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The IPASA Annual Philanthropy Symposium is a unique annual event exclusively for grant-makers, which
is focused specifically on issues and opportunities relevant to funders in South Africa. The symposium
provides an ideal platform for funders to connect, learn, share and collaborate.

 

About the symposium

Date: 28-29 October 2019
Venue: STIAS: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Marais Rd, Mostertsdrift, Stellenbosch, 7600

The IPASA Annual Philanthropy Symposium is a unique annual event exclusively for grant-makers, which
is focused specifically on issues and opportunities relevant to funders in South Africa. The symposium
provides an ideal platform for funders to connect, learn, share and collaborate.
The 2019 Annual Philanthropy Symposium was a two-day online event which was held on the 28 th and
29 th October.

The Symposium theme: Social Cohesion: Building Hope and Trust.
A year ago, when we started planning this Symposium, the theme of Social Cohesion felt right, even
obvious, given the deep chasms in our society between black and white, rich and poor, rural and urban…
the list goes on. What should and could a philanthropist do to respond to this crisis in an environment of
swirling negative sentiment, fake news and rampant corruption? What is needed to help to build hope
and trust between people in our country?

The 2019 IPASA Philanthropy Symposium provided a platform for sharing of new ideas and knowledge
as well as discussion around future collaboration and partnership opportunities.

For more information contact: Louise: louise@ipa-sa.org.za

This year’s programme has been designed to ensure maximum opportunity for delegates to connect, share and learn from each other.

Click here to download the full programme.

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Ebrahim Fakir

Awarded the Ruth First Fellowship for 2014 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg – Ebrahim Fakir is currently the Director of Programs at the Auwal Socio Economic Research Institute (ASRI) and was part time lecturer at the WITS School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg for 2018. He was until October 2016, the head the Political Parties and Parliamentary Program at EISA [2009-2016].

He was an editorial advisor to the independent start-up media house “Daily Vox” & regularly contributes analysis, opinion and comment articles to the Mail & Guardian, Sunday Times and News 24, amongst others. He regularly appears in the electronic broadcast media as an analyst and commentator.

Formerly Senior Researcher and Analyst at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg [2003-2009], he worked at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) [1998-2003] at both IDASA’s Pretoria and Cape Town offices and he also worked at the first democratic Parliament of the Republic of South Africa (1996-1998) in the Legislation and Oversight Division. Before that, he was junior lecturer in English Literature at the then University of Durban-Westville (1994-1996).

He writes in the popular press as well as academic and policy journals on politics, development, and the state. He is used as a commentator and facilitator by the domestic and international media, business and other organisations.

He read for a degree in English Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg where he was elected on to the Students Representative Council. He was visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex (2005/2006) and was a Draper Hills Summer Fellow at the Centre for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, for 2011.