APHP is pleased to have John Gribble, maritime archaeologist, as guest speaker at its AGM. John will speak about the SS Mendi, much in the news recently due to the centenary of the tragic WWI sinking. John has recently published a book on the SS Mendi and the incident in which more than six hundred men, mostly black South Africans troops from the South African Native Labour Corps died. The sinking of the SS Mendi became a focus of black resistance, a physical symbol of black South Africans’ long fight for social and political justice. John’s book (written together with Graham Scott) places this incident and the political, social, and cultural repercussions within the context of the wider treatment of British imperial subjects during the war.
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Cape Institute for Architecture 71 Hout Street, Cape Town Thursday 25 May 2017 17h30 (talk to follow the AGM). For more information email - info.wcape@aphp.org.za
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