Thursday 26 March 2015

Colloquium: Popular Struggles Then & Now



Popular Struggles Then and Now

27th of March 2015
Rhodes University Unit for the Humanities (UHURU)
Humanities Seminar Room, Rhodes University, Grahamstown

8:00 - 8:30: Coffee

8:30 - 9:00: Michael Neocosmos - Introduction

9:00 - 11:00: First Panel

Aubrey Mokoape (Former leader of the Pan-African Congress and the Black Consciousness Movement) - The Black Consciousness Movement & Community Struggles in the 1970s

Raymond Suttner (Former leader in the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and the United Democratic Front) - Evaluating Popular power in the 1980s and its potential significance today

T.J. Ngongoma (Abahlali baseMjondolo) - A Living Politics in the Struggle for Land & Dignity

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee

11:30 - 12:30: Discussion of the first panel

12:30 - 1:00: Lunch

1:00 - 1:45: Lihle Ngcobozi, Thembani Onceya & Vuyolwethu Toli (Black Student Movement) - Rhodes Must Fall

1:45-2:30: Discussion of the Second Panel