*PROGRAMME* Just a few short days to the REFA Festival 2025. If you didn't catch the emails, no worries! See the programme here, and all other updates here! refa.org.za/programme

[ENTRANCE INFO] ⌚️Registration starts at 07h45! Opening Plenary at 08h45. 📗Bring your ID, passport, drivers' license to enter campus ⛩️ Use Gate 1 at UJ Auckland Park-Kingsway campus (by the Rea Vaya station, down the road from Campus Square) 🅿️ Parking avail at Gate 1

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Join us for the opening plenary of the Rethinking Economics for Africa Festival 2025! This is a must-see conversation on how we can apply economic thinking to address some of the world's most pressing issues. Featuring Tessa Dooms, Fiona Tregenna, Trevor Ngwane, and Devika Dutt.

[ENTRANCE INFO] ⌚️Registration starts at 07h45! Opening Plenary at 08h45. 📗Bring your ID, passport, drivers' license to enter campus ⛩️ Use Gate 1 at UJ Auckland Park-Kingsway campus (by the Rea Vaya station, down the road from Campus Square) 🅿️ Parking avail at Gate 1

Halfway through #FESS2025. Today, we reimagined economics by: -Making unpaid care visible -Rethinking data and evidence -Linking feminist economics to fiscal policy Scenes from today’s sessions below.

[ENTRANCE INFO] ⌚️Registration starts at 07h45! Opening Plenary at 08h45. 📗Bring your ID, passport, drivers' license to enter campus ⛩️ Use Gate 1 at UJ Auckland Park-Kingsway campus (by the Rea Vaya station, down the road from Campus Square) 🅿️ Parking avail at Gate 1

Tomorrow we close the Summer School at the #REFAFestival2025 at UJ. Together with activists, researchers and practitioners, we will connect insights from FESS with broader struggles for economic justice. Programme 👉 refa.org.za

The opening plenary at the REFA Festival is in session, facilitated by #PowerBreakfast Host, Tessa Dooms. Powerful panel comprised of Prof Fiona Tregenna, Devika Dutt, and our force Dr. trevor ngwane. We look forward to this progressive session.🔥❤️

🚨 The #REFAFest2025 Opening Plenary has officially kicked off at the University of Johannesburg (APK)! Facilitated by Tessa Dooms, with contributions from Fiona Tregenna, Trevor Ngwane and Devika Dutt. This session is setting the tone for a thought-provoking festival ahead.

The #REFAFEST2025 sessions are now officially underway at the University of Johannesburg! From the Township Economy to Feminist Economics, from AI and Democracy to Food Sovereignty, powerful discussions are happening across all four streams. 📸Some snaps from the morning:

Session 2 is in full swing at #REFAFest2025 🔥 -Wealth Tax and Capital Flight -Knowledge Production and Imperialism -Extraction, Imperialism and Conflict -The Care Economy Powerful conversations connecting economics to justice, resistance and lived realities.

Honoured to have been part of this amazing opening plenary panel at the Rethinking Economics for Africa. Thank you so much for having me!

After a day of festival sessions, we shift into strategy today. The students' and academics' convenings are underway, focused on setting priorities, strengthening connections, and shaping the future of the REFA network.

We had the privilege of facilitating a session on Knowledge Production & Imperialism at the #2025REFAFestival. We opened the session with a quote from the statement of Dr. Dr. Pedro Mzileni when he was dealing with UFS. It was a truly fruitful session, rife in critical discourse.🔥