OLLI101497 - The Pile of Rocks - An Honest Look at Apartheid [Online via Zoom]

Course Description

The Pile of Rocks - An Honest Look at Apartheid

Instructor: David Wesley Tonkin
Dates: Wednesdays, Sep 27-Oct 11
Time: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Location: Online via Zoom
 

This is a tough, honest and uncompromising journey through the wretched and violent history of apartheid. It was one of the bloodiest racial discords in the history of our planet. This is a history lesson with a personal “touch” from someone who lived in South Africa during some of apartheid’s worst moments; and has family members who actually fought and worked for freedom. It is a history with vehement and passionate differences in both opinion and interpretation of the facts. This history lesson tries to provide truth and balance to promote greater understanding and peace.
Maximum online registrants: 50

Instructor’s Bio:

David Wesley Tonkin has traversed the globe many times and has appreciatively gathered a rich tapestry of remarkable and matchless life-lessons, vivid memories, experiences and opinions. He is a retired Airborne Cavalry Officer who saw service in the South African-Cuban-Angolan Wars and as a UN peacekeeper in five African countries in the 1970’s and 1980’s. He has held entrepreneurial COO level and thought leader and strategic positions at global business training enterprises. In 2008, David was honored with the “Excellence and Innovation in Corporate Learning” Award at the 9th Annual Corporate University Awards. This highly coveted and prestigious global award is co-sponsored by The Wharton School of Business and Training Magazine. David’s eclectic range of lectures all benefit from his many years of global travel and the embracing of a rich collective of experiences and research to fuel his wide range of topical coverage.