General seminar arrangements in 2025
- WISER's TRUST seminar is hosted on-line every Wednesday afternoon at 16:00 - 17:00 SA during the teaching semester | For information about WISER's PLANT LIVES seminar, please follow this link.
- Please register on Zoom in advance of the meeting on this link.
- Participants must should please read the paper below prior to the seminar, which is typically available by the Friday preceding the seminar.
A post-apartheid (rural) citizen, 1986 – 1991: Provisional Notes on Rural Transformation Association
Historians and social scientists have portrayed the late 1980s as perhaps the most tumultuous and violent times in modern SA history, with valid reasons. In this political tragedy, KwaZulu-Natal experienced most of the political conflict in the dying days of apartheid. Simultaneous with this state of confusion and flux, there were other initiatives that sought to undermine the system of apartheid by beginning a process that would culminate – if successful – in the birth of a post apartheid (in this case) rural-citizen. According to one of the initiatives such a citizen would have access to land, acquire land rights or full ownership of the land they occupied and be literate. The Rural Transformation Association (RTA) was a champion of this vision.
