Controversy swirls around Stellenbosch Conference

By Shannon Ebrahim | Published Dec 4, 2018

This week controversy erupted in South Africa and internationally around the involvement of Israeli academics in a conference on historical trauma hosted by the University of Stellenbosch, organised by the well respected academic and author Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. By the end of the week the New York Times was even asking questions of the conference’s funders - the Mellon Foundation, and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation - as the debate raged following a statement put out by the Palestine Solidari. . .