South African Association of Political Studies

@SAAPSZA Secretary-Elect: Ms Naledi Modise (Northwest University) @saapsconferenc1

@SAAPSZA President-Elect is Prof Kgothatso Shai (University of Limpopo). Deputy President-Elect: Prof Vusi Gumede. @saapsconferenc1

@SAAPSZA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2021 Winner Prof Susan Booysen dedicates her award to emerging scholars and wishes that they make @SAAPSZA their intellectual home. @saapsconferenc1 @MISTRA_SA

@SAAPSZA Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 Winner: Prof Susan Booysen! Congratulations, dear Susan! You continue to inspire! @saapsconferenc1 @ipsa_aisp @MISTRA_SA @BooysenS2

Great and professional organisation by Sally Matthews (Rhodes University) and her team of the @saapsconferenc1. THANK YOU for a unique and historical @SAAPSZA conference!

Now on @saapsconferenc1: @SAAPSZA President Siphamandla Zondi addressing a plenary prize-giving session.

COMING UP NEXT FROM 12:00-12:45 SAAPS PRIZE-GIVING AND CLOSING REMARKS FROM: Siphamandla Zondi (SAAPS President)

Gavaza Maluleke (UCT) #RhodesWar: Contesting Institutional Silencing in the Struggle against Rape in South Africa

Gogo Londiwe Mntambo (RU) Notions of Zulu Girlhood-From preservation to variations of ukuhlonipha nokufihla in post-apartheid South Africa” Kamogelo Segone (Wits)The role of women in a post- Western world?

PANEL 7C: GENDER AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE Chair: Siphokazi Magadla (RU) Ebiere Lynsa Atani (Federal University Otuoke) Patriarchal constraints to women’s occupation of elective offices in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: A critique

Sizwe Sidaza (UKZN) Pan-Africanism, Economic Integration and Development: To what extent is the African Continental Free Trade Area's implementation a breakthrough in advancing cooperation and prosperity?

Clayton Hazvinei Vhumbunu (RU) The African Continental Free Trade Area: A new era for African Integration or another grandiose razzmatazz?

PANEL 7B: THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA Chair: Vusi Gumede (UMP) Seshupo Josial Mosala (NWU)The implementation of Agenda 2063's First Ten-Year Implementation Plan and its implication to African Continental Free Trade Area

Ewan Sutherland (Wits) Data must fall – the politics of mobile tele-communications tariffs in South Africa Mpumezo Ralo (UNISA) Understanding Black Economic Empowerment in the context of Redress in Africa Mashudu Edward Muthivhi(UV)Church Regulation in A Democratic South Africa

Ubanesia Adams-Jack (SUN) An exploration of the discourse underpinning the policy work of South Africa's Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities.

PANEL 7A: PUBLIC POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA Chair: Naledi Modise (NWU) PRESENTERS: Charley Lewis (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) Regulating Tele-communications in South Africa: Universal Access and Service

COMING UP NEXT PANEL SESSION SEVEN (10:45-11:45) PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR THE DIFFERENT PANELS AND THE PRESENTERS.

DAY THREE: FINAL DAY OF THE CONFERENCE WE STARTING WITH PANEL SESSION SEE BELOW FOR THE INFORMATION ON THE DIFFERENT PANEL SESSIONS RUNNING.

COMING UP NEXT FROM 15:00-16:15 A keynote by Professor Siba Grovogui. Professor Grovogui will be talking on "Mythologies and Genealogies in International Relations: Historiography, Eurocentrism, and Africans". Chair: Eduard Jordaan (RU)

Save the date: 7 Oct 2021 A nuclear-armed Iran. Will be speaking on African-Iran relations. @DIRCO_ZA @SAEditorsForum @SAAPSZA @saapsconferenc1 @SAIIA_info @IGD_SA