- By http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/books/2012/05/06/the-alan-paton-award
Prishani Naidoo is a writer, researcher and lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Wits University. She is co-editor of the New South African Review and author of a number of academic and popular essays on a wide range of issues. Before joining Wits, she co-founded the research collective RED (Research and Education in Development). She has a long history of activism, beginning in the early 1990s, when she joined the ANC western areas branch in Durban. She has a BA with majors in sociology and English, and an honours degree in comparative literature. After university, Naidoo, along with others, helped found the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) in Joburg. She was awarded her PhD in 2011, focused on struggles for basic services in post-apartheid SA.
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Feinstein is to deliver a public lecture at Wits on 22 June 2015, entitled Journalists under Fire: War and the Emotional Health of Journalists.
This year marks 70 years since World War II ended and 97 years since the end of World War I. Wits University honours its students, staff and alumni who died in these wars and the Korean War (1950– 1953).
