Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture and Launch of Dullah Omar Institute

CLC UWC

The Rector of the University Western Cape, Prof Pretorius, and the Director of the Community Law Centre (CLC), Prof De Visser has invited the public to the 10th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture by Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Mr Michael Masutha.

The Centre will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary ...

Live Magazine SA: VIP Debate Club Cape Town - Party People Edition

LiveMagSA

After hosting a successful festival in Cape Town and Joburg, Live Mag SA looked at some of the points that surfaced in the numerous discussions and realised that one topic stood out – Youth Unemployment.

As part of their ongoing debate series, they are inviting Members of Parliament (MPs), ...

IJR: Invitation - Public Dialogue: After Al-Bashir?

IJR

According to the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), the recent presence and non-arrest of Omar Al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, in South Africa, while he was attending the African Union (AU) summit, is, in many ways, a turning point in the way South Africa engages with the international justice ...

ODAC: Civil Society Meeting on the Open Government Partnership

ODAC

The meeting will provide information on the Open Government Partnership to civil society organisations in South Africa who are active in the governance, access to information and transparency sectors, as well as other organisations that are interested in understanding this initiative.

South Africa was one of the founding members of ...

Goedgedacht Forum: "Transforming Transformation

Goed

Issues around transformation are increasingly being spoken of and being contested in our public discourse. Many are asking why, after 21 years of democracy we are not more transformed?

  • Where is the political will (if any) to continue the transformation project?
  • What has happened to the TRC?
  • What are those ...

Livity: VIP Youth Festival 2015 - “The State of SA Youth”

youth fest

Join Livity on June 16-18 2015 at the VIP Youth Fest in Cape Town and Johannesburg as they celebrate young people under the theme: The State of SA Youth Today.

The mandate of VIP Campaign is to discuss and examine the social, cultural and economic themes that dominate the lives ...

Campaign against Social Media Censorship

Amandla SOS

The SOS Coalition and amandla.mobi are currently running a campaign calling to the Film and Publication Board (FPB) to scrap its draft regulations which has been called 'the worst internet law Africa has ever seen' and could severely impact civil society organisations publishing content online along with social media users ...

IJR: Youth Dialogue and Poetry Slam on Race and Identity

IJR

The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation's (IJR) Ashley Kriel Youth Leadership Development project in collaboration with the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights (JELI) in Atlanta, Georgia, have convened and hosted a cross-cultural dialogue project titled Crafting Change Agents. This program served as a cross-cultural ...

Live SA: The State of SA youth: Am I xenophobic?

LiveSA VIP

Between April and May 2015, South Africa’s troubles with xenophobic violence gripped the world, the rest of the continent and broader South African society. In the ensuing tension, headlines such as those of Emmanuel Sithole’s murder and – sometimes inaccurate – social media commentary compounded the confusion and anxiety – ...

ISS Seminar: Top five countries competing for power in Africa

ISS

As Africa aspires to take responsibility for its development, peace and security, the question of regional leadership is key. This seminar will discuss the historical distribution of power in Africa and how it is likely to change over the next 25 years.

In an increasingly multipolar world, parts of Africa ...

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