What's on the go

What will it take to meet and implement the priorities of the Jacob Zuma-led government?

DATE: Monday, 18 May 2009

TIME: 17h30 to 20h00

VENUE: University of Cape Town, Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus, Lecture Theatre 1

RSVP: wolpetrust@mweb.co.za / Tel: 021 674 0361

SPEAKERS:

DR. NEETA MISRA
Dr. Misra is a researcher with the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). Her PhD focused on the role of COSATU in industrial policy debates. She has been of an IDASA team analysing the 2009 provincial and national election campaign and results. Her presentation will provide an overview analysis of the election results: what do the election figures mean for governance and democracy?

PROFESSOR ADAM HABIB
Professor Habib is one of the leading commentators on social and political trends in South Africa. He is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg. His presentation will provide a critical analysis of the key issues facing the new government.

JEREMY CRONIN
Jeremy is the newly appointed Deputy Minister of Transport. He is also the Deputy General Secretary of the SACP. He has been a member of parliament since 1999. His presentation will focus on the perspectives of both the new government and the SACP on the strategies and programmes that will be implemented to meet the priorities of the new government.

Economic crisis and prospects for social revolution

DATE: Thursday, 18 June 2009

TIME: 5-7pm

VENUE: Howard College Theatre, UKZN Howard College Campus

All welcome! CCS contacts for transport:
Helen Poonen - 260 3195, Email: poonenh@ukzn.ac.za

SPEAKER: Alex Callinicos

A Zimbabwean educated at Oxford and presently Professor at King’s College, University of London, Callinicos has authored more than two dozen major books, including Southern Africa after Soweto, Southern Africa after Zimbabwe, South Africa between reform and revolution, Between apartheid and capitalism – and, more recently, Social theory, Equality, Against the Third Way, An anti-Capitalist manifesto, New mandarins of American power, and The resources of critique. A leader of the Socialist Workers Party, he is one of the world’s most highly-regarded left intellectuals, and a formidable (comradely) critic of social movement politics.

RESPONDENT: Trevor Ngwane, CCS

Obama and the Multiple Crises of Empire

Tuesday 19 May, 5.30pm

Wits University, Southwest Engineering Building, Ground Floor, Room 10.

Safe Parking at Senate House and Yale Road, Wits

Time: 5:30 for 6:00

SPEAKER

Prof Robert Jensen

School of Journalism, University of Austin, Texas
Widely published in the fields of media, race, gender and power, Jensen is a powerful and inspiring speaker and dissects the multifaceted nature of US power.

Game Farms and the impact on traditional agricultural labour

Date: Thursday 28th May 2009

Venue: Humanities Faculty

Time: 5pm

DISCUSSION PANEL:

Nomalanga Mkhize
PhD Candidate NRF Research Chairs Initiative in Land Reform and Democracy

Femke Brandt
VU University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Prof Robin Palmer
HOD Anthropology RU

The discussion will surround the following:

In South Africa, private farms increasingly convert from conventional agricultural production to wildlife-based forms of land use.

For more information: Karen Kouari
Phone: 046 6038362

Email: k.kouari@ru.ac.za

Click here to register to attend