PRESS INVITE:
Film Screening and International Guest Speaker

"Celebrating Oliver Tambo: Advancing the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination"
 
The Wits University Student Representative Council and BDS South Africa invite members of the press to an event this Wednesday (24 October) in celebration of Oliver Tambo:

"Celebrating Oliver Tambo: Advancing the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination"
 
DETAILS
Date: 24 October 2012
Time: 18h30
Venue: Humanities Post Graduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, East Campus, Wits
Hosts: Wits SRC, Wits branches of SASCO, YCL, ANCYL, PSC and BDS South Africa
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/502178596466509/
 
PROGRAM
Film Screening: "Have You Heard From Johannesburg" (view trailer here: http://tinyurl.com/92envx6)
Opening Message (will be delivered by representative): Ebrahim Ebrahim, Head of ANC International Relations
Message of support: Ribbon Mosholi, ANC International Relations
International guest speaker: Adri Nieuwhof, former Dutch anti-apartheid activist
 
This month the African National Congress celebrates its longest-serving president, Oliver Reginald Tambo. Tambo was central in building the successful international isolation of Apartheid South Africa, a strategy that the Palestine solidarity movement is now applying to Israel via the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. In support of the BDS campaign, last month, the University of the Witwatersrand Student Representative Council adopted a full academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

International guest speaker: Adri Neiwhof, from the Netherlands, was prominent in the international anti-apartheid movement during the 1980s. In 2006 Niewhof was presented with the South African Government Award for her "exceptional contribution" during the struggle against Apartheid. Adri Nieuwhof is now involved in the international Palestine solidarity movement, including advancing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel campaign. She is in South Africa for the ANC's International Solidarity Conference which starts on Thursday the 25th of October 2012. Here is a collection of articles written by Adri Nieuwhof: http://electronicintifada.net/people/adri-nieuwhof
 
>>> TO ARRANGE AN INTERVIEW WITH THE INTERNATIONAL GUEST SPEAKER, ADRI NIEUWHOF, YOU CAN CONTACT HER DIRECTLY ON 071 182 4642 <<<
 
ISSUED BY TOKELO NHLAPO ON BEHALF OF THE WITS SRC AND BDS SOUTH AFRICA
Adri Nieuwhof: 071 182 4642
Tokelo Nhlapo (Wits SRC): 074 585 8045 / 073 682 8039
Muhammed Desai (BDS South Africa): 084 211 9988


“The African National Congress feels most honored…to address the international community...on the important question of Palestine - a question with which the people of South Africa fully identify."
Oliver Tambo, 1992