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30. August 2013
Lifetime global peace prize for Mandela
Former South African president Nelson Mandela was honoured on Monday with the inaugural Lifetime Award for Global Peace from the Mahathir Global Peace Foundation. Receiving the award on Mandela's...
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27. August 2013
South Africa's winemakers come to Berlin! South African Wine Show to Take Place at South African Embassy, 7/8 September 2013
On 7 and 8 September 2013, Wines of South will host 45 winemakers from South Africa, presenting more than 500 wines at the South African Embassy in Berlin....
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26. August 2013
Literature Festival Berlin: Poetry Night I with Antje Krog (South Africa) and Others, 5 September 2013, 19h30
Dorothea Herliany is considered the most important contemporary Indonesian poet. Reoccurring themes of her poetry are women as victims of violence. Antije Krog, who lives in Cape Town, is...
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26. August 2013
Literature Festival Berlin: »Here and Now«? J.M. Coetzee (South Africa / AUS) Reads from his Letter Exchange with Paul Auster, 10 September 2013, 21h00
Shortly after their first meeting in 2008, Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee began a correspondence that lasted over three years and left out barely anything: from family life to sports, from film...
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26. August 2013
Literature Festival Berlin: J.M. Coetzee (South Africa/AUS) Reads from his latest Novel »The Childhood of Jesus«, 9 September 2013, 19h30
In his latest novel, »The Childhood of Jesus«, J. M. Coetzee describes a subtle allegory about emigration, arrival and remembrance: Simón and a boy, David, arrive at a new, utopian land where they...
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08. August 2013
Symposium zu Ehren von Neville Alexander, 16. und 17. August 2013
Am Freitag und Samstag, 16. und 17. August 2013 veranstalten die FreundInnen von Neville Alexander ein Symposium über sein intellektuelles Erbe im BIS-Vortragsaal der Carl von Ossietzky Universität...
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02. August 2013
Women's Month: “A Centenary of Working Together towards Sustainable Women Empowerment and Gender Equality”
South Africa commemorates Women’s Month in August as a tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to...
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