A Time of Discovery and Growth – Frederick (Jerry) Streets – South Africa 2008, 2010, and 2012
The opportunity to travel through out the beautiful and fascinating country of South Africa to do research, study, and teach at the University of Pretoria and the University of the Free State contributed to my personal and professional growth as a clinical social worker and pastoral theologian. While I was there, I was able to […]
Truth & Reconciliation – Doris M Schoenhoff – South Africa 1996
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began a four-day hearing in Durban, South Africa on May 7, 1996. Perpetrators and victims spoke about the suffering, torture, and murder under apartheid. What follows are brief excerpts from the diary I kept during my year at what is now the University of KwaZulu-Natal. […]
The Power of Forgiveness – Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters Denu – South Africa 2002 & Ethiopia 2018-2019
During my Fulbright experience in South Africa I was engaged in research focused on the intersection of race, class, and gender. While there, in an effort to better understand the ability of Black South Africans to forgive the atrocities done to them, I began reading Bishop Desmond Tutu’s book No Future Without Forgiveness. Part way […]
Tim Perry – South Africa 2002
An Ordinary Country? When we close the books on 2020, it will be measured not just in tragic loss of life to covid-19, but by a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, and the continued decline of democracy worldwide. Amid these trends, my thoughts have turned to the late Dr. Neville Alexander, the anti-Apartheid activist […]