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Forthcoming EventsJala Tsebo Seminar SeriesWhat is the relevance of the past for current and future generations? |
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Today in South Africa, following the 10th anniversary of the TRC, many youth are unable to fully appreciate or enjoy the benefits of life within a democracy. With increasing unemployment and poverty, coupled with the scourge of HIV/AIDS, and the unfinished business of the TRC, for some, South Africa's past has become a means to understand the present circumstances, often resulting in blame and bitterness. However, for those youth that have been able to enjoy socio-economic privileges in a democratic South Africa, the past remains a dislocated memory belonging to another generation and having little, if anything, to do with them. It is in focussing on questions of how best to re-present a past and a history that moves away from blame and shame and how to ensure that current and future generations are able to extract significant lessons of "never again" without having to continually bear the burden of that past that the following seminar is being hosted. The Transitional Justice Programme of The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) invites all the relevant role players - policy makers, researchers, practitioners, schools, NGO's, etc - to a seminar to understand the role of memory and the past for current and future generations.
Guest Speakers:
| Ms. Yasmin Sooka | - Executive Director: Foundation for Human Rights and Former commissioner at TRC |
| Adv Tseliso Thipanyane | - CEO South African Human Rights Commission |
| Dr. Sifiso Ndlovu | - Director of Research: South African Democracy Education Trust |
| Ms. Ereshnee Naidu | - Project Manager, Transitional Justice Programme, CSVR |
| Justice Albie Sachs | - Constitution Court Judge (to be confirmed) |
Chairperson: Oupa Makhalemele - Researcher, Transitional Justice Programme
Venue: Old Fort Conference Room, Constitution Hill, 1 Kotze Street, Braamfontein For further information: Xoliswa Ntintili xntintili@csvr.org.za or Ereshnee Naidu enaidu@csvr.org.za at 011 403 5650 or Fax: 011 388 0819 |
