[divider_flat]On 27 November 2017, the UJCI hosted a discussion of the novel entitled The Extinction of Menai by the distinguished Nigerian writer and scholar Chuma Nwokolo. Nwokolo talked about the book, followed by a discussion.
ON Thursday 28 September 2017, in celebration of Heritage Month, the UJCI hosted a Public Dialogue on ‘Discourses on Decolonization: Ubuntu as Public Policy’. The speakers were: Professor Muxe Nkondo, former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Venda; Professor Peter Ndege, Professor of History at Moi University, Kenya; and Professor Chris Landsberg, SARChI Chair…
From left to right are Prof Peng Yi, Ambassador Welile Nhlapo, Dr David Monyae, Ambassador Lin Songtian, Dr Sithembile Mbete, Adv Doctor Mashabane, and a political counsellor in the Chinese Embassy. Image: The Visual Studio. CACS seminar asks critical questions about cooperation between Sino-South African cooperation in the UN Security Council On Thursday 16 May…
On 2 August 2017, the UJ Confucius Institute and the African Public Policy and Research Institute (APPRI), in partnership with the UJ Library, hosted a discussion on ‘China’s Global Soft Power Status (via UN Peacekeeping) and its implications for the 2002 African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and the 2013 African Capacity for Immediate Responses…
[divider_flat]On Thursday 16 May 2019, the Centre for Africa-China Studies (CACS) hosted a seminar on South Africa and China at the UN Security Council. The speakers were Ambassador Welile Nhlapo, former South African Ambassador to the United States; Advocate Doctor Mashabane, Chief Director: United Nations in the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO); and…
On 23 July 2018, the UJCI, in collaboration with the Concerned Africans Forum and the UJ Library, hosted a Public Dialogue entitled ‘Progressive or Neo-Liberal?: South African Policy Economic Policy since 1994’. The Dialogue was chaired by Mongane Wally Serote, Professor of Philosophy at UJ. The speakers were Dr Essop Pahad, former Minister in the…
On Friday 16 March 2018, the UJCI and the Concerned Africans Forum jointly hosted a Public Dialogue on ‘South Africa–China Relations at Twenty: Key Lessons for the Next Decade’. The keynote address was delivered by H.E. Mr. Lin Songtian, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to South Africa. The other speakers were: Mr Aziz…