Events - South Africa Office
Symposium
The Arab Spring and the African Continent
The 5th Annual International Law Seminar focusses on the Arab Spring and its influence on existing international law
Lecture
KAS Alumni Dinner
Current and former participants of the KAS/SAIIA scholarship programme are regularly invited to join this dinner roundtables that provide a plaform for networking and frank discussions on political as well as socio-economic issues.
Workshop
Democracy in Constitutional Perspectives
The concept of Democracy is the focus of this workshop, which aims to stimulate constitutional and jurisprudential debate on this topic.
Book presentation
The Responsibility to Protect: From Evasive to Reluctant Action?
The Role of Global Middle Powers
What happens if a state turns against its own people? Should the international community respect state sovereignty or should it intervene? The book "Responsibility to Protect”– From Evasive to Reluctant Action?" contributes to this debate.
Workshop
Values in Global Economic Governance
Do India, Brazil, and South Africa Share a Common Vision?
The workshop aims to investigate the broad parameters of each IBSA country’s approach to the values that could underpin global economic governance, in relation to the hard calculus of economic interest.
Forum
Mail & Guardian: Critical Thinking Forum
What kind of leadership do we want to come out of Mangaung?
A new leadership will emerge from the ANC elective conference in Mangaung, scheduled for December 2012. This forum focusses on the question what kind of leadership the country needs in order to tackle current political and socio-economic challenges.
Book presentation
Local Elections in South Africa: Parties, People, Politics
What impact do local elections have on national politics? How are party politics affected? The new KAS publication, put together by Susan Booysen, explores how local politics interfaces with local government and the socio-economic base of society.
Workshop
Summer Academy Southern Africa (SASA)
Preparing the Party for Election Campaigns
This annual KAS-workshop series addresses the need of political parties in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially those in opposition, to develop a better understanding of how to run a successful election campaign.
Expert conference
“Economic Justice for the Next Generation”
The conference will focus on the economic participation of young South Africans, and the challenges they face in accessing education and entering the labour market.
Expert conference
Judicial Leadership
Striving for an inclusive and representative judiciary
The broad theme of the South African Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges (SAC- IAWJ) 2012 conference is “Judicial Leadership: An Inclusive Judiciary”. Sub-themes will focus on empowerment of women as leaders in the judiciary.
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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.
Event Reports
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.
Event Reports
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.
Event Reports
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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