Activities: The Lunchtime Soapbox - Cape Town Democracy Centre
[2010 July 30]

Free Public Talks...
August/September Schedule 2010
Thursday 5 August, 12:45
Arianna Baldo & Mandy Moussouris
An introduction to Fair Trade
Thursday 19 August, 12:45
Suren Pillay
Humanitarianism and Its Pitfalls:
Can doing...
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News: Join the network of democracy practitioners in Africa
[2010 July 23]
Join the network of Democracy researchers and scholars in Africa on LinkedIn here.
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Press Release: Foundation for a Safe South Africa Press release
[2010 July 30]
PRESS STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2010 Legacy: Youth Zones
A 2010 Youth Zones Legacy Project
The legacy of 2010 is being established through a unique concept called Youth Zones. This 2010 World Cup holds great significance for Africa, and a group...
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Radio Recordings: Small farmers in Africa are crucial to economic prosperity
[2010 July 30]
Africa could provide enough food to feed its population - this we know simply because of the sheer number of Africans who are currently engaged in rural smallholder agricultural activities. Smallholder agriculture can address food insecurity and is crucial to overall economic growth...
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Submissions to Parliament: PIMS says secrecy bill could constrain MPs' functions
[2010 July 28]
Following Idasa's oral submission to Parliament on 21 July on the Protection of Information Bill, PIMS gave the Ad Hoc Committee a further written submission which addressed the likely impact of the bill on parliamentary oversight. PIMS noted that existing...
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Radio Recordings: Podcast from AIDS 2010 in Vienna
[2010 July 28]
The AIDS 2010 conference took place in Vienna this month. Idasa was in Vienna to discuss the state of leadership, government budgets and the challenges people living with AIDS face when they take part in political, social and economic life. Listen to Marietjie Oelofsen talking about their time here...
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News: Focus on agriculture in Liberia
[2010 July 27]
Liberian civil society and small farmers are calling for the government to fully implement the Maputo Declaration, which calls on all African governments to allocate 10 percent of their Budgets to the agricultural sector in an effort to achieve 6 percent...
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Presentations: Secrecy bill: Idasa concerned that Parliament unable to do it justice
[2010 July 27]
Idasa has asked the Speaker to confirm whether the senior committee members who missed the public hearings on the Protection of Information Bill will be taking part in the committee’s deliberations on the bill and, if so, what measures will be undertaken to ensure that they are prepared...
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Articles: No Information, no peace: How parliamentarians will benefit from freedom of information legislation
[2010 July 26]
Current parliamentary debate within South Africa on the proposed Protection of Information Bill has got NGOs like Idasa worried about the threat it poses to the existing transparency framework which protects the public’s right to know. Nancy Dubosse,...
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Articles: Idasa has a different take on the World Cup success
[2010 July 26]
Now that we have had some time to look back on South Africa’s success in pulling off the World Cup South Africans have to ask ourselves: what did we do right? This is important, because in its answer lies the hope that we will be able to do it right again...
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Articles: Idasa’s diary from Vienna
[2010 July 22]
This is a compilation of Idasa's staff news diaries while at the conference are Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) director Kondwani Chirambo, manager Marietjie Oelofsen, unit heads Phoebe Machere, Vailet Kowayi, Jaqueline Nzisabira, and programme administrator, Jennifer
Dreyer...
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Conferences: AIDS in Africa - the political cost
[2010 July 21]
Here are the presentations made by Idasa staff at the international AIDS conference in Vienna on 18 July. Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) director Kondwani Chirambo, manager Marietjie Oelofsen, and unit heads Phoebe Machere, Vailet Kowayi and Jaqueline...
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