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Live stream

FW de Klerk Foundation Annual Conference (Livestream)

South Africa at 30 - Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Forward

Online-Seminar

Has the African National Congress lost touch with South Africans? The party over people

A Daily Maverick Live Journalism Webinar

Book presentation

South Africa's Easy Election Guide: Who To Vote For in 2024? 

Johannesburg Launch

Book presentation

South Africa's Easy Election Guide: Who To Vote For in 2024? 

Cape Town Launch

Expert conference

#INTEGRITASZA CONFERENCE

Coalition Governance in South Africa: Dedicated Desired States or Destructive Desires

Online-Seminar

A Daily Maverick Live Journalism Webinar

Reimagining Joburg: Weighing up the water crisis

Online-Seminar

A Daily Maverick Live Journalism Webinar

A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death & Defiance in Ukraine

Join Peter Fabricius alongside author of the book "A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death & defiance in Ukraine", Andrew Harding, as they discuss the pivotal moment in Ukraine's war and the stories of ordinary civilians in the small town of Voznesensk.

Online-Seminar

OUTA and KAS invite you to an online event

Demystifying Parliament: Understanding its challenges and embracing opportunities for improved oversight

We are thrilled to invite you to our upcoming online event, "Demystifying Parliament: Understanding its Challenges and Embracing Opportunities for Improved Oversight.", co-hosted by OUTA and KAS. This event promises to be a remarkable exploration of parliamentary oversight, accountability, and the future of democracy.

Event

Reflecting on Parliamentary Democracy and PMG

Save the Date

Join us as we celebrate 25 years of the PMG Website.

Discussion

THE RIGHT TO CITIZENSHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA’S CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

Live event

A Conference organised by the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (a Centre of the University of Johannesburg) in collaboration with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

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Xenophobia and South Africa

Roundtable Series 2019: Number 4 - Centre for Unity in Diversity

The South African Constitution obliges the State to protect the rights of all who live in the country. The South African 2011 Census found that there were 2.2 million immigrants in a country of 52 million in 2011. Xenophobic attacks of the last years, especially the one in 2008 which was among the deadliest to date and the recent attacks in September 2019 in Johannesburg, frighten many people.

Unpacking the Implications of the National Health Insurance Bill

Breakfast Discussion with experts

“Unpacking the Implications of the National Health Insurance Bill” was the topic of a discussion jointly hosted by the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFCR) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS). The expert speakers were Mr Michael Settas, Member of the Free Market Foundation’s Health Policy Unit and Mr Russel Rensburg, Director of the Rural Health Advocacy Project.

Brazil’s Populist Pendulum: The Outcome and Lessons

SAIIA Speakers Meeting

Can Africa learn from Brazil´s history? Brazil and Africa; a country versus a whole continent, but nevertheless with common features. They have similar GDPs, but the population of Africa is about five times bigger than the population of Brazil. The effect is that Brazil's income per person is higher. Both Brazil and Africa have a historically similar low growth rates and share the ignominious character of globally leading wealth and income inequality.

Transformative Leadership confronts the past to shape the future we want

SA UBUNTU Networking Breakfast with Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng

The networking breakfast with Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng on 08 November 2019 focused on the topic “Transformative leadership confronts the past to shape the future we want”. The event was jointly hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the SA Ubuntu Foundation and is part of a series of networking breakfasts in the year 2019.

Can Democracy and Peace finally come to Mozambique?

SAIFAC Africa Forum Series

On 13 November the fourth and last event in the SAIFAC Africa Forum series for 2019 was held at Constitution Hill. The topic was “Can democracy and peace finally come to Mozambique?”. The series aims to draw on the experience of South Africa and connect it with developments in a particular country or group of countries. The speakers are legal and non-legal experts who provide critical analysis of their societies and an understanding of how to move them forward. The series is funded by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

Catalysing Indigenous Languages

United Nations declared 2019 The Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019). This was done “in order to raise awareness, not only to benefit the people who speak these languages, but also to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world’s rich cultural diversity”. Indigenous languages worldwide face the threat of extinction.

Unpacking the Report of the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture

Breakfast Discussion with three experts of different backgrounds

“The first land to be confiscated by the Europeans in South Africa was part of what later became known as the Western Cape” (Final Report of the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture, p.23). From that genesis, Land Reform is one of the most important topics in South African politics since the 1994 transition to democracy.

Strong Cities 2030 Conference: Overcoming Urban Inequality

Strong Cities 2030 Initiative

"Innovative approaches to overcome urban inequality" was the theme of this year's international Strong Cities 2030 conference, hosted by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in partnership with the City of Johannes-burg, that took place from 13-15 October 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Freedom of Expression versus Hate Speech: Are we Striking a Balance in South Africa?

Roundtable Discussion

On 17 October 2019, the Centre for Unity and Diversity (CUD) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) hosted the third event of the Roundtable Discussion series. At the core of the presentations and the subsequent discussion was the question of where to draw the line be-tween freedom of speech and hate speech. The recent findings of the Courts and the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on hate speech rooted the event in current affairs. To dig into the topic of hate speech more thoroughly, legal, psychological and political aspects were addressed.

The African Continental free trade agreement (AfCFTA): An enabler, not a deliverer

SAIIA Speakers Meeting with Prof Faizel Ismail

“…It is not trade and free-trade agreements that raise incomes, but the good-will and solidarity of the participating parties…”