As part of the School of Social Sciences Seminar Series, SWOP and the Department of Sociology are hosting a conversation on “Doing Research Otherwise”. 23 October, 1-3pm, online and in-person.

🔴Join the Water Protest 🔴 1 November, 10am Civic Boulevard Braamfontein Jozi #waterjustice #Joburgwatercrisis #Joburg @KathradaFound @WaterCANsa @fordemocracysa @SWOPInstitute

💧 JoburgCAN is standing with residents demanding clean, reliable water. Empty promises don’t fill empty taps. 🚱 @SWOPInstitute @fordemocracysa @KathradaFound @WaterCANsa https://t.co/HnmiHuPfcG

In the last JHB Urban Crisis Seminar of the year, Mpho Thato Morare (@WitsUniversity) examined The ‘Forefathers’ of Braamfontein and Fashioning Black Masculinity, tracing how Umswenko shape ideals of cool Black masculinity and negotiates identity, dignity and community.

Join us for the final seminar in the #UrbanCrisis series for 2025. Mpho Thato Morare presents on “The Forefathers of Braamfontein and Fashioning Black Masculinity” 16 October, 1-3pm, PARI offices or online. To register visit https://t.co/bSYHtcHLsx

💧 JOIN THE PROTEST ✊ 🗓️ 1 November | 🕙 10AM 📍 Joburg Council Chamber, Civic Blvd #WaterJustice 💦#RightToWater #JoburgWaterCrisis Civil Society Stands Together! #JoburgCrisisAlliance #RegionF #CADE @JoburgCAN @KathradaFound @fordemocracysa @abahlalibM @SWOPInstitute

This is the last Joburg Urban Crisis seminar for 2025. Don't miss it! @SWOPInstitute @GCR_Observatory

Joburg Urban Crisis Seminar on 16 October, 1–3pm The 'Forefathers' of Braamfontein and Fashioning Black Masculinity by Mpho Thato Morare (@WitsUniversity) with discussants @thatshisiwe (Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) and Thabang Sefalafala (Wits, Sociology

Re-membering Movements Colloquium day 1 and morning of day 2

Re-membering Movements Colloquium 8-10 October Humanities Grad Centre, Wits University RSVP and links: https://t.co/0nz7oTGnTj

Re-membering Movements Colloquium Details and RSVP here https://t.co/0nz7oTFQ3L

🚨 “60% of SA’s tap water fails basic standards. 77% fails chemical tests. 42 of Joburg’s 84 reservoirs leak.” WaterCAN's @ferrial_adam and Lesego Loate from @SWOPInstitute told the Florida community in @CityofJoburgZA https://t.co/Wjyjhts7lp .

Coming soon…

it's 2015, in efforts to (re)think ourselves anew, the birth of the Fallist Movement is realised. seeking to (re)imagine what a decolonised and decommodified education looks like, a cohort of young university students across the country took to the streets. part of those young

The final participatory session in our Re-membering #FeesMustFall programme. 27 September, 10:30am, Humanities Grad Centre or online. Please RSVP for to swop.wits@gmail.com, for online attendance see https://t.co/aAuIt09RBH

Lesego Loate at the Johannesburg Crisis Alliance Summit, this past weekend, speaking on a unified call for for water justice.

At this week’s JHB Urban Crisis Seminar, David du Toit (@go2uj ) explored the challenges facing paid domestic workers in Johannesburg. He highlighted transport struggles, stigma, and the limits of ILO Convention 189, noting how COVID-19 exposed the sector’s precarity through

Thank you for recording and making available. @SWOPInstitute Remembering FeesMustFall, remembering movements. https://t.co/Wz4Nn9wexl

Joburg Urban Crisis Seminar on 28 August, 1:30–3:30pm Polishing the City of Gold, Paid Domestic Work in Johannesburg, South Africa by David Du Toit (@go2uj) with discussant @ruthkelya (@Wits_SCIS) - https://t.co/UEwS10VDdx Register to join in person: https://t.co/MLHq8k3l01 or

This week in the #UrbanCrisis Series – Polishing the City of Gold: Paid Domestic Work in Johannesburg by David du Toit. 28 August, 1:30pm, online and in-person, details and registration at https://t.co/nFw5SXWtjt