Rhodes Must Fall Dialogue Series
Join the Institute for Creative Arts in collaboration with the Rhodes Must Fall Feminist Collective and African Gender Institute at 17.30 on Thursday 28 August at UCT's Centre for African Studies (CAS) Gallery for dialogue one, commemorating ten years of the Rhodes Must Fall movement.
Dialogue one is titled Intergenerational Feminist Organising – Tracing Lineages, Seeding Futures. It takes place on Thursday 28 August at CAS Gallery, University of Cape Town - Upper Campus, Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building, Level 3, Engineering Mall Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town from 17.30pm.
This is a hybrid event. To join the dialogue on Zoom, see information below:
Zoom Link: https://uct-za.zoom.us/j/93702270089?pwd=uirWLsh3fVx4loHCDwAlFpq0LNZ4h2.1
Meeting ID: 937 0227 0089
Passcode: 157398
Refreshments and light snacks will be served.
Prof. zethu Matebeni is a sociologist, activist, writer, documentary film maker, Professor and South Africa Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies at the University of Fort Hare. She has held positions at the University of the Western Cape and has been senior researcher at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at UCT. She has been a visiting Professor at Yale University and has received a number of research fellowships including those from African Humanities Program, Ford Foundation, the Fogarty International Centre and the National Research Foundation.
Prof. June Bam-Hutchison is a known anti-Apartheid activist teacher over many years and currently full professor and director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg. She played leadership academic roles at UCT as associate professor in African Feminist Studies, acting head of African Studies and as founding acting director of the first San and Khoi Research Centre at UCT. She also played a lead facilitation role with communities in the naming of the Sarah Baartmann Graduation Hall and in several other roles in institutional transformation processes at UCT since 2015.
Onalenna Sebetlela is a legal scholar, community organizer, and feminist advocate committed to advancing social justice across Southern Africa. Holding a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Law, Gender Studies, and Sociology, along with a postgraduate LLB from the University of Cape Town. She specializes in public interest litigation, constitutional law, and international human rights. Onalenna has led and contributed to grassroots initiatives, notably as Chairperson of The Collective, a student-led organization focused on social upliftment and ecological principles.
Alex Hotz is the South African Lead Coordinator for WoMin African Alliance, a feminist organization advocating for women's rights in the context of extractive industries and environmental justice. Born and raised in Cape Town, Alex grew up in a politically active household with a strong socialist background. Alex pursued her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), majoring in Politics and Film. During her time at UCT, she emerged as a prominent student activist and was a leading organiser in the #RhodesMustFall movement, which sought to decolonize education and address institutional racism.
Zizi Masizana is an emerging performance artist, theatre maker, cultural worker, and facilitator based between Cape Town and Johannesburg. Her practice and research, embodied, are an insistence on and entitlement to white Afrikaans historical archives and sites, approached as an investigative and history-revisionist practice. She is a Black woman with a deep interest in revisiting both monumental and minor happenings in white Afrikaans histories that have shaped the socio-political circumstances of contemporary South Africa and its many other peoples.
Kealeboga Ramaru is a feminist organiser and considers intersectionality as an important pillar of the work that she does. She has vast experience in campaign driving and advocacy work. She has worked within movements and NGOs where she has served as a member working in campaigns organising, management, public representative, staff management, curriculum development and advocacy. She is passionate about feminist activism and movement building. She believes that the success of movements can only be realised when the most affected people are centred in the work of the movement.
Dialogue two and three will respectively be held on Thursday, 18 September and Thursday, 2 October 2025. More details to follow soon!
