PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

"THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA:  LIFE AND LEARNING AFTER APARTHEID" 

	Mbulelo Mzamane, president of the University of Fort Hare in
South Africa and a prominent South African liberation activist and
scholar, will speak in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the
University of Virginia at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30. His talk,
titled "The New South Africa: Life and Learning After Apartheid," is
free and open to the public. 

	Mzamane was a co-founder, along with Steve Biko and others,
of the South African Black Consciousness Movement. He spent thirty
years in exile teaching, writing, and organizing for the liberation
movement, in various parts of Africa, Europe, and the United States.
After liberation he returned to South Africa to become professor of
English studies and comparative literature at the University of Fort
Hare. On September 1, 1994, he was appointed Fort Hare's president.
Fort Hare is South's Africa's oldest and most prestigious
historically black university. Its alumni include such leaders as
Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and Robert Mugabe.

	The Woodson Institute and U.Va. President's office are
co-sponsors of the lecture.

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January 28, 1997