Dialogues & Events
The posts below outline some of the events and activities we have held during the project, as well as advertises our up-coming dialogue sessions. These community dialogue sessions bring together diverse stakeholders from the state and civil society sectors, as well as migrants themselves, to collectively think through how the city of Durban can design a more responsive and inclusive policy framework for migration and against xenophobia. This we believe is far more proactive and productive than beginning discussions of policy and government responses from a traditional top-down approach.
The experiences of foreign nationals and other migrants in South Africa- Radio Talk-shows
The talk-shows were a series of engagements that intended to continue to unpack the experiences of migrant women that were generated as part of the focus groups and dialogue sessions in the execution of the Cities Alliance project. The show also intended to unpack our...
Deliberative Workshop on the Strategic Report
On 12 June 2018, invited stakeholders gathered at the Elangeni Hotel in Durban for a deliberative workshop that focused on the strategic report produced from the Migration and the Inclusive City project. The report outlines the year and a half’s worth of data...
Strategic Report on Migration and Inclusion in the City
The project's final strategic report written by Kira Erwin and Jeremy Grest is now complete and available for download here. The report draws on the research, advocacy and public education awareness components of the project to develop insights and suggestions on...
Film Screening for World Refugee Day
The Urban Futures Centre (UFC) partnered with Refugee Social Services for their "Other" Peoples' Film Festival to commemorate World Refugee Day on June 21st June 2018. We hosted a free outdoor film screening of Voetsek! Us, Brothers? at Habesha Cafe on Helen Joseph...
LAST COUNTRY PERFORMANCE – DIALOGUES
The Last Country Performances took place from the 19th to the 21st February 2018 in 5 different communities in Durban. This Cities Alliance project stage presentation brings to life the stories of African women, both migrant and local. The performances took place in...
The Last Country 2018 performance
The Last Country ran another week of performances during 19th - 25th February 2018 in what the Mercury newspaper described as an "astonishing, moving and profoundly brilliant" performance. The script sensitively adapts the stories of women migrants hailing from DRC,...
The Last Country Performances
A theatrical production that incorporates over 30 oral histories of migrant women has been created and used as a tool to tell their stories. These oral stories, collected as part of a larger research and advocacy project by the Urban Future Centre, ASONET and the DDP...
The Last Country invitation
Dear colleagues and friends We are excited to announce our upcoming theatre production by award-winning Durban theatre-makers Mpume Mthombeni and Neil Coppen (part of the Empatheatre team responsible for UlWEMBU, which looked at street-level drug addiction in the city...
Meeting With Traditional Leaders
On Friday, November 10, the Democracy Development Program (DDP) and Urban Future Centre (UFC) held a meeting with traditional leaders and ward councilors from Folweni at the Folweni Police Station. The meeting aimed to solicit the traditional leader’s input about...
Women’s Month Dialogue on Community Building
NOSIPHO LUTHULI The DDP, ASONET and the Urban Future Centre hosted a dialogue on Mobilising Women Towards Inclusive Community Development at the Lotus Park community Hall on 29 August 2017. The dialogue aimed to encourage women to discuss among each other the...
Mobilising Women Towards Inclusive Community Development- Isipingo
The DDP, ASONET and Urban Future Centre will host a dialogue on Mobilising Women Towards Inclusive Community Development in Isipingo. This dialogue takes place as South Africa Celebrates Women’s Day on 09 August making the entire month Women’s Month. The details are...
Mobilising Women Towards Inclusive Community Development dialogue
NOSIPHO LUTHULI The Democracy Development Program (DDP), Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) and the Urban Future Centre (UFC) held a women’s month dialogue at Diakonia Centre on August 8. The dialogue, which took place the day before women’s day focused on mobilising...
Living and Working Peacefully Together
NOSIPHO LUTHULI The Democracy Development Program in partnership with the Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET), Urban Future Centre and the Department of Arts and Culture (the Social Cohesion unit) hosted a community dialogue on Friday 14 July. This dialogue was held at...
Mobilising Women Towards Inclusive Community Development
The Democracy Development Program, ASONET and Urban Future Centre will host a dialogue on Mobilising Women Towards Inclusive Community Development. This dialogue takes place as South Africa Celebrates Women's Day on 09 August making the entire month Women's Month. The...
Durban Umlazi Dialogue
Mobilising Communities Towards Community Development The Democracy Development Program (DDP) and the Africa Solidarity Network (ASONET) kindly invites you to a dialogue to explore effective community building as residents of Umlazi D section. Please come and join us....
Screening of the Supreme Price documentary
As part of the “Other” People’s Film Festival organised in commemoration of World Refugee Day by the Refugee Social Services in Durban, we screened the multi-award-winning documentary Supreme Price at the Durban University of Technology on the 27th June 2017 at...
Knowledge sharing session at the UFC: on the Becoming Urban Humanitarians report
The second networking meeting was hosted by Urban Futures Centre over a light breakfast on the 31st May 2017 from 9-11am. This session invited participants from a broad spectrum of fields including, faith-based organisations, government, Non-Governmental Organisations...