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...Released in 1990 when the ban on the ANC was lifted • Served as the ANC's regional secretary in the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging region in the early 90s, when the violence there was exceptionally...
...African continent. “Under President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa has achieved a number of foreign policy successes, most particularly in the field of conflict resolution on the African continent,” he said. Originally a practicing lawyer and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Leon has led the Democratic Alliance for the last thirteen years. In an interview with The Crimson after his speech, he said that his greatest success over the course of his career in politics was “taking a very small marginal party and turning it into the second-largest...
...knew the menacing side of even a privileged existence under a dictatorship. Her father wouldn't let his criticisms of the government's repressive economic and racial policies go beyond the family dinner table. She went away to college in South Africa, where a classmate from the University of Witwatersrand recalls her as a devout Catholic who attended early-morning Mass at the university chapel on most days. She also marched with the nascent antiapartheid movement, giving her worried mother "a fit," Teresa says...
...present, we are absolutely not part of those most oppressed.” Kentridge’s fascination with otherness and the divisions within South African society led him to earn a B.A. in politics and African studies in 1976 from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He then enrolled at the Johannesburg Art Foundation from 1976 to 1978, where he taught etching and printmaking for two years. His first one-person exhibition of drawings and prints went up at the Market Gallery in Johannesburg...
...many areas of expertise, a medical doctorate from University of Natal in 1972, a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town, a B.Com. in Administration from the University of South Africa and diplomas in Tropical Health and Hygiene and Public Health from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is also a former fellow at Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute