Poetry competition
As part of the North West University's Race Awareness Week (RAW) 2021 program, we encouraged students and staff to submit their own work of poetry!
The theme for this year's event was: "The intersection of race and economics: Your lived experience".
Now it is your time to vote for your favorite poem! Watch the submissions here.
Voting closes on 6 May 2021 @13h00. Vote here.
The winning poem will receive a R1000 Takealot voucher!
You can only vote for 1 poem, and you can only vote once. This means there will be an overall winner voted for by NWU staff and students; so when casting your vote please watch all the text and video submissions.
The winner will be announced during the last event of RAW on the 7th of May 2021 at the Ilobolo panel discussion from 10h00-11h30.
If you would like to sign up for the Lobola panel discussion and see the winner of the competition live, you can RSVP here.
Programme for RAW 2021
Friday 9 April - 21 April
- Submit your own poems for the RAW 2021 competition by clicking this link: you could win a R1000 Takealot voucher.
Each and every session during RAW will have a lucky draw where you could win 10G of data! Register today!
Monday: 3 May 2021
- Time: 10:00-11:30
- Topic: How to be an antiracist: reflecting on the work Prof. Ibram X. Kendi - Facilitated by Mr Sysman Motloung
- This event will discuss the book titled "How to be an anti-racist", as well as the topic more broadly. A chapter of the book will be made available on the RAW efundi site, which you can click below to be added to. The entire book is also available in the NWU library across all 3 campuses. While it is not necessary for you to have read the chapter to join us, it would be great if you did!
- Read more about this session...
- To get a preview of some of the ideas click here
Monday: 3 May 2021
- Time: 13:00-14:30
- Topic: Mr Ndumiso Hadebe webinar - The journey of a young, black professional in the South African financial sector
- Read more about this session...
- To see a recent contribution from Ndumiso Hadebe click here
Tuesday: 4 May 2021
- Time: 10:00-11:30
- Topic: Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe - How race intersects with the economy: "Its not how they see you, it's how you see them"
- Read more about this session...
- You can read more about Dr Saurombe by clicking here
Tuesday: 4 May 2021
- Time: 13:00-14:30
- Topic: Land reform discussion with Prof Elmien Du Plessis and Prof Wandile Sihlobo
- Read more about this session...
- You can watch Prof Du Plessis on this topic, by clicking here
- You can see Prof Sihlobo’s contribution on this issue more broadly, by clicking here
Wednesday: 5 May 2021
- Time: 10:00-11:30
- Topic: Prof Nomalanga Mkhize - The end of Azania: How the global corporation killed the ancient African market economy and lessons for us today.
- Read more about this session...
- You can watch an interview with Prof Mkhize by clicking here
Wednesday: 5 May 2021
- Time: 13:00-14:30
- Topic: Book Club - Black Tax; Burden or Ubuntu? edited by Niq Mhlongo - Facilitated by Mrs Kgomotso Malinga
- This event will discuss the book titled "Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu", as well as the topic more broadly. A chapter of the book will be made available on the RAW efundi site, which you can click below to be added to. The entire book is also available in the NWU library across all 3 campuses. While it is not necessary for you to have read the chapter to join us, it would be great if you did!
- Read more about this session...
Thursday: 6 May 2021
- Time: 10:00-11:30
- Topic: Book Club - What if there were no whites in South Africa by Ferial Haffajee - facilitated by Dr Carike Claassen and Ms Roslyn Lodewyk
- This event will discuss the book titled "What if there were no whites in South Africa", as well as the topic more broadly. A chapter of the book will be made available on the RAW efundi site, which you can click below to be added to. The entire book is also available in the NWU library across all 3 campuses. While it is not necessary for you to have read the chapter to join us, it would be great if you did!
- Read more about this session...
Thursday 6 May 2021
- Time: 13:00-14:30
- Topic: Cross disciplinary panel: bringing race, gender and economics into dialogue with one another: Dr Lindokuhle Njozela, Dr Natalia Flores, Mx Emil Gouws and Dr Wemar Strydom.
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Friday: 7 May 2021
- Time: 10:00-11:30
- Topic: Ilobolo round table discussion: economics and your lived reality - Facilitated by Mrs Phindile Mdluli-Maziya and Dr Precious Mncayi
- Read more about this session...
Health Sciences initiative
Please take a look at the initiative created in collaboration with the Faculty of Health Sciences on the intersection between race, health and economics.
