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Lidija Marelic received an Honours Degree in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand, with a research project centred on semiotics in directing for theatre. She has performed at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown on several occasions including in a one woman show which she wrote, and directed. She devised and directed her own work, Waiting for Jack, which has had numerous successful runs. Her most recent direction is an African story, Flames on Manhood Mountain. She was awarded the Percy Tucker award at Wits for Best Director in 2011, and has worked with the likes of James Cunningham, Gerard Bester, Gys De Villiers, Dr. John Kani and Warren Nebe. She regularly presents workshops on performance at schools and for the underground Johannesburg scene.
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Feinstein is to deliver a public lecture at Wits on 22 June 2015, entitled Journalists under Fire: War and the Emotional Health of Journalists.
This year marks 70 years since World War II ended and 97 years since the end of World War I. Wits University honours its students, staff and alumni who died in these wars and the Korean War (1950– 1953).
