CDRA Lets Go!

​…an organisation closing and a call for contributions to a final CDRA publication on developmental practice

​from Farid Esack, CDRA Chairperson

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Yes, dearest friends, fellow travellers, co-sojourners, practitioners, after 33 years we have  decided to let go!

Since 2012, our director Nomvula Dlamini, with a small group of associates, have been holding the core of an increasingly dispersed CDRA while looking for an organizational form appropriate for the times. Since reluctantly accepting Nomvula’s resignation at the end of last year, the Board, in consultation with the remaining practitioners, has reflected on its role in holding up the CDRA’s concerted attempts to find a new form. While there is still important work being done by those who have been holding the core, it is clear that the work inspired and supported by the CDRA increasingly lies widely spread and held in the web of relationships spun out of the organization over the past thirty years.

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