We had over 80 people attending and the atmosphere was engaged and attentive. By 6pm there was a buzz in the foyer as people chatted and bought books and had drinks and Achille had to herd people in!
John's book, "The Disorder of Things : A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah" launched by Wits Press this evening drew a diverse crowd.
Tonight's discussion, led by Sarah, of Anthony Atlbeker's reading of two major cases involving murdered women in South Africa, a reading that drew upon recent accounts of the rapes, torture and deaths of women around us, was gripping.
We are delighted that our WiSER post doctoral fellow, Zoe Groves, is one of a handful of WITS post doctoral fellows to be offered a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship funded by the University’s strategic fund, "SPARC".
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.
