[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Pregs Govender on Zuma trial, 18 May

[Patrick Bond]

The Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal invites you to the following Wolpe lecture in the 2006 Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture series entitled: "The Gender Implications of the Zuma Rape Trial". 
 
Speaker:       Pregs Govender 
Date:            Thursday 18th May 2006
Time:            17H30-19H00 
Venue:          Howard College Theatre, Howard College Campus
Queries:        ccs at ukzn.ac.za or 031-2603577

(This is a public event and everybody is welcome. Drinks and snacks will be served afterwards).           
 
                      www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs 
 
 Pregs Govender is an independent researcher and activist. She served as an ANC member of parliament (1994-2002), during which period she chaired the joint Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Quality of Life and Status of Women, and played a key role in national debates on military spending and HIV/AIDS.  Prior to being elected to Parliament, she headed the WNC (Women's National Coalition) as the WNC's Overall Project Manager from 1992 - 1994. In this capacity, she ensured a successful campaign in which approximately two million women across South Africa participated. This campaign resulted in substantial research on women's needs as well as SA's Women's Charter.  Before the Coalition, Pregs worked in the trade union movement as Education Officer of the national clothing and textile union. This union has the largest membership of women in SA. Her work in the unions led to her initiating and heading the first Worker's College in South Africa.  Pregs Govender's training and initial work experience was as a teacher at schools and at the University of Durban-Westville. Her background is rooted in political activism in student, political, community and women's organisations that fought against apartheid in the 70's and 80's.


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