Posted on July 18, 2017
For the umpteenth time, the G20 Summit was marred by protests on the streets that have also turned violent as armed riot police clamped down on the protests. Protests have become a common scene outside air conditioned halls where the leaders of 19 major national economies and the European Union...
Posted on July 13, 2017
Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti from the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria, discusses the future of alternative currencies and why it matters for development.
Posted on June 26, 2017
Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti, a full professor of Political Economy and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria, discusses how jobs can be created in the age of robots and low growth in an article that recently appeared on The...
Posted on June 22, 2017
Prof Henning Melber, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria and the author of The Rise of Africa's Middle Class, writes about the state of democracy in southern Africa in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on June 19, 2017
Just five years ago, the annual Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Youth Survey highlighted a society that was upbeat about the future and their career prospects. Back then, 74% of learners felt SA was a good place to have a successful career. In 2017, just 53% of respondents said they...
Posted on June 13, 2017
Prof Christi van der Westhuizen, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, explains why Helen Zille is wrong about colonialism.
Posted on June 06, 2017
In an article that was recently published on The Conversation, Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti writes that it is high time to ask whether conventional approaches to sustainable development are enough to deal with the multiple crises facing the world.
Posted on June 02, 2017
Call for applications for the IRIN 2017 Summer Internship
Posted on June 02, 2017
Prince Mashele, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria, discusses the issues faced by Constitutional Court judges in the Zuma case, in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on May 31, 2017
Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti writes about how growth is dying as the silver bullet for success and why this may be a good thing in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on May 25, 2017
Prof Henning Melber, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, writes about why it is time to lift the ideological haze in debates about Africa's middle class in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on May 12, 2017
We can imagine research as a massive conversation about a myriad of ideas between people across the world and over hundreds of years. But if we want to join the conversation we need money. We need funding to collect our data. We need funding to free up our time and write. We need funding to...
Posted on May 11, 2017
The 1st Limpopo/Gauteng SAAPS Regional Colloquium
Posted on May 10, 2017
Public seminar to be presented by Ambassador Monica Juma is the Principal Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Posted on April 20, 2017
The African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s governing party, is weakening. It has recently committed some terrible mistakes in government.
Posted on April 06, 2017
Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti's latest book titled The world after GDP: economics, politics and international relations in the post-growth era, has been reviewed in a full-page article in the Financial Times.
Posted on March 31, 2017
Prof Charles Ngwena from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, writes about what colonialism really means to us as South Africans in light of the recent public utterance posted on twitter by Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille.
Posted on March 27, 2017
United Nations University PhD Internship Program (Fully funded)
Posted on March 24, 2017
Request for Proposals: Apply for Doctoral, Post-Doctoral and Junior Faculty Research Fellowship
Posted on March 24, 2017
Professor Zondi gave a lecture on Theory Building with Amilcar Cabral at the Wits Centre for Critical Diversity Studies, Johannesburg, on 22 March 2017. It made the case for using philosophical African texts to constructive theoretical theses about the African predicament today. This is part of...
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