Date and Time
February 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Availability
Open to Stanford faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars
RSVP required by 5PM February 17

Speaker
Anthony Heard - Former special adviser in the Government and Presidency of South Africa and exEditor at The Cape Times

Anthony Heard was the Editor of the Cape Times during the apartheid struggle and was arrested and charged under security laws for defying the white Nationalist government and publishing a full-page interview with Oliver Tambo, the banned and "silenced" President in exile of the African National Congress. For this, Heard was awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom by the World Association of Newspapers in 1986. Fired by his paper in 1987, he went on to become an internationally-syndicated freelance columnist, including for the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He joined the government of Nelson Mandela on the advent of democracy in 1994, first as a ministerial special adviser and then joining the Presidency in 2000 as a communications specialist and special adviser, at deputy director-general level. Having recently left the Presidency, Heard is visiting the USA to take up a public policy scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC from 1 March through 30 June, 2010. He is preparing a personal memoir of his 16 years' advising government in South Africa. His previous book, The Cape of Storms (Univ. of Arkansas Press 1990), dealt with his experiences as an embattled editor in the apartheid era.

Co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies