WiSER

Two years of writing on trust across Africa’s financial, digital & political systems—how fieldwork & policy reshaped thinking on digital ID, payments & internet infrastructure. shorturl.at/RXSvB

Prof. Hlonipha Mokoena delivered the keynote at the 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards, celebrating 35 years of the non-fiction prize and 24 years of the fiction award. This year’s non-fiction panel was led by Kevin Ritchie with Hlonipha Mokoena and Sewela Langeni.

The final 2025 edition of Trust in Transition explores how trust is being stretched across political, economic, and digital life. As the year ends, we show how institutions meant to hold societies together are being tested and reinvented. URL: shorturl.at/RhQoE

Culture Review Magazine event at Breeze Block, Brixton, Jhb! 🗓 Friday 28 Nov 🕕 6pm THE NIGHTWATCHMAN: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa, a book on Zulu men in colonial dress will be discussion with Kwezi Gule, chief curator of the Jhb Art Gallery and others.

Currencies, colonies economies and the making of the South African State 🗓 27 Nov 2025 💻: For any info and queries: laura.phillips@wits.ac.za 🔗: shorturl.at/LA7ri

💧 Interdisciplinary Conversations on Water – Final 2025 Event Join Wits Water & WiSER for our closing roundtable of the year on water futures. across communities 🗓 Thursday, October 30
🕐 1–2pm
📍 WiSER Seminar Room (Wits University)
🔗 shorturl.at/InJiP

Under Pressure: Botanical Hauntings
 Curated by Christine DiParktownexhibition where plants, printmaking, memory & absence meet. Inspired by the Plant Lives seminar series by Prof Hofmeyr & Prof Nuttall Opening with Prof Nuttall
🗓️ 1 (5pm) - 2 Nov (12pm) 📍Parktown

Hlonipha Mokoena’s latest book, ‘The Nightwatchman’, Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa, was discussed yesterday evening, with Achille Mbembe and John Wright at WiSER.

Join WiSER and Wits University Press this evening for an engaging book discussion with Hlonipha Mokoena, author of 🗓 TONIGHT, 16 October 2025
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 WiSER Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building 📩 RSVP: Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za

Discover how books, plants, and climate intertwine 🌿
 Join Prof. Isabel Hofmeyr for the 2025 Panizzi Lectures at the British Library.
 📅 Oct 27, 30 & Nov 3 🎟️ In person or online: 🔗 events.bl.uk/events/books-i…

Chaired by WiCDS PhD candidate Sarah Boden, we began the day with an extraordinary discussion focusing on post-colonial Russian critical approaches to Indigenous identity politics, epistemic injustice, and securitisation through emergent decolonial lenses.

📖 Book | The Nightwatchman Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa ✒️ Hlonipha Mokoena 9781776149353

WISER’s Trust Project presents: An Online Panel Discussion
CRYPTO IN AFRICA Moderated by: Laura Phillips 🗓️ 8 October 2025
🕕 6 PM (SAST)
👉 Register here: shorturl.at/VpYE8

WiSER and Wits University Press invite you to join us for a book discussion THE NIGHTWATCHMAN by Hlonipha Mokoena Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa 🗓️ 16th October 2025
🕕 6pm 
📍WiSER Seminar Room, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building.

Happening now: Screening of The Quiet Heroes of Sudan on emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) at @WitsWiSER

Invite | WiSER invites you to a panel discussion on Crypto in Africa Online panel discussion with Babatunde Okunoye, Lindsey Schutters, Gareth Stobie, and moderated by Laura Phillips on  🗓️: 8 October 2025, 🕕: 6.00pm. 🔗 Reg: url-shortener.me/qr/68CU

WiSER invites you to a book discussion of Clawing back Redistribution in Precarious Times by Deborah James 🗓️: Oct 2025 🕛: 12 .30 - 14.00 📍: WiSER Seminer Room

Join WiCDS on Extremist Mythologies 🗓️ 14 - 16 October 2025, 📍 @WitsUniversity, RSVP: extremistmythologies.com

WiSER & Wits Water warmly invite you to Interdisciplinary Conversations on Water Convo 8: Curses & Death Blows: Water, Infrastructures & Governance in Joburg Prof Breckenridge: Rethinking the curse of mine-financed urban infrastructures Prof Everatt: Death by water in Hillbrow

Reminder - Thulani Mkhize will be in conversation with Prof Homeyr @WitsWiSER seminar room. Starting soon.