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The Protection of Women Minority Groups during the Pandemic

The SAIFAC Online Forum

In honour of Women’s Day, the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Human Rights, Public and International Law (​SAIFAC), a centre of the University of Johannesburg and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung cordially invite you to an online panel discussion on “The Protection of Women Minority Groups during the Pandemic.”

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KAS/SAIIA Annual Careers Event

Careers in Transition: a post-pandemic green economy and implications for the world of work

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Electoral Reform

Can we build a better democracy?

By June 2022, Parliament must amend SA’s electoral law to allow independent candidates to contest national and provincial elections, as ordered by the Constitutional Court.

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Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Open Day 2021

„Politics and trust“

The work of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation: focusing on participation, representation, security, and innovation.

Online-Seminar

"Adenauer-Conference" with Armin Laschet

Germany’s Role in International Security Affairs

With a keynote speech on foreign and security policy by Minister-President Armin Laschet, this year's Adenauer Conference opens the discussion on key security issues and international challenges. Besides the priorities for German foreign and security policy, the focus of the debate this year is also on Afghanistan and transatlantic relations.

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For My Country:

Why I blew the whistle on Zuma and the Guptas

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SA's Corona Parliament: Virtually working?

Join Rebecca Sibanda as she launches and discusses the findings of her new paper.

At this event Rebecca Sibanda of the Parliamentary Monitoring Group will launch and discuss the findings of her new paper Implications of a Virtual Parliament on its Constitutional Mandate. In the paper, she reviews the performance of South Africa's Parliament during the Covid-19 epidemic. Enriching and challenging her conclusions will be Marianne Merten of the Daily Maverick. The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung thanks the Parliamentary Monitoring Group for its collaboration in this research.

Online-Seminar

Book Launch-The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law

Philipp Dann, Michael Riegner and Maxim Bönnemann (Editors)

This volume makes a timely intervention into a field marked by a shift from unipolar to multipolar order and a pluralization of constitutional law. It addresses the theoretical and epistemic foundations of Southern constitutionalism and discusses its distinctive themes, such as transformative constitutionalism, inequality, access to justice, and authoritarian legality.

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Wrecking Ball

Why Permanent Technological Unemployment, a Predictable Pandemic and Other Wicked Problems Will End South Africa’s Experiment in Inclusive Democracy

Wrecking Ball explores, in novel theoretical manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that could easily end contemporary civilization. Written in the vernacular of political economy, it demonstrates that without an inclusive centralized system of global political and economic institutions, the collective action required to solve these wicked problems falls beyond the remit of the world’s 200 still predominantly extractive and elitist polities. To prove its manifold theses, Wrecking Ball grounds its analysis in an extended study of contemporary South Africa and shows that this country’s elitist and extractive political and economic institutions not only make resolution of ongoing domestic crises unattainable, but make meaningful responses to wicked problems impossible.

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‘What are the obligations of states and corporations to ensure access to a COVID-19 vaccine?

Vaccine access is a matter of life and death for many. For others it is a matter of their livelihoods.

A number of vaccines for COVID-19 have been developed in record time and the hope is that this will bring an end to the death, suffering, and disruption to ordinary life caused by the pandemic. Yet, currently, only a small number of countries from the Global North are being able to vaccinate at a rapid rate with access to COVID-19 vaccines having been conditioned by the ability to make large investments in the developments of the vaccine. The vaccines are being manufactured by large private companies, based almost exclusively in the Global North, who have become household names. Yet, their development involved not only private funding but also large amounts of public money and research. Moreover, some of the vaccines were tested on people living in countries in the Global South, including in South Africa. The patenting of the vaccines not only has allowed for the ability of companies to charge high prices but also restrictions on who may supply the vaccines which is partly responsible for current shortages.

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FW de Klerk Annual Conference 2024: Follow up report

Author: David Vorbau

The FW de Klerk Foundation Annual Conference 2024, held in collaboration between the FW de Klerk Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation South Africa, took place on February 2nd in Cape Town.

Has the ANC lost touch with South Africans: Summary

Author: David Vorbau

In a lively discussion on Wednesday, January 31, moderated by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), Moeletsi Mbeki and Professor Nicola de Jager delved into the current state of the ANC and its historical mission

Civil Society Network Convergence For South Africa forms new network

Civil society network Convergence4SA (C4SA) held a one-day strategy session on Wednesday 6 December 2023.

Masterclass in Coalition Governance Leadership

A two-day masterclass on coalition government was held in Cape Town on November 7-8, hosted by the CiviNovus group and supported by KAS SA. This event was a follow-up and an opportunity to discuss the democratic future of our country with South Africa's distinguished politicians, academics and thought leaders.

National consultation of church leaders

Promoting ethical leadership qualities - Elections 2024

Strengthening participatory democracy, transparency, accountability and good governance.

Free Market Foundation on Privatisation

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung South Africa (KAS), together with our partner organization Free Market Foundation South Africa (FMF), held an expert exchange on the 8th of November with the theme of Infrastructure Privatization aimed at businesspeople, academics, and representatives of civil society.

KAS South Africa Alumni Dinner 2023

Author: Luisa Kerner

On 29 September 2023, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) hosted its traditional Alumni Dinner in Cape Town. The event brought together about 30 current and former scholars and KAS partners. Such events provide opportunities and a platform for alumni and partners to network, collaborate and exchange ideas on political as well as socio-economic issues.

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.