Choosing to forgive can be frightening, but it’s a powerful tool for repairing the harm done by violence, oppression and other traumas.
My Tribute to Arch Desmond Tutu – The Daily Maverick
I would like to share the tribute I wrote in memory of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, published in one of the leading South African online newspapers, The Daily Maverick.
Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award – IOL
I would like to share this story of the tremendous privilege of being awarded the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship for my project titled “Aesthetics of Trauma, Poetics of Repair.” Below is a summary of the project. This project brings together many … Read More
What Can America Learn From South Africa About National Healing? – New York Times Magazine
By David Marchese Photo illustration by Bráulio Amado Twenty-five years ago, after the end of apartheid, South Africa established its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission’s subsequent public hearings were an attempt to provide victims of the country’s brutal white-nationalist … Read More
With Tamar Garb, Centre for Racism and Racialisation, University College London
Speakers: Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at UCL // Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma at Stellenbosch University, and the 2020-2021 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe … Read More
On the violence of racism and gender-based violence in South Africa – Daily Maverick
By Dennis Davis In episode 39 of this unique interview series, Judge Dennis Davis talks to Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, the South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. South Africa happens to be a traumatised country in … Read More
Life Conversations with the Dalai Lama and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mind Life Institute
The second session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s conversations with key thought leaders on “Compassion, Interconnection, and Transformation” organized by the Mind & Life Institute at his residence in Dharamsala, India on October 30th and November 1st, 2019.
Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela receives third honorary doctorate, Stellenbosch University
Author: Corporate Communication [Alec Basson] – Stellenbosch University. Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Research Chair in Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University (SU), received an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University in Grahamstown on Friday (12 April 2019). This was her … Read More
Interview on Radio 702 on “Reflections on Transformation in South Africa” – 702
Koketso Sachane chats about navigating the complicated and complex journey towards dealing with racial tension. Should we be more militant in the how we deal with racial tension, or should we still follow Mandela’s non-violent strategy? In this new episode … Read More
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