Book now for next week’s Hoernlé Memorial Lecture on real “transformation”

Daily FriendStaff Writer · 9 November 2026 at 02:00

His lecture is titled "The Future We Share: A New Approach to Transformation". Gumede – an associate professor at the Wits School of Governance and founder of the Democracy Works Foundation – argues that transformation has in many respects been captured, manipulated and weaponised for ideological…
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