Prof Thuli Madonsela, bekleër van die leerstoel in Maatskaplike Geregtigheid aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Fakulteit Regsgeleerdheid, sal die eerste Maatskaplike Geregtigheid M-plan rondetafelgesprek lei. Die gesprek vind op 27 Oktober in Stellenbosch plaas.
Die uiteindelike uitkoms van die rondetafelgesprek is om “armoede en ongelykheid se rug te breek", het Madonsela oor die geleentheid gesê. “Die beste rol wat akademia kan speel is om die staat te help om hul beleide beter te beplan en om te help met die ontwerp van Suid-Afrika se sosiaal-maatskaplike materiaal (social fibre).
Die geleentheid vorm deel van 'n konsulterende proses wat daarop gemik is om 'n omvattende nasionale plan, soortgelyk aan Europa se Marshallplan ná die Tweede Wêreldoorlog, te implementeer.
“Die sosiale geregtigheid M-plan, of Mosa-Plan, is 'n maatskaplike geregtigheid versnellingsprogram wat daarop gemik is om 'n katalisator te wees in die proses om, in ooreenstemming met die Nasionale Ontwikkelingsplan en die VN se Volhoubare Ontwikkelingsdoelwitte, armoede en te beëindig en gelyke geleenthede teen 2030 te verseker," sê Madonsela.
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Speakers
Justice Dunstan Mlambo, Judge President of the North Gauteng High Court, will deliver the keynote address while Dr Pali Lehohla, former Statistician General, will speak about social justice planning, monitoring, measuring and funding tools. Prof Ben Turok, former anti-apartheid activist, Economics Professor and former South African member of parliament, will address the roundtable on the state of social justice in South Africa and its implications for Democracy.
SU speakers include Madonsela, Prof Nicola Smit, SU Dean of Law, Prof Geo Quinot, African Public Procurement Research Unit, Law Faculty, Prof Sope Williams-Elegbe, Law Faculty, Prof Nuraan Davids, Education Policy Studies, Prof James Volmink, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dr Njeri Mwagiru, Institute for Future's Research and Prof Josephine Musango, Complex Systems in Transition.
The Round Table will be conducted in a workshop style with plenary sessions and parallel commissions on various social justice priorities such as education, health, wellness and nutrition, poverty, ICT, land, property and agriculture, and the economy.
“The workshop will be a first step in seeing who's doing what and to work from there – amongst others to establish a social justice think tank to help government accelerate progress towards socio-economic inclusion and related shared prosperity as part of anchoring democracy and the rule of law," Madonsela said.
The key result areas of the Social Justice M-Plan are:
5 KEY RESULT AREAS
- Enhance state capacity to pass laws that reduce poverty and inequality through leveraging data analytics
- Mobilise societal and corporate resources to contribute meaningfully to funding accelerated reduction of poverty and inequality
- Foster social accountability in government fiscal planning and expenditure by technology and leveraging people as eyes and ears of government
- Leverage international relations to promote support for the Social Justice M-Plan
- Sponsor a national drive to healing the divisions of the past regarding inherited social relations
SU staff members and students who would like to take part in the discussions are requested to liaise with Diane Gahiza, P.A. to Prof Thuli Madonsela and Project Coordinator: Chair for Social Justice at tel 021808 3186 or e-mail socialjustice@sun.ac.za before 23 October 2018.
- The workshop takes place at Paul Roos Gymnasium, Suidwal Street, Stellenbosch from 08:30 to 15:30 on Saturday 27 October 2018.
