Examination Schools
University of Oxford, High Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 4BG
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Denis Goldberg, ANC fighter and former political prisoner, will be speaking as part of Oxford Israeli Apartheid Week 2015. The talk will be chaired by Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh F.B.A., Balliol College.
Denis Goldberg is a veteran of the South African national liberation movement. As a member of the ANC led armed struggle, Goldberg was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Rivonia Trial alongside Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders. Upon his release to Israel in 1985 after 22 years in prison, Goldberg resumed campaigning against apartheid and colonialism, condemning Israel for supporting the South African apartheid regime as well as for its treatment of the Palestinians. He has been involved with many struggles for justice since, both in South Africa and abroad, ranging from education justice to work against rape and sexual violence. In 1988 Goldberg was awarded the Albert J. Luthuli African Peace Award, and in 2009 the Order of Luthuli (Silver) by the President of South Africa. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Unison Trade Union in the United Kingdom, and has lectured at many universities around the world.
Oxford Israeli Apartheid week is hosted by the Oxford Students’ Arab Cultural Society.
This event is co-sponsored by the Oxford University Africa Society, Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Oxford University Amnesty International, Oxford Radical Forum, rs21, Oxford Pan Afrikan Forum (OXPAF), OUSU Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality (CRAE), Jewish Students for Justice in Palestine, and Oxford Students’ Palestine Society.
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