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"Constitution and Covenant"

DATE: Friday 07 November 2008

TIME: 17h30 for 18h00

VENUE: The Whale Well, Iziko Museum of South Africa, Queen Victoria St, Cape Town

Refreshments will be served after the lecture
Pizza to be sponsored by Butlers Pizza

RSVP: wolpetrust@mweb.co.za / Tel: 021 674 0361

Speaker: Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
Thabo Cecil Makgoba was born in Magoebaskloof in Limpopo, in 1960. He completed his schooling at Soweto's Orlando High and went on to study a Bsc at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he later obtained a MEd in Educational Psychology. While training for ordination at St Paul's Theological College in Grahamstown, he obtained a diploma in Theology (DipTh). He also holds a BA(Hons-Applied Psych) and a HDipEd(PG), both from the University of the Witwatersrand.

MORGAN TSVANGIRAI and THOKOZANI KHUPE

DATE: Saturday, 22 November

TIME: 2-5pm

VENUE: Rick Turner Hall, Howard College

CCS contact: Helen Poonen at 031 260 3195
Email: poonenh@ukzn.ac.za

MORGAN TSVANGIRAI and THOKOZANI KHUPE

Tsvangirai is founder of the MDC, and in civil society was secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) during the 1990s, chairperson of the National Constitutional Assembly, and vice president of the National Mine Workers Union. Khupe, MP for Makokoba (Bulawayo), was formerly secretary for the ZCTU Women’s Advisory Council.

Rubin Phillip, Anglican Bishop of KZN and chair of the Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum, will open the proceedings.

Beyond The National Question: Towards The Social Question

29 October 2007
Old Fort,
Constitution Hill
5.15pm for 5.45pm
RSVP by 19 October 2007 / Booking is essential

Speaker - THANDIKA MKANDAWIRE

Thandika Mkandawire is Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), an autonomous UN agency in Geneva engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development.

The Concept of Leadership: in the context of succession in South Africa

Wednesday 21st November 2007, 7pm

City Hall, Grahamstown

• Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza SC

A distinguished lawyer, Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza SC was one of South Africa's most prominent political activists during the apartheid era. In 1995, he was appointed as a Commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established by the South African parliament to investigate apartheid-era human rights violations and promote the ongoing healing
process. He became the Head of the Commission's Investigative Unit, and also Head of its Witness Protection Programme. He also served occasionally
as Deputy and Acting Chair. In 2002 he was a visiting distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and Hartford campuses.

For more information: Karen Kouari
Phone: 046 6038362

Email: k.kouari@ru.ac.za

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