Priscilla De Wet     BIOGRAPHY
February 2010
Priscilla De Wet
      Priscilla De Wet is an Indigenous Academic and Khoi-San activist. She has a Masters Degree in Indigenous Studies from the University of Tromsø in Northern Norway and is currently a PhD candidate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.

In 2003, she represented the Khoikhoi at the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples and completed the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) training program to enhance the Conflict Prevention and peace building Capacities of Minority and Indigenous Peoples representatives.

After ending a 15-year Teaching career, both in South Africa and Mozambique, she joined the Khoi-San movement in 2000 and in 2001 was elected to serve a 2-year term as Secretary of the National Khoi-San Consultative Conference. During this period the organization was actively involved in developmental projects, poverty alleviation program and engagements at national level with Government departments like Arts and Culture and Science and Technology. In 2002, the organization was actively involved in the Repatriation and interment of our ancestor, Sarah Baartman. Ms De Wet is currently the Secretary General of the Khoi-San Conference Facilitating Agency, which was formulated in 2008.

Ms De Wet is passionate about healing the memory of the First Nations Khoi-San Peoples so that their descendents can play a meaningful and dignified role in the building and reshaping of a new African paradigm.
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