Great Texts/Big Questions Lecture Series with Kopano Ratele
Wednesday 2 May 2018
18:00
Hiddingh Hall
Refreshments served from 17:30
All welcome. RSVP at ica@uct.ac.za
Why do some men hurt the women they claim to love? Professor Kopano Ratele’s lecture explores this question. Written in part as a response to a character in Pumeza Rashe-Matoti’s play, Unbroken Silence – which will be staged during the lecture – Ratele also considers why some women love the men who hurt them. “My interest,” Ratele says,“is in a certain play of affects connected to the desire to hurt others, to being hurt, to forgiving, to both affection and hatred, so as not to offer explanations that easily snap into place.”
UNBROKEN SILENCE
In a society that finds itself in the midst of some of the most atrocious acts of violence enacted upon young and older women alike. It becomes important to listen not only the voices of the afflicted, but also the voices of those entrusted with protecting those that need to be protected. It is through storytelling, poetry, movement and music we share these stories of women that have lost lives because of gender-based violence. We question the impact of society, patriarchy and even matriarchy on these now voiceless souls. In all of that we celebrate the lives of these women, we share their dreams, the love they had for their families and betrayal of the most fundamental requirement in what has become an overly violent society.
Director: Pumeza Rashe-Matoti
Cast: Belinda Musoke; Ayavuya Cekiso; Khanyisa James; Wendy Mrali
*Unbroken Silence was produced in association with the Centre for Humanities Research, Factory of the Arts and Centre for Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape