Development Studies lecturer and human rights activist Professor Janet Cherry will present her professorial inaugural lecture at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) today. The lecture - "Social structure and human agency in the age of climate change" - is being hosted at the Business School at Second Avenue at 5.30pm. The public is welcome to attend. Prof Cherry, who has been at NMMU since 1998, is also a trainer for the Centre for Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) … [Read more...] about Human rights activist, Janet Cherry, to present inaugural lecture
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The Road to Democracy in South Africa
The Red Location Museum today hosts the launching of the 4th volume of 'The Road to Democracy in South Africa', a comprehensive compilation of the history of the liberation struggle in the 1980s. Local actiivists Janet Cherry and Pat Gibbs are the authors of two of the chapters in this volume. Many local activists for the liberation of South Africa were interviewed you for this volume and are quoted in the book whilst others are mentioned in the context of particular stories or quoted from … [Read more...] about The Road to Democracy in South Africa
Missionvale Sh*t Protest
Dear Editor Yesterday morning (5 May 2011) I was teaching at Missionvale campus of NMMU, and drove through a pile of human shit on the road, after distressed residents of Missionvale had protested against the 'bucket system' by blocking the road and pouring out the contents of their buckets. You may remember that two years ago, there were similar protests by residents of Missionvale, blocking the Uitenhage road, although not with shit. What interests me is that although I heard a report of … [Read more...] about Missionvale Sh*t Protest
