Our country has endured many challenges in 2022, with more uncertainty surrounding the ANC conference in December. The scars of Covid, the war in Ukraine and economic recession are still fresh. Closer to home, Stellenbosch University has been rocked by the Khampepe report.

We believe that we have a responsibility as leaders to make sense of our traumatised situation, and help our students, alumni, and society to find a sense of peace in an uncertain world.

BOOK NOW to join our conversation on national healing.  

Date: Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Time: 18:00 – 19:30

Venue: Protea room, Stellenbosch Business School

This hybrid event will be livestreamed via Zoom

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

South African National Research Chair: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma

Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela holds the South African National Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. Her work focuses mainly on two strands of research. The first is exploring ways in which the impact of the dehumanising experiences of oppression and violence continues to play out in the next generation in the aftermath of historical trauma. For her second research area, she expands her earlier work on the relationship between remorse and forgiveness and probes the role of empathy more deeply by engaging a perspective that makes transparent the interconnected relationship among empathy, Ubuntu and the embodied African phenomenon of inimba—a Xhosa word that loosely translated means “umbilical cord”. The goal is to find a richer, deeper and more complex understanding of empathy that takes into account an African knowledge archive.

Her recent honours include: fellowship at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute as the 2020-2021 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow; Honorary Doctor of Laws from Rhodes University (2019), and Honorary Doctor of Theology from the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany (2017). Since 2017, she has been serving as Research Advisor and Global Scholar at Queen’s University, Belfast, affiliated with the Senator George Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.

Prof Anita Bosch

Research Chair: Women at Work

Anita Bosch is a Professor at the Stellenbosch Business School, where she holds a research chair dedicated to the study of women at work. She believes that gender — a master identity of every person — provides a relatable gateway to grasping the complexities of workplace diversity, inclusion and, ultimately, belonging. She teaches in the Leadership and Organisational Behaviour tracks.

She is the author and editor of a number of public reports, including the Womensreport.africa, Women on South African boards: Facts, fiction and forward thinking; Gender pay gap guide for the already converted; and Winds of change: Trade as a catalyst for board gender diversity. Her publications also feature in academic books and journals, such as the special issue about Women in Business in Africa of the SA Journal of Business Management; the Journal of Managerial Psychology; the Journal of Personality Assessment; the International Journal of HRM; and the Journal of Business Ethics.

Anita regularly featured in the media. She has been invited twice to present her work to the South African parliament. She is a gender equality facilitator for the United Nations Global Compact, a non-executive director of the National Business Initiative, and a Research Fellow at Vlerick Business School, Belgium.

Prior to joining Stellenbosch, Anita was the lead convenor of the Women in the Workplace research programme at the University of Johannesburg, where she also taught and also held a number of leadership roles. Before her university career, Anita worked and held leadership positions in accountancy, human resource development, and pay systems in the private sector