The lecture will explore South Africa's complex relationship with the idea of human rights.
Drawing from the struggle to end apartheid, the lecture will explore the connections between the struggle for human rights and the idea of self-determination. While both ideas are local, the lecture will show that they are also global. South Africa remains a feature of the global world order, trying, as one of its most talented sons, Steve Bantu Biko once said "to give the world a more human face".
Meet our speaker and chair
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi () is a legal scholar, practicing lawyer, and advocate of the Johannesburg Bar in South Africa. He is an expert of constitutional and public law, and has written extensive about labour and land law in the South African context. He is a member of the legal team representing South Africa in a case under the Genocide Convention brought before the International Court of Justice against Israel with regards to their conduct in Gaza.
Mahvish Ahmad is Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of 禁漫天堂 Human Rights. She studies state violence and social movements, including the Global War on Terror. She recently published an article entitled Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory.
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