Keyword: South Africa
Interview with Jackie Dugard
Bio: Jackie Dugard is the Executive Director of the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). Prior to co-founding SERI (in January 2010), Jackie was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg between 2004 and 2009.Jackie’s areas of expertise are socio-economic rights, socio-legal studies and access to basic services and justice for the poor. Jackie has a BA (Hons) in African Politics and an LLB from...
My Bubble, My Space, My Voice
Today the second workshop, My Bubble, My Space, My Voice, for digital natives with a cause? knowledge programme started in Johannesburg, South Africa. This workshop is organised by The African Commons project, CIS and Hivos. During the workshop Digital Natives, facilitators and organizers, from different parts of Africa, will look at different aspects of change. Please follow us on #digitalnatives, www.digitalnatives.in and www.hivos.netMobilising Social Justice in South Africa - perspectives from Researchers and Practitioners
How do civic actors in South Africa deal with contemporary developmental challenges such as socio-economic inequality, limited access to basic services, xenofobic tensions and governance constraints. At a time of rising social tensions, the country’s institutions are in danger of losing the legitimacy they gained in the wake of democratic dispensations of the 1990s.