6th Hugh Lewin Memorial Human Rights Lecture with Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh (Nash 2006)

St John’s College welcomed Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh (Nash 2006) as the special guest speaker at the 6th Hugh Lewin Human Rights Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, 26 March.
Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Wits University. He was SRC president at UCT in 2010. He holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.
His first book, Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics (2017), won the City Press-Tafelberg Nonfiction Award and was accompanied by a rap album of the same name. His second book, The New Apartheid (2021), was one of the bestselling books in South Africa that year. Author Mark Gevisser described him as ‘one of the finest writers of his generation’.
He hosts the prime-time current affairs show ‘Unfiltered’ on SABC News and founded the popular current affairs KZbin channel SMWX.
He matriculated from St John’s College in 2006, where he was Second Prefect.
Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh and Hugh Lewin share a commonality in using Literature as a form of activism.