Commercial Mediation - This five-day course lays the groundwork for you to become an effective mediator in South Africa. It also aims to improve your general and inter-cultural communication and negotiation skills. You will learn to use mediation skills more effectively in your profession, business, or workplace. The Department of Justice's court­aligned mediation programme will form part of your learning experience. 
Course fee: R19 500
Dates: 15 to 19 April | 24 to 28 June | 26 to 30 August
Closing date for registration: One week before the course...

Although South African historiography has been dominated by university-based intellectuals, many intellectuals operated outside universities, only to be marginalized and hidden from history. This conference places those marginalized intellectuals centre stage, exploring their hitherto neglected work in all its originality and variety. Intellectuals active outside universities ranged from socialist autodidacts to participants in workers’ night schools and radical discussion groups to women sitting silently at political conferences to political activists and trade unionists. Often organic...

by Professor Amy Stambach (Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Amy Stambach is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Pragmatic Faith: Working through Ethnic Conflict in a New Democracy
This presentation is based on a co-authored book project with Dr. Aikande Kwayu, Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin and PhD in International Relations, University of Nottingham.
“Pragmatic Faith” examines how the...

Triple Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, Edward Albee’s acclaimed play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? opens at the Baxter at the end of April. Directed by Fleur du Cap winner Mdu Kweyama, and performed by Jennifer Steyn, Lionel Newton, Paul Savage and Sihle Mnqwazana, the play is about a married, middle-aged architect who falls in love with a goat and catapults his family into a crisis. Book before Friday for the R120 early bird discount.
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Join us on the 25th of April as the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosts a Map the System Challenge: Pitch and Selection evening. Bertha Centre is an official partner of the global student competition which is run annually by the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
Map the System is a competition that asks students from any discipline to think differently about social and environmental change. The competition challenges teams to thoroughly research a specific social and environmental issue in order to fully comprehend its underlying...