Tonight at WiSER Achille Mbembe, in a moving public address, lamented the fragile and failing power of imagination in South Africa, 20 years after the end of Apartheid. Concomitant with our inability to think with hope and clarity about a future from our own experience, is our stuckness, our stasis.
Don Donham. Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994. Duke University Press Books, 2011. Kindle Edition.
Last week Masters Student and Fellow at WiSER, Simphiwe Ngwane, represented WITS University in a mock African Union (AU) debate and public speaking contest, organized by the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), simulating the Peace and Security Council.
