Date : 03 October 2012 Time : 12:30 – 14:00 Speakers: Ms. Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso, Director of African Monitor. Mr. Adama Deen, Head: Regional Integration and Infrastructure, NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency – TBC The focus of African Monitor’s Development Support…
Date : 21 September 2012 Time : 09:30 – 12:00 Speakers: Mr Jay Naidoo: Founding General Secretary of COSATU Rev Sakhumzi Collen Qiqimana: Resident of Marikana and member of a local Faith Based Organisation Respondents: Prof Irvin Ivan Turok: Economic Performance and…
Presented by Keith Humphreys, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA South Africa is one of a number of developing countries which have experienced an upsurge in binge drinking and alcohol-related illness, crime and…
Presented by Prof Himla Soodyall, Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit, NHLS and Wits University Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing facilities: see below) Date: 21 September 2012 Time: 12H15 – 14H00 Most of us can name our…
Date : 31 July 2012 Time : 12:15 – 14:30 This seminar will focus on findings of a baseline study of families in Mpumalanga. The workshop will elaborate on these findings: Multigenerational families are common, however the impact of migration has led to a reduced number of people…
Date : 26 July 2012 Time : 12:00 – 13:30 Presenters : Professor Crain Soudien The presentation will focus on the meaning of race, how it works in modern society and the evolution of its discussion in the last fifty years in South Africa. How it has come to be confused with racism and come...…
Following country-wide provincial public hearings on the Bill, most provinces either rejected the Bill or proposed significant changes. The Bill elicited stiff opposition and was consequently sent back to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. Some alleged that the Bill would…
By Bernadette Atuahene, Law and Public Affairs Fellow, Princeton University, Associate Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent Law School, Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation The Land Commission’s pervasive assumption is that land claimants who received financial compensation wasted their…
Date :19 July 2012 Time :12:30 – 15:00 Presenters : Ms Mary Mononela : Chief Director – Gender Mainstreaming in the Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Ms Dululu Hlatshaneni – Deputy Director – Social Cohesion and Equity in Education, Department of…
Date :12 July 2012 Time :12:30 – 14:00 In terms of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996, the public service is required to embody certain constitutionally-enshrined democratic principles and values and be able to perform effectively and efficiently undoubtedly. In this regard,…