Archive for July, 2007
Justin du Toit, a research intern at DEVELOPMENT WORKS, attended a Development Dialogue recently. This opportunity for dialogue was presented by the Isandla Institute and Open Society Foundation for South Africa, on 19 July 2007, at the Centre for the Book in Cape Town…
Justin shares his experiences and views of this Dialogue session… and begs [...]
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Lucy’s story
AfroMusing an African Blogger recently appealed to all bloggers covering the recent TED Conference in Arusha Tanzani (June 2007) to support Lucy, a little Kenyan girl, who is living in a place of safety, The Nest Home in Limuru. The Nest was approached by a Nairobi Hospital to take in a 5 month [...]
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African windmills…
To be truly inspired visit William’s blog at http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/
William Kamkwamba is a 19-year-old high school student whose first experience of the internet was at a TEDGlobal conference held recently in Arusha, Tanzania (www.ted.com). William was invited to this conference after the Kenyan media (Malawi’s Daily Times newspaper) gave coverage to William’s amazing efforts to generate [...]
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Conference On Memory, Narrative And Forgivenesss
Held on the 22-26 November 2006 At The University Of Cape Town, Co-hosted By Faculty Of Humanities And The African Ethics Initiative, University Of Natal.
Siphokazi (Spoki) Mlandu, a previous research intern at DEVELOPMENT WORKS, shares her experiences of the Conference ….
The session I attended was on the Power [...]
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Narratives of Memory and Forgiveness Conference…
Yazir Henri from Action Centre for Peace and Memory
A thought provoking session that left the audience in silence as Henri spoke of how survivors of apartheid in South Africa have to find common ground to mediate in order to publicly articulate them-selves 10 years after TRC hearings.
Yazir presented ideas [...]
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Disappearances in South Africa
Narratives of Memory and Forgiveness Conference
(November 2006)
Speaker: Dr Ollie Mahongo – Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Can they be asked to forget about their loved ones? Where are they buried?
Yvonne Wabagatore, a researcher from DEVELOPMENT WORKS, attended this Conference and shares below the key points of Dr Mahongo’s presentation.
For the [...]
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