The Forge and the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) invite you to “Marikana: 12 years of disruption, loss and denial since 2012” – a commemorative event to mourn, remember and revive the collective call for #JusticeForMarikana. The event brings together a panel discussion as well as music and poetry.
Date
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Saturday 10 August 2024
Time
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1pm
Panel
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Professor Julian Brown
Associate Professor in the Department, of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand and author of Marikana: A people’s history.
Koketso Moeti
Activist and Founding Executive Director of Amandla.mobi.
Asenati Tukela
SERI attorney leading the case on behalf of the families.
Music
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Yonela Mnana
Jazz scholar, recording singer and jazz pianist who teaches and composes.
iPhupho L’ka Biko
Johannesburg-based Pan Africanist band.
Music and Poetry
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Makhafula Vilakazi
His poetry is a fusion of Tsotsitaal, English, Zulu and Sotho interspersed into an uncompromising depiction of township life, exploring issues which affect his community such as, unemployment and crime.
Free to attend