WHAT ARE SURVIVAL DIALOGUES?

Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara is a South African pan-Africanist popular educator, strategist, and activist with three decades of work across social justice movements.  He is the Executive Director of Zabalaza Pathways Institute in South Africa. He co-founded and led major movements, including the Treatment Action Campaign and the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality, and served as founding Board Chair of Oxfam South Africa. Mazibuko will be joining us to discuss the current political moment and offer an initial analytical framework for understanding the rise of global authoritarianism. 

Danah Abueida is a Palestinian lawyer and Legal Officer at the European Legal Support Center, where she works at the intersection of human rights, abolitionist politics, and legal defense of Palestinian advocacy in Europe. Trained in European law at Maastricht University, she draws on her experience in Gaza and a commitment to revolutionary love, collective care, and solidarity with prisoners and communities under repression. Danah will be joining us for Session four to present on the legal landscape beyond genocide, including sanctions regimes, banking restrictions, and indirect or “unspoken” sanctions.

Nkosinathi Sithole is the Director of Litigation at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), where he oversees strategic litigation to advance the socioeconomic rights of poor communities, homeless people, and residents of informal settlements. He is an attorney with more than eight years of post-admission experience and has rights of appearance in South Africa’s higher courts. Nkosinathi holds an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and an LLM in Property Law from the University of South Africa, both awarded with distinction. Nkosinathi will be speaking in Session Three to discuss how anti-migrant policies, border enforcement, detention practices, labor precarity, and xenophobic narratives are being mobilized to redefine belonging and legitimize exclusion.