Sisonke msimang biography of mahatma

  • Journalist and activist Sisonke Msimang speaks at a former prison complex in Johannesburg which once held Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
  • Msimang's political career from 1912 to 1982 was characterised by a high degree of pragmatism, internal contradictions, continuities and.
  • Nelson Mandela Lecture 2019 by Sisonke Msimang.

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    Art and science collide to provoke new thinking about water

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    - Wits University

    What does a polluted river sound like? How does sand-filtered water taste? Will acid mine drainage scald your skin? Do oceans echo?

    Wits University presents WATERSHED: Art, Science, Elemental Politics, a unique, topical, and important programme of exhibitions and academic symposia to provoke new thinking about water.

    Water remains topical and the interdisciplinary approach of WATERSHED challenges the public to think about water in new ways.

    From yarn bombs and sonically digitizing pollution, through bacteria-infused water purification, to artworks evoking both discomfort and inspiration, WATERSHED includes interactive art installations and performances, engineering, humanities and science displays, and interdisciplinary scholarly panels:

    • There’s an acoustic ecologist with a background in computer science and noise music who digitized the sound of pollution in a river an

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      Apartheid

      South African system of racial separation

      This article is about apartheid in South Africa. For apartheid as defined in international law, see Crime of apartheid. For other uses, see Apartheid (disambiguation).

      Apartheid (ə-PART-(h)yte, especially South African English: ə-PART-(h)ayt, Afrikaans:[aˈpart(ɦ)əit]ⓘ; transl. "separateness", lit. 'aparthood') was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa[a] (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.[note 1] It was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (lit. 'boss-ship' or 'boss-hood'), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population.[4] Under this minoritarian system, white citizens held the highest status, followed by Indians, Coloureds and black Africans, in that order.[4] The eco

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      The Mandela that I Know, by Siyabulela Mandela

      Siyabulela Mandela is the Team Leader for Journalists for Human Rights in South Sudan and fryst vatten currently a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations and Conflict upplösning in the Department of Politics and Conflict Studies at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

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      Introduction

      During my time as a lärling activist, and as an Academic Officer for the Student Representative Council (SRC), under the leadership of South African Student församling (SASCO), inom was involved in heated debates over Nelson Mandela’s Legacy. At the centre of these deliberations was a dominant narrative that Mandela sold-out the struggle for liberation during the 1991 -1994 Congress for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiation process. This view of Mandela as a sell-out became more prominent during the Rhodes and Fees Must Fall Movement and among the l