Seminars

David Africa is the author of Lives on the Line, an insider account of the six-year intelligence operation against People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad). He grew up in Manenberg, where he became involved in radical student politics in 1985, and subsequently the ANC underground and Umkhonto we Sizwe.

In April 1995 he joined the police Crime Intelligence division, serving as operational coordinator in one of the most successful intelligence operations in post-Apartheid South Africa. He has lectured at the Marshall Center for Security Studies in Germany and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, headed the UN security analysis unit in Iraq, and advised the OSCE on counter-terrorism strategy.

In 2007 he co-founded ACSIP. He currently serves as Programme Lead, Strategic Intelligence at E3G and has published in Routledge and written for South African and international media.

Prof. Collette Schulz-Herzenberg is an associate professor in Political Science at Stellenbosch University, specialising in political behaviour and South African electoral politics.

Prof. Roger Southall was Professor of Political Studies at Rhodes and later Professor of Sociology at Wits. His recent books include Whites and Democracy in South Africa (2022) and Smuts and Mandela. Other than that, he walks dogs.

Prof. Yoichi Mine is Executive Director at the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.

Dr Guy Lamb is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University.

Regional Security: Prof. Tim Murithi (IJR) & Dr Maksyn Yakovlyev (NaUKMA)

Nuclear Safety: Oleana Lapenko (Dixi Group) & Isabel Bossman (SAIIA)

Forceful Deportation of Children: Dr Elvis Fokala & Oleksandra Ramantsova