Events - South Africa Office
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Symposium
Party Coalitions
Experiences, Insights and Possibilities from Africa and Europe
What can South Africa learn from other countries' experiences regarding the building and maintaining of political coalitions? Join our partner Democracy Development Program (DDP) on July 10, as they elaborate on this very question.
Discussion
Property Rights for all South Africans
THE ROLE THAT LAND REFORM CAN PLAY IN EXPANDING PROPERTY RIGHTS
The FW de Klerk Foundation, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, will be hosting a conference in Johannesburg on the topic of property rights and the role that land reform can play in expanding property rights.
Workshop
DDP Leadership Training
Between the 27th and 29th of June, the Durban Development Program (DDP) will host a workshop on the topic of political leadership.
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
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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