Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences/School of Public Leadership/Researchers/K/Khan Firoz



=About the Researcher=

Brief Statement of Research Interest
My academic expertise and research interests are in the allied fields of development planning, shelter, urban studies, applied economics, informality, institutional transformation, governance and statecraft. His professional work in these areas spans policy research and technical assistance, funded by donors and aid agencies (includes USAid, DFID, IDRC, Oxfam, Mott Foundation, Interfund); national and international universities; international organisations (UNDP, UNCHS, UMP), non-governmental organisations; national departments, and, various municipalities. His published work includes articles in national and international journals in these areas; co-authored articles in books on sustainable human settlement development refracted through the lenses of transformative statecraft; edited a special edition of a journal on urbanity and the urban reconstruction; and contributed to and co-edited a book on housing praxis in post-apartheid South Africa. He also on an ad-hoc basis lends policy/research support and advice (housing and human settlement development) to the various local authorities, housing institutions and non-governmental organisations, the national Department of Housing, and the Presidency. He is presently involved in capacity building initiatives for, amongst others, senior government officials from national, provincial and local government via Stellenbosch University’s Executive Training Programme in the broad areas of development planning and systems/law/policy.

Education Qualifications
Undergraduate Degree: Bachelor of Arts (UKZN, SA) Major Subjects:	Political Science Economic History Highest Symbol	75% for Advanced Political Theory 72% for Economic History - South Africa

Postgraduate Degree: Masters - Town and Regional Planning (UKZN, SA) Dissertation Topic: The role of the state in economic development and collective consumption in Hong Kong and Singapore: Lessons for South Africa Highest Symbol: 76% for Housing Policy and Management ; 76% for Metropolitan Planning and Development

Further Postgraduate Degree:	Doctor of Philosophy (UOS, SA) PhD Topic: Critical perspectives on post-apartheid housing praxis through the developmental statecraft looking glass

Employment History
1. Centre for Community and Labour Studies (CCLS) – University of Durban-Westville Designation:  Senior Researcher and Resource Officer (October 1993 to June 1996) Head: Research and Policy (July 1996 to August 1997)

2. Parliament of the Republic of South Africa Designation: Head: SA Parliamentary Research Unit (September 97 to July 1998)

3. Isandla Institute Designation: Senior Researcher (August 1998 to August 2001)

4. Western Cape Provincial Development Council Designation: Research Co-ordinator (September 2001 to February 2003)

5. University of Stellenbosch: School of Public Management and Planning Designation: Lecturer (March 2003 to April 2011); Senior Lecturer (May 2011 - present) (P&DM Undergraduate 212 – alternating) (BPhil in Sustainable Development and Planning – Development Planning Stream)

Not listed here are my various short and long term appointments as researcher and consultant to various national departments, provincial administrations, local authorities, foreign donors, international development agencies, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, advocacy groups, etc. From 1997 to 2009, I have contributed to and drafted policy and position papers in the areas of local government, partnerships, local economic development, public sector training and education, housing, social development, etc. From 2003-2009, I worked for the national Department of Housing in the capacity of researcher, advisor to the N2Gateway Project Team, and contributed to various Departmental and Ministerial documents (including the Minister’s speeches and addresses). Some of these contributions are listed below.

Contact Information

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Awards/Grants/Fellowships
Andrew W Mellon Foundation PhD Grant/Bursary (2005)

The Mo Ibrahim-SOAS Summer School Fellowship (2011)

Affiliations/Community Work

 * Executive Committee Member of the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust (2010-present)

=PUBLICATIONS=

Books

 * Khan, F. & Thring, P. (eds). 2003. Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann.

Forthcoming

 * Khan, F. & Scholtz, L. forthcoming. Rental Housing: A Neglected Option? UN-Habitat, Nairobi.

Chapters in Books

 * Khan, F. 1996. Local Economic Development: Reflections on the International Experience and Some Lessons for the Reconstruction of South Africa's Cities in P.S.Reddy (ed), Readings in Local Government Management and Development: A Southern African Perspective, Kenwyn: Juta & Co.


 * Khan, F. 1997. Globalisation, Metropolitan Planning and City Development: Re-thinking Metropolitan Government and City Planning in Naidu, R.S. & Reddy, P.S. (eds), Metropolitan Government and Development: Present and Future Challenges, Logos: Durban


 * Khan, F. & Maharaj, B. 1997. Metropolitan Government and Municipal Restructuring in South Africa in Naidu, R.S. & Reddy, P.S. (eds), Metropolitan Government and Development: Present and Future Challenges, Logos: Durban


 * Khan, F. 1998. The Case of Durban: From Forty Odd Local Councils to Six Local Councils and a Metro OR From Forty Odd Local Councils to Seven Local Councils - ‘It all depends on who you talk to' in P.Whelan & D.Wooldridge (eds), Metropolitan Government 1994 to 1997, Cape Town: Foundation for Contemporary Research


 * Swilling, M.; Simone, A.M. & Khan, F. 1998. South Africa: The limits of governing African Cities in a Context of Globalisation and Complexity. In G.Hollands & G.Ansell (eds), Winds of Small Change: Civil Society Interaction with the African State – Published by Afesis-Corplan on behalf of the Austrian North-South Institute and Austrian Development Co-operation


 * Cranko, P & Khan, F. 1999. Parcerias Entre Prefeituras e Comumundades na Africa do Sul in Brose M; Fortalecendo a Democracia e o Desenvolvimento Local – Experiencias Com o Enfoque Participativo no Brasil e na Africa Meridional; Grupo de Estudo no Enfoque Participativo; Porto Alegre, Brazil


 * Swilling, M., Simone, A.M. & Khan, F. 2002. “My Soul I Can See”: The Limits of Governing African Cities in a Context of Globalisation and Complexity. In E.Pieterse et al. (eds). Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment, Cape Town: UCT Press, 305-327


 * Khan, F. & Cranko, P. 2002: Municipal-community partnerships. In E.Pieterse et al. (eds). Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment, Cape Town: UCT Press, 262-275


 * Khan, F. & Ambert, C. 2003. Preface. In F.Khan & P.Thring (eds). Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann, iv-xxi


 * Khan, F. & Ambert, C. 2003. Introduction. In F.Khan & P.Thring. (eds). Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann, xxii-xxxi


 * Khan, F. 2003. Continuities, Ambiguities and Contradictions: The Past, Present and (Possible) Future of Housing Policy and Practice in South Africa. In F.Khan & P.Thring (eds). Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann, 1-76


 * Khan, F. 2003. Housing, Poverty and the Macroeconomy. In F.Khan & P.Thring (eds). 2003. Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann, 77-84


 * Khan, F. 2003. Housing Finance. In F.Khan & P.Thring (eds). 2003. Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann, 161-165


 * Khan, F. 2003. Land, Services and Spatial Restructuring. In F.Khan & P.Thring (eds). 2003. Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann, 228-233


 * Khan, F. 2003. Supporting People’s Housing Initiatives. In F.Khan & P.Thring (eds). 2003. Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann, 295-293


 * Khan, F. 2003. Alternative Tenure Forms. In F.Khan & P.Thring (eds). Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Sandown: Heinemann, 363-366


 * Swilling, M., Simone, A. & Khan, F. 2003. “My Soul I Can See”: The Limits of Governing African Cities in a Context of Globalisation and Complexity. In P.McCarney & R.Stren (eds). Governance on the Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in Cities of the Developing World, Woodrow Wilson Centre Press & John Hopkins University Press: Washington D.C. & Baltimore, 220-250

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 * Khan, F. & Pieterse, E. 2006. The Homeless People’s Alliance: Purposive Creation and Ambiguated Realities. In R. Ballard, A.Habib & I.Valodia (eds). Voices of Protest: Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press
 * Menguelé, F., Khan, F. & Vawda, A. 2008. The Emergence and Endurance of a New Evolving Human Settlements Imaginary'. In M.van Donk, M.Swilling, E.Pieterse & S.Parnell. (eds). Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from the South African Experience. Cape Town: UCT Press


 * Khan, F. 2008. Poverty, policy, politics, and power: working notes for the provisional framing of ‘pragmatic pro-poor politics’. In M.Pressend & M.Ruiters (eds). Dilemmas of Poverty and Development: A proposed policy framework for the Southern African Development Community. Midrand: Institute for Global Dialogue, 113-133


 * Khan, F. forthcoming. Re-Gearing Governance, Re-Inventing Developmentalism and (Re)/Constructing Human Settlements (full details not yet available)


 * Khan, F. forthcoming. Keep it Real, Keep it Rich! The Banquet, the Bastille, the Barracks and the Bustee. In M.Swilling (ed). Stellenbosch 2030. Cape Town: Juta Press


 * Khan, F., Oranje, M. & Pienaar, K. forthcoming. The ‘“what ifs...” of today’ and the ‘pregnant “time of the now”’: To always walk questioningly and to make the road while walking (full details not yet available)

Journals/Papers (Peer Reviewed)
Khan, F. & Levy, N. 1995. Putting the Record Straight in Agenda, 27 Khan, F. & Hemson, D. 1998. Globalisation on the Margins: Mapping Post-Apartheid South Africa's Trade and Industrial Policy in Competition and Change: Journal of International Business and Political Economy, 3, 167- 205

Khan, F. 1998. A Commentary on Dark Roast Occasional Paper No.1: ‘Developmental Local Government’: The Second Wave of Post-Apartheid Urban Reconstruction in ISANDLA’s Occasional Paper Series, Cape Town

Khan, F. 1998. Developmental Local Government and Local Economic Development: Combining the Macro and Micro Institutional Foundations of Development, Johannesburg: Electoral Institute of Southern Africa

Khan, F. & Pieterse, E. 1999. Linking local economic development and poverty alleviation. IDASA LOGICal steps, May/June

Khan, F. 2001. Municipal-Community Partnerships: Pushing State and Civil Society Towards Poverty-Eradicating and Democracy-Enhancing Roles. OD Debate: Reflecting on Organisations and Development, 8:1, March, pp 23-27.

Khan, F. 2004. The City and its Future? The Eternal Question. In F.Khan (ed). Development Update: The City and Its Future? The Eternal Question, 5, 1, 5-52

Khan, F. 2004. Editor’s Preface. In F.Khan (ed). Development Update: The City and Its Future? The Eternal Question, 5, 1, i-xv (2004)

Swilling, M., van Breda, J., van Zyl, A. & Khan, F. 2005. Economic policy-making in a developmental state: '''Review of the South African Government’s Poverty and Development Approaches.''' Research Report 3, Economic Policy and Poverty Alleviation Series, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society.

Khan, F. 2004. The N2 Informal Settlement Upgrade Lead-Pilot Project. Isandla Communique, 7, 1 (available at http://www.isandla.org,za under publications)

Other publications

 * Pillay, D. & Khan, F. 1996. Poor, but flourishing, Mercury, 24/04/1996


 * Khan, F. 1996. SMME Development, Procurement and Local Government in Local Economic Development News, 1, 2


 * Khan, F. 1997. Local Economic Development in John, L. (ed) Integrated Development Planning: A Handbook for Community Leaders, Johannesburg: PLANACT


 * Khan, F. 1997. Democracy, Forums, Social Compacts and the Fuzzy Relationship between Conflict and Development: A Reflection on the Cato Manor Experience - in Best Practices of Developmental Local Government – Compiled by the Urban Sector Network for the Mott Developmental Local Government Project, Johannesburg


 * Khan, F. 1997. The Greater Pinetown Steering Committee: A Case of Manipulated Consent? – In Best Practices of Developmental Local Government – Compiled by the Urban Sector Network for the Mott Developmental Local Government Project, Johannesburg


 * Khan, F. 1998. The role of researchers in Parliament. Cape Times, 26 March


 * Khan, F. 1999. District Government: Local Government in the 21st Century, Pretoria: Department of Provincial and Local Government


 * Khan, F. forthcoming. The Struggle for Life.  In AIDC and People’s Dialogue. Proceedings of the Crisis of Civilization Conference. Cape Town: Alternative Information and Development Centre


 * Khan, F. forthcoming. The Struggle for Life is the Struggle to Live Decently and Differently. Proceedings of the Crisis of Civilization Conference. Cape Town: Alternative Information and Development Centre


 * Khan, F. forthcoming. Reflections on Theme Three of DAG Conference: Citizenship and Democratic Management of Cities in a New Urban Order. In Proceedings of the Development Action Group National Conference: Re-imaging the City: A New Urban Order, 11-13 October, Development Action Group, Cape Town

Master's Thesis Supervision

 * 2003 - Bruiners, Natasha. Multipurpose Community Centres: A local economic development strategy towards sustainable community empowerment and poverty alleviation in the Dwars River Region – Submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Masters in Town and Regional Planning, UOS
 * 2003 - Van der Merwe, L. Urban Agriculture: Food for Thought - Submitted in partial fulfillment for the for the degree of Masters in Town and Regional Planning, UOS
 * 2003 - Oosthuizen, J. The Role of Community Participation and Community Empowerment in the Planning and Delivery of Low-Income Housing: an evaluation of housing project 59 in Paarl - Submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Masters in Town and Regional Planning, UOS
 * 2008 - Jallow, M.Wurri. The effects of peri-urbanization on sustainable development in the Gambia – Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Phil (Sustainable Development, Planning and Management) at the School of Public Management and Planning, UOS


 * 2007 - Principles for Mainstreaming Gender Equality in the South African Rural Water Services Rust, Ursula .A.
 * 2007 - Natural Resources and Conflict in Sudan AND Addressing Environmental Issues in a Post-Conflict Situation: The Case of Afghanistan Caas, Francois.H.
 * 2009 - State-business partnership in poverty reduction: A case study of three public-private partnerships in Swaziland Mutsigwa, Josepf .K
 * 2011 - What contribution can housing co-operatives make to managing the South African housing crisis Jacobs, Juan

Public Lectures and Presentations

 * Urbanisation and Growth Paths: Accumulation Strategies, Hegemonic Projects and State Form Paper presented at the COSATU Training Course for Regional and National Economic Negotiations. The course was convened under the auspices of the Economic Trends Group and was and was co-ordinated by the Trade Union Research Project (University of Natal - Dbn) (March 1993)
 * Industrial Districts and SMMEs in KwaZulu-Natal: Premises and Prospects - Paper presented to representatives from Trade Union Research Project (University of Natal - Durban), National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the SA Rail Commuters Association in negotiations to secure land in Springfield Park for the establishment of a pilot industrial district scheme (August 1993)
 * Boundary Rationalisation and Substructure Demarcation - Paper presented to representatives from the Pinetown civics and members of the ANC Boundary Subcommittee of the Greater Durban Metropolitan Negotiating Forum (August 1994)
 * Metropolitan Boundary Proposal for the Greater Durban Area - Paper presented to the ANC's Technical Committee (Boundaries) of the Greater Durban Metropolitan Negotiating Forum (Sept 1994)
 * The Greater Durban Metropolitan Area: Substructure Demarcation - Paper presented to the ANC's Technical Committee (Boundaries) of the Greater Durban Metropolitan Negotiating Forum (May 1995)
 * Towards a Local Economic Development Strategy for South African Cities: Lessons for the economic reconstruction of our urban areas - Paper presented at the International Geography Conference, University of Durban-Westville (July 1995)
 * Local Government: History and Legislation  - Series of lectures to Public Administration II students, University of Durban-Westville (August - October 1995)
 * Procurement Policy: Models for South Africa - Paper presented at the Strategic Planning Workshop on Capacity Building for the SMME Sector - Hosted by the Business Entrepreneurial and Enterprise Support Facility and the National Business Initiative - Durban (March 1996)
 * Manufactured Consent: The Tale of the Greater Pinetown Steering Committee - Paper presented at the OXFAM/Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management Governance Workshop - South Africa & Zimbabwe (May 1996)
 * Democracy, Development, Social Compacts and Political Elites: The Case of the Cato Manor Development Association - Paper presented at the OXFAM/Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management Governance Workshop - South Africa & Zimbabwe (May 1996)
 * Development Planning: Theory and Practice - Series of lectures presented to the employees/officials the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Administration (June - August 1996)
 * Development Planning in India and the Philippines - Paper presented at the Social Policy Programme/Geography Dept Seminar Series, University of Durban-Westville (Sept 1996)
 * Public Service Training in South Africa: Constraints and Opportunities - Paper presented to the representatives from the Department of Public Service and Administration; Department of Education; Department of Labour, Pretoria (Oct 1996)
 * Globalisation, Metropolitan Planning and City Development - Paper presented at the Conference on Metropolitan Government and Development in South Africa: Present and Future Challenges, Durban. Hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Department of Public Administration (University of Durban-Westville) (Nov 1996)
 * Metropolitan Government and Municipal Restructuring in South Africa  - Paper presented at the Conference on Metropolitan Government and Development in South Africa: Present and Future Challenges, Durban. Hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Department of Public Administration (University of Durban-Westville) (Nov 1996)
 * Local Economic Development - Local Government Councillor Orientation Workshop hosted by the School of Public Policy and Development Management (now the School of Governance) and the Democracy Development Programme, Durban (Nov 1996)
 * Globalisation and its impact on metropolitan planning in developed and developing countries: Lessons for South Africa  - Paper presented to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee (Local Government) of Constitutional Development and Provincial Affairs, Cape Town. Comment and input on the Local Government Transition Act Second Amendment Bill, 1996 (November 1996)
 * Globalisation, Local Government and Local Economic Development - Paper presented at the Urban Sector Network Local Government Summer School. Hosted by the Foundation for Contemporary Research (Cape Town) (March 1997)
 * Local Economic Development: Some Preliminary Thoughts - Paper presented at the Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management Local Economic Development Workshop (April 1997)
 * Local Economic Development: Local Government Councillor Orientation Workshop hosted by the School of Public Policy and Development Management (now the School of Governance) and the Democracy Development Programme, Durban (April 1997)
 * Local Government Councillor Orientation Workshop hosted by the School of Public Policy and Development Management (now the School of Governance) and the Democracy Development Programme, Pietermaritzburg (April 1997)
 * Shifting Spatial, Institutional and Economic Scales: The Political Mediation of Globalisation and Industrial Policy in post-apartheid South Africa - Deliberating Local Economic Development in Durban - Paper presented at the Global Urban Research Initiative Workshop - Graduate School of Public and Development Management (University of Witwatersrand) (May 1997)
 * Developmental Local Government and Local Economic Development: Combining the Macro- and Micro- Institutional Foundations of Development - Paper presented at the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa Researcher's Roundtable, Johannesburg (June 1997)
 * Developmental Local Government: From Theory to Practice - Developmental Local Government and the New Constitution - Papers presented at the Department of Constitutional Developments’ (DCD) Local Government Workshop - Developmental Local Government Cluster, Johannesburg (August 1997)
 * The Case of Durban: From Forty Odd Local Councils to Six Local Councils and a Metro OR From Forty Odd Local Councils to Seven Local Councils - `It all depends on who you talk to' - Paper presented at Department of Constitutional Development's Local Government Workshop - Developmental Local Government Cluster, Johannesburg (August 1997)
 * "My Soul I Can See": The Limits of Governing African Cities in a Context of Globalisation and Complexity - Joint presentation with Mark Swilling, Abdou-Simone Malique at the African Regional Workshop of the Global Research Initiative, Graduate School of Public and Development Management (University of Witwatersrand) (August 1997)
 * Rightsizing, Restructuring of State Assets and Public Sector Reform in South Africa - Joint presentation with John Bardill at the Politics of Economic Reform Conference, Cape Town (January 1998)
 * Developmental Local Government: The Second Wave of Post-Apartheid Urban Reconstruction - Seminar delivered to staff and students of the Social Policy Masters Programme, University of Durban-Westville (July 1998)
 * Globalisation, Urban Planning and Local Economic Development - Informalisation, Local Economic Development and Public Policy Series of lectures presented to students reading for their MA in Local Governance and Development (Local Economic Development Elective), Graduate School of Public and Development Management (University of Witwatersrand) (March 1999)
 * Municipal-Community Partnerships: Case Studies - Research findings presented at the former Department of Constitutional Development Workshop on Municipal-Community Partnerships, Johannesburg (Sept 1999)
 * Municipal-Community Partnerships: Theory and Practice in South Africa and Abroad - Presentation to participants (municipal officials and councillors) of the Public-Private Partnership Training Course convened and organised by the Joint Universities Public Management Education Trust (JUPMET), University of Durban-Westville (October 1999)
 * Local Government: Yesterday, To/Yester-day and “Maybe” Tomorrow - Paper presented to Organisational Development Theme Team of the Local Governance Learning Network (LOGON), Cape Town (March 2000)
 * Local Economic Development: Policy and Practice - Series of lectures presented to senior politicians attending the Executive Leadership Programme for Local Government. The LED course is a joint initiative of the South African Local Government Association and the Joint Universities Public Management Educational Trust (JUPMET) Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of Witwatersrand (May 2000) School of Governance, University of Durban-Westville (May 2000) School of Governance - University of Western Cape (May 2000) Fort Hare Institute of Governance, University of Fort Hare (June 2000)
 * Municipal-Community Partnerships: Theory and Practice in SA and Abroad - Presentation to participants (municipal officials and councillors) of the Public-Private Partnership Training Course convened and organised by the Joint Universities Public Management Education Trust (JUPMET), University of Stellenbosch (May 2000)
 * Re-opening the Housing Debate  - Paper (International and National Housing Policy Debates) presented at Housing Roundtable Discussion. Convened and hosted by the Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management and Isandla Institute (in association with the Urban Sector Network), University of Witwatersrand (August 2000)
 * A Policy Framework for Social Development in the Cape Metropolitan Area - Presentation and finalisation of Social Development Policy Framework to the Social Development Reference Group of the Cape Metropolitan Area, Cape Town (September 2000)
 * Municipal-Community Partnerships: Theory and Practice in South Africa and Abroad - Presentation to participants (municipal officials and councillors) of the Public-Private Partnership Training Course convened and organised by the Joint Universities Public Management Education Trust (JUPMET), University of Stellenbosch (October 2000)
 * Building the City with the People - International Case Studies - Paper presented at City Consultation Workshop (Structuring Civil Society-Unicity Relationships: A Policy Framework for Cape Town) convened by the Economic and Social Development Directorate of the Cape Metropolitan Council, Cape Town (October 2000)
 * City Consultation: Area-based Management and Service Delivery Strategies for Manenberg - Three papers presented at City Consultation. Convened and hosted by the City of Cape Town and the Urban Management Programme (November 2000)
 * Local Economic Development: Art, Science, or Muddling Through? -Introductory lecture to MA Students - Development Planning - University of Stellenbosch (March 2001)
 * Urban Renewal: Reflections on the Mannenberg Experience - Presentation to Managers and Officials of the Mannenberg Case at Urban Renewal Course delivered by the Institute of Urban and Housing Studies (Rotterdam) and hosted by the City of Cape Town (May 2001)
 * Urban Renewal in the Cape Metropolitan Area - Research findings presented to City officials, NGO representatives and consultants, Cape Town (October 2001)
 * Local Government Transformation in South Africa - From Social Heath to Social Crime Prevention: Urban Renewal in the Cape Metropolitan Area -Papers presented at the Experiments in Democratic Decentralisation Conference in Porto Alegre (Brazil) (December 2001)
 * Urban Renewal and Integrated Development Planning in the Cape Metropolitan Area - Paper presented at Urban Renewal Seminar hosted by the University of Western Cape’s Institute for Social Development, Cape Town (October 2002)
 * Community Development and Area-Based Planning in Mannenberg - Seminar Presented to MPhil (Sustainable Development) Students – University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape (March 2003)
 * The Developmental State - Seminar Presented to MPhil (Sustainable Development) Students – University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape (April 2003)
 * Urban Renewal in the Cape Metropolitan Area  - Seminar - Presented to MPhil students (Development Planning) – University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape (May 2003)
 * Housing Policy and Practice in the ‘New’ South Africa - Seminar - Presented to MPhil students (Development Planning) – University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape (August 2003)
 * Poverty, Politics and Economics - Seminar - Presented to MPhil Students (Development Planning), University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape (March 2004)
 * Reflections on the Department of Housing’s Policy and Research Agenda for the Second Decade of Freedom - Paper presented at the Department of Housing’s Policy and Research Agenda Workshop (March 2004)
 * Getting Each Other on the Hook! Towards a Housing Research and Policy Social Contract for the Second Decade of Freedom - Paper presented at the Department of Housing’s National Housing Research Seminar (March 2004)
 * The City and its Future? The Eternal Question - Seminar – Presented to MPhil students (Sustainable Cities), University of Stellenbosch (May 2004)
 * Urban Development: Past, Present and Future - Paper presented at the Urban Development Seminar, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg (June 2005)
 * Informal Settlement Upgrading and Southern Practice - Paper presented at the International Housing Seminar hosted by the SA Department of Housing (July 2005)
 * North-South, South-South Planning Theory - Paper presented at the Wits-Sheffield University Joint Colloquim on Planning closing thoughts, Johannesburg, (September 2005)
 * Public Management and Development: Illusion, Delusion, Illumination - Paper presented at the 10th International Winelands Conference, Stellenbosch (April 2006)
 * Poverty, Power and Politics - Presentation at the Global Dialogue Conference on Poverty and MDGs, Johannesburg (July 2007)
 * Scavengers of Small Opportunity and Scavenging (or Scaling-Up) for (Small) Opportunity - SA Presidency/UrbanLandmark and Trade and Industry Policy Secretariat (of the SA Department of Trade and Industry) Workshop on the Second Economy (April 2008)
 * Re-Gearing Governance, Re-Inventing Developmentalism and (Re)/Constructing Human Settlements - Paper presented at the European Commission and DPLG Conference on the Developmental State, Limpopo, South Africa (June 2008)
 * National and Regional Planning…the next thirty years – Paper presented at the University of Pretoria’s Spring School - The new, the novel and the revolutionary: Planning (in) South Africa, 2010, 2035 and beyond (April 2010)
 * Down the rabbit well in a yellow submarine: From sweet, ocean-warmth nothings, etc. – Paper co-presented with Mark Oranje at the South African Planning Institute 2010 Conference: Beyond Crisis: Opportunities and Actions, International Conventional Centre, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (September 2010)
 * The Struggle for Life – Paper presented at the AIDC’s and People’s Dialogue Conference (International) - Crisis of Civilization Conference, Heia Safari Ranch, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg (October 2010)
 * The Struggle for Life is the Struggle to Live Decently and Differently – Paper presented at the AIDC’s and People’s Dialogue Conference (International) - Crisis of Civilization Conference, Heia Safari Ranch, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg (October 2010)
 * The ‘“what ifs...” of today’ and the ‘pregnant “time of the now”’: To always walk questioningly and to make the road while walking – Joint paper with Mark Oranje and Kobus Pienaar presented at the Transformation of the role of the State and new instruments of public action, International Seminar, Public Policy and Governance Platform, University of Pretoria, South Africa, May 2011

=Past Events/13th International Winelands Conference 2-4 April 2012=

13th International Winelands Conference 2-4 April 2012 will be hosted by the School of Public Leadership.

Theme: Integrity and governance:  What is wrong? What is good? What is next?

See website:  13th International Winelands Conference

=UPCOMING EVENTS 14th International Winelands Conference 2014'''=

TITEL: INNOVATION FOR THE URBAN AGE

DATE: 31 MARCH - 04 APRIL 2014

VENUE: SPIER WINE ESTATE, STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA

CALL FOR PAPERS

The School of Public Leadership (SPL) of Stellenbosch University, South Africa is pleased to announce that Abstract Submissions and Registration is now open for the 14th International Winelands Conference – “Innovation for the Urban Age”.

The topic of the Conference and the themes will form the basis for dynamic interaction between academics, practitioners and stakeholders dealing with this very topical subject.

The conference will have a wide variety of themes relating to innovation and urbanisation which will all add value to the discourse on these issues. There will be a strong focus on innovative concepts that are pragmatic and implementable.

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Regards

Conference Director Mr David Daniels

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