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Eleven African countries are in the top 20 of the 2023 list of humanitarian crises in the world produced by the International Rescue Committee. Somalia is top of the list, with Ethiopia second, followed by the DRC (4th place), South Sudan (7th), Burkino Faso (8th). The top 20 include the…

Please don’t forget to join IFAA and Surplus Radical Books for our Chris Hani commemorative event on Monday 17th April 2023, at 5.30 pm, at the Cinema, Bertha House, 67-69 Main Road, Mowbray. The program consists of the screening of the SABC-made documentary ‘The Life and Times of Chris Hani’, followed…

The Institute for African Alternatives and Surplus Radical Books invites you to our Chris Hani commemorative event, on the 30th anniversary of his assassination. The evening includes the screening of the rare SABC-made documentary, ‘The Life and Times of Chris Hani,’ followed by two reflections from former Minister of Arts…

The Institute for African Alternatives and Surplus Radical Books is pleased to invite you to a Public Lecture by Dr. Freedom Mazwi of the Department of African Studies and Linguistics at UCT, entitled “Zimbabwe at 43: Challenges and Contradictions of a Postcolonial State.” This is the fourth in a series…

The Institute for African Alternatives and our partner Surplus Radical Books are pleased to host visiting Prof. Luca Jourdan of the University of Bologna, who will host a public lecture entitled, Congo: A Multi-dimensional War. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo…

This online discussion forum is brought to you by IFAA and Surplus Books, featuring Jonathan Jacobs, Entrepreneur, and small business owner, and discussant Patrick Kadalie, CEO of Social Business Advisory Services. In this critical discussion, we seek to acknowledge the crucial role SMEs play in improving the business environment at…

The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, Surplus Books and The Institute for African Alternatives are pleased to invite you to join us for the book launch of ‘The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the way to Fascism,’ by political economist Clara E. Mattei. This event will be…

Surplus Radical Books, Inkani Books, and IFAA are pleased to invite you to the Book Launch for “Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories” by Amilcar Cabral. This event will feature short presentations by Antonio Tomas and Koni Benson António Tomás is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of…

The Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA) will launch a new project this year, “In Defence of Constitutional Democracy: Parliament as the Cornerstone of Public Participation” or “Decode”. This will be funded by the Australian government and run for 10 months, until December 2023. IFAA’s initiative should be placed in the…

We need a new non-aligned movement and the audacity to imagine a new international economic order By Yanis Varoufakis I want to thank the Institute for African Alternatives for this profound honour to deliver this second, I believe, Memorial Lecture for Ben Turok. Ben was mentioned to me in South…

By Dr Roland Ngam Ahead of the 26th United Nations climate change conference known as COP26, held in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021, the governments of South Africa, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, along with the European Union, announced a long- term Just Energy…

By Martin Nicol Power politics,and a ruling party at sixes and sevens It may seem appropriate that an inelegant and non-existent word – “permacrisis” – was chosen as the “word of the year” by Collins, the dictionary publishers. But in fact there is no need for a new, invented word…

South Africa, and Gauteng inparticular, is on the cusp of abloodbath. It will not take thelong-predicted form of an intra-South African racial conflict,but rather of a national conflict,with South Africans pittedagainst immigrants, writesDAVID LEWIS. Read full article here…

By Viv Crone There must be justice in ‘just transition’? The goal of energy security must be economic development for all Viv Crone is an Electrical Engineer with 50 years of experience in high technology product design and project management. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow of the South…

The Institute for African Alternatives invites you to a seminar on Energy Options for South Africa to be presented by Mr Viv Crone on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 2:30 pm Zoom Registration: https://cutt.ly/K1PwZi3 Our Presenter: Viv Crone is an electrical engineer with 50 years of experience in high-technology product design…