ISS Seminar: South Africa’s new (secret) Nuclear Project

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Date: 29 September 2015

Time: Registration at 09h30

Seminar: 10h00 - 12h30

Venue: 6 Spin street, Cape Town

South Africa’s proposed expansion of its current nuclear energy programme seems to be shrouded in secrecy, resulting in widespread speculation and confusion. Given the potential costs of this project, can the government ...

SAIIA Seminar: US Consul General Teddy Taylor on US-South Africa Relations

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Venue: Mountain Club of SA, 97 Hatfield Street, Gardens, Cape Town

Date: Wednesday 30 September 2015

Time: 17h30 for 18h00 (Light refreshments before the event)

RSVP: Email Pippa on wcbranch@saiia.org.za

Entrance for non-members is R30 or R15 on presentation of a current student identity card.

For more information, visit the ...

Livity: Parliament Challenge Call Out

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What is it?

VIP is opening up a crowd-sourced challenge to our community to suggest crucial issues, topics or policy ideas that young South Africa would like to present to parliament, dubbed the Parliament Challenge. The VIP team will work in conjunction with political experts, civil society organisations and MPs ...

These 16 people could stop the next Marikana

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Police Minister Nhleko and the Police Portfolio Committee are currently overseeing the recommendations of the Marikana Report. We all know if we don't demilitarise our police, it's just a matter of time before we have another massacre.

Minister Nhleko wants to set up an expert panel on police crowd control, ...

Livity Debate: Free Education - Has NSFAS failed us?

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Livity Africa’s VIP Campaign, a youth politics platform that found success engaging young people in Joburg and Cape Town with the national elections in 2014, is now expanding to the Eastern Cape in the lead up to the 2016 local government elections.

The VIP Campaign is a non-partisan movement of ...

SJC and Ndifuna Ukwazi: March to Parliament for Justice and Inequality

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According to the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU), every day in Khayelitsha people are robbed, raped and murdered. Every day women, men, and children are deprived of the most basic rights to life, safety, security, justice and equality.

The Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry's report was released on ...

UCT/MVC Public Lecture: Kate O’Regan / Conference: A Constitutional Missing Link? Regulation of SA Political Parties

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You are invited to a public lecture by Kate O'Regan at 6pm on Thursday, 27 August 2015, and an all-day conference on Friday, 28 August 2015, co-hosted by UCT Politics and Public Law Departments and My Vote Counts.

Thursday's Schedule:

Kramer Law School Lecture Theatre, UCT Law Faculty, Middle Campus ...

Amandla.mobi: Send a message to Marikana

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Message from Amandla.mobi:

Yesterday at police stations, the Chamber of Mines and the Union Buildings, we sent a message to our leaders that we will stand with the families of those massacred at Marikana [1]. As the widows and family members gather in Marikana to grieve this Sunday, lets remind ...

Unite Against Corruption: Stand against corruption; defend the Office of the Public Protector

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Supporters of "Unite against Corruption" are asking the public to join them, 7 August 2015, to take a stand against government corruption and to protect the Office of the Public Protector:

You can participate by:

  • Picketing outside Parliament in Cape Town at 12pm to 3pm.
  • Forming a human chain outside ...

Discussion: Is xenophobia the down side to nation-building?

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The Institute for Security Studies and the Goedgedacht Forum has invited you to join them for a discussion concerning “Is xenophobia the down side to nation-building?” See RSVP details below.

Some of the issues to be addressed include: - To what extent is what we are seeing a hang-over from ...

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