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johannesburg open dialogue events

The Politics and Economics of Food Prof. J. Cock and Dr. S. Roberts (Johannesburg, August 2010)	No Paper available
Football's Tsars: Politics and Capital in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Prof. S. Corenelissen, Dr. D. McKinley (Johannesburg, June 2010)	No Paper available
The Itinary of Social Democracy Prof Donald Sassoon, Mr. Firoz Cachalia, chair, (Johannesburg, April 2010)	No Paper available
National Health Insurance? Or National Health System Prof Di McIntyre Dr Karl von Holdt (Johannesburg, April 2010)	National Health Insurance or National Health System
Unirvesities in Crisis:Transformation in Higher Education Prof.Saleem Badat (Johannesburg, March 2010)	Universities in Crisis-Transformation in Higher Education
Crisis of the Capitalist System Immanuel Wallerstein (Johannesburg, October 2009)	No Paper available
Corruption in Politics: the Criminalisation of South African Politics Dr Kwandi Kondlo & Terry Crawforde Browne (Johannesburg, October 2009)	No Paper available
Financialisation, Neo-Liberalism and the Crisis: Locating the Value of Labour Power Prof Ben fine (Johannesburg, October 2009)	No Paper available
The Politics of Energy Alec Erwin and Dr David Fig (Johannesburg, August 2009)	Paper
Obama and the Multiple Crises of Empire Prof Robert Jensen (Johannesburg, May 2009)	No Paper available
The Global Economic Crisis: Causes and Consequences Prof Patrick Bond (Johannesburg, May 2009)	No Paper available
Interpretations of the global financial crisis and their implications for South Africa Patrick Bond (Johannesburg, February 2009)	Paper
The Developmental State in Africa Brian Raftopoulos (Zimbabwean social & political analyst, now at Institute for Justice & Reconciliation) Vishwas Satgar (political activist & Executive Director, COPAC) (Johannesburg, May 2007)	No Paper available
Socio-economic rights, the judiciary, and the developmental state Zac Yacoob, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and Geoff Budlender, Advocate of the High Court of South Africa (Johannesburg, November 2006)	No Paper available
The media’s view of the state Ferial Haffejee, Editor of the Mail & Guardian, and Mondli Makhanya, Editor of the Sunday Times (Johannesburg, October 2006)	No Paper available
Beyond the developmental state Prof Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley (Johannesburg, August 2006)	No Paper available
Labour market flexibility: Will a social pact help? Prof Halton Cheadle, Dept of Law, University of Cape Town, and Gwede Mantashe, General Secretary: National Union of Mineworkers (Johannesburg, October 2005)	Mantashe Cheadle
Defining the public interest: The SABC as a public broadcaster Dr Snuki Zikalala, Head of News: SABC, and Tawana Kupe, School of Language & Literature Studies, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, September 2005)	Kupe Zikalala
Black economic empowerment Dali Mpofu, Group CEO of SABC, and Willy Madisha, Chairperson: Cosatu (Johannesburg, June 2005)	Madisha Mpofu
Social movements and the State Mark Heywood, Treatment Action Campaign, and Trevor Ngwane, Anti-Privatisation Forum (Johannesburg, May 2005)	Ngwane Heywood
The Afrikaners: Who are they? What is their future? Prof Jakes Gerwel, Mandela Rhodes Foundation, and Danie Goosen, Groep van 63 (Johannesburg, April 2005)	Goosen Gerwel
South Africa in Africa: In whose interest? Kuseni Dlamini, AngloGold Ashanti, and Trevor Ncube, CEO Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg, March 2005)	Ncube Dlamini
The role of intellectuals in South Africa Dr Blade Nzimande, General Secretary, South African Communist Party, and Dr Xolela Mangcu, Executive Director, Human Sciences Research Council (Johannesburg, February 2005)	Transcript