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Media Advisory: A conversation invoking the legacies of Sanusi Credo Mutwa and Chief Albert Luthuli

Attention: Editors and Reporters

14 July 2023

The South African Human Rights Commission has partnered with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and the Nelson Mandela Foundation to host a day of dialogue, memory and nation-building, reckoning with the “July Unrest” by drawing on the legacies of Sanusi Credo Mutwa and Chief Albert Luthuli. The convening will take place on the 21st of July, 2023 - Sanusi Credo Mutwa's birthday and the anniversary of the passing on of Chief Luthuli.

Join us in dialogue with author Mmatshilo Motsei and Professor Pitika Ntuli, facilitated by Professor Tshepo Madlingozi from the Centre of Applied Legal Studies. The day will be closed with a tribute performance from iPhupho L’ka Biko.

The collaboration forms part of the South African Human Rights Commission’s Social Harmony National Effort initiative, which is being rolled out in each of the Commission’s 9 Provincial Offices in response to the rupture that was “the South African 2021 July Unrest. The theme for the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Office is “Poverty (material, spiritual, relational) in our midst robs us all of our collective dignity” and the aim of this initiative is to reckon with July 2021 and the April 2022 floods in the aftermath to address the deep structural causes of the immensely unsustainable state of this country.

Event details:

Date: 21 July 2023

Time: 12h00 - 15h30

Venue: Durban, details TBC

To RSVP for this convening, kindly email your details to Ms Pillay at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

(ENDS)

Issued by the South African Human Rights Commission, Centre for Applied Legal Studies and Nelson Mandela Foundation

For Media Enquiries: Wisani Baloyi – Acting Communications Coordinator Tel: 081 016 8308 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Alucia Sekgathume Tel: 082 689 2364 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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