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Must Gandhi Fall? By Ari Sitas Many people have asked me in a rather bewildered tone, what was it that we staged during the Living Rights Festival at the Avalon Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town? The performance was not a play but felt like one!…

Screening & Panel Discussion: Capturing Water Join us for a special screening of Capturing Water at Bertha House Bioscope in Mowbray, Cape Town, co-hosted by the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA). This powerful documentary by Rehad Desai explores the struggles of activists fighting for water justice in Cape Town. Following…

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…

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…

Here’s what young people think of the state of democracy in SA “Democracy means the power of the people. But that power is only on loan!” This was according to one of the young people who attended a session on “Our Vote is our Voice”, the third in a series…

Surplus Books, IFAA, Project 90 by 2030, the PHA Food and Farming Campaign, and the Baha’i Faith Community invite you to a celebration of World Food Day. This event will feature a film screening of the acclaimed documentary “The Ants and the Grasshopper” and a presentation, focusing on Climate Change…

Featuring an Introduction by Director Bobby Rodwell Surplus Radical Bookshop and The Institute for African Alternatives invite you to a screening of the film ‘Word Down the Line’ by Bobby Rodwell ‘Word Down The Line’ is a poetic reflection of South Africa’s journey to democracy, told through the voices of…

The United Democratic Front was launched on 20 August 1983 in Cape Town, Dr Sidney Luckett revisits its legacy.…

The Institute for African Alternatives and Surplus Radical Bookshop are pleased to invite you to a film screening of “Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man” by Robin Shuffield. This event forms part of our African Film Series in which we explore the life and times of important African revolutionaries and events…

Keynote speaker Yanis Varoufakis, renowned radical economist and former Greek Finance Minister, will speak on Africa in the Face of the new Cold War and the West’s new colonial escapades The annual Ben Turok Memorial Lecture marks the anniversary of the death of IFAA’s founder and former director, the struggle…

Venue: Bertha House, 67 & 69 Main Rd, Mowbray, Cape Town Date: 23rd November 2022 Time: 4.30 pm for 5 pm (Snacks and Drinks in Dining Area) RSVP to: https://cutt.ly/UMAaEPh Press Statement The “Niger Delta Command”, a work of fiction will be launched at Bertha House in Mowbray, Cape Town…

Unpacking the unfolding of the current social and political crisis in India…

Surplus Books, Inkani Books, The Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research, and The Institute for African Alternatives, invite you to the launch of the riveting new book by Christopher McMichael Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa.  From the slave-driver’s whip in the 18th century Cape Colony to the…

Urban farming is not a new phenomenon but it has proliferated rapidly in recent years. This has been driven by advances in technology and global challenges that include food insecurity, energy shortage, urban migration, poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization urban farming is…

IFAA would like to congratulate our senior researcher, Dr Hibist Kassa, on the publication of her chapter ‘The Crisis of Social Reproduction in Petty Commodity Production and Large-scale Mining: A Southern Perspective on Gender Inequality’ in the new collection Inequality Studies from the Global South, Routledge (2020). For more information…