Thursday, April 4, 2024
4:00pm – 5:30pm
True North Classroom, Stephen Robert ’62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Reception to follow.
The South African labor movement played a crucial role in the struggle against and defeat of apartheid. However, after 30 years of liberation under an African National Congress government, trade unionism is arguably greatly weakened. In this talk, Trevor Ngwane will explore why this is so and why it is so important to rebuild and revitalize the working class movement in the country and in the world.
Trevor Ngwane is a scholar-activist who works in the academic and political spheres. He obtained his PhD at the University of Johannesburg in 2017 after two decades of political activism in various social movements and political organisations. In 2021, he was appointed as director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice at UJ.