From our friends at the HLS Program on Negotiation: As noted in an earlier post, Michael Young will be speaking at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law on March 7. The evening before, Mr. Young will give a public lecture at the Harvard Law School. If you are in Boston, please join us!

“The Secret Talks That Led to the Fall of Apartheid”

Speaker: Michael Young
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Time: 7:30 – 9 PM
Where: Langdell North, Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Ave.
Event is free and open to the public; Refreshments will be served.

In the 1980s Michael Young was head of communications for Consolidated Gold Fields, a British mining company with significant assets in South Africa. At the request of African National Congress President Oliver Tambo, Young initiated a series of covert negotiations between representatives of the exiled ANC and the powerful Afrikaner elite between 1986 and 1990, which led to the end of the apartheid system and the release of Nelson Mandela.