Events - South Africa Office
Expert conference
Green Paper on Landreform: Challenges & Opportunities
The KAS conference, hosted in cooperation with the Law Faculty of the North West University, focuses on the Green Paper on Landreform and its consequences for Land Rights and Agrarian Reform in South Africa
Lecture
Eviction, Expropriation & the Dignity of the Common Law
The lecture by Frank I. Michelman, Walmsey Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School is a joint initiative of Constitutional Law of South Africa, KAS, SAIFAC, Human Rights & International Law Centre at UJ and the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law.
Expert conference
THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
Views from South Africa, Brasil, India and Germany
Several states are reflecting on their positions on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Researchers, students and government representatives from India, Brazil, South Africa and Germany discuss the concept of R2P, its challenges and limitations.
Book presentation
Local Elections in South Africa: Parties, People, Politics
What impact do local elections have on national politics?
Seminar
2011 South African Reconciliation Barometer Survey
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, in partnership with the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), are organising a series of briefings on the results of the 2011 South African Reconciliation Barometer Survey
Seminar
2011 South African Reconciliation Barometer Survey
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, in partnership with Democracy Development Programme (DDP) and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), are organising a series of briefings on the results of the 2011 South African Reconciliation Barometer Survey
Seminar
15 years of the South African Constitution
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the South African Constitution. KAS and its partner DDP invite renowned experts to reflect on the constitutional development in particular and the democratic development in South Africa in general.
Seminar
15 years of the South African Constitution
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the South African Constitution. KAS and its partner DDP invite renowned experts to reflect on the constitutional development in particular and the democratic development in South Africa in general.
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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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