Steve Biko Memorial Lectures

 

The Steve Biko Memorial Lecture was hosted by UCT in partnership with the Steve Biko Foundation.

The annual lectures were held to commemorate the life and death of Biko and to celebrate his courage and leadership as a political activist. The lectures also celebrated him as an intellectual whose courage was in the battlefield of ideas, through his writing, and whose greatest contribution was the intellectual contribution he made to the struggle and to the ideas of black consciousness. Biko also urged the people who work and study in universities, and in particular university students who have the opportunity as part of student movements, to be the vanguards of change. He said that it is the particular role of universities to produce public intellectuals and to intervene in the political arena.

These values of courage, intellect and using the space for political agendas are virtues that UCT aims to embody through its value system, its students and staff.

 

Navi PillayNavi Pillay
11 September 2014
Advancing Human Rights in South Africa and the World

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Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-ZumaDr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
2 October 2013
Pan Africanism and the African Renaissance

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Prof Ben OkriProfessor Ben Okri 
2 September 2012
Biko and the Tough Alchemy of Africa

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Sir Sydney KentridgeSir Sydney Kentridge
12 September 2011
Evil under the sun: The death of Steve Biko

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Prof Alice WalkerProfessor Alice Walker
9 September 2010

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Tito MboweniTito Mboweni 
10 September 2009

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 Trevor ManuelTrevor Manuel 
11 September 2008

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 President Thabo MbekiPresident Thabo Mbeki 
12 September 2007

 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond TutuArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
26 September 2006

 

 

 

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