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Coffee and Croissants – Topical Talks<br />
24<br />
Sun 11 08:30 – 10:00<br />
Yellow Press Mark II<br />
Alec Hogg<br />
How do we sort media’s trusted<br />
wheat from the fake news chaff?<br />
Providing parallels with the Yellow<br />
Press era of a century ago, Hermanus<br />
resident Alec will share advice on<br />
how you can avoid becoming<br />
a ‘useful idiot’ serving the agendas<br />
of well-funded vested interests.<br />
Alec has been immersed in digital<br />
media since 1996, first through<br />
his online publishing pioneer,<br />
Moneyweb, followed by the launch<br />
of BizNews in 2013. He has enjoyed<br />
a front-row seat as the news<br />
environment transformed from<br />
a trusted source of information into<br />
today’s ‘anything goes’ chaos.<br />
Venue: Hermanus Golf Club<br />
Tickets: R200 | R180 (early bird)<br />
Mon 12 08:30 – 10:00 Tues 13 08:30 – 10:00<br />
Mandela and South African<br />
Freedom<br />
Sidney Luckett<br />
Sidney will talk about his involvement<br />
in the Anti-Apartheid struggle and<br />
his role in the formation of the United<br />
Democratic Front (UDF) in the 1980s.<br />
He will summarise the UDF’s vision<br />
of a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic<br />
South Africa and its key activities,<br />
including the important role of the<br />
media (especially photography) and<br />
symbolism, with two focal points:<br />
the person of Nelson Mandela<br />
and the Freedom Charter.<br />
The Anti-Apartheid struggle will also<br />
be compared with contemporary<br />
Climate Change campaigns – both<br />
their strengths and weaknesses.<br />
Venue: Hermanus Golf Club<br />
Mandela and Kurdish<br />
Freedom<br />
Sidney is an academic, activist and former director in provincial government,<br />
who now combines his social and environmental research and activism with<br />
photography.<br />
‘I am part of the Kurdish struggle.<br />
I am one of you.’ – Mandela at<br />
a Kurdish Festival.<br />
Kurdistan straddles Turkey, Syria, Iraq<br />
and Iran. All of those countries have<br />
racist, sexist, and anti-democratic<br />
regimes.<br />
Sidney will focus on the vision of<br />
the Kurdish Freedom Movement,<br />
captured in the slogan Jin, Jiyan,<br />
Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom)<br />
which has spread across Europe,<br />
sparked by the death in detention<br />
of Jina (Mahsa) Amini (in Iran) for<br />
not wearing her hijab correctly.<br />
Tickets: R200 | R180 (early bird)
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