Events archive

South Africa Discussion Group

‘The Welfare Consequences of Labour Market Volatility: The South African Case’

5 June 2018 - 5:00pm
St Antony's College - Pavilion Room
Rocco Zizzamia (ODID) ‘The Welfare Consequences of Labour Market Volatility: The South African Case’ (explaining why voluntary decisions to leave jobs are surprisingly frequent amongst those for whom... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group

Patronage, power and political markets in South African municipalities

Crispian Olver (Author of 'How to steal a city')
22 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
CRISPIAN OLVER’S career as liberation activist, government bureaucrat and academic has been intimately involved in South Africa’s transition to democracy and state formation process. While practising... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group

UMTETELI WA BANTU AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIAL PUBLICS IN 1920S AND 1930S SOUTH AFRICA

NATASHA ERLANK (University of Johannesburg)
24 April 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Most writing on the black press in South African history views Umteteli wa Bantu, established in 1920 and funded by the Native Recruitment Corporation, as a signal for African loss of editorial... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group

'State of Mind', a film and discussion on mental health in Zimbabwe - produced and led by Hopewell Chin'ono - CANCELLED in solidarity with the strike

27 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Seminar Room 2
South Africa Discussion Group

The productivity of unemployment in urban South Africa

Hannah Dawson (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
20 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
South Africa Discussion Group

Discussion on South African politics

Jason Robinson (Oxford Analytica)
13 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
South Africa Discussion Group

Discussion on Zimbabwean politics - led by Miles Tendi and Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

30 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is a Dphil student in International Relations at Oxford, and he is currently living in South Africa where he is also an author, political analyst and musician
South Africa Discussion Group

Update and discussion on land reform in South Africa with reflections on Zimbabwe

William Beinart
23 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room