Events

South Africa’s 2024 elections have significantly demonstrated how political, racial, regional, and ethnic identities have been shifting...

This year’s Festival places a strong focus on gender and feminist economics, in response to the evolving economic and political landscape across South Africa and the globe.

Media Statement

Commemorating the UN International Dat for Women in Diplomacy

"There shall be Peace and Friendship”: Contextual considerations for Advancing Progressive Internationalism in the current geopolitical (dis)order.

Celebrating collective wins and 100 years of FES

“Anger is not sustainable as an organizing tool. It does not give us the longevity to topple inequality and change the economy of this country.

South Africa needs progressive leaders. Will you be one of them?

Celebrating the Resilience of Women in Politics and Political Spaces

Challenges and Opportunities for Africa

A Conversation with Youth4Parliament

The quests for outright majorities by relatively big parties, and efforts to establish ‘kingmaker status’ by smaller ones, reflect their experiences of the current milieu.

Building on the discussions from the National Dialogue on Coalition Governments and enriched by the critical insights from MISTRA’s Coalitions Barometer.

The REFA Festival is back to challenge economic orthodoxies, unpack economic heterodoxies, & to shake-up the economics discipline in Africa.

Living room conversation on Building progressive internationalism - conversations about fractured realities

Catalysts to South Africa’s international engagement and image, A South African Foreign Policy Review Vol. 4 discussion with the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD)

Official opening of our new conference facility: the Lindiwe Mabuza Space.

Mpumalanga Highveld: Community voices in South Africa’s just Transition debates

This event will reflect on South Africa’s foreign policy performance in the context of evolving regional and global landscapes.

Annual Neil Aggett Labour Studies Lecture

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Pan-Africanism has been a compelling vision for the continent for at least a hundred years.

A conversation on a better South Africa for all.

A homegrown measurement system for national media environments in Africa, compiled using insights and experiences of media workers and civil society.

‘Renewal’ is the word of the moment in South Africa today.

SPI Webinar Series 2022: Re-Imagining the Framework

What do the lives of young people tell us about the varied experiences of being young in South Africa today – 28 years into democracy?

March 1, 2022 marked a very important day for the workers of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and Community Work Programme (CWP) in the public sector when Maanda-Ashu Workers Union of South Africa (MAWUSA) was registered.

Views of universalism and deservingness from the South African unemployed

NALUS Labour Studies Seminar and Web Seminar

A comparative study of food courier riders in three African cities.

Analysis of South Africa’s 2021 local elections and coalitions Report Launch

This is not another GBV talk. We have been here before, and the results have been the same. This time we take a different turn.

We want a sustainable and fair economic system characterized by low emissions, resource conservation and social inclusion.

Both globally and in South Africa neoliberal policy voices and private sector interests continue to dominate debates on climate and energy policy.

The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII), with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung South Africa, is hosting a three-webinar series on the Basic Income Grant (BIG) on the 13, 20th and 22nd of October 2021, respectively.

This is not another GBV talk. We have been here before, and the results have been the same. This time we take a different turn.

What does Social Democracy have to offer today?

A report into the absence of water governance in the Limpopo River Catchment.

What is to be expected from a possible new coalition government?

The seminar will attempt to answer the question of whether it is possible to change social relations of production within the current capitalist economy, and explores whether community owned renewable energy is a potential step in this direction.

A critical reflection on the Socially Perceived Necessities (SPN) in attaining a Decent Standard of Living (DSL)

FES UP Winter School on Social Democracy and Civic Participation for Young Leaders

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung South Africa commissioned a study, building on an initial report published in May 2020 [link - “Water risks of fossil fuel mega projects in Limpopo: the MCWAP and the EMSEZ”]

Since the arrest of Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa (on July 9, 2021), parts of the country have been engulfed in a series of destructive protests – mainly looting of businesses and shopping malls.

Join the Fort Hare Autumn School Alumni Network for their second youth month dialogue on 30 June 2021 for a dialogue on ‘Youth Participation in Politics and Governance.

Join the Fort Hare Autumn School Alumni Network on 23 June 2021 for a dialogue on ’Access to Quality Education’.

"to be a responsive and engaged network of scholars committed to furthering the objectives and interests of the FHAS Alumni Network and interests of FES"

In response to the relentless global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, wealthy countries are rapidly rolling out and even 'stockpiling' vast quantities of vaccine doses.

South African government's poor performance in addressing the historical injustices through land redistribution has

seriously depleted public confidence in the role of state in land reform.

Concerned Africans Forum presents South Africa's Africa Agenda prospects and challenges web seminar

What is at stake in promoting the Limpopo Province Special Economic Zone and its significance for South Africa in the “Global South”: the MMSEZ as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI); with critique of the initial Environmental Impact…

As South Africa prepares for its upcoming role as Chair of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ for Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, the fluidity of regional dynamics are compounded by emergent security and political…

Join the Fort Hare Autumn School Alumni Network on 16 November 2020 as Sethu Nguna (FHAS 2012 Cohort) presents her policy brief titled ‘Bridging inequalities of access and quality in South African Higher Education: Prospects for Online Learning’.

As we concentrate national initiatives on Covid-19 recovery, the systemic eradication of poverty must be the greatest priority, or reconstruction will not succeed.

Half day web-seminar hosted by the University of Pretoria (UP) in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).

The seminar will unpack the key drivers of local conict in mineral-rich communal areas in South Africa.

Online Workshop: Diversifying the Economics Curricula

The Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) invite you to a strategic dialogue.

Corruption remains a major challenge to democracy in South Africa.

Join the Fort Hare Autumn School Alumni Network for an online seminar on The constitution and the virus: The role of young people during COVID-19, What challenges and opportunities are young people faced with?

You are invited to join an interactive webinar focusing on threats to water resources in the Limpopo North water catchment area of South Africa, as well as an aquifer that we share with two neighbouring countries, primarily as arising from plans for…

Online Research Press Launch event to communicate the existing and pending threats to water resources and supply in the catchment area South Africa shares with neighbouring countries, primarily arising from plans involving perpetuating our dependence…

What is corruption? What form does corruption take in South Africa's post-apartheid order? Can Ramaphosa's government turn the tide on corruption? The seminar will challenge the prevailing views and meanings on corruption.

PUBLIC LECTURE: Labour in the Boardroom?

The SWOP Breakfast Seminar is a public platform for sharing new SWOP research with stakeholders inside and outside of the university. Hofmeyr House is a venue that facilitates networking and lively discussion amongst all participants over a full…

The first 2020 SWOP breakfast roundtable will commence with a book launch and discussion of "Bonds of Justice: The Struggle for Oukasie". The discussion will include author Kally Forrest as well as Tshidi Mangoathe, Jacob Moatshe & Gille de Vlieg.

Public Dialogue on: South Africa’s Second Year on the United Nations Security Council.

Disrupting Poverty: applying a Decent Standard of Living measure towards coherent policy design.

This year the Summer School aimed to support the resistance of the people from the threatened village of Pödelwitz, as well as the resistance of people all over the world whose villages and livelihoods are threatened by the consequences of climate…

In September 2019, the second Rethinking Economics for Africa Festival will take place at Wits University in Johannesburg with conversations on how to rethink economic theory, policy and activism.

On Saturday, August 3, 2019 the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Germany’s former Federal Minister of Justice Prof. Dr. Herta Däubler-Gmelin hosted a Youth Post Elections Round Table.

We are excited to announce the upcoming Breakfast Seminar's for the second semester of 2019. The Society, Work and Politics Institute hosts the seminars throughout the year, it is a platform for sharing new SWOP research with those inside and outside…

"South African Political Parties Face the World in an Election Year: A Foreign Policy Panel Discussion"

THE EVOLVING GLOBAL ORDER : WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR AFRICA?

Essay-Writing Competition and Conference Opportunity – Calling all International and Public Affairs Postgraduate Students

South Africa On The UN Security Council.

South Africa is heading towards national elections in 2019. The credibility of these elections will not only depend on the integrity of the Independent Electoral Commission but also on the media’s ability to provide quality and issues-driven…

Although the retail fuel sector in South Africa is fast growing and highly labour intensive, little is known about filling stations as work places and the daily work experiences of petrol attendants. Together with the National Union of Metalworkers…

The National Development Plan talks to the need for a Decent Standard of Living for all in South Africa. The UN Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has also called on South Africa to adopt such a standard and measuer.

The Wits School of Governance in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung South Africa invites you to a public dialogue focusing on debating and envisioning a new social contract for South Africa. This dialogue marks the culmination of a year -long…

The Institute for Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) hosted a seminar at the Burgers Park Hotel in Pretoria on September 26, 2018, on the theme The legacy of Argentina’s G20 presidency in 2018: priorities,…

The Institute for Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) hosted a seminar at the Burgers Park Hotel in Pretoria on July 3, 2018, on the theme Argentina’s G20 Presidency: implications for the Africa-G20 Partnership.

THE WITS SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE in partnership with FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG SOUTH AFRICA invite you to the sixth roundtable in the 2018 series focused on exploring social transformation and the social contract in South Africa.

THE Wits School of Governance in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung South Africa invite you to the fifth roundtable in the 2018 series focused on exploring social transformation and the social contract in South Africa.

Argentina’s hosting of the G20 summit in 2018 presents a significant opportunity for it to represent the needs and expectations of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as a whole, as well as advancing a cohesive regional strategy of the Latin…

South Africa needs future leaders. Will you be one of them?

The Global Labour Univeristy (GLU) is proud to announce a short course for Labour Activisits living and working in South Africa.

KMM Review Publishing, The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Brigalia Bam Chair for Democracy invite you to attend Debating democracy and electoral systems

Join us for the ‘Wellbeing Economy Festival’ in Pretoria (South Africa) from 27 to 29 November 2017. An incredible line-up of innovators, entrepreneurs, technology experts and academics discussing how to change policy, business and society.