{"id":5198,"date":"2019-06-05T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T07:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/spu\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2022-01-26T21:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:16:26","slug":"humanities-dr-benneyworth-presents-on-liberation-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/humanities-dr-benneyworth-presents-on-liberation-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic presents on liberation struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/project\/South-African-Liberation-Struggle-1961-1965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Garth Benneyworth<\/a>, a notable authority on the liberation struggle, presented his paper, Reconstructing the Raid, to a conference which brought together veterans from the 1960s era and seven international academics who engaged in a two-day conversation on that era of the liberation struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Benneyworth\u2019s paper was based on his pioneering and original research done on Liliesleaf and the papers published in 2017. Liliesleaf Farm, located in Johannesburg, was a farm used secretly by African National Congress activists in the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conference, \u201cThe Rivonia Generation and the Turn to Armed Struggle in South Africa\u201d, was hosted by the Liliesleaf A Place of Liberation, Rivonia in Johannesburg in March this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The keynote speaker on the day was General Siphiwe Nyanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sharing a moment of camaraderie: Garth Benneyworth, Nicolas Wolpe and Mac Maharaj.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Garth Benneyworth, a notable authority on the liberation struggle, presented his paper, Reconstructing the Raid, to a conference which brought together veterans from the 1960s era and seven international academics who engaged in a two-day conversation on that era <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/humanities-dr-benneyworth-presents-on-liberation-struggle\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27908,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/27908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}