On Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage - Jonny Steinberg in conversation with Hlonipha Mokoena

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 - 4:00pm
(SA time)

A discussion of Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage between Jonny Steinberg and Hlonipha Mokoena

Join us for a webinar in which Jonny Steinberg will discuss his internationally acclaimed book, which takes in a century of South African history through the prism of the marriage of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Jonny, a Wits alumnus and researcher at WISER at Wits, is now based at Yale University, USA. He will be in conversation with his Wits colleague, Hlonipha Mokoena, WISER’s new Director.  His book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is winner of the SA Sunday Times Literary Award for Non-fiction 2024, is shortlisted for the upcoming UK Wolfson Foundation History Prize 2024, and is winner of the USA National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 2023.

Tuesday, 26 November 2024,

  • 16h00-17h00 South Africa
  • 14h00-15h00 United Kingdom
  • 09h00-10h00 USA Eastern time

This is an on-line event, please register in advance on this Zoom link

For queries, contact info.wiser@wits.ac.za

 This webinar, hosted by WISER, is in association with Wits Alumni Relations in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

WISER Research Theme: 
Locations of African Critical Theory