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READ MORE Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre

Lester Kiewit speaks to Promesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources. READ MORE Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom

In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s)... READ MORE Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making

‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
August 31, 2016

People You May Know: A Performance at the Factory of the Arts

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August 31, 2016

Postdoctoral, PhD, MA and Honours Awards Announcement for 2017

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August 31, 2016

Seminar by Bongani Ndhlovu: ‘Apartheid’s Golden Age’

Reconnoitring alternative forms of resistance to apartheid South Africa, c1966-1979
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August 29, 2016

South Sudan: The Road to Civil War – A Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani

Professor Mahmood Mamdani delivered a public lecture titled "South Sudan: The Road to Civil War' on 18 August 2016 at the University of the Western Ca
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August 29, 2016

Seminar by Janeke Thumbran: “Sisters are Building it for Themselves:”

Architecture, Self-Reliance and Trusteeship at the University of Pretoria, 1943 to present times
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August 19, 2016

Seminar: The Making of MK: Whose Violence & to What End? The Debates of 1960–1 – Paul S. Landau

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August 17, 2016

Die Name Wat Ons Gee/The Names That We Give

2015 Barrydale Festival with Net Vir Pret and Handspring Puppet Company
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August 12, 2016

Seminar: Empty photographs: Ethnography and the lacunae of African history: Patricia Hayes

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August 12, 2016

Global Apartheid – A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty

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August 10, 2016

The CHR welcomes Visiting Scholars Professor Paul Landau and Dr Emily Landau

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August 10, 2016

A Tale of Two Cities: Finding Storyville in the Archives: A Seminar by Emily Landau

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August 5, 2016

Exhibition Launch: USAKOS: Photographs beyond Ruins

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  • Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre
    November 5, 2025
  • Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom
    October 29, 2025
  • Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive – Exploring memory through zine-making
    October 24, 2025
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