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21 July 2021 | Story Rulanzen Martin | Photo Charl Devenish
Even after her premiership, Helen Zille has remained a powerful force within the South African political landscape. Here she is pictured during a workshop hosted by the Department of Political Science and Governance in February 2020.

We have all heard or seen the expression #StayWoke. It is a term with its origins in the United States, implying an awareness of social issues such as racial injustice and other societal issues. It is often seen as a left-wing political movement – and now a new book, #StayWoke, Go Broke: Why South Africa won’t survive America’s culture wars (and what you can do about it), by Helen Zille, Chairperson of the DA Federal Council, aims to explore how wokeness can be bad for South Africa. 

Zille will be talking to Prof Hussein Solomon in the Department of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State.   

You can join this interesting discussion on: 

Date: 29 July 2021

Time: 10:00-11:00

 

About the author:
Helen Zille is a South African journalist, activist, and politician who served as the national leader (2007-2015) of the Democratic Alliance (DA), the official opposition party in South Africa. She was also Premier of the Western Cape from 2009 until 2019. Zille’s autobiography, Not without a Fight, was published in 2016. 

 

 

 

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Kovsie Alumni honours persons for outstanding achievements
2010-09-09

 Kovsie Alumni of the University of the Free State (UFS) recently awarded its annual prestige awards at a breakfast function in Bloemfontein. The Springbok rugby player Heinrich Brüssow was named as the 2009 Kovsie Alumnus of the Year. Ms Jackie Ntshingila, Provincial Manager of the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), received the Kovsie Alumni Cum Laude Award, and Prof. Teuns Verschoor, acting Senior Vice-Rector of the UFS, and Prof. Benito Khotseng received the Executive Management Award. Prof Khotseng, formerly a UFS Council Member and Senior Manager: Strategic Programmes, has played a major role to bring communities on the UFS Campus closer to one another. Here are, from the left: Mr Naudé de Klerk, Chairperson of Kovsie Alumni, Brüssow, Judge Ian van der Merwe, Chairperson of the UFS Council, Ntshingila, Verschoor and Khotseng.
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