On 30 August 2018, IFAA hosted a public forum on "Prospects for a Better South Africa" with Honourable Kgalema Motlanthe, Professor Thuli Madonsela and Pallo Jordan. We thank all those who contributed to making it such an engaging evening.
The IFAA Student and Youth Department aims to create, support and empower a network and community of progressive students, young academics and youth in civil society to participate in the realisation of an alternative society based on the principles of justice and equality. How do I join? IFAA’s Student and Youth department would love to... Continue Reading →
The inaugural Rethinking Economics for Africa Festival aims to bring together academics, students, activists, policymakers, researchers and members of the public into a conversation about the present and future of economic thinking, teaching and public debate in Africa, and South Africa in particular. It does this in search of an economics discourse, education, and practice... Continue Reading →
A water crisis has been constructed in and for Cape Town that, in some respects, has been imaginary. The complete ‘Day Zero’ shutdown of supplies that had been predicted was not going to happen, despite two years of low rainfall (2015 & 2016) and one year of real drought (2017). It continues to be unlikely,... Continue Reading →
Although it has widespread appeal, equality can be seen as a rather arbitrary ideal. From a humanitarian point of view, to relieve suffering or to uplift people living in absolute deprivation are immediately comprehensible goals. The same is not true of equality: why should an equal distribution of resources be considered as good in itself? Concerns... Continue Reading →
Capitalist development since the Second World War ushered in unprecedented rates of capital accumulation and structural change in the world economy in the form of rapid industrialisation. Fast and sustained industrialisation has been associated with large increases in wage employment, labour productivity, and health and educational welfare. Countries that have been able to mobilise rapid... Continue Reading →
The purpose of the forum is to discuss the state of our society and how we are addressing our problems. We seem to be caught in a trap of the legacy of apartheid and new issues that have arisen since democracy.The topic will be introduced by Hon Kgalema Motlanthe, Thuli Madonsela, and Pallo Jordan. What... Continue Reading →
In the following reflections on the decolonisation of higher education, I have three objectives. First, I intend to analyse decolonisation discourse both theoretically and experientially. I do so partly on account of what I would call its viscerality but also because lived experience is an essential category of analysis in postcolonial theory. Drawing on theoretical... Continue Reading →
A strange phenomenon has arisen within the national liberation movement, where some within our ranks seek to sow ideological confusion with the aim of distorting our historical and present reality. The consequence is that in the construction of revolutionary theory - which sees society as a dynamic, contradictory, and changing process - incorrect tactics meant... Continue Reading →
