20 July 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94363988710?pwd=czdqNlJ3K3owd2ZPdDBtSFAwdXQvUT09
Multidimensional inequalities have long been a critical feature of South African life. Our lives are now compounded by the shock and uncertainties of COVID 19 that have exacerbated the challenges and vulnerabilities faced by many South Africans. This volume of State of the Nation helps us to think through and navigate the ‘new normal’ in which we find ourselves. Central here are the unavoidable political and socioeconomic consequences and interventions required.
The volume provides deep insights to stimulate rethinking and reimagining changes that prioritise how we live, interact and engage with one another and the State. Insights bring us to consider a more ethical and caring way of life in response to the harsh realities of poverty and inequality. The effects of poverty and inequality are like a respiratory infection that impacts on humans in brutal ways, making it difficult to breathe and, ultimately wounding and even killing us. An ethics of care requires us to reconsider relations of domination, oppression, injustice and inequality, or paternalism within the state. This is a volume that prioritises our context, social location, historical background, structural conditions, and relationships between the state and citizens.
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PROGRAMME
MC: Professor Vasu Reddy
WELCOME
Professor Leickness Simbayi (Acting CEO, HSRC)
FACILITATOR
Professor Narnia Bohler-Muller
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr BE Nzimande (Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation)
PANELISTS
Dr Mabel Sithole (Politics)
Mr Ngqapheli Mchunu (Public Perceptions)
Dr Andrea Juan and Prof Crain Soudien (Education)
Professor Ames Dhai and Dr Mzikazi Nduna (Health)
THANK YOU NOTE
Dr Yul Derek Davids / Dr Gerard Hagg
