PROJECTS ON MEMBERSHIP, NETWORKING AND CAPACITY BUILDING
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SAAPS WEBSITE
Objective
The SAAPS website has been launched to serve as the nerve centre of communication and networking within the association.
Council member responsible
Prof. Dirk Kotzé, University of South Africa
Contact details
Telephone
+27 (12) 429 6512
Activities
The website will be hosting details about SAAPS projects and forthcoming events, the membership newsletter, and links to sister and associated organisations. It will also contain essential information about SAAPS.
MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT
Objective
A concerted membership recruitment drive through sector-specific targeting and membership recruitment through regional and other chapters of the Association.
Council member responsible
Dr Phil Mtimkulu, University of South Africa
Contact details
Telephone
+27 (12) 429 6238
Mr Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape
Contact details
Telephone
+27 (21) 959 3233
Activities
The recruitment drive will have a special emphasis on supplementing the current largely academic membership through recruitment in the sectors of civil servants, social scientists from sister disciplines, independent political analysts, and political scientists and other social science scholars residing outside South Africa. The emphasis will be on those scholars who are specialists on South Africa and the African-Southern African region.
REGIONAL NETWORKING
Objective
SAAPS positions itself at the core of Regional Political Science networking.
Contact person
Dr Monica Juma, Africa Institute of South Africa
Contact details
Telephone
+27 (12) 304 9779 (w)
Activities
Through networking, SAAPS aims at joint action with international, including Africa, scholars and scholar networks.
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