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Workshop

Orientation Training Workshop for Traditional Leaders in Zomba

The orientation training workshop targets 45-50 traditional leaders from Traditional Authority Nkagula in Zomba. For two days, they will be introduced to the new land law in Malawi guided by the newly translated manual for customary land committees.

Forum

DDP Citizen's Forum on Femicide and Intimate Partner Violence

One June 14, our institutional partner DDP in cooperation with the Diakonia Council of Churches, hosted a forum on the topic of femicide and intimate partner violence.

Event

Trump's America: What it Means for South Africa and the World

The South African Institute of International Affairs and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung invite you to a Speaker's Meeting to be addressed by Roger Cohen, New York Times Columnist on 'Trump's America: what it means for South Africa and the World'

Discussion

DDP Citizens' Forum on Land Distribution

The Democracy Development Program invites you to a citizens' forum on land redistribution.

Discussion

Discourse Café with Lukhanyo and Abigail Calata

The FVZS Institute and KAS invite students to meet journalists Lukhanyo Calata and Abigail Calata who will be discussing intergenerational activism and introduce their new book "My father died for this".

Seminar

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Dialogue on Faith and Economics

On May 28, cardinal Reinhard Marx (German Catholic Church highest representative) visited archbishop Thabo Makgoba (Primate of the Anglican Church of South Africa), to discuss the topic of social market economy and faith.

Discussion

Expropriation, Corruption and the State:

Is the Venezuelan experience relevant in South Africa?

How are opposition and civil society dealing with the current situation and a dictatorial government in Venezuela? What can the world learn from the Venezuelan experience?

Workshop

DDP Social Media Workshop for Political Parties

The commercial world successfully uses Social Media platforms to grow brand awareness and increase sales. Political parties, at all levels, can use Social Media to connect at a deeper level with voters.

Discussion

Africa-Europe Migration Forum

Challenges and Opportunities of Migration Flows

Konrad Adenauer Foundation in cooperation with Pan-African Parliament, SAIIA, the UNHCR and EU delegation will host a forum on Europe-Africa: Challenges and Opportunities of Migration Flows.

Conversation

Discourse Café with Wendy Pekeur

Struggles of the working class

The FVZS Institute and KAS cordially invite you to the 3rd Discourse Cafe "Struggles of the working class" with Wendy Jasmine Pekeur as the guest speaker. The aim of the series is to promote a culture of informed debate on various topical issues.

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FVZS Institute 2023

11th Annual Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert (FVZS) Honorary Lecture

Auditor General of South Africa, Ms Tsakani Maluleke

“Good governance is the foundation upon which a successful nation is built. It is not merely a buzzword."

Conference report: Reform of the Criminal Justice Administration in South Africa

Author: Koogan Pillay

This report is intended as the main text reference material to the 6 February 2023 hybrid event at UCT. It is targeted at policymakers and policy influencers and freely available to the general public. It contains a summary of the presentations and discussions at the event.

Gangster State and the Republic of Gupta

SA Ubuntu Networking Breakfast with Pieter-Louis Myburgh

The networking breakfast with Pieter-Louis Myburgh on 06 December 2019 took place under the title “Gangster State and the Republic of Gupta”. 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 2019.

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.