The Uyinene Mrwetyana Commemorative Lecture was launched on Monday, 29 March 2021.
Taking place at her alma mater Kingswood College, the lecture was held a few weeks before she would have turned 21.
Future lectures will also take place close to her birthday on 20 April.
The inaugural lecture took place as a live broadcast from Kingswood College, Mrwetyana’s high school in Makhanda, in partnership with the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation. It took place less than a month before what would have been her 21st birthday on 20 April 2021, and future lectures will continue to take place close to this date.
UCT alumnus and Human Sciences Research Council chief research specialist Dr Alude Mahali delivered the keynote address, joining the live broadcast virtually from Johannesburg. Dr Mahali obtained her PhD from UCT, co-authored Studying While Black: Race, education and emancipation in South African universities with UCT adjunct Associate Professor Sharlene Swartz and serves on the adv
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