<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:8.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;
line-height:105%;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
h1
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
font-weight:bold;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
p.xmsonormal, li.xmsonormal, div.xmsonormal
{mso-style-name:x_msonormal;
mso-style-priority:99;
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
span.EmailStyle19
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
span.EmailStyle20
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:#1F497D;}
span.EmailStyle21
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
span.Heading1Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1";
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
font-weight:bold;}
span.xlrzxr
{mso-style-name:x_lrzxr;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
-->@-ms-viewport {
width: device-width;
}
</style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>
<xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
<o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml>
<![endif]-->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
</head>
<body lang="EN-ZA" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Please join us for the first inaugural…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL SEMINAR</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#1F497D">The Crisis In Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal, July 2021</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">“<u>Coffee House Conversations: Historians on the Current Moment</u>”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Drs Julian Brown,
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Timothy Gibbs</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white">, Thina Nzo and
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Franziska Rueedi will be in conversation with Prof Brij Maharaj</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><img width="561" height="315" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D83EA1.AE277D70" alt="Eight Days in July: Inside the unrest and looting that shook South Africa | News24"></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">24 March, DISCUSSION OF THE ‘JULY CRISIS’ OF 2021</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> with Drs Julian Brown,
<span style="background:white">Timothy Gibbs, Thina Nzo and </span>Franziska Rueedi in conversation with Prof Brij Maharaj.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Widespread civil unrest erupted in South Africa, in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, between 9 and 18 July 2021, following the incarceration
of former President Jacob Zuma on contempt of court charges. The conflict involved public violence, arson and looting. These acts were initially described as ‘protests’ by Zuma supporters, but can be understood in the larger context of desperately high unemployment
and inequality, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the army was called in to quell the violence and plundering. Perhaps R10 billion was lost in theft and property destroyed. It is estimated that 342 people were killed during the crisis. The
<i>South African Historical Journal</i> put together a panel to gain a deeper perspective on these events in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng – exploring them from an historical perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Note: (please note, Thursday, 1:30-2:30 pm and ONLINE ONLY!</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%">Register in advance for this meeting:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://maties.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAufuGtpzwqEtVn1VAV8GvCs7abyRaJGqWj"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%">https://maties.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAufuGtpzwqEtVn1VAV8GvCs7abyRaJGqWj</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Discussants:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Prof<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>Julian Brown </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">is an A<span style="color:black;background:white">ssociate Professor in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. His new book is
<i>Marikana: A People’s History</i> (James Currey and Jacana, 2022<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">).</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Dr Timothy Gibbs</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> has a DPhil from Oxford in
Modern History and is a lecturer in African History at University College London. His <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Mandela's Kinsmen: nationalist elites and apartheid's first Bantustan</span></em> (Woodbridge:
James Currey, 2014) explored ethnic identities and elite nationalism in a period of protest and era of revolution in southern Africa. He
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">is close to completing a book on the tsunami of popular support that brought Jacob Zuma to power</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%">Dr Thina Nzo</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"> holds a PhD in African Studies (University of Edinburgh) and a Masters in Local Government Studies (University of
Birmingham). Thina uses an interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics and policy, buttressed by her interest in employing qualitative research and organisational ethnography to study local government bureaucracies. Her recent publications include
‘Whose Power Is It Anyway? Local Government and the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) Emthanjeni Local Municipality in the Northern Cape Province’. PARI Local Government Report. Public Affairs Research Institute,
2021 and ‘ANC Provincial-Regional Politics in the Northern Cape: Corruption or Everyday Informal Practices’. <i>Commonwealth Journal of Local Government,</i> 4 (2), 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr Franziska Rueedi
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">has a DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford. She
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">currently works as a senior lecturer at the University of Zürich. She works on the histories of rumour, violence, popular protest and transnational solidarity.
<span class="xlrzxr">Her recent work includes </span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F350920954_The_Vaal_Uprising_of_1984_the_Struggle_for_Freedom_in_South_Africa&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0e7cab07349f4f992a5708da000d58e6%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C637822354577959426%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=5IrnVw0YXmz75TuAQfgfmeGCFp0oeJ8gjNppbNaBieM%3D&reserved=0"><i><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white;text-decoration:none">The
Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa</span></i></a><i>
</i>(<span style="background:white">James Currey, </span>2021).</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:#FCFCFC">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Chair: Prof Brij Maharaj</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> is a Senior Professor of Geography at the University of
Kwazulu-Natal. He is a civic activist from the anti-apartheid era, and actively promotes and advocates for a revived civil society in democratic South Africa. He is a regular media commentator on topical issues as part of his commitment to public intellectualism
– and recently authored ‘T<span style="letter-spacing:.2pt;background:#FCFCFC">he Apartheid City’. In Massey & Gunter (eds),
<i>Urban Geography in South Africa</i>. Springer, 2020</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:.2pt;background:#FCFCFC;font-weight:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.2pt;background:#FCFCFC;font-weight:normal">and ‘</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;layout-grid-mode:line;font-weight:normal">Contesting
Violent Displacement: The case of the Warwick Market in Durban, South Africa’, <span style="background:white">
International Development Planning Review, 42, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;background:aqua;mso-highlight:aqua">Free article access until the end of April:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;background:aqua;mso-highlight:aqua">Coffee House Conversations: Historians on the Current Moment:
<i>South African Historical Journal</i>: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;background:aqua;mso-highlight:aqua"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F02582473.2021.2016153&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0e7cab07349f4f992a5708da000d58e6%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C637822354577959426%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=dcn2iDhCZD1py5%2FddiWQP9rDnPxhs2nvsrqQAAGDFYw%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:windowtext">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02582473.2021.2016153</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> This meeting will be recorded for educational purposes, in joining you agree to be part of a recorded event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter" />
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0" />
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0" />
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1" />
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2" />
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth" />
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight" />
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1" />
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2" />
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth" />
<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0" />
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight" />
<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0" />
</v:formulas>
<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" />
<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t" />
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Image result for danse macabre" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:125.5pt;height:111.05pt;z-index:251658240;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:line;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page' o:allowoverlap="f">
<v:imagedata src="cid:image003.png@01D83951.A1DA92A0" o:title="image002.png@01D454CE" />
<w:wrap type="square"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]><img width="167" height="148" src="cid:image002.png@01D83EA1.AE277D70" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Image result for danse macabre" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_6"><![endif]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To share queries, suggestions or, perhaps, elegant encomia, please contact
<b>Professor Sandra Swart</b>, at </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sss@sun.ac.za"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">sss@sun.ac.za</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please
notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients
are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary.
</span></font></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>