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Rethinking Civil Society: Building Power for Social Transformation

MISTRA–Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Roundtable | 29 July 2026 | Johannesburg

Group photo of eight people standing side by side and smiling, posing indoors in front of a large step-and-repeat banner for the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), featuring an image of the Mapungubwe gold rhino.
Odirile Seageng / Exquisite Motivity
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Tax Justice: Why Tax Is About More Than Numbers

Tax affects all of us.

Audience seated in rows of red and blue chairs at an indoor event, facing two men seated in armchairs at the front of the room in a conversational setup, with a low wooden table between them. Two Friedrich Ebert Stiftung banner stands flank the seating area, reading 'Just and Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation' and 'Shaping Social Democracy. Since 1925.
Odirile Seageng / Exquisite Motivity
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Reimagining democracy for just and equitable futures

Women in Leadership in Local Government: Ethical Leadership, Effective Leadership and Service Delivery

Three women sit on a panel at the OR Tambo School of Leadership. The speaker on the right gestures while speaking. A Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung banner reading “Shaping Social Democracy. Since 1925.” stands behind the panel.
Sharon Seretlo
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Tax Wars film screening

The fight for Tax Justice for an equal future

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High Level Dialogue on Taxation and the Recommendations of the Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Inequality.

G20 Social Summit side event

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  • Democracy and Political Culture

Age of identity politics?

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

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The Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) Festival

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.

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  • Internationalism and future of multilateralism

South Africa’s trade union Federations to Host L20 Summit ahead of G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting

Media Statement

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  • Internationalism and future of multilateralism

International Day for Women in Diplomacy

Commemorating the UN International Dat for Women in Diplomacy

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  • Internationalism and future of multilateralism

Colloquium on Progressive Internationalism

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

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Latest Publications

Forging strong alliances

Forging strong alliances

Adotey Buckman, David ; Essien, Lucy Abotare ; Meissner, Kathrin | Johannesburg : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Trade Union Competence Centre for Sub-Saharan Africa, [2024]

trade unions uniting across Sub-Saharan Africa and Germany

The quest for equitable multilateralism

The quest for equitable multilateralism

Mbete, Sithembile | Johannesburg : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, [2024]

mapping South African interests in reforming the global order

Journalism and elections in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journalism and elections in Sub-Saharan Africa

Santos, Phillip | [Windhoek] : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, fesmedia Africa, August, 2024

locating the democratic deficit

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