APC associates speak at launch of the Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
From left to right, Director of Research for the Nelson Mandela Foundation Verne Harris, the book's editor Rita Barnard, and Mbongiseni Buthelezi of the Centre for Law and Society at UCT
PHOTO: NQOBILE DLUDLA COURTESY OF WITS VUVUZELA
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela, a collection of essays in the fields of history, anthropology, cinema, literature and anthropology, was launched at an event held by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and WiSER on 6 May 2014 at Wits University in Johannesburg.
The launch took place in tandem with a short discussion around the spectre of Mandela by APC associate Mbongiseni Buthelezi of the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town. Buthelezi's comments addressed questions of reconciliation:
'What are the questions Mandela allows us to ask and which ones do we need to ask now? What future do we have without Mandela? One of the angers and hurts people feel is how we maintained the status quo during the apartheid era and how we are dealing with reconciliation in terms of our difficult past and post-Mandela,' he said. Listen to Buthelezi HERE.
Director of Research at the Nelson Mandela Foundation Verne Harris, also an APC associate, commented on the book's significance. Listen to Harris HERE.
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