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SUMMARY:Report Launch: Bled Dry: How tax abuse\, illicit financial flows and debt affect women and girls in Africa
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to join us in launching our report\, Bled Dry: How tax abuse\, illicit financial flows and debt affect women and girls in Africa. Our research highlights a clear reality: we cannot achieve true gender equality without fixing our tax systems. Tax Justice is Gender Justice.  \nAs negotiations toward a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC) move forward\, this moment presents a historic opportunity to confront entrenched global inequalities and reimagine tax systems that work for people and planet. Yet realising this potential requires grappling with persistent power imbalances\, gendered impacts of austerity\, regressive taxation\, illicit financial flows\, and corporate tax avoidance. \nThis webinar will bring together critical perspectives to explore the tax reforms needed to sustainably finance a just economy. Discussions will examine the structural drivers of tax injustice\, the political economy constraints facing states\, and concrete entry points within the UNFCITC process to advance gender‑responsive\, just outcomes. \n Register here to attend
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/report-launch-bled-dry-how-tax-abuse-illicit-financial-flows-and-debt-affect-women-and-girls-in-africa/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20260223T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20260225T190000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191224
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T102312Z
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SUMMARY:People’s Assembly on Unemployment\, Austerity and the Fight for Decent Work
DESCRIPTION:While business elites gather in conference halls to debate unemployment\, those living it will be gathering in the pews of history. From 23–25 February\, grassroots organisations from across the country will convene a People’s Assembly on Unemployment\, Austerity and the Fight for Decent Work at St George’s Cathedral\, on the eve of yet another anti-poor\, pro-capital budget. \nJust days before a high-profile unemployment conference hosted by News24 and opened by the President\, this Assembly will shift the microphone from CEOs and policymakers to the unemployed themselves. Because unemployment should not be discussed about us\, without us. \nThe Assembly will unite popular movements\, labour formations\, community organisers and the rural and urban poor to confront deepening inequality\, mass unemployment and austerity. Participants will debate concrete alternatives to budget cuts\, privatisation and elite accumulation and map out a common programme of action for sustained resistance. \nDiscussions will foreground the lived realities of workers\, the rural poor\, women and young people\, while advancing bold proposals for decent work\, livelihoods\, and a state-led re-industrialisation drive that breaks with corruption\, crony capitalism and an economy that continues to rob millions of a future. \nThis is not a panel discussion. It is a political intervention.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/peoples-assembly-on-unemployment-austerity-and-the-fight-for-decent-work/
LOCATION:St George’s Cathedral\, 5 Wale Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20251212T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20251214T160000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T152153Z
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SUMMARY:Amandla! Social Justice Festival
DESCRIPTION:In December\, Amandla! Magazine will celebrate the publication of its 100th issue. This edition will focus on the rise of the Right and the way forward for the Leftist movements. Amandla! aims to provide a platform for contesting public space\, discourse and debate from rigorous and non-sectarian left perspectives. In addition to articulating a leftist voice that engages with contemporary issues\, a primary objective of Amandla! is to foster greater collaboration among diverse segments of the left\, including activists and intellectuals from various traditions and geographic regions within the country. \nAmandla! Magazine invites you to participate in a weekend dedicated to radical ideas\, debate\, education\, music\, film\, and culture from December 12 to 14\, 2025\, at the University of Johannesburg’s Hockey Club in Melville. Distinguished guest speakers will include Zarah Sultana\, a leading British socialist figure\, Brazilian socialist Vivi Reis\, and Kenyan social justice advocate Sefu Sanni\, among others. For more information or to pre-order your copy of Amandla! Magazine\, please contact info@amandla.org.za
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/amandla-social-justice-festival/
LOCATION:UJ Hockey Club\, Radnor Road\, Melville\, Guateng\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20251030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T141639Z
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SUMMARY:Report Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the public launch of three new reports produced by the Alternative Information and Development Centre. Developed in collaboration with grassroots activists and trade unions\, these three reports critically examine the state of South Africa’s just energy transition: \n\nEnergy Poverty: The Just Transition and Market Reform in South Africa\nDecarbonisation of the Transport Sector \nImpacts and Implications of Decommissioning Coal-Fired Power Stations within South Africa’s Just Energy Transition\n\nThe Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) and the Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP)  promised job creation\, local economic development\, social protection and effective decarbonisation that would not risk South Africa’s energy security. Through surveys\, interviews\, participatory action research and extensive field work across Mpumalanga province\, these reports expose how the government’s model of an energy transition is taking South Africa nowhere slowly. \nEach report dives into a specific zone of the just energy transition\, revealing how a neoliberal vision of decarbonisation and an agenda of green structural adjustment\, which places profits over people\, will not meet people’s material needs or increase South Africa’s ability to confront the climate crisis. \nRSVP here: https://bit.ly/3WgGeDa  \n\n \nFor more info contact: busi@aidc.org.za or 021 447 5770.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/report-launch/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20251022T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20251022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20251016T120735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T123421Z
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SUMMARY:All-Africa Trade Union Virtual Forum: Energy Poverty\, “Mission 300” and the Fight to Reclaim & Restore Public Energy Systems
DESCRIPTION:In early August 2025\, the Africa Region of the ITUC convened an 80-person convening in Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania\, that committed to lead a broad-based effort to Reclaim & Restore public energy systems. Consistent with this commitment\, national centres\, affiliated unions\, representatives of Global Union Federations and other allies are invited to join us for a discussion on the recently released “Mission 300” electrification proposal from the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank.  \nInformed by existing anti-privatisation struggles and campaigns being waged by unions in several countries on the continent\, the meeting will consider ways to develop a unified response to Mission 300 and its push for further privatisation. \nWhat is Mission 300? \nLaunched in April 2024 by the Africa Development Bank (AfDB)\, Mission 300 is being presented as a private-sector-led effort “to provide at least 300 million people in Africa with electricity by 2030.” In late January 2025\, the effort received the endorsement of 48 African governments at a Heads of State Energy Summit on Providing Access to Electricity for 300 Million People in Africa by 2030\, and in February 2025\, Mission 300 was adopted by the African Union at its 38th Summit in Addis Ababa. \nGovernmental Support for Mission 300 \nThe African Union reiterated that governments “recognise that the private sector needs to play a central and determinant role…therefore creating an enabling environment for private sector investment is critical.” This “enabling environment” will consist of regulations supportive of private capital\, accompanied by “appropriate incentives and innovative financing mechanisms.” The African Union also committed to push reforms to make power utilities “financially viable” by way of “tariff adjustments and efficiency improvement measures to ensure utilities achieve at least 100 percent operational cost recovery.” These formulations make visible the pro-private\, anti-public biases of the AfDB and the willingness of the African Union to comply with a privatisation agenda.  \nWhy Mission 300 Will Not Deliver \nThe policy proposals in Mission 300 that have been adopted by the African Union are almost identical to the AfDB’s New Deal on Energy for Africa initiative. Launched in 2016\, the New Deal pledged to mobilise private investment to achieve 100% access in urban areas and 95% access in rural areas by 2025. The project was a spectacular failure\, and Mission 300 likely faces a similar fate because it also relies on “crowding in” private investment while increasing the pressure on public energy systems to achieve full cost recovery. The private sector failed to respond then\, and there is little sign that it will do so in future–absent rock-solid investment guarantees that\, if introduced\, would further undermine public energy utilities. \nDeveloping a Unified “Reclaim and Restore” Response \nMission 300 presents unions with an opportunity to showcase the Reclaim & Restore alternative to addressing energy poverty supported by ITUC Africa and 12 of the region’s national trade union centres. \nCurrently\, Reclaim & Restore: \n● Rejects “full cost recovery” as a measure of utilities’ viability\, and it makes visible the potential role of power utilities in reaching electrification goals within a public pathway framework for energy transition. \n● Insists that power utilities in Africa be de-marketised; and financial and technical support made available to private independent power producers (IPPs) by the World Bank and AfDB should be redirected towards public utilities armed with an electrification mandate. \n● Proposes that African governments repeal the neoliberal privatisation laws introduced by the World Bank and the IMF during the 1980s and 1990s during the period of structural adjustment. During the October 22nd meeting\, we will consider ways to respond to both the privatisation agenda embedded in Mission 300 and the governments that have endorsed it.  \nAnyone who wants to attend must please register here. All registrants will receive a Zoom link.  
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/all-africa-trade-union-virtual-forum-energy-poverty-mission-300-and-the-fight-to-reclaim-restore-public-energy-systems/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250807T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250807T200000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250806T132346Z
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SUMMARY:The crisis of social reproduction and the emergence of a new women's movement! ✊🏾
DESCRIPTION:As economic inequality deepens and caregiving responsibilities increase\, women worldwide are bearing the weight of a growing crisis in social reproduction\, the unpaid and underpaid labour that sustains families\, communities\, and economies. From rising childcare costs to the decline of public services\, systemic pressures are pushing women to their limits. However\, in response\, a powerful new wave of feminist organisations is emerging\, calling for transformative change. Join us for an in-depth discussion on how the crisis of social reproduction is fueling the growth of a global women’s movement.  \nAmandla! Forums are designed to unite thought leaders\, activists\, academics\, and community members in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice.  \n𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐒:\n– 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻 – Independent Development Consultant\n– 𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 – Lecturer at UCT’s Department of Sociology\n– 𝗠𝘂𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗲 – Student and Feminist/Activist \n𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Roomaan Leach – member of Amandla! Magazine Editorial Collective \nKindly 𝗥𝗦𝗩𝗣 here to secure your spot and participate in this important discussion. 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/the-crisis-of-social-reproduction-and-the-emergence-of-a-new-womens-movement-%e2%9c%8a%f0%9f%8f%be/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250612T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250612T200000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20250605T105614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250605T105614Z
UID:16127-1749749400-1749758400@aidc.org.za
SUMMARY:Youth in Crisis: Lessons from ‘76
DESCRIPTION:To commemorate Youth Day\, Amandla! Magazine will host an Amandla! Forum titled Youth in Crisis: Lessons from ‘76. The youth uprising of 1976 reminds us that young people are often the first to call out injustice and the first to bear the consequences of systemic failure. But it also reminds us of their extraordinary power to name what is broken\, to imagine something better\, and to move us all toward it. \nAs we face a new era of crisis\, the legacy of 1976 challenges us to listen deeply\, act bravely\, and never underestimate the power of young people to change the world. Nearly 50 years later\, the phrase “youth in crisis” remains alarmingly relevant. But what can we learn from 1976? And how can those lessons guide us through the struggles of today? Join us as we explore these critical questions. \nAmandla! Forums are designed to unite thought leaders\, activists\, academics\, and community members in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice.  \nKindly RSVP here to secure your spot and participate in this important discussion.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/youth-in-crisis-lessons-from-76/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250522T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250522T200000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20250509T144451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250509T144451Z
UID:16085-1747935000-1747944000@aidc.org.za
SUMMARY:Hybrid Report Launch: The Controversy of Green Energy: Unmasking Southern Africa’s Critical Mineral
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the public launch of our new report\, The Controversy of Green Energy: Unmasking Southern Africa’s Critical Mineral Sacrifice Zones.\n \nProduced by the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) in collaboration with regional partners\, this report exposes the hidden costs of the global green energy transition\, revealing how critical mineral extraction is reshaping southern Africa into a patchwork of sacrifice zones. Drawing on field-based and desktop research\, it interrogates green colonialism and highlights the lived realities of frontline communities resisting displacement\, water grabs\, and ecological harm in the name of the so-called ‘just’ energy transition. This event offers a vital opportunity to reflect\, connect\, and strategise across movements.\nRegister here: https://bit.ly/3YvQXei\n \nFor more info contact: charlize@aidc.org.za or 021 447 5770.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/hybrid-report-launch-the-controversy-of-green-energy-unmasking-southern-africas-critical-mineral/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250521T103000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250521T120000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20250520T144546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250520T144546Z
UID:16094-1747823400-1747828800@aidc.org.za
SUMMARY:People Against Budget Cuts Press Conference on the anticipated 2025 Budget
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a press conference to be addressed by leaders from organised labour and community-based organisations ahead of the Budget Speech\, where they will voice concerns about the prospect of deepening austerity measures. \nAfter weeks of pressure from across the political spectrum\, Treasury has abandoned its proposed 0.5% increase in VAT – a regressive tax that would have hit poor and working-class South Africans the hardest.  \nIn its official statement\, Treasury claims that unless Parliament accepts the original budget\, it must “adjust expenditure” to cover the shortfall\, refusing to consider alternative\, progressive revenue options in the short term. Reductions in health\, education\, and social protection budgets would be no less damaging than a VAT increase\, and could potentially be even worse. \nAusterity is not fiscal responsibility – it’s a political choice. Since 2020\, budget cuts have hollowed out public services. Clinics are short-staffed. Schools can’t afford textbooks or repairs. Social grants have stagnated. These cuts have already pushed millions deeper into poverty. \nSouth Africa does not need to choose between regressive VAT hikes and budget cuts. This year’s real shortfall is just R2.7 billion. \nReplacing a VAT hike with cuts to healthcare\, education\, or social protection is not a victory – it’s a defeat for the majority of South Africans. \nCome and engage with representatives of the working class to hear why they reject this false choice\, and to learn about viable\, progressive alternatives that put people before profits and prioritise investment in public services over austerity.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/people-against-budget-cuts-press-conference-on-the-anticipated-2025-budget/
LOCATION:St George’s Cathedral\, 5 Wale Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20241211T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20241211T193000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20241209T095406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T095406Z
UID:15849-1733940000-1733945400@aidc.org.za
SUMMARY:From Phala Phala to the Panama Papers: How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Wealth and What We Can Do About It
DESCRIPTION:Eight years ago\, the Panama Papers scandal exposed how corporations and rich individuals are able to hide their wealth in offshore bank accounts and avoid paying their fair share in taxes. This practice still continues today\, and in 2024 alone\, South Africa has seen high profile cases involving banks and billionaires such as Christo Wiese\, Sasfin and Coronation Investments. In just these three examples\, the lost taxes amount to R19.3bn. This is more than what the government is spending on infrastructure for education or healthcare in 2024.\n \nWhat can activists\, trade unionists\, or progressives in government do about this when the rich hold the power? This event will be an accessible introduction to these issues while sharing the experiences of speakers from three Global South countries – South Africa\, the Philippines\, and Brazil – each of whom have been working to stop the bleeding of capital from the Global South through research and campaigns directed at government and corporations.\n \n𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗥𝗦: Jaco Oelofsen – Alternative Information and Development Centre (𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔)\nJeannie Manipon – Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦)\nTádzio Coelho – Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) (𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗜𝗟)\n𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥: Aliya Chikte – Economic Justice Project Officer at the Alternative Information and Development Centre\n \nPlease RSVP or register here: https://bit.ly/4gjTuig to join online. 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/from-phala-phala-to-the-panama-papers-how-the-rich-and-powerful-hide-their-wealth-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240926T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240926T193000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20240910T141313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T141313Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Launch: Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region
DESCRIPTION:The AIDC\, Amandla! Magazine\, Africa is a Country\, and Womin cordially invites you to the hybrid launch of Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region\, edited by Dr Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell. Join us for a discussion with Dr Hamouchene and Razaz Basheir\, co-author of the Sudan chapter. \nCovering a wide range of countries from Morocco\, Western Sahara\, Algeria and Tunisia to Egypt\, Sudan\, UAE\, Saudi Arabia\, Jordan and Palestine\, this book challenges Eurocentrism and highlights instead a class-conscious approach to climate justice that is necessary for our survival. \nSpeakers: Dr Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist\, commentator and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC)\, Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA) and the North African Food Sovereignty Network (Siyada). He is currently the Arab region Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI). His work is focused on issues of extractivism\, resources\, land and food sovereignty as well as climate\, environmental\, and energy justice in the Arab region. \nRazaz Basheir is a PhD candidate at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and a researcher at ISTinaD centre in Khartoum\, Sudan. She is interested in exploring questions of governance\, political economy and techno-politics of energy systems in cities of the Global South. As well as their links to broader questions of social justice\, democracy and the energy transition. \nFacilitator: William Shoki is the editor of Africa Is A Country and a member of the Amandla! Magazine Editorial Collective. \nKindly RSVP here to secure your spot and participate in this important discussion\, or register here to join online. 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/hybrid-book-launch-dismantling-green-colonialism-energy-and-climate-justice-in-the-arab-region/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240925T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240925T190000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20240906T133601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T133601Z
UID:15682-1727287200-1727290800@aidc.org.za
SUMMARY:AIDC After Hours: Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in Local Government
DESCRIPTION:Are municipalities sacrificing service delivery for cost recovery? Join us for a webinar on the impact of local government financing models on access to basic services\, affordability\, and the pursuit of privatization. Let’s unpack the consequences together! \nSPEAKER: David McDonald. David is a Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University\, Canada\, and Director of the Municipal Services Project. He has spent more than 25 years engaged in research in Southern Africa. \n—– \n“AIDC After Hours” is a series of regular webinars where AIDC programme staff can showcase an interesting or relevant aspect of their work to the wider public.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/aidc-after-hours-cost-recovery-and-the-crisis-of-service-delivery-in-local-government-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240920T100000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240920T160000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20240913T120201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T120201Z
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SUMMARY:Green Extractivism Symposium: From Green Extractivism to Just Transition from Below
DESCRIPTION:The AIDC and partners invite you to the Green Extractivism Symposium\, which will be held next Friday in Randburg\, Johannesburg. \nOn our continent\, many states have chosen extractivism\, particularly green extractivism\, as part of their economic recovery and energy transition agendas. Many foreign companies have taken advantage of weak government regulations and governance practices and poor\, precarious and often unsafe working conditions to extract resources at very low cost. The profits made in the process have usually been syphoned off by corrupt officials in collusion with transnational corporations\, leaving little\, if anything\, for the people. We\, the progressive forces on the left\, are called to confront this vision and push back the power of transnational corporations operating with impunity in Southern Africa and throughout the continent. \nThis mode of development and profit-making at any cost is not new. The symposium is thus a concerted effort to create space for robust discussion and debate\, as well as to share perspectives and analyses on the coloniality of green extractivism\, its manifestations\, and its impacts. Because Africa is endowed with much of the world’s mineral and metal composites\, particularly those required for the move away from fossil fuels production\, it positions our continent at the coal face of the intensification and deeper entrenchment of extractivism to meet the need for an energy and production transition towards renewable energy sources driven by Global North states and China.  \nIn the current geopolitical context and a new scramble for Africa\, activists\, scholars\, trade unionists and like-minded folks need to come together to shape\, build and advance a socio-ecological transformation that centres the needs of people and the planet and is based on principles of Ubuntu\, liberation\, justice and equality.  \n  \nProgramme \n  \nIf you’d like to attend this event\, please register by emailing Alexandria.hotz@womin.africa and/or Maxine@aidc.org.za. 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/green-extractivism-symposium-from-green-extractivism-to-just-transition-from-below/
LOCATION:Friedrich Ebert Stiftung South Africa\, 34 Bompas Road\, Dunkeld West\, Randburg\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240829T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240829T200000
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SUMMARY:Elections 2024: It’s time for the Left to talk
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE: On August 29th\, we are convening an Amandla! Forum themed “Elections 2024: It’s time for the Left to talk.” This forum is especially significant in light of the historic shift observed in the 2024 Elections\, where the African National Congress failed to secure a majority of votes after 30 years of democracy. Amandla! Forums are designed to unite thought leaders\, activists\, academics\, and community members in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice.  \nKindly RSVP here to secure your spot and participate in this important discussion. \nWe are thrilled to have the following panelists join the discussion moderated by Roger Etkind\, Amandla! Magazine Editor. 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/elections-2024-its-time-for-the-left-to-talk/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240523T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240523T190000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
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SUMMARY:AIDC After Hours: Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in Local Government
DESCRIPTION:Are municipalities sacrificing service delivery for cost recovery? Join us for a webinar on the impact of local government financing models on access to basic services\, affordability\, and the pursuit of privatization. Let’s unpack the consequences together! \nSPEAKER: David McDonald. David is a Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University\, Canada\, and Director of the Municipal Services Project. He has spent more than 25 years engaged in research in Southern Africa. \n—– \n“AIDC After Hours” is a series of regular webinars where AIDC programme staff can showcase an interesting or relevant aspect of their work to the wider public.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/aidc-after-hours-cost-recovery-and-the-crisis-of-service-delivery-in-local-government/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180621T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180621T200000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
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SUMMARY:Can Ramaphosa Deliver
DESCRIPTION:Phindile Kunene and Rob Petersen will be discussing: \nWill CR’s “new dawn”  introduce an alternative growth path that breaks from the ecologically-damaging minerals-energy complex? What local and global space\, policy instruments and alliances are required for this shift? \nFurthermore\, what are the political implications for social movements and the broad Left of CR’s ascendancy? What are the prospects of independent political work outside of the ANC-led alliance? \nPlease RSVP to greg@aidc.org.za by 19 June
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/can-ramaphosa-deliver/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180525T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180525T084020Z
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SUMMARY:Life is Wonderful - Screening & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Life is Wonderful – Screening & Discussion\n2 June at 10:30  Venue: 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town \n \n  \nOn Saturday\, 2 June\, Amandla Forums and the Institute For African Alternatives (IFAA) will be screening “Life Is Wonderful: Mandela’s Unsung Heroes”. In this new film\, former High Court Judge Sir Nick Stadlen tells the story of Nelson Mandela’s co-defendants at the Rivonia trial\, the lawyers who saved them from the gallows and some of the other brave men and women who supported them in their fight for the freedom of South Africa. It is an inspiring story of immense courage and self sacrifice on the part of a small group of black\, white and Indian idealists who said: Not on my watch. Not in my name.I n the words of Andrew Mlangeni\, Accused Number 10\, they were a multi racial band of comrades who fought for a multi racial democracy.\n \nQuote from review in Screen Africa:\n\n\n\n\n“Through ground-breaking and never–before-seen interviews\, the former English High Court Judge Sir Nicholas Stadlen throws light onto the extraordinary people involved in the Rivonia Trial – the court case that changed South Africa. Their stories and the stories of the anti-apartheid struggle show the power of people’s ideals to enable them to create the world as it should be\, not accepting the world as it is.” 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/life-wonderful-screening-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180524T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180524T190000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20180515T081445Z
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SUMMARY:[Amandla Forum] BRICS: Liberators or Agents of Imperialism
DESCRIPTION:From the 25-27 July the BRICS heads of state will be meeting at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. Ahead of the summit Patrick Bond will give an input at the next Amandla Forum on what he thinks we can expect to come out of the BRICS summit. \nJoin us as we discuss whether BRICS is a liberator or an agent of imperialism.24 May 201817:30 – 19:30129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape TownGuest Speaker: Patrick Bond\, Political Economist at the Wits University School of Governance & co-editor of BRICS: An anti-capitalist critique
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/amandla-forum-brics-liberators-agents-imperialism/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180508T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180508T200000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20180426T144424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T143641Z
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SUMMARY:Thoughts from the left: What causes mental illness\, and how does one treat it?
DESCRIPTION:Psychotherapy is often derided as a middle-class indulgence. Prof Wahbie Long’s talk will examine the potential for a more socially responsive profession by\, first\, exploring theories of mental illness from the perspective of the left\, and second\, by tracing the implications for the practice of psychotherapy. \nProfessor Wahbie Long is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town. With research interests in the history and theory of psychology as well as Freudo-Marxism\, he holds a Y1 rating from the National Research Foundation and has held fellowships at Harvard and Durham. In 2016 he received the Early Career Award from the Society for the History of Psychology.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/thoughts-left-causes-mental-illness-one-treat/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170627T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170627T170000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20170627T075950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T080026Z
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SUMMARY:State Capture & the Shadow State [28/06]:
DESCRIPTION:State Capture & the Shadow State: \nBetrayal of a promise is Prof Mark Swilling and a number of other leading academics attempt at a systematic analysis of the Zupta state capture project.  Pravin Gordhan repeatedly asks us to connect the dots. Betrayal of promise attempts to do exactly this. \nJoin Amandla to discuss as we seek go beyond ‘dot-connecting’: \nWith Prof. Mark Swilling \nSwilling is a Distinguished Professor and Programme Coordinator: Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership\, University of Stellenbosch and Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute. \n28 June 2017 at 18:00 \nVenue: AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory. \nPlease RSVP to dominic@amandla.org.za by 26 June 2017.
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/state-capture-shadow-state-2806/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160930T200000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20161001T000000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20160912T144942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160915T194352Z
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SUMMARY:CSAAWU Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/csaawu-fundraiser/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160929T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160930T170000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20160912T144851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160912T144851Z
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SUMMARY:Training of Trainers - Workshop
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URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/training-trainers-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160922T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160922T203000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20160912T144619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160915T194142Z
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SUMMARY:Local Government Elections Debate
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/local-government-elections-debate/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160922T093000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160922T123000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20160912T144728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T104839Z
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SUMMARY:One Million Climate Jobs Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:  \nOne Million Climate Jobs Campaign \nTHURSDAY 22nd SEPTEMER 2016 \n9.30 to 12.30 \nAIDC 129 Rochester Rd\, Observatory \n(MEETING WILL START PROMPTLY AT 9.30!) \nAgenda\n\nApologies\nIntroductions\nDisobedience –documentary on the global movement to break free from fossil fuels\nCOP 22: Social movement plans to make this one different – Brian Ashley (AIDC)\nBio-Gas: renewable energy for communities? – Yvette Abrahams\nFossil Free SA – Brief Update:  David le Page/James Irlam\nPublic Protector Complaints against the Departments of the Environment and Energy – Update\nReport back from Organisations/Groups represented today\nResearch & other updates\nAny other business\nDate/Agenda of the next meeting \n\nFood\, Agro-business and climate change’: What is to be done – Prof David Sanders (UWC) on 20th October 16   \nNB: The amount of time given to items 7-11 is flexible and will be determined by the time available \n  \n 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/one-million-climate-jobs-monthly-meeting-2/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160825T170000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160825T200000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20160822T113611Z
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SUMMARY:Screening: Miners Shot Down
DESCRIPTION:16 August 2012\,The Marikana miners‘ strike or Lonmin strike was a wildcat strike at a mine owned by Lonmin in the Marikana. 34 miners were killed in South Africa on this fatal day 2012. A police cover-up was suspected. \n4 years since the tragic Marikana Massacre in which 34 people where killed during strike action for a living wage – The Progressive Youth Movement (PYM) will have a screening of the documentary Miners Shot Down\, the South African documentary which looks at the Marikana killings (directed by Rehad Desai)\,  in commemoration with the murdered workers and their families. \n  \n 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/screening-miners-shot/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160824T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160824T200000
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CREATED:20160822T111255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160822T111255Z
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SUMMARY:Taking back the land! Making the land work for us!
DESCRIPTION:Join us next week Wednesday (24 August 2016) at the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) as we host the next session of the Amandla forums. \nThis forum will open up a discussion over agrarian reform in South Africa and what needs to be done. \nThe guest speakers are: \nProfessor Ben Cousins: holds a DST/NRF Chair in Poverty\, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. Read more: http://www.plaas.org.za/staff-member/cousins \nLubabalo Ntsholo: works as a Researcher for the EFF in the National Assembly. He previously worked as a strategist and project coordinator in both the land reform and biodiversity conservation sectors. He holds a masters degree in development studies from UCT\, and a second masters in land and agrarian studies from UWC. \n24 August\, the Amandla Forum will look at the question of agrarian reform in South Africa. Moving beyond the land question\, it will look at what do we do with the land once we have it. Agrarian reform does indeed go beyond the land question. This does not mean that the land question has been addressed. Addressing the issue of the land is of high priority and is the imperative. But in doing so\, we need to develop an approach to how we will use the land to ensure that all peoples needs are satisfied\, including those of generations to come. \n 
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/taking-back-land-making-land-work-us/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160818T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160818T123000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20160729T085548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160729T090406Z
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SUMMARY:One Million Climate Jobs Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:AIDC has been hosting these monthly meetings since 2012. \nThey have developed into being a regular forum for the exchange of ideas on broadly based climate change issues\, with a particular focus on climate jobs. The overall intention of the meetings is to link theory with action\, information with mobilisation \nThese meetings are currently\, probably unique in Cape Town – if not South Africa – in bringing together academics\, NGO-based climate specialists and community activists. \nThe main agenda item for the upcoming meeting will be the Draft Report by Liz McDaid of AIDC’s commissioned research on: How is the Renewable Energy Programme Benefitting Local South Africans?
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/one-million-climate-jobs-monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Rochester Road\, Observatory\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160816T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160817T170000
DTSTAMP:20260717T191225
CREATED:20160728T085839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160728T090227Z
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SUMMARY:Peoples’ Tribunal on Transnational Corporations in Southern Africa
DESCRIPTION:Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Transnational Corporations in Southern Africa: \nTo launch the Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power\, AIDC is coordinating a Tribunal – the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Transnational Corporations in Southern Africa. \nThe Tribunal\, which will be the first of its kind in the region\, will bring together communities and movements from Southern Africa to present their struggles against the corporations who violate their human\, environmental and socio-economic rights. \nIt will create a platform for communities and movements to present their cases and create awareness of their struggles to a larger Southern African and global audience\, and to a large media contingent. It will provide\, both logistically and financially\, a safe space for communities and movements from the region\, many isolated\, to network\, synergize and connect to share experiences and lessons in order to strengthen a joint struggle\, as well as to find ways forward. While the campaign is a joint project between several Southern African partner organisations\, AIDC is taking the coordinating role for the Tribunal and larger regional campaign. \nThe Tribunal is split into three sessions: the first session of hearings will be held in August 2016 during the People’s Summit in Swaziland\, the second session in May 2017\, and a verdict handed down soon after. \nThe first session will hear 10 cases\, on TNC’s working in the mining\, infrastructure and GMO industries. The 10 cases will be presented in different ways – through video\, photo slideshows\, documentation and talks for example. AIDC is providing the communities with funding for the development of their cases\, which they spend mostly on internal country travel and accommodation\, stationery and equipment for documentation and presentation\, and catering. \nREAD THE CALL TO ACTION HERE ***HERE*** \nIf you would like to know more about the Campaign and Tribunal\, or to present a case at the next session in May 2017\, you can contact us using the FORM\, or email ilham@aidc.org.za:
URL:https://aidc.org.za/event/peoples-tribunal-on-transnational-corporations-in-southern-africa/
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