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South Africa: The Rainbow Nation Is a Lie, and Other Lessons From the 2015 Ruth First Lecture
The Daily Vox, 18 August 2015
On Monday evening, hundreds gathered at Wits University's Great Hall to hear Ruth First fellows Panashe Chigumadzi and Sisonke Msimang speak on race relations in South Africa.… Read more »
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South Africa: Are Interracial Relationships Possible for South Africans?
The Daily Vox, 14 August 2015
Ruth First fellows Panashe Chigumadzi and writer/activist Sisonke Msimang tell PONTSHO PILANE how "coconuts" help maintain institutional injustices and why interracial… Read more »
Is South Africa's Rainbow Nation a Lie?
Hundreds of people gathered at Wits University to hear Ruth First fellows Panashe Chigumadzi and Sisonke Msimang speak on race relations in South Africa - which included "coconuts" and interracial relationships.
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17 August 2015
Ruth First Remembered Through Race Talk in South Africa
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Monday night's 14th Annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture at Wits University put the notion of the coconut - simply, a black person perceived to identify ... see more »
Ruth First fellows Panashe Chigumadzi, middle, and Sisonke Msimang, far right, spoke on race relations in South Africa. Eusebius Mckaiser facilitated the Ruth First lecture. First was a journalist, activist and intellectual killed in exile by the apartheid government. To commemorate her contribution to critical, socially-engaged writing and research, Wits Journalism in partnership with the Wits Ruth First Committee and the African Studies Journal, hosts an annual memorial lecture and fellowship. The event is held around the anniversary of her death on August 17, 1982. The 2015 lecture was the 14th annual event.
