Events - South Africa Office
Lecture
Corporate Diplomacy: What is it and why is it important?
SAIIA Speakers Meeting
Tim Hughes is an internationally renowned expert on global economy and international relations and a successful book author. On the 17th of September, 2019, he will provide the audience with insights on corporate diplomacy and its challenges.
Study and Information Program
Annual KAS/SAIIA Careers Evening 2019 (Western Cape)
The annual KAS-SAIIA careers evening is a platform for learners and students to exchange, to network and to explore possible career opportunities in the political field. Participants get the chance to meet potential employers and receive information about internships and scholarship programmes.
Expert conference
Strong Cities 2030 Conference 2019
Innovative approaches to overcome urban inequality
The Conference, jointly hosted by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the City of Johannesburg will focus on the theme “Inequality” and explore innovative approaches on how to overcome inequality in terms of spatial planning, modes of transport, economic opportunities and city governance.
Expert talk
National Church Leaders Consultation (NCLC)
The Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in cooperation with the Ecumenical Foundation of South Africa (EFSA) and the Most Reverend Archbishop Makgoba (Archbishop of Cape Town, Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa) are hosting a consultation with all major South African faith and church leaders.
Workshop
Public Procurement Law Training, Limpopo Province
Training for the Mpumalanga branch of the public protector (PP)
In continuation of the training programme for the Office of the Public Protector (PP), this workshop targets investigators of the PP Mpumalanga Branch.
Expert conference
International Law and Justice for Victims of the Gross Human Rights Violation of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
The KAS Rule of Law Program for Sub-Saharan Africa in cooperation with the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC) and the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL) would like to invite you to attend this conference.
—
8 Items per Page
Discussion
Anti-Xenophobia Dialogue
Xenophobic violence has long been a problem in South Africa and the threat it poses to communities and individuals has been recognised for some time. The aim of the dialogue is to find solutions to deal with xenophobic violence.
Conversation
Discourse Cafe with Prof. Christi van der Westhuizen
This discussion series provides young South Africans with the unique opportunity to meet renowned personalities from politics, academia, business and civil society and engage with them on topical issues concerning South Africa's young democracy.
Conversation
Discourse Cafe with Prof. Christi van der Westhuizen
This discussion series provides young South Africans with the unique opportunity to meet renowned personalities from politics, academia, business and civil society and engage with them on topical issues concerning South Africa's young democracy.
Discussion
Community awareness on landownership rights for women
Community awareness outreach for women's land use and land ownership
The community awareness raising discussions and messages promoted land use and land ownership rights for women and possible means of legal redress and how to demand these rights. The event included speeches, poems, comedy and local drama displays.
Event
Project "White Rose Art and Writing Project"
Exhibition and Award Evening
This evening awards the high school students and teachers who have contributed to the White Rose Art & Writing Project, which aims to create awareness of the power of art in fighting injustice. The title alludes to the White Rose Resistance Movement.
Event
Youth Dialogue
The first discussion is on Xenophobia: How does poverty and unemployment influence this phenomenon and how does it violate Human Rights? The second discussion will focus on the high cost of tertiary education in South Africa.
Book presentation
Political Parties in South Africa
Do they Undermine or Underpin Democracy?
This book offers a different assessment of the health of South Africa´s political system. Introducing the book and hosting a panel discussion is editor Ms Heather Thuynsma from the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria.
Lecture
Annual FVZS Honorary Lecture with Judith February
Judith February, renowned political analyst and commentator will talk about the current state of democracy in South Africa, in particularly the unprecedented level of corruption and its impact on governance and the independence of institutions.
—
8 Items per Page
Event Reports
Dialogue on Faith and Economics with EFSA - Mthatha
Municipal Stakeholders Cooperation Workshop: Partnerships to implement the objectives of the National Development Plan (NDP) – The role of churches and faith communities
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in cooperation with the Ecumenical Foundation of South Africa (EFSA) and the Right Reverend Bishop Sipuka of Mthatha (and President of the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops' Conference) hosted a dialogue with experts and leaders from both business and churches to explore how South African role players create a new "social contract" that addresses social justice alongside or with government programmes.
Event Reports
Book Launch in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town: Election 2019
The brand-new key reference work on the South Africa election, titled “Election 2019: Change and Stability in South Africa’s Democracy, edited by Dr. Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Prof. Roger Southall, is now out in the bookstores. The book provides an indepth analysis of the 2019 elections. The contributors are well respected experts in their own right, some of whom have contributed chapters to the previous books on elections. During the week of 19th-23rd August, the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), hosted book launches in cooperation with Jacana Media, Exclusive Books and Ike’s Books and Collectables where some authors presented their chapters and engaged with the audience.
Event Reports
Re-Imagining Public Accountability
Local Government Roundtable
Supported by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Afesis-corplan in partnership with Democracy Development Program (DDP) and the Pietermaritzburg Agency for Social Action (PACSA) hosted a civil society roundtable in Pietermaritzburg on the 28-29 August 2019, to reflect on the state of Public Accountability in Local Government.
Event Reports
"Community Media Needs to Strengthen Its Relationship with Civil Society and Communities"
The Democracy Development Programme and KAS held an Inaugural Media Summit aimed at enhancing and strengthening existing relationship between community media, civil society and communities; through long term solutions. This comes after an observation of detachment of community media from its civil society allies.
Event Reports
SA Ubuntu Networking Breakfast with Roelf Meyer
How State and Private Sector can change SA together
‘Raise hope’ was the rallying cry of Roelf Meyer’s speech on South Africa’s financial and social crisis. Too many South Africans, wealthy and poor, do not believe in the return to health of South Africa’s economy. On 7th of August 2019 the famous negotiator Roelf Meyer inspired the attendees of this UBUNTU breakfast to shape the future of South Africa for the better.
Event Reports
The SAIFAC Africa Forum - Can the Democratic Republic of the Congo become a democracy?
Many in the international community have hailed the December 2018 elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the first-ever peaceful hand-over of power in the post-independence era in the DRC affected through elections. Numerous dissenting voices claim that the elections were a sham – ‘an electoral coup’ – and have only endorsed an illegitimate leadership. Who is correct?
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Event Reports
Strong Cities 2030 working dinner
This roundtable discussion dealt with the role of the Law in promoting sustainable urban development.
Christina Teichmann, Coordinator of the new KAS-initiative “Strong Cities 2030” invited PhD Law students from the North-West University (NWU) under the academic mentorship of Prof Anel du Plessis, Head of the NWU Law Faculty’s first-ever South African Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability (CLES) to share their research insights and discuss the current legislative situation of South African cities.
Event Reports
Roundtable Series 2019: Number 2 - Centre for Unity in Diversity
Explaining 2019 elections with help of identity politics.
On the 27th of June, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Centre of Unity in Diversity hosted the second roundtable discussion in Cape Town.
Event Reports
Public Procurement Law Training, Mpumalanga Province (Nelspruit)
Training for the Mpumalanga branch of the public protector (PP)
In continuation of the training programme for the Office of the Public Protector (PP), this workshop targets investigators of the PP Mpumalanga Branch.
Event Reports
A Tale of Two Continents: Comparing Migration Experiences in South Africa & Germany
Insights from South African and German Exchange
—
10 Items per Page