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PROGRAMME

DAY 1

9:00–9:15 Opening and Welcome - Dr Sizwe Mabizela (Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes University)

9:15–9:30 Introduction of the keynote Speaker - Dr Siphokazi Magadla (Rhodes University)

9:30-10:15 Keynote address - Honourable Thandi Modise - Women’s Contributions to the Armed Struggle and Lessons for Current Struggles

10:15–10:30 Q&A facilitated by Zikho Dana

10:30-10:40 TEA BREAK

10:40–10:50 Video – A reading of Makhosazana Xaba “Tongues of their Mothers”

11:00–12:30 - Panel 1: WOMEN AND THE CONTOURS OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE

Chair: Dr Babalwa Magoqwana (Nelson Mandela University)

• Prof Saleem Badat - Women and Political Banishment in Apartheid South Africa
• Lebohang Liepollo Pheko - More than Tea and Scones: Women Warriors, the Mobility of Struggle and Azanian Struggle Memories
• Prof Janet Cherry - Women in the 1980s Township Uprising in the Eastern Cape
• Prof Debby Bonnin - Reflections on Women and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal

12:30-13:30 AN OFFERING by Nomfundo Xaluva

13:30–15:00 - Panel 2: REFLECTIONS FROM UMKHONTO WE SIZWE AND AZANIAN NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY VETERANS

Chair – Dr Siphokazi Magadla (Rhodes University)

• Ambassador Naomi Ribbon Mosholi
• Ntombizodwa Khumalo
• Busisiwe Jacqueline ‘Totsie’ Memela
• Thulasizwe Legodi

15:00-15:10 TEA BREAK

15:10–15: 20 Audio clip - Makhulu’s fireside stories: Molly, the invisible chair and the mtamnani

15:20–17:00 - Panel 3: REPRESENTATIONS, MEMORY AND LEGACIES 

Chair: Nomphumelelo Babeli (Rhodes University)

• Prof Kim Miller - Nokuthula Simelane, the Pain of Memory, Real and Figural Displays of Female Authority in the Public Sphere
• Prof Puleng Segalo - Stitching Resistance and Solidarity Narratives
• Dr Zosa Olenka De Sas Kropiwnicki - Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa: The Masupatsela Generation

Day 2 

Chair: Siphokazi Tau (Nelson Mandela University)

09:00–09:45 Keynote Address - Makhosazana Xaba - Women in the Armed Struggle: The Unaccounted for, the Unnameable and the Unknowable, 60 years on

09:45 -10:00 Q&A facilitated by Siphokazi Tau

10:00-10:10 TEA BREAK

10:10–12:30 Book Launches

• MALIBONGWE - POEMS FROM THE STRUGGLE BY ANC WOMEN (1981/2020)
• WOMEN IN SOLITARY: INSIDE THE FEMALE RESISTANCE TO APARTHEID (2020)

Chair – Dr Athambile Masola (University of Cape Town)

• Ambassador Lindiwe Mabuza
• Ambassador Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele
• Shanthini Naidoo
• Dr Uhuru Phalafala Makhosazana Xaba

12:30– 2:45 Vote of Thanks, Closing Remarks and Way Forward – Prof Enocent Msindo (Rhodes University)

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