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About Khanya College

Khanya College is an independent, non-governmental organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 1986, the primary aim of Khanya College is to assist various constituencies within working class and poor communities to respond to the challenges posed by the forces of economic and political globalisation. Khanya College offers assistance through providing educational and training workshops, publications and research to organisations and individuals in these communities.

Purpose
The mission of Khanya College is to provide education which is relevant to the needs of historically oppressed communities, to contribute to the strengthening of community based organisations, trade unions and non-governmental organisations, to contribute to a process of social change and development, and to operate democratically, accountably and efficiently.

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Constituencies
The College is committed to serving organisations and individuals from working class and poor communities. The College is politically non-sectarian in its relationships with the various organisations from the communities it serves. Over the many years of its work with mass organisations the College's main constituencies are the emerging social movements in town and country, trade unions, community based organisations, student and youth organisations, churches and ecumenical organisations, cooperatives, and non-governmental organisations. Khanya College services constituencies and organisations all over South Africa, in Southern Africa as well as other parts of the world.

Core activities of Khanya College
All the activities of the College are orientated towards supporting and building the social justice movement in South Africa and beyond. In order to realise its mission and to serve its core constituencies Khanya College engages in various kinds of activities. These include education and training workshops, seminars, research, publications, campaigns, organising, and the provision of support infrastructure for the social movements. In the course of all these activities the College pursues four core objectives:

To build the theoretical, analytical and conceptual capacity of activists to enhance their understanding of the world in which they live and act
To enhance their organisational and mobilisation skills to improve their ability to organise for social change
To promote an ethos and practice of solidarity and social justice among activists, and
To enhance the sensitivity of the activists to gender issues and gender equality in the movement, in their lives and in their work of social mobilisation.

The work of Khanya College is organised into 11 programmes:

The Gender and Women’s Empowerment Programme
The Strategy Centre for the Theory and Practice of Social Movements
The Centre for Labour Education and Organising
The Khanya Working Class History Programme
The Southern Africa and Solidarity Centre, which incorporates the Annual Winter School
The Khanya College Annual Winter School
The Khanya Journal and Publishing Programme
The ICTs and Community Empowerment Programme
The Institute for Research, Publishing & Education
The Resources for Movements Programme, and
The College Coordination Office and Finance Administration Programme

From the point of view of the College these programmes are merely for purposes of organising and giving structure to the work of the College, and secondarily for making accountability to donors manageable. All the programmes contribute, in a coordinated manner, to the realisation of the mission of the College.

College Coordination Office and Finance Administration Programme

For an institution of the size of Khanya College and the complexity of its programme structure, the coordination of its various programmes, projects and activities is crucial if it is to realise its social justice mission. The work of this programme is organized into thee main projects:

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Project
Financial Literacy and Accountability Project
Resource mobilisation and financial accountability project

1. Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Project

A major challenge that faces Khanya College is to ensure that its various programmes, projects and activities are properly planned, are strategically coherent and integrated. The College must also ensure that the implementation of projects is monitored – both from the point of view of deliverables and that of meeting project objectives within the overall strategic objectives and mission of the College.
The objectives of the Project are to:

Develop and implement a PME system for the College
Develop strategic and operational plans using the PME system
Activities:
Investigate, develop and implement a PME system
Regular project, programme, staff and Board meetings
Regular reports internally and to constituency and donor partners

2. Financial Literacy and Accountability Project

Khanya College works with a number of community based organisations and activists. Many of these organisations have to handle their own internal funds, funds from Khanya, as well as from donors. The social movements face the challenges of managing these funds and reporting to donors, as well as fund raising.
The Financial Literacy and Accountability Project aims at providing training on basic financial management, financial reporting, and various accounting software for social movements through workshops which focus on financial management training as well as on resource mobilisation strategies. A long-term aim of this project is to develop financial management software for social movements.

3. Resource mobilisation and financial accountability project
Khanya faces the challenges of mobilising resources for its various activities, and of ensuring that it has resources to sustain the institution in the long term. The College also faces the challenge of ensuring efficient use of our resources, as well as accountability to our donor partners.
The central aims of this project are to raise funds for the College’s various activities and as develop a resources mobilisation and sustainability strategy. In conjunction with the activities of the Financial Literacy and Accountability Project it aims at developing and implementing financial accountability and reporting systems for the College. The project also produces financial and audit reports for donors and social partners.

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Current activities: Black History Month, February 2010

I Publish What I Like

a seminar/workshop for Black writers, readers and publishers with publishers of New Frank Talk, Mayihlome News, Ras Fleks Magazine, wordsetc. and other publications.

Date: Saturday, 13 February
Time: 12–16h
Venue: House of Movements, 2nd Floor
123 Pritchard Str, cnr Mooi Str, Johannesburg
(secure parking available)

In celebration of BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2010, Khanya College Publishing and Ebukhosini Solutions invite writers, readers and aspiring publishers to a seminar on publishing. The seminar will take a critical look at the publishing industry. Many African writers complain that their manuscripts are turned down by, mainly, white-owned publishing houses. Readers complain that the shelves in book stores are almost void of Black literature. For many writers, self-publishing becomes the way out, but many do not have experience within the industry.

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It is great that we have come to a stage where we WRITE WHAT WE LIKE, but what if no one wants to publish it? And how does publishing really happen? What are the experiences of Black publishers? And how do aspiring writers connect with them? Are our writers retaining authenticity, or are they forced to write what the "establishment" accepts? If so, how do we break this?
These are some of the questions that will be debated at the I PUBLISH WHAT I LIKE seminar. Khanya College and Ebukhosini Solutions have invited publishers of New Frank Talk, Mayihlome News, Ras Fleks Magazine and wordsetc. – all publishing houses set up by Black entrepreneurs to add a much-needed alternative in the information world. These innovators will share their experiences within publishing and network with writers and book readers.
The seminar is not a mere presentation. It also has a strong workshop and networking element, where there will be sharing of information and experience, and opportunities to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and creative resource people. The intention is to extend networks, strengthen business ideas and develop creative skills.

Contact: Thobile Disemelo
Phone: 011 366 9190 or Cell: 084 377 3013
E-mail: thobile.disemelo@khanyacollege.org.za

Current activities: Workers Museum opening, 6 March 2010

Public walk-about featuring the launch of the Workers Museum and its new permanent exhibition

Date: Saturday, 6 March
Time: 11–13h
Venue: The Workers Museum, Newtown Park, Johannesburg

As part of the re-launch of the Workers Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg, a special walk-about through the new permanent exhibition will be offered to the public. The museum is located in one of the few remaining compounds that still exist in the inner city today. Telling the story of the Newtown Municipal Workers Compound and white Managers’ and Artisans’ Cottage, the visitor is shown how central the migrant labour system was in shaping South African society.

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While acknowledging and celebrating the contribution migrant workers from all over the region made to building South Africa’s economy and culture, the exhibition shows the rigorous methods of control, exploitation, and segregation that company owners and government based the migrant labour system on. The unwritten history of Johannesburg’s municipal workers and their families is brought to light as well as the ways in which the city adapted the compound system of the mines from the late 19th century onwards.

The exhibition documents the hierarchies of control and the lives of workers by using oral testimonies, archival documents, artefacts, compelling photographic images and archival footage. The interviews with ex-residents of the compound give visitors an insight into the enormous impact that the system of migrant labour had on black family life in South Africa. Many of the workers lament the fact that they were separated from their wives and children for long stretches of time and they reflect on the negative impact this had on their families. This is one of the few places where the voices of these workers is recorded.

The museum also highlights forms of migrant workers’ resistance and mobilisation against the segregationist policies that were put in place by industry and government since the late 19th century: colour bar, influx control and pass laws were only the core of the wide reaching legislative system that restricted workers from settling in town and making a decent life for their families in the city. In particular, the exhibition deals with resistance to the hostel and compound system itself. Further, the extraordinary importance of the rural community and the work of women, either as managers of the homestead or as migrants themselves, is brought to prominence in the exhibition. The question of how and what has changed today, is posed in the first special exhibition “Closed Constructions” that will be shown at the museum from May 2010 onwards

For more information contact:

Anne-Katrin Bicher
Phone: 084 2002 614
E-mail: wm.project@khanyacollege.org.za

www.workersmuseum.org.za

Current activities: 2nd Jozi Book Fair, 7–9 August 2010

Jozi Book Fair and Khanya College would like to thank all of you for making the first edition of the Jozi Book Fair a great success. Jozi Book Fair 2009 attracted over 40 publishers who exhibited at the fair, and five of these publishers where from outside South Africa. Three of the publishers focused on publishing in indigenous languages, a focus that is one of the main aims of Jozi Book Fair. The Fair featured 58 writers and authors in various conversations, round-tables, book launches and other events, and was attended by more than a thousand members of the public. Four groups helped with the children’s programme at the Fair and more than 50 children attended the event. Without your contribution Jozi Book Fair 2009 could not have become successful.

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Jozi Book Fair is open to publishing houses which are committed to a social justice agenda and who feature contemporary and cutting-edge writing internationally and regionally. The fair is initiated and organised by Khanya College to offer small and progressive publishers a forum to showcase their publications and activities, network, as well as the opportunity to develop alternative approaches and strategies. A range of activities, such as seminars, readings and network meetings will focus on urgent issues which are of interest for small and progressive publishers, and which will facilitate the profiling of non-mainstream writers and publishing houses. Special events will enable the exchange of knowledge about alternative ways of production and access to various distribution networks. The provision of a wide range of alternative information and existing informal networks aims at stimulating and encouraging publishing within social movements and NGOs.

The aims of the book fair are to:

Provide space for small, progressive publishers showcase their work
Rebuild a progressive publishing network, especially of small publishers in the South and Southern Africa
Develop a reading culture among the broad public, and in particular among South Africa’s poor communities
Profile writers who are generally marginalised, non-mainstream writers and publications
Stimulate /encourage publishing within social movements and NGOs
Stimulate and encourage publishing among and by women, and promote a publishing movement that deals with promoting a gender and feminist movement
Provide information about publishing opportunities so as to stimulate new publishing initiatives
Provide a platform for publishers and agents to network, debate, discuss, plan new projects
Development of an alternative book trade and translations
Promote indigenous language publishing

We look forward to your participation in Jozi Book Fair 2010, which will be held over three days on the 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2010. The fair will be held at Museum Africa, in Newtown, Johannesburg. The Jozi Book Fair Team and Khanya College are striving to make Jozi Book Fair 2010 an event that is better organised; better known and better attended by the reading public, and that will provide a great space for interaction between publishers, authors and the public.

The registration for Jozi Book Fair 2010 will open on the 1st of March 2010. Details will be available on the Jozi Book Fair website:

www.jozibookfair.org.za

We invite and welcome feedback that will contribute to improving the Jozi Book Fair, and to making Jozi Book Fair 2010 an even greater success. Please send any requests and comments to:

jozibookfair@khanyacollege.org.za

EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION

About Khanya College

College Coordination Office and Finance Administration Programme

Current activities: Black History Month, February 2010

I Publish What I Like

Current activities: Workers Museum opening, 6 March 2010

Public walk-about featuring the launch of the Workers Museum and its new permanent exhibition

Current activities: 2nd Jozi Book Fair, 7–9 August 2010

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