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Jonny Steinberg
Jonny Steinberg, Author of ‘Winnie and Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage’ in Discussion with Judge Dennis Davis

Tuesday 3.10.2023

Summary

All you ever wanted to know about the Mandelas. Judge Dennis Davis sits down with Jonny Steinberg to discuss his recent book about the Mandelas, their life, and their marriage.

Jonny Steinberg

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Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy. He is a two-time winner of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, South Africa’s premier literary prize, and an inaugural winner of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize. Until 2020, he was professor of African studies at Oxford University. He currently teaches part-time at the Council on African Studies at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and is visiting professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) in Johannesburg.

Judge Dennis Davis

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Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.