BONGANI NGQULUNGA is director of the Johannes- burg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), which is based at the University of Johannesburg. He holds a PhD from Brown University in the United States of America and is also a proud graduate from the University of KwaZulu- Natal. He is the author of The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme, which won South The Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Head Africa’s most prestigious literary prize in 2018, the Alan Paton Award, and was also chosen as the best non-fiction of the College of Humanities monograph at the Humanities and Social Sciences Awards in 2019. Ngqulunga’s professional experience extends to Professor Nhlanhla Mkhize government where he worked in the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa for over a decade. In his youth, he led student struggles, including as a member of the Students Cordially invites you to the Representative Council (SRC) at UKZN.

2019 JOHN LANGALIBALELE DUBE Abstract his year marks a century since the South African National Native Congress (SANNC), later renamed MEMORIAL LECTURE Tthe African National Congress (ANC), sent a deputation to England to plead for freedom and equal rights for black people in South Africa. The 1919 deputation followed on the footsteps of yet another Guest Speaker : Dr Bongani Ngqulunga deputation that had visited England in 1914 to protest the Natives Land Act that had passed a year before. Although both deputations failed dismally, the generation that led them set South Africa on Title: a course for freedom, which was ultimately won eight decades later. Nelson Mandela’s decision to cast his ballot at Inanda in 1994, the birthplace of two former ANC presidents, John Langalibalele Lessons of Struggle: From the Pioneering Dube and Pixley ka Isaka Seme, was therefore a fitting tribute to a pioneering generation.

Generation to the Fallist Movement Twenty-one years after the advent of inclusive democracy in South Africa, another generation stood up to demand that the dividend of freedom be shared broadly and equally. Taking advantage of the Date: democratic spaces that political freedom opened up and exploiting the advances in technological Thursday, 19 September 2019 development, the struggle of the Fallist Movement became the defining moment of post-apartheid South Africa. Time: Although a century apart, the two generations are linked by a long tradition of struggle for inclusive 17h30 for 18h00 freedom. However, there are also different in many respects. By comparing these two generations and the political movements they led, this lecture hopes to address some of the fundamental Venue: questions the struggle for freedom in South Africa has raised. For instance, the current generation Dulcie September Conference Centre I Auditorium of activists have raised important questions about the meaning and character of liberation. Is Edgewood Campus I UKZN political freedom without socio-economic inclusion freedom at all? Leading lights of the pioneering generation such as Dube and Charlotte Maxeke argued that both the purpose and means of struggle RSVP (acceptances only) should be morally justifiable. Has that political injunction be seriously taken on board by the current generation? CLICK HERE to confirm attendance by completing the electronic reply card by no later than Friday, 13 September 2019 The political moment in South Africa today demands of citizens to make critical choices that will decide the fate of this country as an inclusive democracy. Looking critically at the multigenerational struggle for freedom in South Africa and learning the right lessons would help us fulfill the dream INSPIRING GREATNESS that John Langalibalele Dube and his generation set to achieve at the beginning of the 20th century.