Chairperson’s report

Chaired by Bradley Daniels
Time	Activity	Presented by
15h00 – 18h30	Arrival and Registration	All
19h00-19h15	Welcome	Raj Govender
19h15 -19h25	Self Introduction	Alumni
19h25-19h30	Introduction of Guest Speaker	Bradley Daniels
19h30 -20h30	Keynote Address	Prof Farid Esack
20h30 – 20h35	Notices & Vote of Thanks	Siphelo Ngcwangu
20h35 -22h00	Refreshments & Entertainment (Marimba Dance)

Appendix 1: Programme

IFPAARSA CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPS HELD AT THE REEF HOTEL MARSHALLTOWN, JOHANNESBURG

5 -6^th AUGUST 2011

Chaired by Bradley Daniels
Time	Activity	Presented by
15h00 – 18h30	Arrival and Registration	All
19h00-19h15	Welcome	Raj Govender
19h15 -19h25	Self Introduction	Alumni
19h25-19h30	Introduction of Guest Speaker	Bradley Daniels
19h30 -20h30	Keynote Address	Prof Farid Esack
20h30 – 20h35	Notices & Vote of Thanks	Siphelo Ngcwangu
20h35 -22h00	Refreshments & Entertainment (Marimba Dance)

Chaired by Bradley Daniels
Time	Activity	Presented by
15h00 – 18h30	Arrival and Registration	All
19h00-19h15	Welcome	Raj Govender
19h15 -19h25	Self Introduction	Alumni
19h25-19h30	Introduction of Guest Speaker	Bradley Daniels
19h30 -20h30	Keynote Address	Prof Farid Esack
20h30 – 20h35	Notices & Vote of Thanks	Siphelo Ngcwangu
20h35 -22h00	Refreshments & Entertainment (Marimba Dance)

FRIDAY, 5^TH AUGUST 2011 SOCIAL DINNER

SATURDAY, 6^TH AUGUST 2011, WORKSHOPS

Session 1 Chaired by Lebo Sello & Phinah Kodisang
Time	Activity	Presented by
07h00 -08h00	Breakfast	All
08h00 – 08h30	Registration	All
08h30 -08h35	Welcome	Raj Govender
08h35 -09h20	Review of History, Programmes, Progress and Future	Aaron Ramodumo
09h20 – 09h30	Resource Manual Preview	Edith Phaswana
09h30 -10h15	Development not Charity	Andile Mngxitama
10h15 -10h30	TEA BREAK
10h30 -11h15	Writing for Publication	Meiya Nthoesane
11h15 -12h00	Using Social Media for Civil Activism	Carina Van Rooyen & Ingrid Marais
12h00 – 12h45	Working with Non-Profit Organization: Issues of Legislation	Ricardo Wyngaard
12h45 – 14h00	GROUP PHOTO SESSION AND LUNCH

Session 2 Facilitated by Meiya Nthoesane
Time	Activity	Presented by
14h00 – 14h10	Debriefing : Preparation for Plenary	Teboho Thebehae
14h10 -15h45	Plenary Session	All
15h45 – 16h00	TEA BREAK
16h30 – 17h30	Feedback and Discussions	All
17h30 -18h00	Regional Leadership Elections	All
18h00 -18h30	Vote of Thanks and Closure	Newly Elected Chair

Organizational Re-engineering – Developing Processes and Procedures for the Gauteng Region

Appendix 2: evaluation form

Workshop Evaluation Form

First Inward Workshops Gauteng Region 2011

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Appropriate audiovisuals were used during the presentation
Overall, the content of the workshop was useful

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Appendix 3: Key note speaker’s bio

Farid van die Bonteheuwel

Farid Esack kom uit die Bonteheuwel, ‘n Coloured township daar naby die airport in die Kaap. He is the youngest of six sons, born to a mother who reared all her kids without a father. When he was thirteen years old, she died on a factory floor – quite literally the victim of the triple oppression faced by black women – patriarchy, class and race. The struggle towards shaping another world continues to inspire his work as a theologian and an academic.

He completed the Darsi Nizami, the traditional Islamic theological studies program, in madrasahs in Karachi, Pakistan, where he studied for eight years. (He never says when exactly because he has issues with ageing.) He completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham and subsequently dabbled in Biblical Hermeneutics at the Philosophische Theologische Hochschule, Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt-am-Main. This dabbling was abandoned when an offer came up to teach at the University of the Western Cape.

He is the author of seven books. co-editor of two and editor of one. These earn him a tidy sum in royalties in addition to his income at UJ. (And Pravin Gordhan does know about it!). His On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today is out in seven languages and his Introduction to the Qur’an in three. His Qur’an, Liberation & Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression, remains the foundational text of Islamic liberation theology and contemporary Qur’anic hermeneutics. His current field of scholarly interest is Jews in the Qur’an, and Islam and AIDS. Recently he co-edited Islam and AIDS – Between Scorn, Pity and Justice with Sarah Chiddy. He has published more than 60 scholarly articles and delivered more than 300 presentations on Islam, Gender, Liberation Theology, Inter-faith Relations, Religion & Identity, Religion and Disease, and on Qur'anic Hermeneutics.

His life, work and scholarship have been the subject of articles, academic theses and TV documentaries including the BBC and Dutch TV. When he last counted – in a frequent moment of vanity – he had visited 107 countries and lectured in about sixty. (So much for someone who says that he is committed to environmental justice.) Despite all of this travelling and his contribution to Islamic scholarship internationally, he insists, and his students - if they know what is good for them - will testify, he is not merely a Visiting Professor at UJ.

Formerly a Commissioner for Gender Equality, appointed by then President Nelson Mandela, he has taught at UWC, the University of Amsterdam, Hamburg, Heidelberg and Paderborn in Germany, Gadjah Mada Universitas in Indonesia, Union Theological Seminary in New York and at the International Islamic University in Islamabad. A former Distinguished Mason Professor at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, he also occupied a University Professorship in Ethics, Religion and Society at Xavier University in Ohio. After five years of teaching in the United States, he was ready to head back home when money and ego moved him to accept a joint appointment for two years at Harvard University between the Divinity School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the William Henry Bloomberg Professor. While at Harvard, he also had another fancy title that he is somewhat embarrassed to mention in progressive company: “The Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islam”.

A veteran of the struggle against Apartheid and in the inter-religious solidarity movement for justice and peace and that struggle, he played a leading role in the United Democratic Front, the Call of Islam, the Organisation of People Against Sexism and the World Conference on Religion & Peace.

In addition to his academic pursuits, he continues his activism through various HIV, development and environmental justice boards on which he serves in South Africa and internationally. He struggles to live and understand the meaning of faith as well as an alternative liberatory vision in a world savaged by the Empire and the often dehumanizing responses to it by its subjects and victims.

GAUTENG REGION WORKSHOP - PHOTOS

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