Cape Town open dialogue events

Planning for the future: The energy question
Prof John Walmsley (Nuclear Engineeers Institute) and Prof Thomas Auf de Heyde (Dean of Research, University of Johannesburg (Iziko Natural History Museum, May 2006)

Language, class and power in post-apartheid South Africa
Dr Neville Alexander, Project for the Study of Education in South Africa (Cape Town, October 2005)

Human rights, Muslims, and the war on terror
Prof Farid Esack, Xavier University, Cincinnati (Cape Town, August 2005)

Is globalisation good for Africa?
Kuseni Dlamini, AngloGold Ashanti and Dot Keet, Alternative Information Development Centre (Cape Town, July 2005)

Technological choice in a developing country: A focus on nuclear power and genetically modified foods
Dr David Fig, independent policy analyst and Chairperson: Biowatch South Africa (Cape Town, May 2005)

Does black economic empowerment advance socio-economic transformation in South Africa?
Zamikhaya Maseti, political economy analyst; Discussant: Prof Roger Southall, Distinguished Research Fellow: Democracy and Governance research programme, Human Sciences Research Council (Cape Town, April 2005)

Gender-based violence and sexuality in South Africa: Challenges for new direction
Dr Elaine Salo, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town; Discussant: Zackie Achmat, Chairperson: Treatment Action Campaign (Cape Town, March 2005)

Research funding and the consequences for university research
Dr David Woods, Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes University (Cape Town, February 2005)

Witch hunts and war scares: Political repression in America - from the Puritans to the Patriot Act
Prof Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University, New York (Cape Town, January 2005)

The South African Bill of Rights and the African Renaissance: Incompatible values?
Dennis Davies, High Court Judge (Cape Town, September 2004)

Who is an African?
Dr Wallace Mgoqi, City of Cape Town (Cape Town, June 2004)

Inequality in South Africa: Nature, causes and responses
Prof Stephen Gelb, The Edge Institute (Cape Town, May 2004)

Presence of the past: The relevance to South Africa
Prof Andre du Toit, Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, March 2004)

The Communal Land Rights Bill
Advocate P. Holomisa, Contralesa and ANC MP, and Ms Aninka Claassens, consultant on land issues (Cape Town, February 2004)

Transition to democracy in Zimbabwe: A civil society perspective
Hosted in partnership with the Zimbabwe Advocacy Campaign. Brian Raftopolous, Chair of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, and Mike Auret, formerly Director of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe and ex MDC MP for Harare Central (2000 -2002) (Cape Town, December 2003)

Anti-Semitism or Anti-Zionism
Prof Milton Shain, Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department, University of Cape Town and Jonathan Shapiro, Editorial Cartoonist (Cape Town, November 2003)

The making of manhood in Xhosa society: Challenges for gender equality
Nomboniso Gasa (Cape Town, September 2003)

Teacher education: The challenges of recruiting, training and retaining teachers
Panellists: Penny Vinjavold (Chief Director: Education Planning, Provincial Administration of the Western Cape), Prof Maureen Robinson (Dean: Faculty of Education, Cape Technikon), Allan Liebenberg (Principal: Crestway High School) (Cape Town, August 2003)

What's happened to the workers? Implications of informalisation of 'work'
Prof Eddie Webster, Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand; Discussant: Prof Johan Maree (Cape Town, July 2003)

Economic growth and poverty alleviation
Philip Dexter; Respondent: Prof Pieter le Roux (Cape Town, June 2003)

An incomplete transformation: What is to be done?
Prof Sampie Terreblanche, Department of Economics, University of Stellenbosch; Discussant: Rob Davies, Chairperson: Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry (Cape Town, May 2003)

Combating poverty: South Africa's BIG challenge
Neil Coleman, Cosatu and BIG Coalition; Discussant: Jeremy Seekings, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, April 2003)

George Bush, the American State and the new far right
Prof Dan O'Meara; Discussant: Dr Pallo Jordan (Cape Town, March 2003)

The threat of war with Iraq
Dr Pallo Jordan, Chair: Parliamentary Foreign Policy Group (Cape Town, October 2002)

The Nevirapine case
Geoff Budlender, Legal Resources Centre (Cape Town, August 2002)

Sexual violence: The way forward. A panel discussion
Panel: Advocate Bronwyn Pithey (Sexual Offences & Community Affairs Unit, Office of National Director of Public Prosecutions), Mr Cas Saloojee (MP), Nikki Schaay (School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape), Chief Patekile Holomisa (MP, President of Contralesa) (Cape Town, May 2002)

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Land and agrarian reform
Prof Ben Cousins and Mr Edward Lahiff, Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape (Cape Town, April 2002)

White guilt, reparation and transformation: Joint public meeting/panel discussion with Idasa and Mail & Guardian
Prof Wilmot James, Mr Langa Zita (MP), Ms Mary Burton (Black Sash), Mr Marthinus van Schalkwyk (National Party) (Cape Town, April 2001)

Co-operative government, power relations and decision-making
Dr Norman Levy, University of the Western Cape; Discussant: Christina Murray, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, March 2001)

Declaration of commitment by white South Africans
Laurie Nathan, Centre for Conflict Resolution; Discussant: Mr Jeremy Cronin, MP (Cape Town, February 2001)

Is an accord between the government, business, community and labour desirable and necessary for development in South Africa and what is the role for Nedlac in the structuring of such an accord?
Mr Phillip Dexter; Discussant: Dr Johan Maree, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, October 2000)

Challenges facing historically black universities
Prof Peter Vale, Acting Vice Rector (Academic), University of the Western Cape; Discussant: Ian Bunting, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, August 2000)

The impact of socio-economic restructuring on the working class and the challenges facing them
Ravi Naidoo, NALEDI (Cape Town, August 2000)

The ANC/SACP/Cosatu alliance
Jeremy Cronin, MP; Discussant: Sipho Maseko, MP (Cape Town, May 2000)

The State of higher education 1999: Are we on the road to the 21st century?
Dr Nico Cloete; Discussant: Prof Dan Nciyana, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, November 1999)

Understanding and accounting for the changes in employment patterns in South Africa
Dr Haroon Bhorat, Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town; Discussant: Mr Rob Davis, MP (Cape Town, September 1999)

Macro-economic management
Dr Iraj Abedian, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, June 1998)

Durban Wolpe lecture series

After the interregnum: International aid in the service of security
Prof Alan Fowler, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, December 2005)

Regional labour solidarity and a new regional movement in post-apartheid Southern Africa: Retail workers in Mozambique and Zambia
Dr Darlene Miller and Greg Ruiters, Rhodes University (Durban, October 2005)

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The struggle for Zimbabwe: Contesting the meaning of liberation
Wilfred Mhanda, Zimbabwean activist (Durban, September 2005)

Unions and social movements in South Africa: Will the twain ever meet?
Dinga Sikwebu, ex-National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Durban, July 2005)

Critical capacities: Facing the challenges of intellectual development in Africa
Prof Amina Mama, African Gender Institute (Durban, June 2005)

The rise of disaster capitalism
Naomi Klein, Independent writer (Durban, June 2005)

Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the origin of terror
Prof Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University, New York (Durban, June 2005)

Is there any future in the past? A critique of the Freedom Charter in the era of neoliberalism
Console Tleane, Freedom of Expression Institute (Durban, May 2005)

Democracy and the importance of criticism, dissent and public dialogue
William Mervin Gumede, School of Public & Development Management, Wits University (Durban, April 2005)

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Keeping it in their pants: Politicians, men and sexual assault in South Africa
Charlene Smith, journalist and author (Durban, March 2005)

The state of the media ten years into democracy
Ferial Haffejee, Editor: Mail & Guardian (Durban, May 2004)

Ten years of democracy: A review
Prof Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand (Durban, April 2004)

Another journalism is possible: Critical challenges for the media in South Africa
Jane Duncan, Freedom of Expression Institute (Durban, October 2003)

Passageways: Revisiting self, the society of the spectacle, and Moby Dick in the wake of September 11
Darryl Accone (Durban, May 2003)

A South African architecture: What is it, where is it?
Prof Alan Lipman (Durban, April 2003)

Organising for second freedom
Ela Bhatt, Founder: Self-Employed Women's Association, India (Durban, December 2002)

The (self-imposed) crisis of the black intellectual
Prof Jonathan Jansen, University of Pretoria (Durban, November 2002)

The Basic Income Grant: Poverty, politics and policy-making
Ravi Naidoo, National Labour and Economic Development Institute (Durban, October 2002)

Journalism in the age of the market
Prof Anton Harber, University of the Witwatersrand (Durban, September 2002)

Cost recovery and municipal services in South Africa
Dr David McDonald, Queens University, Canada (Durban, August 2002)

Johannesburg Wolpe seminar series

Labour market flexibility: Will a social pact help?
Prof Halton Cheadle, Dept of Law, University of Cape Town, and Gwede Mantashe, General Secretary: National Union of Mineworkers (Johannesburg, October 2005)

Defining the public interest: The SABC as a public broadcaster
Dr Snuki Zikalala, Head of News: SABC, and Tawana Kupe, School of Language & Literature Studies, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, September 2005)

Black economic empowerment
Dali Mpofu, Group CEO of SABC, and Willy Madisha, Chairperson: Cosatu (Johannesburg, June 2005)

Social movements and the State
Mark Heywood, Treatment Action Campaign, and Trevor Ngwane, Anti-Privatisation Forum (Johannesburg, May 2005)

The Afrikaners: Who are they? What is their future?
Prof Jakes Gerwel, Mandela Rhodes Foundation, and Danie Goosen, Groep van 63 (Johannesburg, April 2005)

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South Africa in Africa: In whose interest?
Kuseni Dlamini, AngloGold Ashanti, and Trevor Ncube, CEO Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg, March 2005)

The role of intellectuals in South Africa
Dr Blade Nzimande, General Secretary, South African Communist Party, and Dr Xolela Mangcu, Executive Director, Human Sciences Research Council (Johannesburg, February 2005)

Eastern Cape Wolpe lecture series

Race and ethnicity in nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa
Dr Neville Alexander, PRAESA, University of Cape Town (East London, March 2006)

Land and the agrarian question: What does this mean for South Africa today?
Associate Prof Lungisile Ntsebeza, Dept of Sociology, University of South Africa (Alice, February 2006)