IFP 2012 | South Africa

ContextSouthern Africa formally covers 15 states

Our base will be Cape Town, South Africa (most powerful

country in region)

Internships in Cape Town and maybe 2 or 3 other sites in

Southern Africa

Cape Town

South Africa’s second city; natural beauty; highly unequal; housing,

transport and social crises; governed by opposition group.

IFP 2012 | South Africa

Types of work students will be doing:

Parliamentary monitoring and advocacy

Human Rights Advocacy and Research

Freedom of Information

Land Reform

Housing Rights and Evictions

Media Campaigns

IFP 2012 | South Africa

Possible internships and projects: Cape Town

Desmond Tutu Peace Centre

South African History Online www.sahistory.org.za

The Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

The Centre for Conflict Resolution

Institute for Democracy in South Africa

Open Democracy Advice Center

Parliamentary Monitoring Group

Right to Know Campaign

Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western

Cape

People Against Suffering Oppression and Poverty

Treatment Action Campaign

The Institute for the Healing of Memories

Abalimi http://www.abalimi.org.za/, work on issues of sustainable

development.

IFP 2012 | South Africa

AIDS and Rights Alliance for

Southern Africa

Center for Development of

People (Malawi)

AIDS Law Unit, Legal

Assistance Centre of Namibia

(LAC), Namibia

Mozambican Treatment

Access Movement (MATRAM),

Mozambique

Possible internships and projects: Southern Africa

IFP 2012 | South Africa

Spring Course Requirement

Contemporary Africa

Program Dates:

June 1 (Friday) – July 29 (Friday)

Information

Session:Monday Sept. 26, 5-

6pm, room A-510

Coordinator: Sean Jacobs