--- title: "This week in civil society — Helen Suzman lecture and exploring links between SA’s luxury property market and money laundering" description: "This week Open Secrets will unveil the results of its investigation into how SA’s luxury property market is used to enable corruption in African countries, and Dr Imtiaz Sooliman will deliver the keynote address at the Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture." type: "NewsArticle" publisher: "Daily Maverick" site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za" section: "CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH – 11 NOVEMBER–15 NOVEMBER" author: "Lerato Mutsila" author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/lerato-mutsila/" canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-11-11-this-week-in-civil-society-helen-suzman-lecture-and-open-secrets-latest-report/" published: "2024-11-11T15:51:45" updated: "2024-11-11T15:51:47" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 441 --- # This week in civil society — Helen Suzman lecture and exploring links between SA’s luxury property market and money laundering > This week Open Secrets will unveil the results of its investigation into how SA’s luxury property market is used to enable corruption in African countries, and Dr Imtiaz Sooliman will deliver the keynote address at the Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture. By Lerato Mutsila · Published 11 November 2024, 17:51 SAST · Updated 11 November 2024, 17:51 SAST ## Key points - Among this week’s civil society events,Open Secrets will unveil the results of its investigation into how SA’s luxury property market was used to enable corruption in African countries, while Dr Imtiaz Sooliman will deliver the keynote address at the Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture. - Open Secrets to unveil report on South Africa's luxury property sector’s role in money laundering and corruption across Africa on 14 November. - Wits University seminar will examine racialised capitalism in Gauteng, highlighting exploitation in logistics and its historical roots on the same day. - Helen Suzman Foundation’s Annual Memorial Lecture features Dr Imtiaz Sooliman discussing civil society’s impact on social justice in South Africa on 14 November. - Southern Centre for Inequality Studies to host seminar on top earnings determinants in South Africa, using National Treasury data, on 15 November. ## Content On **Thursday, 14 November**,at **1 pm**, Open Secrets will launch its new report on links between South Africa’s luxury property sector and money laundering and corruption on the continent. For Sale: South Africa’s Property Laundromat exposes how SA’s luxury property market is used to launder illicit funds, enabling grand corruption in Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea. The report launch will explore the need for stricter anti-money laundering enforcement and the socio-economic implications of inaction. **Venue:**Community House, 41 Salt River Road, Salt River, Cape Town, 7925 Register [here](https://www.quicket.co.za/events/291026-for-sale-south-africas-property-laundromat/#/) to secure your place. ![Civil Society Open Secrets poster](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Poster-1-copy.png) Also happening on **Thursday, 14 November**, at**1pm,**the Society, Work and Politics Institute (Swop) from Wits University will host a research workshop seminar on the circulation and reproduction of racialised capitalism in Gauteng. Presented by Bridget Kenny, the seminar forms part of Swop’s Urban Crisis seminar series. Kenny argues that the process of restructuring investment, rescaling of space and reorganisation of the labour process and conditions of work in logistics all rely on exploiting infrastructural labour, which is mostly black and further invisibilised, reinforcing a long history of racist labour regimes in the country. “Logistics becomes a particularly vivid site for a conjunctural analysis of changing capital accumulation, the enduring exploitation of living labour, and powerful significations around new technology, development and the nation which undervalue and obscure black workers’ labour in a repetition of historical forms of racialised capitalism in South Africa now,” the poster reads. **Venue:**Wits Anthropology Museum Register [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqew6yHn-DCAs20s_WRkXyTdfSXGqWPwyCwXzGZySKuqR7ow/viewform)for in-person attendance and for online attendence [here](https://pari.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAocemupjouHNCjOa5qSDJoR88evM4G4ySW#/registration). ![Civil Society Society, Work and Politics Institute](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Poster-2.jpg) Also on **Thursday, 14 November**, at **6pm,**the Helen Suzman Foundation will host its Annual Memorial Lecture Guest speaker Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder of Gift of the Givers, will reflect on the role civil society has played in advancing social justice in South Africa for 30 years of democracy and beyond. **Venue:** The Forum, Alice Lane, Sandton Register [here](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/F56CNYX)to reserve your seat. ![Civil Society, Imtiaz Sooliman, Helen Suzman](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Poster-3.jpg) On **Friday, 15 November**,at **9am,**the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) will host a seminar on the sectoral and firm-level determinants of top earnings in South Africa. In this hybrid event, Rafeal De La Vega explores income distribution in South Africa using employer-employee data from the National Treasury Secure Data Facility. “Developing countries are typically understudied in the literature on top incomes, despite the salience of inequality in many of them. Additionally, these countries undergo processes of structural change as they develop, which could make income distribution worse,” the event poster reads. **Venue:** North Lodge, SCIS Seminar Room, Parktown Management Campus, Johannesburg. Register for the online discussion [here](https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkcOmqrjkrHNAuJHZpAiPgR6WZFs8Wk2_R#/registration). **DM** ![Civil Society Southern Centre for Inequality Studies](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Poster-4.jpg)