The Khanya College Winter School for 2003 will be held from 30 June to 05
July. The Winter School will be held in the Johannesburg area. This where
most of the constituencies we serve, in South Africa, are based.

ABOUT KHANYA COLLEGE

Khanya College is an independent non-governmental organization based in
Johannesburg, South Africa. Khanya College was established in 1986 with the
aim of assisting various constituencies within working class and poor
communities to respond to the challenges posed by the forces of economic and
political globalisation. The College offers assistance through providing
capacity building workshops, publications and research to organizations and
individuals in these communities. Khanya College contributes to confronting
these challenges by emphasizing solutions based on social solidarity,
popular democracy and participation, organization and mobilization.

AIMS OF THE WINTER SCHOOL

To provide a space for activists from a range of different sectors in the
rest of the Southern African region to collectively debate and share
experiences about issues that impact on their organizational work.

To develop and strengthen a progressive perspective on development issues in
South Africa, Southern Africa and the world today.

To exchange experiences about struggles for social change currently taking
place in the various sectors in which the activists work.

To equip activists with the theoretical and organizational skills that will
enhance their contribution to the process of social change in South Africa,
Southern Africa and the world.

OUR TARGET GROUP

We target activists or militants interested in advancing development and
social change in South Africa and the rest of the Southern African region
today. Membership of an organization advancing the aims of social change
will receive priority consideration when choosing applicants.

ISSUES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE 2003 WINTER SCHOOL

The theme for this year's Winter School will be NEPAD within the processes
of a consolidating economic and political neo-liberal globalisation. This
will be the second the Winter School will be having participants from
outside of South Africa. This gives us the opportunity to look at issues
from a much broader perspective and to share the experiences of our
different countries. These various activities of the School are designed to
ensure the week has a strong Southern African identity about it:

- Two-day workshops whose focus will be on NEPAD. The intention is to foster
a much more solid understanding of the NEPAD programme, the driving forces
behind it and its implications for the peoples of the Southern African
region.
- An "Activist Forum" that acts as a space for debate and discussion among
the activists from the different countries and sectors. The main focus here
will be political discussions and a sharing of experiences among the
participants. This is one activity where real networking between the various
organizations can take place.
- The "Activist Forum" will be opened by the delivery of a keynote address
by a visiting militant from one of the countries in the SADC region. The
keynote address will focus on Southern African solidarity in the context of
policies like NEPAD, AGOA and others.
- Cultural exchange will be another activity where the comrades will have an
opportunity to appreciate the different but, sometimes, common cultural
outlooks of the communities they come from.
- An Exhibition will be organized. Organisations will get a chance to tell
who they are by displaying a variety of the products that define them. In
this way comrades will be able to move around, meet, ask and get to know the
different organizations that will be participating in the Winter School. The
intention is to also use the exhibition in various ways to celebrate "Our
Heroes", writers and practitioners of revolution like Walter Rodney, Amilcar
Cabral, Franz Fanon, Eduardo Mondlane, Agostino Neto and others.
- There will be time allocated for Khanya College to showcase it various
programmes.
- A social activity will also be organized to allow for a more relaxed
atmosphere of interaction between comrades.
- The activities of the Winter School will culminate in a march against
zenophobia in South Africa. Organisations and societies of immigrants will
be invited to come and own the streets of Johannesburg on the day. In
concrete ways this will be a small step in process of confronting
zenophobia, from which only the ordinary and poor people suffer.