by tshepo | Feb 11, 2022 | Events, Featured, News, Ruth First
The 2021 Ruth First Memorial Lecture took place at the The Forge in Braamfontein on Thursday 27 January 2022. The keynote address was delivered by Nanjala Nyabola, writer, political analyst and activist based in Kenya. Murray Hunter, was the 2021 Ruth First Fellow....
by tshepo | Oct 7, 2019 | Featured, News, Ruth First
Achille Mbembe delivered Blacks From Elsewhere and the Right of Abode, the Ruth First Memorial Lecture 2019, at the Wits Theatre on 3 October 2019. We must name our times in a way that leaves us with a small window of hope, the hope that not all is lost....
by tshepo | Oct 4, 2019 | News, Ruth First
The theme for this year’s lecture focused on migrancy and populism in South Africa By Anathi Madubela Wits Journalism in partnership with the Faculty of Humanities hosted the 16th Annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture on Thursday, October 3. This year’s theme for the...
by tshepo | Jul 25, 2018 | Ruth First
I will always cherish this moment. It is such an honour to deliver the annual lecture in memory of Ruth First. The theme is “how policy is affecting the marginalised and its impact on poverty” As we recall the immense contribution of Ruth First to our struggle, let me...
by tshepo | Jul 25, 2018 | Ruth First
Ruth First would be pleased by this evening’s focus on poverty and exclusion. The theme should help us to re-think the widespread notion that poverty and exclusion in South Africa can be overcome through individual effort. <!–more–> Secondly, we need...
by tshepo | Jul 25, 2018 | Ruth First
I don’t know who murdered Dulcie September. If I knew, then chances are, that you would too. This is what I know: Dulcie was murdered on a March morning in 1988, as she prepared to open the door to the ANC office on the Rue des Petites-Ecuries in Paris. As the...