Events - South Africa Office
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Workshop
Institutional Design of Medium-Sized Municipalities in South Africa
Improving Developmental Local Governance and Community Resilience
The aim of the workshop is to identify critical challenges for the internal design and administrative design of medium-sized local municipalities.
Workshop
Orientation training workshop for traditional leaders in Zomba
The orientation training workshop targets 45-50 traditional leaders from Traditional Authority Chikowi 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.
Seminar
Voice and Accountability: What Councillors Say
The Dullah Omar Institute in collaboration with KAS and SALGA is hosting a lunch seminar, inviting councillors to reflect on their own role and responsibilities in society.
Workshop
Public Procurement Law Training, Eastern Cape
TRAINING FOR THE EASTERN CAPE BRANCH OF THE PUBLIC PROTECTOR (PP)
In continuation of the training programme for the Office of the Public Protector (PP), this workshop targets officers of the PP Eastern Cape Branch.
Discussion
Youth Event 2018
Freedom of Expression and the Dark side of Social Media
Together with our partner CFCR the KAS South Africa is hosting a discussion on the topic of "Freedom of Expression and the Dark side of Social Media" on July 28 2018.
Discussion
The Impact of the Electric Vehicle on the Southern African Development Community
The Regional Observatory at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is a flagship initiative that has been created to anticipate key emerging disruptors that will have a major impact on the member states of the SADC.
Conversation
Discourse Café - The Qunu 9
Reflections & Documentary on the Mandela Month Leadership Conversation at Qunu
The FVZS Institute and KAS cordially invite you to the 4th Discourse Café "The Qunu 9" at the Stellenbosch University Museum. The aim of the series is to promote a culture of informed debate on various topical issues.
Discussion
BRICS and Africa: Navigating Global Economic Turbulence Together
The South African Institute of International Affairs, in partnership with the National Treasury, the Global Economic Governance Programme and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, will be hosting a conference on the topic of the upcoming BRICS Summit.
Discussion
Making Democracy Work in Africa
The aim of the Dialogue will be to understand the future possibilities of democracy in Africa now thatmultiparty elections have become common across the continent. The event is co-organised by the Brenthurst Foundation and KAS.
Discussion
Centre for Unity in Diversity: Roundtable Discussion
The role of law in constituting a contemporary South African Identity
Join us for a discussion hosted by the Centre for Unity in Diversity (CUD), supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS). The topic will look at the role of law in constituting a contemporary South African identity.
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Event Reports
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.
Event Reports
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.
Event Reports
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.
Event Reports
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.
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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.
Event Reports
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.
Event Reports
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.
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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.
Event Reports
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.
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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.
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