Date : 26 July 2011 Time : 11:30 – 13:00 Presenters: Mr Jacques van Zuydam, Chief Director: Population and Development, National Department of Social Development Dr Monde Makiwane, Chief Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council Prof. Sakhele Buhlungu, University of Pretoria,…
Date : 26 July 2011 Time : 13:00 – 14:00 Venue : PLAAS Boardroom (2nd Floor, Main Hall, UWC) Millions of black South African workers struggled against apartheid to redeem employment and production from a history of abuse, insecurity, and racial despotism. Almost two decades later,…
Date : 03 August 2011 Time : 12:30 – 13:30 A research project by the Pennsylvania State University (USA) and the Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa) in South Africa, Somaliland, Kenya and Ethiopia. African countries are characterised by parallel institutions of…
Date : 10 August 2011 Time : 12:15 – 13:30 Presenters: Prof. Relebohile Moletsane, School of Education and Development Faculty of Education University of KwaZulu-Natal Prof. Vasu Reddy, Acting Executive Director Human and Social Development, HSRC, and a panel of gender experts The concept of…
Date : 16 August 2011 Time : 12:15 – 13:30 Presenters : Simon Nantamu, Doctoral Internship from Trinity College Dublin Africa has the worst health outcomes per dollar spent in the developing world and the IMF rates the efficiency of African health spending as the lowest in the world…
Date : 24 August 2011 Time : 12:15 – 13:30 Presenters : Adlai Davids, HSRC Jeroen K van Ginneken, University of Pretoria Violence-related injuries are a major cause of death in South Africa, but geographical trends in certain categories of homicides such as blunt force injury deaths have…
Date : 30 August 2011 Time : 12:45 – 15:30 Presenters : Ms Nonhlanhla Mkhize, Durban Lesbian and Gay Centre Dr Danny Titus, Commissioner, Human Rights Commission Ms Vanya Gastrow, Visiting researcher, African Centre for Migration and Society Prof Juan Nel, Centre for Applied Psychology,…
Date : 06 October 2011 Time : 12:30 – 14:00 Presenters: Prof. Dr. Dong Lisheng, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Academy of Social Sciences A key to understand China’s success in the past 30 years lies in the central government policy that gives full play to the local…
African Knowledge Production Series The seminar will take the form of a panel discussion, with a facilitator asking questions to which each of the panel will respond briefly and spontaneously. The panellists will also be encouraged to respond to each others’ inputs. This format will allow for…
