The UKZN Centre for Civil Society is proud to welcome the SA CommunistParty's Durban members, the university community and the general public for the Chris Hani Lecture
Speaker: Jeremy Cronin Date: Thursday, 16 April 2008 Time: 12:30-2 pm Venue: Howard College Theatre, UKZN Howard College Campus The Chris Hani Lecture commemorates the great SACP leader whose assassination on 10 April 1993 galvanised negotiators to agree on the 1994 election date that gave South Africa democracy. Jeremy Cronin is deputy general secretary of the SA Communist Party and a leading ANC Member of Parliament, chairing the transport committee. Cronin was a lecturer in the Philosophy department of the University of Cape Town during the early 1970s, when he began work in the propaganda unit of the SACP. The Bureau of State Security arrested Cronin on charges under the Terrorism and Internal Security Acts in 1976. He pled guilty and served seven years in Pretoria, following which he worked with the United Democratic Front. Later he lived in London and Lusaka where he worked closely with Joe Slovo for the ANC/SACP alliance. Cronin is also one of SA's greatest poets. His first book, Inside, was published in 1984 and other collections include Even the Dead: Poems, Parables and a Jeremiad (1997), Inside and Out (1999) and More than a Casual Contact (2006). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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