[Sugarman] scheduling

[Keith Breckenridge]

Dear colleagues,

Some basic timetabling and assembling matters, for those of you who will be
attending the workshop on the Global South as an Idea and a Source of
Theory in Johannesburg and the Pilanesberg between May 5 and May 17.

Pamila Gupta, another Wisan and UM alum, will be helping with the
organisation of the workshop, so please expect to hear from her.   Welcome
Pamila!

The details of the schedule are developing at
http://wiser.wits.ac.za/global-south-idea.   Please do check to see if I
have your name down as a session organiser and let me know if what you see
makes sense.   If it doesn't please do let me know.  This is important.
If your name is down please do give some thought to the best possible
readings, either from the existing bibliography at the bottom of the page
or from somewhere else.   Do let me have those.

The basic timetable will be to spend May 5 to 9 in Johannesburg, for people
to have free time from lunchtime on May 9 to the evening of Sunday 11.
Then to travel in the afternoon directly to Bakubung Lodge in the
Pilanesberg.   We will stay there until the morning of Thursday May 15,
returning to Wits for concluding sessions.

Some of the time between May 11 and 15 will be spent exploring the platinum
mines and the Tribal Authorities around them.   You should know that these
mines -- and over 100,000 workers --  are now into a 12 week long strike
over substantial wage increases organised, not by the old NUM, but by the
new union, AMCU.   The conflict between NUM and AMCU forms part of the
struggle that shaped the massacre at Marikana in    This is the longest and
largest strike in South African history.  I will talk about this in some
detail.

May 7 is also Election Day in South Africa.   And we are all very
interested to see what the results of the election will be.   We will meet
on that day, but only in the afternoon.

If you are joining us, please do let Najibha Deshmukh (
najibha.deshmukh at wits.ac.za) have your arrival and departure times.   This
is also important.

Many thanks, Keith

-- 
Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
 Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Tel: +27117174272  | Fax: 0867654213 |
Web: wiser.wits.ac.za
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