & Paul Steffen CCS Seminar: Influencing society's views of refugees, 9 December
Workshop on Climate Change and Environmental Justice with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, 7-10 December
Ashwin Desai, Betty Govinden, Crispin Hemson & Andile Mngxitama CCS Seminar: The Gandhi debate, 27 November
Stefano Battain & Daniela Biocca CCS Seminar: Alternative development or alternative to development? 27 November
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 launches BRICS book in New York 19 October
Patrick Bond delivers keynote at Cyprus conference on mining and sustainable development, 16 October
Brian Minga Anza, Mwamba Kalombo Thithi & Sinqobangaye Magestic Pro Sibisi CCS Seminar: Creative challenges to xenophobia, 15 October 2015
Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Inequality, the criminalisation of protest and internecine social conflict, 9 October
Patrick Bond delivers sustainability keynote to SA Public Health Association conference, 8 October
Patrick Bond debates UN Sustainable Development Goals, ClassicFM, Johannesburg, 1 October
Patrick Bond talks on African uprisings at Mapungubwe Institute, Pretoria, 30 September
Patrick Bond debates Africa in the world economy, Channel Africa, Johannesburg, 29 September
Ana Garcia presents BRICS critique at Geopolitical Economy conference, Winnipeg, 26 September
Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth in Berlin, 16 September
CCS welcomes World Social Science Forum to Durban, with talks by Vuyiseka Dubula, Patrick Bond & others in CCS, 13 - 16 September
CCS welcomes Codesria and WSSF to Ike's Books, 12 September
CCS hosts the South-South Institute during the World Social Science Forum, 10-18 September
Patrick Bond lectures at Codesria/Osisa Economic Justice Institute, 8-9 September
Patrick Bond, Boaventura Monjane & Mithika Mwenda at Africa Climate Talks, Dar es Salaam, 3-5 September
Vladimir Slivyak What's wrong with Russia's nuclear energy deal-making? 4 September
John Devenish CCS Seminar: Mapping social unrest in South Africa, 1 September
Patrick Bond lectures on climate and deglobalisation alternatives at Attac University, Marseille, 26 August
Patrick Bond lecture on legacy of Rosa Luxemburg at New School for Social Research, New York, 21 August
China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia as symptom, 20 August
Justine van Rooyen CCS Seminar: The Social Inclusion/Exclusion of Intersex South Africans, 12 August
Patrick Bond keynote speech at BRICS-in-Africa conference, Livingstone, 7-11 August
Patrick Bond and Sam Moyo speak at Trust Africa conference on Illicit Financial Flows, Harare, 3 August
Patrick Bond delivers paper on climate and the blue economy, Wits University, 2 August
Patrick Bond in economic debate at M&G; Literary Festival, Johannesburg, 1 August
Yaa Ashantewaa Ngidi CCS Seminar: The state of the Pan Africanist movement, 30 July
Ryan Solomon CCS Seminar: Belonging, inclusion and South African civil society in the campaigns against AIDS and xenophobia, 29 July
Patrick Bond moderates UKZN College of Humanities debate on xenophobia and higher ed transformation, 28 July
Lloyd Sachikonye CCS Seminar: Social research and civil society in Zimbabwe, 28 July
Patrick Bond & Mithika Mwenda at Climate Futures symposium, Italy, 13-17 July
China Ngubane, Bandile Mdlalose & Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: The state of social activism against xenophobia, human rights violations and mining exploitation - three case sites, 3 July
CCS co-hosts (with Chris Hani Institute) World Association for Political Economy, Johannesburg, 19-21 June
CCS workshop with ASONET, Action Support Centre and South African Liaison Office, on South Africa, Peace and Security in the post-2015 Development Agenda, 10-11 June
CCS/ASONET workshop on xenophobia, 5 June
Alf Nilsen launches his book We Make Our Own History , at Ike's Books, 4 June
Patrick Bond addresses civil society electricity crisis summit on load-shedding, Johannesburg, 2 June
Patrick Bond talks on extractivism, BRICS sub-imperialism and South Africa at Left Forum, New York, 30-31 May
China Ngubane, Gabriel Hertis, Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Persistent Durban xenophobia and Operation Fiela, 20 May
CCS hosts Colgate University students for social movement research, June
Nonhle Mbuthuma CCS Seminar: Xolobeni mining, unobtanium-titanium battle update, 14 May
Patrick Bond lecture on carbon markets and climate debt, Gyeongsang University, Jinju, Korea, 12 May
Patrick Bond speaks on South African political economy, Hong Kong Reader bookshop, 11 May
Gcina Makoba , Bandile Mdlalose & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Rhodes' walls must fall! 30 April
CCS Film Screening: The GAMA Strike A victory for all workers, 24 April
Patrick Bond lectures on degrowth and the green economy, Berlin, 21 April
Faith ka Manzi & Bandile Mdlalose at Climate Justice strategy meeting, Maputo, April 21-23
Paul Kariuki, Bandile Mdlalose, China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Durban, 14 April
CCS joins Greenpeace and R2K in solidarity meeting with Somkhele coal victims, northern KZN, 12 April
China Ngubane & Jean-Pierre Lukamba CCS Seminar: Xenophobia in Isipingo, 7 April
Patrick Bond lecture on water commodification and resistance at Zimbabwe Sustainable Economics Forum, Harare, 9 April
Alice Thomson , Desmond D’Sa & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Liberal and radical approaches to Environmental Justice campaigning, 1 April
Patrick Bond speaks on coalitions for national economic sovereignty, World Social Forum, University of Tunis el Manar, 25 March
Akin Akiboye & Jorim Gerrard CCS Seminar: Xenophobia and displacement, 17 March
Sofie Hellberg CCS Seminar: Water, life and politics in Durban, 10 March
Faith kaManzi, Nonhle Mbuthuma, Melissa Hansen & others International Women’s Day at the UKZN Centre for Civil Society: Resistance to Resource Cursing in KZN, the Eastern Cape and the DRC, 9th March
Israeli Apartheid Week Events 2 - 8 March
Baruti Amisi and Boaventura Monjane speak at US Power Africa conference, University of Illinois, 2-4 March
Baruti Amisi, Gerard Boyce & Patrick Bond CCS Workshop: 'False solutions' to climate and energy crises, 26 February
Carlos Cardoso CCS Seminar: Knowledge production and intellectual formation in Africa from Codesria's perspective, 20 February
Benny Wenda CCS Seminar: The campaign to free West Papua, 19 February
Gcina Makoba & Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Campaigning against coal in KZN, 18 February
Patrick Bond debates BRICS sherpa Anil Sooklal, UCT Centre for Conflict Resolution, 16 February
Desmond D'Sa, David Le Page, Bhavna Deonarain, Winnie Mdletshe & others: Launch of Fossil Free KZN, 13 February
Angus Joseph CCS Seminar: Climate justice and solidarity from Lima to Paris, 13 February
Nhamo Chikowore & China Ngubane Zimbabwe's new conjuncture and SA's new xenophobia, 6 February
Baruti Amisi, Brain Amza & and Jacky Kabidu DRC uprising, repression and solidarity, 5 February
Chris Coward CCS Seminar: New spaces of social activism, 28 January
Immanuel Ness CCS Seminar: Lessons from the labour movements of China and India, 27 January
Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Electricity crisis scenarios, 20 January
Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Oil spills, coal digs, resource cursing and resistance, 12 January
Events Index 2014
Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: United Front Preparatory Assembly assessment, 22 December
Thando Manzi, Au Loong Yu & John Devenish CCS Seminar: BRICS-from-below struggles for justice, 19 December
CCS hosts South Durban climate camp, 8-11 December
Patrick Bond, Bandile Mdlalose, Shauna Mottiar, Themba Mchunu & China Ngubane CCS press conference and workshop: Durban politics stressed to break-point, 5 December
Mondli Hlatshwayo CCS Seminar: Organised labour's losses since 1994, worker-community relations after 2014, 28 November
Patrick Bond critiques World Bank at UWC poverty conference, 27 November
CCS hosts launch of Fossil Free South Africa, 27 November
Faith ka-Manzi debates SA social protest at Gumede Lecture, Durban History Museum, 27 November
Melissa Hansen CCS Seminar: Struggles over conservation space in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, 24 November
Patrick Bond lectures on Africa's Resource Curse, Stellenbosch University, 20 November
Vuyiseka Dubula , Faith ka-Manzi & Mzamo Zondi CCS Seminar: Treatment Action Campaign reaches the knife-edge, 18 November, 2014
CCS hosts Durban environmental network, 15 November
Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: Learning and research in social movements, 14 November
Aziz Choudry CCS Seminar: NGOization, 'civil society' and social change: Complicity, contradictions and prospects, 13 November
Gun Free South Africa workshop with CCS, 12 November
Creesen Naicker CCS Seminar: Sport for Development in South Africa, 11 November
Patrick Bond joins SA panel at Historical Materialism conference, London, 7 November
Patrick Bond lectures on neoliberalism and social policy at South-South Institute in Bangkok, 5 November
Patrick Bond keynote address on African IT, to the International Development Informatics Association, 3 November
Patrick Bond debates GDP with SA government, Pretoria, 31 October
Patrick Bond debates GDP reform at University of Pretoria, 28 October
China Ngubane and Patrick Bond at UKZN Geography workshop on community politics, 24 October
CCS hosts CT Social Justice Coalition training on sanitation advocacy, 22 October
CCS hosts Greenpeace film on climate and Arctic oil, Black Ice, 14 October
Diana Buttu CCS Seminar: The situation in Palestine, 8 October
Mithika Mwenda lecture on climate justice at Climate Change and Development Conference, Morocco, 7 October
Stefan Cramer CCS Seminar on Karoo fracking, 7 October
Omar Shaukat CCS Seminar: Thinking through ISIS, 1 October
Patrick Bond lecture on SA social policy at University of Burgundy, Dijon, 25 September
Patrick Bond debates Mark Weisbrot on BRICS at IPS, Washington, 23 September
Mithika Mwenda and Patrick Bond talk on climate justice, Converge for Climate at Graffiti Church, New York City, 20 September
Awethu! network meets at CCS, 20 September
Patrick Bond lecture on South Africa at City University of New York, 18 September
John Saul and Patrick Bond launch books at Cape Town Open Book Fair, 17 September
The UKZN Centre for Civil Society and Palestine Solidarity Forum host a Gaza Documentary Screening, 11 September
Gcina Makoba update on recyclables project in Inanda, 15 September
Patrick Bond debates the causes and implications of Marikana at the Durban Democracy and Development Programme, 10 September
Mnikeni Phakathi & Asha Moodley CCS Seminar (with the Right to Know Campaign): Student Protest at UKZN 2014, 5 September
Patrick Bond debates climate and energy at Univ of Leipzig 'Degrowth' conference, Germany, 5 September
Gcina Makoba & Patrick Bond Durban water and sanitation policies, projects and politics, 1 September
Patrick Bond input on BRICS at Centre for Conflict Resolution seminar, Pretoria, 31 August
Patrick Bond on Resource Curses and antidotes, at Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Maputo, 28 August
China Ngubane & Sizwe Shiba Southern African people's solidarity dynamics, 28 August
Patrick Bond lecture on South Durban strategy, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, 22 August
Patrick Bond lecture on SA political economy at Chinese Academy of Marxism, Beijing, 20 August
Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Climate change and global policy battles, 15 August
Niall Reddy CCS Seminar: BRICS after Fortaleza, 14 August
Ilan Pappé Dennis Brutus Memorial Lecture: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine, 5 August
UKZN CCS Masters Student Mithika Mwenda testifies on Climate Justice on Our Common Planet, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, 4 August
Loraine Dongo & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Climate, oil and activism in South Africa, 31 July
Patrick Bond debates Intensive Energy User Group's Shaun Nel on energy, SAfm, 23 July
Patrick Bond debates SACP's Alex Mashilo on SA politics, SA Democratic Teachers Union KZN Province, Durban, 24 July
Susan Spronk Contesting Water Privatisation through an Efficiency Narrative, 23 July
Matt Meyer The State of the Art in Non-violent Civil Disobedience, 22 July
Patrick Bond discusses infrastructure finance, Fortaleza, 15 July
CCS-Brazilian collaboration at the 2014 BRICS Summit, 14-16 July in Fortaleza
Patrick Bond debates JP Landman on SA poli econ, Ike's Books, 9 July
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
Patrick Bond addresses PanAfrican Climate Justice Alliance challenges, Dakar, 10 February
China Ngubane addresses conference on Community Serving Humanity, UKZN, 12 February
Vishwas Satgar runs workshop on the United Front approach, 30 January
Patrick Bond addresses Numsa shopstewards on economic crises, Johannesburg, 25 January
Patrick Bond testifies to Parliament against mega-projects, 16 January
Shauna Mottiar Protest and participation in Cato Manor, Merebank and Wentworth, 15 January
Patrick Bond lecture on development and political economy and method, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine, 6 January
Events Index 2013
China Ngubane and Patrick Bond speak at the People's Dialogue BRICS strategy session, Johannesburg, 10-12 December
Thando Manzi and Patrick Bond discuss Durban slum research at the Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, 10 December
Patrick Bond, Farai Maguwu and Khadija Sharife testify to African Union commission against corruption, Arusha, 7 December
Mithika Mwenda CCS Seminar: Report-back from Warsaw climate summit, 6 December
Patrick Bond debates natural capital and GDP at Wits University, Johannesburg, 5 December
CCS hosts Democracy from Below citizenship movement 30 November - 1 December
Giuliano Martinello CCS Seminar: Dispossession and resistance to SA agribusiness in the new scramble for Southern and Eastern African land, 28 November
Patrick Bond at South Durban BRICS-from-below campaign against port-petrochemical expansion, Wentworth, 27 November
Film Screenings: Non-Violence as a Strategy for Social Change: CCS Seminar room, 19 September, 17 October, 21 November
Patrick Bond debates climate and capitalism at COP19 in Warsaw, 17 November
CCS participates in South Durban People's Climate Camp, 14-17 November
Patrick Bond lectures on global finance in Brussels, 13-15 November
Patrick Bond presents on Commoning, Rights and Praxis at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, 8 November
Patrick Bond public lecture on the New Africa Scramble in Berlin, 7 November
Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Financial crises and social resistance, from household to global scales, 6 November
Gcina Makoba & Muna Lakhani CCS Seminar: Mapping Waste From Cradle to Grave: the Inkanyezi Community Recyclers and Global Zero-Waste Movement, 31 October
CCS founder Adam Habib launches South Africa's Suspended Revolution, Ike's Books, 29 October
Brutus Memorial Debate: "From democracy to kleptocracy", 26 October
Faith Manzi CCS Seminar: The Anatomy of a Cato Manor 'Popcorn Protest', 24 October
Patrick Bond critiques financial markets at Unemployment Insurance Fund board meeting, 15 October
Waldemar Diener CCS Seminar: Cartooning race and class after Marikana, 10 October
Molaudi Sekake , Christelle Terreblanche & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Commoning as an antidote to uneven development in Southern Africa, 9 October
CCS PhD student Vuyiseka Dubula leads AIDS research workshop, Johannesburg, 4 October
CCS co-organises workshop on 'Beyond Uneven Development' in Maputo, 1-3 October
Patrick Bond on Durban's urban neoliberalism, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, NYC, 29 September
Margherita di Paola Film Screening - On the Art of War, 20 September
Patrick Bond speaks on the World Economic Crisis and BRICS, at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 13 September
Patrick Bond speaks at 'Rising Powers' workshop, Fudan University, Shanghai, 12 September
Patrick Bond at Shanghai Academy of Social Science, 11 September
Patrick Bond lecture on geopolitics at Institute for International Relations, Prague, 9 September
Patrick Bond at G20 Post-Globalisation Initiative G20 counter-summit, St Petersburg/Moscow, 2-6 September
Geoff Harris & Sylvia Kaye CCS Seminar: Nonviolence in social-change strategy and tactics, 30 August
Patrick Bond on BRICS and 'natural capital' at Centre for Natural Resource Governance, Harare, 29 August
Khadija Sharife at 'No REDD in Africa Network,' Maputo, 27-29 August
China Ngubane helps launch Diakonia's KZN School of Activism, Albert Falls, 27 August
Patrick Bond at Durban Flatdwellers conference, 24 August
China Ngubane, Joy Mabenge & Tafadzwa Maguchu Regional and Zimbabwean civil society challenged, 22 August
Ed Harriman, Khadija Sharife & Sarah Bracking CCS Workshop: Corruption, corporate bribery, arms deals and social critique, 21 August
Simphiwe Nojiyeza & Richard Kamidza CCS Seminar: Neoliberal water, neoliberal trade, 19 August
Patrick Bond debates BRICS, UKZN Student Union, 14 August
Simphiwe Magwaza, Simangele Manzi, Thando Manzi, Niki Moore, Knut Nustad, Jabulile Wanda & Philani Zulu CCS seminar on Cato Manor politics, Thursday, 15 August
Patrick Bond discusses SA's economic crisis at National Union of Metalworkers, Johannesburg, 8 August
Christine Jeske CCS Seminar: Social conceptualizations of work, unemployment, and blame in KwaZulu-Natal, 6 August
Larry Swatuk CCS Seminar on water resource conflicts, 1 August
Lorenzo Fioramonti Centre for Civil Society Seminar: Gross Domestic Problem, 18 July 2013
CCS hosts Open Society's Sustainable Development course for Southern Africa, 15-27 July
Faith ka-Manzi, Anne-Marie Debbané & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar on Durban hotspots (Cato Manor service delivery and South Durban privatised wastewater and port/petrochem expansion), 10 July
Thamsanqa Mthembu & Hylton Alcock Video Screening: Participatory video as a tool for social transformation, 4 July
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja CCS Seminar: Southern Africa and the Challenge of the Congo, 27 June
Patrick Bond debates Blade Nzimande on 21st Century Socialism, Chris Hani Institute, Johannesburg, 25 June
Khadija Sharife and Shauna Mottiar Analysis of illicit flight presented at the UN Economic Commission on Africa conference on illicit capital flight, Lusaka, 18 June
China Ngubane & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The state of eco-social justice campaigning in East Asia and the Americas, 18 June
Patrick Bond at Ecuador conference on eco/economic crises, Quito, 12 June
Patrick Bond at Left Forum,New York City, 7-9 June
Patrick Bond lecture on Enviro Impact Assessments at Savannah School of Law in Georgia, 6 June
Amanda Huron , Amanda Thomas & Victoria Habermehl CCS Seminar: Geographies of Justice: experiences from three continents, 3 June
China Ngubane speaks at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development counter-summit, 1 June
Nik Theodore & China Ngubane CCS Seminar: Migration and the Struggle for Urban Space, from Chicago to Durban, 28 May
CCS hosts Antipode Institute for the Geographies of Justice, 27 May to 1 June
Abby Neely CCS Seminar: Local Biologies, and ART Protocols: A Political Ecology of Tuberculosis and the Body, 24 May
Silke Trommer CCS Seminar: Transformations in Trade Politics - Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa, 23 May
Patrick Bond at AIDC National Development Plan seminar, Cape Town 22 May
Thuli Hlela CCS Seminar: Mapping Water/Sanitation Services in KwaNyuswa, Valley of 1000 Hills, 21 May
China Ngubane participates in the Gumede Lecture Series 17 May
Maia Green CCS Seminar: Youth empowerment on South Africa's Wild Coast, 14 May
Patrick Bond talk on African poli-econ at OilWatch-Africa conference, Johannesburg, 13 May
China Ngubane, Joy Mabenge & Tafadzwa Maguchu CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe's Election Preparations and Civil Society Politics, 10 May
Blessing Karumbidza CCS Seminar: Government Clumsiness in Rural Entrepreneurial and Coop Support, 30 April
Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond presentation on climate finance at SADC Basic Income Group strategic workshop, 25 April, Johannesburg
Sarah Bracking & Patrick Bond at SDCEA workshop, Clairwood, 20 April
Patrick Bond, Des D'Sa, Megan Lewis, China Ngubane and Bobby Peek CCS Seminar: Assessing BRICS, Friday 19 April
Patrick Bond paper on geopolitics at Univ of California-Riverside, 13 April
Patrick Bond presents on South Durban to Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 10 April
Patrick Bond on territorial alliances at International Studies Association, 6 April
Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: UMkhumbane (Cato Manor) ilokishi elithuthuka ngamandla kodwa elibhekene nezingqinamba ezahlukahlukene, 5 April
Patrick Bond on 'Making of Global Capitalism', International Studies Association, 4 April
Patrick Bond presentation on BRICS at International Studies Association, San Francisco, 3 April
Patrick Bond lectures on BRICS and the Dennis Brutus legacy, University of Pittsburgh, 2 April
Patrick Bond on skype to World Social Forum, 28 March
Ondøej Horký-Hlucháò CCS Seminar: The depoliticisation of civil society in post-communism, 28 March
BRICS EVENTS 22 -27 MARCH
Ashwin Desai & Kagiso Molope seminar on SA oppressions, 22 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
Bill Carroll CCS Seminar: Global corporate power and a new transnational capitalist class? 17 January
Patrick Bond testimony to NERSA against Eskom price hikes, Durban, 17 January
Don Chen CCS Seminar: Smart growth, urban equality and environmental justice, 16 January
Bill Carroll CCS Seminar: Research institutes dedicated to social justice - a global survey, 15 January
Mfundo Mtshwelo CCS Seminar: New critiques of South Africa's ruling party post-Mangaung, 11 January (Cancelled)
Events Index 2012
Phillip Lühl & Guillermo Delgado CCS Seminar: Unitary urbanism, towards maximal difference, 8 January
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
Patrick Bond on BRICS/G20 at SA Forum for International Solidarity, Johannesburg, 14 November
Ruth Castel-Branco CCS Seminar - Why unions still matter: the case of domestic worker organizing in Maputo, 8 November
CCS cohosts State of Zimbabwe Transition, Diakonia, 2 November
Liane Greeff CCS Seminar: ‘You can’t have your gas and drink your water!’ - the incompatibility of fracking to water rights, 29 October
Patrick Bond with Helmi Shawary at the Jozi Book Fair on Fanon in contemporary Africa, 28 October
Thami Mbatha, Faith ka-Manzi, China Ngubane & Percy Ngonyama Ukucwaswa kwabokufika (CCS seminar on xenophobia, in isiZulu) 26 October
Patrick Bond on Marikana narratives, at Leeds University School of Politics and African Studies, 26 October
Patrick Bond on South Africa resource cursed, at Manchester University Development Studies, 26 October
Patrick Bond skype lecture to ClimateMediaFactory, Berlin, 25 October
Patrick Bond on the Politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, at Limerick University, 24 October
Ewok's 'Letters to Dennis' at Poetry Africa, 19 October
Allan Kolski Horwitz Kebbleism, politics and art, 19 October
Philo Ikonya Centre for Civil Society and Centre for Creative Arts Seminar: Are there limits to the freedom of expression? 16 October
Patrick Bond debates Brazilians on the World Cup and human rights, Sao Paolo, 15 October
Maia Green CCS Seminar: Love and Power on the Wild Coast, 15 October
David van Wyk & Chris Molebatsi CCS Seminar: Marikana: Why? What next? 9 October
Peace Workshop, 4 October
Muhammed Desai seminar on Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel, 2 October
Patrick Bond plenary address to Muslim Youth Movement 40th conference, 30 September
Patrick Bond on MDGs, Redi Tlabi Radio 702 show, 25 September
Patrick Bond debates KZN provincial planner, 25 September
GreenSquad Alliance sponsors Nonviolence training, 21 September
Patrick Bond speaks on Resource-Cursed Southern Africa in Harare, 18 September
CCS film screening about 'post'-shopping, 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
Patrick Bond debates Pravin Gordhan on South Durban's port expansion, Clairwood, 1 September
Jonathan Nkala CCS anti-xenophobia drama: The Crossing, 1 September
Youngsu Kim Trade union politics in South Africa and South Korea, 31 August
Patrick Bond on SA transition at Arab Spring conference, Pretoria, 30 August
Patrick Bond paper on environmental and social rights at Christian Michelsen Institute workshop, Norway, 27 August
Molefi Ndlovu on Qwasha! Durban street narratives about COP17, Christian Michelsen Institute, Norway, 26 August
Environmental Teach-In, 25 August
Delwyn Pillay, Dimple Deonath & Vanessa Black South Durban civil society confronts Back of Port planning, 23 August
Sarah Bracking CCS Seminar: Contesting the frontiers of value in society, nature and capitalism, RESCHEDULED FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER FROM 22 August
Patrick Bond lecture on White Elephants to S.Durban Community Environmental Alliance at Austerville Community Centre, 21 August
Nonhle Mbuthuma, John Clarke & Luc Hoebeke CCS Seminar: Avatar on the Wild Coast - lessons from Xolobeni against national and global commodification, 21 August
CCS brainstorm on Marikana Massacre, 21 August
Michael Dorsey CCS Seminar: Can the Green Climate Fund provide appropriate finance to Africa? 20 August
Percy Nhau CCS Seminar: Implications of the Secrecy Bill for Academic Research, 16 August 2012
Farai Maguwu & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: Democratic Transitions from Top Down and Bottom Up: Prospects in Zimbabwe, 15 August
Faith ka-Manzi CCS Seminar: Izingqinamba ngezemvelo zaseThekwini, 8 August
Neima Adamo, Sergio Brito, Ester Uamba, Patrick Bond & Dimple Deonath CCS Seminar: Climate, water and destructive development from Maputo to South Durban, 3 August
CCS celebrates Brutus legacy at From Roots to Fruits non-violence conference, Durban Univ of Technology, 1 August
Matt Meyer & Elavie Ndura CCS Seminar: Nonviolent pedagogies of Africa's oppressed, from South Africa to the Great Lakes, 31 July 2012
Ravindra Kumar CCS Seminar: Gandhi, Democracy and Fundamental Rights, 30 July
Patrick Bond lecture on African political economy to Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg, 26 July
Ewok does Durban (with a French connection) UKZN Jazz Centre, 6pm, 25 July
Peter Muzambwe & Dean Chahim CCS Seminar: Solidarities of international urban residents and 'development' students, 25 July 2012
Terri Barnes CCS Seminar: Gender, autobiography and social justice, 24 July
Jim Kilgore CCS Seminar: Freedom never rests, when it comes to water commodification and service delivery protests, 23 July
Jim Kilgore meets Zimbabweans in central Durban, 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
Patrick Bond on SA subimperialism and resistance, Rio+20 Intercoll.net seminar, 21 June
Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu, Niall McNulty & Lwazi Gwijane CCS Seminar: QWASHA! An online archive of community digital content, 21 June 2012
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
Patrick Bond at the Building and Wood Workers International debate on Green Economy and Sustainable Development, 11 June, Rio de Janeiro
Fidelis Allen & Khadija Sharife CCS Seminar: CDM cannot deliver: Lessons from Nigeria, 11 June
Michela Gallo CCS Seminar: Zimbabwean civil society in South Africa, 7 June
Patrick Bond speaks at faculty strike support committee, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 6 June
Patrick Bond lecture on carbon trading at the Brazilian Society of Political Economy, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, 5 June
Patrick Bond on debt crises at Queens University, Canada, 30 May
Dennis Brutus Memorial Debate: Durban's Corruptions & Disruptions , 24 May
Maria Schuld CCS Seminar: Small wars ‑ A micro‑level analysis of violence in KwaZulu‑Natal, 17 May
Iain Ewok Robinson MCs the Brutus Sessions, 16 May
Patrick Bond on 'Imperial and subimperial interests in neoliberalised nature', keynote address at Sussex Univ SouthGovNet conference, Brighton, 16-17 May
Patrick Bond booklaunch on climate justice at Bookmarks, London, 14 May
Film & discussion on Genetic Engineering hosted by Green Squad Alliance, 11 May
Sasha Kramer & Anthony Kilbride CCS Seminar: Improving access to sanitation on a global scale, 10 May
Khadija Sharife talks on Tax Justice to the Economic Justice Network, Cape Town, 9 May
China Ngubane & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The Africa People's Charter, Zimbabwe People's Convention Charter and South African Reconstruction and Development Programme, 7 May
Patrick Bond skype lecture on media and climate policy, Bergen, Norway, 7 May
Patrick Bond unpacks eco-imperialism at People's Dialogue 'Green Economy' seminar, Johannesburg, 5 May
Patrick Bond at Comrade Babble play on Kebbleism, Johannesburg, 5 May
Durban can 'connect‑the‑dots' to climate change with 350.org, 5 May
Nosipho Mngoma , Percy Nhau and Murray Hunter CCS seminar on Right2Know for researchers and journalists, 4 May
Patrick Bond skype lecture on Green Capitalism to Rhodes Univ, 3 May
Ransom Lekunze CCS Seminar: Implications of global economic crisis for Africa, 25 April
Patrick Bond talks to Hospice AGM on 'From Caring about Stuff to Caring about Caring' , 25 April
CCS participates in the Global Teach - In 25 April
Michele Maynard CCS Seminar: African climate change and carbon trading politics, 23 April
Fidelis Allen at the Social Theory Forum at Univ.Massachusetts/Boston, 19 April
Baruti Amisi CCS Seminar: Will the Inga Hydropower Project meet Africa’s electricity needs?, 20 April
Trevor Ngwane CCS Seminar: Ideology, agency and protest politics, 18 April
Fidelis Allen & Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: The World Bank presidential race - African interests and personality profiles, 11 April
CCS Seminar: Dennis Brutus' life and times - film documentaries and discussion, 10 April
Molefi Ndlovu at Young Adult Review workshop of COP 17, South Durban Community and Environmental Alliance, 4 April
CCS Seminar: 'Occupy': what kind of social movement is it?, 3 April
Jens Andvig, Tiberius Barasa, Stein Sundstøl Eriksen, Sanjay Kumar, Faith Manzi & Knut Nustad CCS Seminar: Slums, states and citizens in Durban, Nairobi Delhi, 29 March
Henrik Ernstson CCS/DevStudies seminar on urban ecology, 28 March
Ronnie Kasrils CCS Seminar: Corruption, authoritarianism and the challenge for civil society, 23 March
Bahaa Taher CCS Seminar: Post-Arab Spring: Literary freedom of expression in Egypt, 22 March
Felix Platz CCS Seminar: Climate Change narratives – experiences from the COP 17, 20 March
Zero Fossil Fuels meeting, 20 March
Molefi Ndlovu presents at the Foundation for Human Rights event on 19 March
Patrick Bond reviews RDP for Zim opposition leaders, Nyanga, 16 March 2012
Trevor Ngwane at Rosa Luxemburg anti-xenophobia panel, Johannesburg, 16 March
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 climate justice at Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference, 25 February
Patrick Bond on service delivery protests, Nadel AGM, Mthatha, 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
Everyone's Downstream 25-26 November
Patrick Bond, Lars Gausdal, Molefi Ndlovu & Khadija Sharife on climate politics and narratives, South Durban, November 25-26
Molefi Ndlovu & Michael Dorsey lead youth/climate workshop, 21 November
Patrick Bond at Rosa Luxemburg Political Cafe on climate/energy, Johannesburg, 21 November
Janis Rosheuvel CCS Seminar: U.S. 'Migrant Management' & Grassroots Resistance to Criminalization of Immigrant Life, 18 November
Patrick Bond skype lecture on climate politics to Lahore Cafe Bol series, Pakistan, 16 November
Patrick Bond keynote speech to Cornell Univ development conference, 12 November
Michele Maynard CCS Seminar: The African Peoples Petition: What Durban COP17 must deliver!, 11 November
Emanuele Leonardi CCS seminar: The Environmental Side of the Current Economic Crisis: Toward an Ecological Critique of Neoliberalism, 10 November 2011
Patrick Bond at City Univ of NY on climate justice strategy, 9 November
Patrick Bond on COP17 politics at Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 8 November
Rehana Dada CCS Seminar: The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign, 4 November
Lars Gausdal CCS Seminar: Bolivia at the Crossroads, 3 November 2011
Patrick Bond talk on population and climate, Pretoria, 1 November
Patrick Bond, Dudu Khumalo, Orlean Naidoo, Thando Manzi, Molefi Ndlovu & Noah Zimba Wolpe Lecture: Community Climate Summit, 28 October
Patrick Bond on water politics, the IMF and climate in Dublin, 25‑26 October
Patrick Bond on energy as a public good in Rome, 24 October
Patrick Bond talks on climate justice in Stockholm, 22 October
Patrick Bond on climate, land and Africa's exploitation, at Uppsala University, Sweden, 20-21 October
Shailja Patel CCS Seminar: Seen And Unseen: Windows On The ICC-Kenya Trials, 18 October
Patrick Bond on COP17 mobilisations at PanAfrican Climate Justice conference in Addis Ababa, 15‑16 October
Fidelis Allen CCS Seminar: Climate Change, Poverty and Public Policy in Nigeria's Niger Delta, 11 October 2011
Patrick Bond on electricity and climate crises, Newlands and Meerbank, 10-11 October
Marie Kennedy & Chris Tilly CCS 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
Sarah Ives CCS Seminar: “Rooibos land is high sentiment, low potential: Preliminary Reflections on a Year in Rooibos Country, 18 July
Patrick Bond on climate and Just Transition at National Union of Metalworkers of SA in Johannesburg, 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 seminar on ecosocialism at Inst of Social Studies, The Hague, 16 November
Patrick Bond at Historical Materialism conference, London, 12-14 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 on transition-neoliberalism at Birzeit Univ conference, Palestine, 28 September
Patrick Bond in Ramallah on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, 26 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 Martiniello CCS 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. Roberts CCS 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 Knott CCS 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 Sahle CCS 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
Alan Freeman & Radhika Desai CCS Seminar on The world capitalist crisis, 23 April
Memorial Tribute to Professor Fatima Meer, 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 Thompson CCS 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
Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener seminar at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, 2 March
Patrick Bond testifies to parliament on economic policy, 2 March
CCS anti‑xenophobia research workshop, 27 February
Patrick Bond speaks on The ebb and flow of water rights, Univ of Cape Town Department of Public Law, 25 February
Press Conference: Keep our South African Coal in the Hole! 22 February 2010
Patrick Bond at Power Indaba privatisation conference, 22 February
CCS Economic Justice course, with Trevor Ngwane , Samson Zondi and Patrick Bond , from 20 Feb‑29 May
Climate Justice Now! SA‑KZN chapter hosted at CCS, 13 February
Hallowes, D'Sa, Ngwane, Bond , Dada : Seminar on proposed World Bank coal loan to Eskom, Friday, 12 February*
Durban renewable energy site visits by Minnesh Bipath , SA National Energy Research Institute with Muna Lakhani and Patrick Bond 10 February 2010
Susan Galleymore CCS Seminar: A Dearth of Imagination Leads to Wasting Perfectly Good Waste, 5 February
Patrick Bond paper for Socialist Register workshop, 6 February
Durban Sings Follow-up and planning session with 8 Editorial Collectives, 4 February
Patrick Bond on climate change & Dennis Brutus Memorial at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, 28 January
Rehana Dada & Patrick Bond Seminar: Copenhagen Climate and Eskom Energy Conflicts, 26 January
Dennis Brutus tribute, with Social Movements Indaba and Durban community groups, 23 January
Peter McKenzie & Doung Jahangeer Seminar: The Saharawi,Warwick Junction and Footsak Politics, 20 January
Patrick Bond debates NHI at Idasa, CT, 19 January
CCS cohosts Climate Justice Now! on electricity hearings strategy, 15 January
Events Index 2009
Patrick Bond at SF protest against Danish repression of civil society and Copenhagen climate 'deal', and radio interview, 18 December
Patrick Bond addresses climate seminar at Univ of Lund Business School, 15 December
Kristine Wasrud Participation and Influence in Water Policy in Durban, South Africa, 11 December
Climate Justice Film Festival, 10 December
Umesh de Silva Seminar: Traditional farming in Umzinyathi, 9 December
Oliver Meth at the CCS Workshop on women & child abuse Cato Crest Library, 8 December
Patrick Bond at Roskilde Univ Civil Society Centre, 7 December
Patrick Bond keynotes Leeds 'Democratisation in Africa' conference, 4 December
Sinegugu Zukulu & John Clarke CCS Seminar: Resilience, Resolarisation and Relocalisation, 30 November
Nick Smith CCS Seminar Politics of protection/crime/policing, 26 November
Patrick Bond speaks at Mandela Foundation about SA economic disasters, 26 November
Seminar on outsourced and contract workers at UKZN, 24 November
3rd Climate Justice Now! KZN meeting, 20 November
CCS and Durban Sings! at the Global Crisis and Africa: Struggles for Alternatives hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; Randburg, Johannesburg 19-21 November
MAKE SOME NOISE! Concert 6 November
Immanuel Wallerstein Wolpe Lecture: Crisis of the Capitalist System Where to from Here?, 5 November
The Crises and the Commons: Durban debates on politics, economics and environment 4-7 November
Solidarity with Durban's oppressed: Bottom-up resistance strategies of shackdwellers, pollution victims and labour-brokered workers, 4 November
Seminar on Problems faced by UKZN workers, Westville campus, 28 October
Faith Manzi & Oliver Meth at the Gender Based Violence Workshop, Durban 27 & 28 October
Bengt Brülde & Stellan Vinthagenand Seminar: Ethics, Resistance and Global Justice, 26 October
Baruti Amisi, Trevor Ngwane & Patrick Bond Anti-Xenophobia research project with Strategy&Tactics; 19- 20 October
Durban Sings (Molefi Ndlovu & Claudia Wegener ) at National Oral History Conference, 13-16 October
Tri-Continental Film Festival Durban community screenings – (hosted by Oliver Meth ) at Inanda, Chatsworth, Wentworth, CBD, & Folweni, 1-12 October
Patrick Bond lectures at Suffolk Univ, Boston, 29 Sept-2 Oct
Patrick Bond Booklaunch: Climate Change, Carbon Trading & Civil Society, 18 September
Dennis Brutus honored by War Resisters League, 18 September
Helen McCue CCS Seminar: Grassroots Mobilising within Refugee Communities: Perspectives on Palestine and Australia, 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
Patrick Bond CCS Seminar: National Health Insurance: Can SA afford it?, 24 August
John Berg CCS Seminar: Barack Obama's presidency and civil society reactions, 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
DURBAN SINGS central editorial workshops, 8 & 22 June
Gaby Bikombo, Judy Mulqueeny, Harry Ramlal, Caroline Skinner CCS Seminar: War of Warwick Junction, 9 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 Surborg CCS 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 Olcina CCS 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 youth CCS 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
Dennis Brutus celebrations, honorary doctorates conferred at both Rhodes Univ and Mandela Univ, 16-17 April
John Minto CCS Seminar: The Legacy of Anti-apartheid Sports Boycotts, 16 April
Nelson Muhirwa & Jean Chrisostome Kanamugire CCS Seminar: The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years On, 8 April
Oliver Meth Seminar: Wentworth Crime, Gangs and Civil Society, 7 April
Dennis Brutus on Reconciliation and Memory in Post-Apartheid SA, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, 2-3 April
Ida Susser booklaunch, 'AIDS, Sex and Culture', with Quarraisha Abdool Karim , at Ike's Books, 2 April
Sofie Hellberg CCS Seminar: Governing lives through hydropolitics in eThekwini , 1 April 2009
Claudia Wegener & Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu Digital Soiree Durban Sings Internet Radio project, 24 March
Simone Claar Seminar: Post-Apartheid Political Economy and State Policy, 19 March
Oliver Meth presents at the HSRC Violent Crime and Democratization in the Global South Conference, 18-20 March
Simphiwe Nojiyeza CCS Seminar: African Development Bank water projects, 12 March
Deniz Kellecioglu CCS Seminar: Zimbabwe Civil Society confronts Mugabe's Economy, 11 March
Patrick Bond debates ANC economic policy, 9 March, Durban
Kalinca Copello Seminar: ICTs and social movements: From Chiapas to Brazil to South Africa, 6 March
Lisa Ramsay & Schwarzanne Leafe Seminar & Film: Climate Change and Eco-Social Resistance in South Durban, 27 February
Patrick Bond presents to ActionAid/Nepad conference on global financial crisis, 24 February, Midrand
Molefi Ndlovu Johannesburg: Market Photo Workshop, 22-28 February
Orlean Naidoo & Patrick Bond seminar on Free Basic Water, and screening of Flow, 18 February
Ida Susser Seminar: AIDS, Sex, Culture and Civil Society, 11 February
Dennis Brutus and Moya Atkinson film/seminar on US anti-war movement, 9 February
Patrick Bond seminar on the ongoing global financial crisis, University of Johannesburg, 6 February
Durban Sings internet audio and community radio with Molefi Ndlovu and Claudia Wegener , 2-6 February
Patrick Bond in dialogue with Jeremy Cronin on financial crisis, Johannesburg, 28 January
Dennis Brutus , Lubna Nadvi , Monica Rorvik and Salim Vally Seminar: Should Israel be boycotted? If so, how?, 27 January
Giyani Dube, Lubna Nadvi, Kate Griffiths and Timothy Rukombo Wolpe Lecture: Civil Society Internationalism - from Lindela to Gaza to Washington, 22 January
Pamela Ngwenya, Molefi Ndlovu, Claudia Wegener Seminar: Participatory community audio/video as a tool for social research, 21 January
Dale McKinley, Orlean Naidoo, Dudu Khumalo, Bryan Ashe Seminar on the World Water Forum, 19 January
Mavuso Dingani film/seminar on the Zimbabwean exile in Durban, 6 January