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The Institute for African Alternatives and The Institute for Social Development at the University of the Western Cape, are proud to invite you to attend the annual Ben Turok Memorial Lecture. Please see the attached invitation and registration link. The 4th Ben Turok Memorial Lecture will be delivered in Cape Town…

Join Us for A Day of Reflection on the Refugee/Migrant Experience Date: 30th November 2024Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pmVenue: Community House, 41 Salt River Rd, Salt River, Cape Town In light of recent events, including the controversial police operations sealing off illegal underground mines and the food poisoning scare…

Join us for the online launch of “The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism” on Monday, 25th November 2024, at 3 pm SAST (UTC+2). This essential new book reveals how the global push for sustainability often perpetuates colonial exploitation under a “green” guise, as wealthier nations extract critical resources from the Global…

Calling for a Justice-Centred approach to Sustainability “The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism” dives into a critical, thought-provoking issue: how today’s global push for environmental sustainability, instead of reversing colonial and capitalist injustices, often intensifies them. Edited by Miriam Lang, Mary Ann Manahan, and Breno Bringel, the book asserts that the…

Download The Living Rights Festival Programme at this link.…

Award=winning filmmaker Nadine Cloete presents her documentary Action Kommandant at the Liviing Rights Festival…

The Living Rights Festival, screens ‘Pathways to Light’, and episode from Enver Samuel’s gound breaking new series ‘Truth Be Told’ at Bertha House Cinema, on 30th October 2024…

A selection of John Adam Barrow’s work from his series “Space-Time: A Meta-narrative for the Metacrisis” will be on view at the Living Rights Exhibition at Bertha House on 25th and 26th October 2024.…

Living Sounds- a concert for solidarity and unity. Organised by the Cape Cultural Collective (CCC) and Jazz in the Native Yards(JNY) as part of the Living Rights Festival.…

FRIDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2024 VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION 09:00 – 19:00 ZARA NEWMAN * JOHN BARROW * VELILE SOHA * SONGEZO ZANTSI Get an intimate look at the exhibition with a guided walkabout led by the artists themselves. This is your chance to hear directly from Zara Newman, John Barrow, Velile…

You’re Invited to the Living Rights Festival: Bertha House Weekend! Step into a world where art and activism collide! Join us on Friday, 25 October, and Saturday, 26 October 2024, for an unforgettable weekend at Bertha House, Cape Town. Over two days, we’ll celebrate the powerful voices and creative energy…

Analyzing Africa’s Just Transition: Charting a New Path for Economic and Climate Transformation The Tunisian economist Dr. Fadhel Kaboub presented a thought-provoking webinar based on the 2023 report “Just Transition: A Climate, Energy, and Development Vision for Africa” of which he is a co-author. The report calls for a comprehensive…

The Institute for African Alternatives is pleased to host Fadhel Kaboub on Monday, 16th September 2024, at 6 pm. Dr Kaboub will give an overview of the report “Just Transition: A Climate, Energy and Development Vision for Africa,” in which he is a co-author. This is an online IFAA Forum.…

Sadly, the Youth Speak event that IFAA co-hosted with the Peace Centre became the last event to be organized by the founding director of the latter organization, Rommel Roberts, who tragically passed away in a motor accident the day before the event. Rommel Roberts (1949–2024) was a South African human…

As the South African Elections approached, and with June also being South African Youth Month, IFAA engaged in discussions with several partners to host a large youth event, in which young people would take center stage and express their collective vision, concerns, and expectations for the future of the country.…