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South Africa in the World 2019

President Ramaphosa’s election as President in South Africa’s sixth democratic elections, held in May 2019, cemented the trend to pursue economic diplomacy as a South African foreign policy strategy.

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Fourth Decent Standard of Living Colloquium 31 October 2019

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

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The 5th Degrowth Summer School at the Klimacamp Leipziger Land, Pödelwitz, Germany.

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...

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Youth Post Elections Round Table: Are South African Youth Fed Up with Formal Politics?

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.

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SWOP Breakfast Seminar: Marikana and its aftermath: the disruptive power of labour

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...

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Vuyisile Mini Winter School

The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in partnership with the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) support worker education as part of its commitment to working class unions and other working-class movements.

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African Mobilisation in the 4th Industrial Revolution

The issue of movement and mobilisation is an ever-present one in South African and African domestic and international relations. These aspects of society can either be the driving force of development, or can cause the continued...

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Fort Hare Autumn School - Social Democracy and Political Economy

The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) South Africa hosted the Fort Hare Autumn school module one on Social Democracy and Political Economy in the Eastern Cape at Hogsback from 18 to 23 April 2019

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Fort Hare Autumn School 2018 Cohort Graduation

The Friedirch Ebert Stiftung South Africa hosted a Graduation Ceremony and Reception Dinner for the FHAS class of 2018 on 18 April 2018 at Hogsback in the Eastern Cape.

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SOUTHERN CENTRE FOR INEQUALITY STUDIES SYMPOSIUM: UNDERSTANDING INEQUALITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

On 10 and 11 April 2019, the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, in conjunction with the Julius Baer Foundation hosted an international inequality symposium at Wits University.