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Presentations

GCRO staff present to academic and other audiences on a regular basis, as part of academic citizenship and scholarship.

Selected presentations:

2011

  • Josephine Musongo, Alexis Schaffler & Graeme Gotz (November 2011), ‘Current Research and initiatives for a Green Gauteng City Region', SACN and DBSA Infrastructure Dialogue on Infrastructure and Greening the Future, 16 November 2011
  • David Everatt presented an overview of the Gauteng City-Region to the ANC Caucus, Gauteng Legislature
  • Annsilla Nyar (October 2011), ‘Inside or Outside the Academy: Examining the Possibilities for a Scholarship of Engagement’, University of Fort Hare/Rhodes University/NRF/HSRC/ conference, Community Engagement: The Changing Role of Higher Education in Development, 7-10 November 2011
  • Maryna Storie successfully presented her PhD proposal to the WITS School of Architecture and Planning and external readers on 3 November 2011. The proposal is due to be formally submitted on 5 December 2011
  • Graeme Gotz (October 2011), 'Green economy transitions: Gauteng’s Green Strategic Programme', South African National Bio-Diversity Institute (SANBI) Grassland Forum conference on Powering the Green Economy, 19 October 2011
  • Annsilla Nyar (October 2011), ‘Some new perspectives on ‘Indian’ South Africans and ‘non-racialism’: Findings from the AKF/GCRO Focus Groups’, Ahmed Kathrada Non-racialism Conference: Non-racialism in post-apartheid South Africa: Contemporary meanings and relevance, 13 October 2011
  • Chris Wray (September 2011), ‘Developing a Web 2.0 GIS website for the Gauteng City-Region’, 13th annual conference on World Wide Web applications, Johannesburg, 14-16 September 2011
  • David Everatt presented a summary of GCRO’s work to the winter political school of the tripartite alliance Provincial Executive Committees in September 2011
  • Maryna Storie (September 2011), ‘Addressing urban disaster risk and resilience through a green lens’, National Disaster Management Institute of South Africa (DMISA) Annual Conference, Somerset West, 13-16 September 2011
  • Maryna Storie (September 2011), ‘Representations of space: a case of karst, community and change in the urban landscape’, ACC/CUBES Cities Conference, Cape Town, 7-9 September 2011
  • Graeme Gotz (June 2011), ‘Understanding and preserving metropolitan governance’, presentation to Metros: the key to South Africa’s Growth Roundtable, organised by the Municipal Demarcation Board, 9 June 2011
  • David Everatt served on a panel which included Deputy Minister Yunus Carrim, Aubrey Matshiqui and others, convened by the Helen Suzman Foundation, to discuss the state and future of local government on the eve of the local government elections held in May 2011
  • Graeme Gotz and Alexis Schaffler (May 2011), ‘Gauteng’s green economy strategy’, presentation to a conference organised by the national Department of Economic Development, as part of a panel on the ‘Green Economy: case studies of technology developments in South Africa’, 30 May 2011
  • Graeme Gotz and Chris Wray (May 2011), ‘The Gauteng City-Region and transportation analysis’, preparatory workshop on the Mobility Project with UJ Departments of Civil Engineering Science and Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, 12 May 2011
  • David Everatt, (May 2011), 'The developmental state on the ground: Co-ordination and integration in South African governance' presented at a workshop on States, Development and Global Governance at the University of Wisconsin Law School, May 2011
  • Chris Wray (April 2011), ‘GCRO GIS website development – lessons learnt’, GeoInformation Society of South Africa (GISSA) AGM, 8 April 2011
  • David Everatt, Graeme Gotz, Alexis Schaffler and Maryna Storie (March 2011), ‘Overview of GCRO’s sustainability work’, Comparative Dialogue on Sustainable Infrastructure Transitions and Governance, African Centre for Cities (ACC) and the Sustainability Institute, 31 March 2011
  • Maryna Storie delivered (with his permission) Prof T McCarthy’s Provocation Series presentation on Acid Mine Drainage in the GCR to a variety of groups, including: DMISA Southern Region Annual General Meeting; DMISA Tshwane Region General Meeting; and the Roodepoort Emergency Services
  • Chris Wray (February 2011), ‘GCRO spatial data initiatives, GCRO GIS website & co-ordinated national SDI”, National Planning Commission SDI workshop, Union Buildings, Pretoria, 17 February 2011
  • Ferrial Adam, Alexis Schaffler and Maryna Storie (January 2010), ‘Implementation of a Green Economy Approach’, Workshop on Local Government and the Green Economy, 17 January 2011
  • Graeme Gotz and Alexis Schaffler (January 2010), ‘Understanding the green economy’, Workshop on Local Government and the Green Economy, 17 January 2011

2010

  • Chris Wray (November 2010), ‘Enabling successful G-Governance through the development of a web 2.0 GIS website for the Gauteng Provincial Government’, Map Africa 2010 conference, Cape Town, 23-25 November 2010
  • Annsila Nyar (October 2010), ‘Accommodating Diversity and Migration in African Cities: the Gauteng City-Region in Perspective’, 15th International Metropolis Conference: Justice and Migration: Paradoxes of Belonging, The Hague, Netherlands, 4-8 October 2010  
  • Graeme Gotz (October 2010), ‘Bad buildings in Inner City Johannesburg’, GCRO, CUBES and NRF Chair 'Faces of the City' Seminar Series, 5 October 2010
  • David Everatt (September 2010), ‘The Challenges of Creating Inclusive, Democratic City-regions in Post-Apartheid South Africa’, African Studies seminar, University of Wisconsin: Madison, September 2010
  • Maryna Storie (September 2010), ‘Utilising disaster risk management as a sustainable spatial development planning tool’, Disaster Management Institute of South Africa National Conference, Port Shepstone, 8 September 2010
  • David Everatt (August 2010), ‘Non-racialism in South Africa’, seminar, Centre for Critical Research into race and Identity, UKZN, August 2010
  • David Everatt (May 2010), Marginalisation in the Gauteng City-Region: First steps towards measurement, African Centre for Cities & CUBES: South African Cities Conference, (May 2010)
  • David Everatt (May 2010), ‘Quality of Life in the Gauteng city-region’, survey launch, 27 May 2010
  • David Everatt (May 2010), ‘The GCRO: current and future work’, presented to the Management Committee of the University of Johannesburg, May 2010
  • Graeme Gotz (May 2010), ‘What did the 2006 Inner City Regeneration Charter represent?’, Johannesburg Development Agency seminar on Inner City regeneration, Halala Awards, 12 May 2010
  • Graeme Gotz (May 2010), ‘Selected extracts from GCRO’s Quality of Life Survey’, ANC Gauteng Region Symposium on Local Government, 3 May 2010
  • David Everatt (April 2010), ‘The GCRO: current and future work’, presented to Senior Executive Team, Wits, April 2010
  • David Everatt (March 2010), ‘The state of xenophobia in South Africa today’, presented to Atlantic Philanthropies breakaway, Mount Grace, March 2010
  • David Everatt, Chris Wray and Graeme Gotz (March 2010), ‘The City-Region now’, Think Metropole workshop – how large city-region thinking and action have been changing in diverse ways, Wits School of Architecture & Planning, 4 March 2010
  • David Everatt (February 2010), ‘What is non racialism – past and current debates’, Deepening non-racialism conference, Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Liliesleaf Farm, 27 February 2010
  • Chris Wray (February 2010), ‘Working towards a successful Gauteng City-Region: the role of GIS in the GCRO’, GISSA Gauteng AGM, Centurion, 25 February 2010
2009
  • Graeme Gotz (November 2009), ‘Transformation of Human Settlements’, DBSA internal learning session, Midrand, 27 November 2009
  • Annsilla Nyar (November 2009), “‘Re-inventing the Foreigner’: Critical Reflections of Identity Politics in South Africa”, to be presented to the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) Colloquium, 19-20 November 2009, University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • David Everatt (November 2009): ‘Access to services, social cohesion and xenophobia’, presented to National Department of Social Development national conference on social cohesion and xenophobia, Pretoria
  • Chris Wray (November 2009), ‘The GCRO: Changing the way GIS data is visualized and accessed in the Gauteng City-Region’, Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA), North-West inaugural meeting, Potchefstroom, 12 November 2009
  • Graeme Gotz (November 2009), ‘Making local government work better: City structures and governance’, DBSA Knowledge Week, Midrand, 4 November 2009
  • David Everatt (October 2009), ‘Think Metropole, Think … city-region, Think … democratic space or planner’s wet-dream?’, Think Metropole Workshop, Wits School of Architecture & Planning, Johannesburg, 22 October 2009
  • Graeme Gotz (October 2009), ‘Visualisations? infrastructures? institutional conditions?’, Think Metropole Workshop, Wits School of Architecture & Planning, Johannesburg, 22 October 2009
  • Chris Wray (October 2009), ‘The GCRO: Changing the way GIS data is visualized and accessed in the Gauteng City-Region’, GIMS User Conference, Drakensburg, 21-23 October 2009
  • Graeme Gotz (October 2009), ‘Possibilities for planning the South African City’, Wits School of Architecture & Planning Beyond Modernism workshop to launch the UN Habitat Sustainable Cities Report, Johannesburg, 21 October 2009
  • Graeme Gotz (October 2009), ‘On walls – safety in the South African city’, Goethe Institute, GTZ and CSIR Seminar on Cracking Walls, Johannesburg, 6 October 2009
  • Graeme Gotz (September 2009), ‘Spatial development outcomes in South African cities’, World Bank and National Department of Human Settlements Workshop, Pretoria, 29 September 2009
  • David Everatt (September 2009) ‘Class, nationalism and non-racialism: the search for convergence’, presented to the ‘Yusuf Dadoo Centenary Conference: Marxism, non-racialism and the shaping of South Africa’s liberation struggle’, University of Johannesburg, September 2009
  • David Everatt (July 2009), ‘The Gauteng ANC election campaign: data and implications’, P&DM, Wits
  • Sizwe Phakathi (June/July 2009), ‘Worker reactions to the stope team incentive scheme: Manufacturing consent or conflict?’ South African Sociological Association's (SASA) Annual Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 28 June - 2 July 2009.
  • Sizwe Phakathi (June 2009), ‘Race and the changing nature of work in the South African gold mining workplace.’ Hard Labour: Sociology and the Transformation of Working Life, A Colloquium in Honour of Professor Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 27-28 June 2009.
  • David Everatt (April 2009) presented on GCRO to South African Cities Network: Indicators Reference Group