The relevance of past rural resistance in contemporary South Africa: The Case of the Mpondo Revolts

The Faculty of Humanities invites you to attend the following seminar:

The relevance of past rural resistance in contemporary South Africa: The
Case of the Mpondo Revolts

Presented by: Prof Thembela Kepe, Geography Department, University of
Toronto

The Regulation of Protests under Jacob Zuma - Jane Duncan 7 May 2013

The Regulation of Protests under Jacob Zuma

by Professor Jane Duncan

Faculty of Humanities Seminar Room
5:00 p.m. 7 May 2013

Death by a thousand pinpricks - South Africa’s ever-vanishing right to protest

A great deal of media coverage has been given to ‘violent’ protests. But it’s a narrow view just to assume that the protestors are being violent; abuse is a two-way street – especially if bureaucracy is being used to quash dissent. By ANDREA ROYEPPEN AND JANE DUNCAN. The Daily Maverick

Marikana: the Massacre and its Meaning - 22 April 2013

The Faculty of Humanities invites you to attend the following seminar:

Prof Peter Alexander, Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, where he holds the South African Chair in Social Change.

Title: Marikana: the Massacre and its Meaning

Date: Monday 22nd April 2013

Time: 5pm

Venue: Faculty of Humanities Seminar Room, Cnr Somerset & Prince Alfred Streets

Discussants:

Camalita Naicker, MA Candidate, Political and International Studies

Nosipho Mngomezulu, MA Candidate, Anthropology