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From Crisis to Activism: Palestine and the Awakening of South African Consciousness
In the face of relentless oppression, a powerful surge of solidarity emerges. From South Africa’s core, activism resounds, signaling an awakening. Week on week, communities organise, fueled by a common cause for Gaza. Artists defy with their creations, while our journalists see their peers…
An Un/Just Transition: climate crisis and the future of Cape Town
What is a Just Transition? What does it entail? What does this mean for conditions in my community? More importantly, what is it not? For the homeless and residents of informal settlements in Cape Town, winter is a dreaded season. Flooding and fires displace communities and make the need for…
Effective Political Campaigning: an activist workshop
Political campaigns are the bread and butter of activism. Through them we plan, mobilise, organise and hopefully win gains towards social change. Following the success of the first workshop of our #BeyondProtest series, we dive into political campaigning and tactics. During the liberation…
Activism beyond the picket line: an activist’s workshop
Public demonstration, the historic tradition of speaking truth to power, remains the main tool in the hands of the oppressed and excluded. While public protest and marches still demonstrate mass power and unity of the marginalized, there is growing despondency about the effectiveness of this…
The Blinded City: Book Launch
Tshisimani invites you to a launch of Mathew Wilhem- Solomon, The Blinded City: Ten Years in Inner City Johannesburg to be held at Cissie Gool House. This is a moment for activists and the public at large to partake in insightful conversations about life of working-class fmilies in the inner city…
“July Unrest” – a year after the eruption
The violence that erupted in South Africa between 8 and 17 July 2021 is likely to be remembered as a watershed moment in South African democracy. More than 350 people lost their lives in stampedes, clashes with police and attacks by military and vigilante groups in response to mass…
Walter Rodney: anti-imperialist politics today
Celebrating 50 years of ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in collaboration with the Walter Rodney People’s Revolutionary Library will host a series of events in Cape Town to mark 50 years since the publication of Walter Rodney’s How Europe U…
Operation Dudula: What now?
The politics of hatred are again on a rise in South Africa. The launch of Operation Dudula on the 16 June last year has brough back violent attacks on migrants, led to displacements of residents and looting of migrant owned shops. While our democratic dispensation is not new to xenophobic…
The Russia-Ukraine war and the implications for ordinary South Africans
Our news is dominated by a war in Europe; a war that may seem far away but will have significant economic and political consequences for South Africans. In this interactive teach-in, we will explore the roots of the conflict as a background to understanding how we can critically engage with…
Call for Applications: What is Democracy?
A course for community-based paralegals and fieldworkers exploring South Africa today. Apply to join us in locating the historical roots of the day-to-day issues that advice offices contend with and contextualise them within broader contestations, resistance and imaginations about…