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Human rights through the eyes of my native land: South Africa in the world

Hosted by LSE Human Rights

In-person and online public event (Auditorium, Centre Building)

Speaker

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi

Chair

Dr Mahvish Ahmad

Dr Mahvish Ahmad

The lecture will explore South Africa's complex relationship with the idea of human rights.

Drawing from the struggle to end apartheid, the lecture will explore the connections between the  struggle for human rights and the idea of self-determination. While both ideas are local, the lecture will show that they are also global.  South Africa remains a feature of the global world order, trying, as one of its most talented sons, Steve Bantu Biko once said "to give the world a more human face".

Meet our speaker and chair

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (@Ngcukaitobi1) is a legal scholar, practicing lawyer, and advocate of the Johannesburg Bar in South Africa. He is an expert of constitutional and public law, and has written extensive about labour and land law in the South African context. He is a member of the legal team representing South Africa in a case under the Genocide Convention brought before the International Court of Justice against Israel with regards to their conduct in Gaza.

Mahvish Ahmad is Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of LSE Human Rights. She studies state violence and social movements, including the Global War on Terror. She recently published an article entitled Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory.

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