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Professor Ivor Chipkin will discuss key highlights from the 1990s that fundamentally changed the organisation and management of the South African public sector at the seminar, to be held at the Sasol Polymers in Bryanston, Sandton on Tuesday 3 August 2010

Professor Chipkin will also touch on the potential for ‘public-private partnerships’, state engagement with corporate South Africa, and the so-called ‘enabling environment’  for civil society enshrined in various pieces of legislation.

 Colleen du Toit, Chief Executive Officer of CAFSA, says:  “While these worries have produced endless debate, most of this focuses on two issues: affirmative action and the politicisation of senior government management.  

“What too many of us fail to consider is the history of the public sector, the many significant changes that have taken place, and the impact that changes had on the situation today. Persistent failure to understand and consider these issues will continue to result in conversations that are at best, only partly informed,” she added.

Professor Ivor Chipkin is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and received his PhD in Sociology and Politics from the Ecole Normale Superieure in France. He is a well-known author of Do South Africans Exist? and is a frequent contributor to the print media.  He was previously a senior researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), and is currently Executive Director of the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), a new initiative working on the institutional and social aspects of the public sector.

For more information, or to participate in the seminar, contact CAF Southern Africa on 011 726 1148.

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CAF Southern Africa is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes and facilitates effective social investment. CAF has been running in South Africa since 1997, and became a section 21 not-for-profit organisation in 2000. CAF Southern Africa distributes funds to civil society organisations on behalf of donors. CAF is a member of the international network of the Charities Aid Foundation based in the United Kingdom. CAF International distributes funds to causes in over 90 countries with offices in UK, Bulgaria, Russia, South Africa, India, Australia, America and Brazil, and cooperates with partners across the world. www.cafsouthernafrica.org

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