Premesh Lalu is a researcher and former director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape. In 2022, Polity Press in the UK published his book Undoing Apartheid. Lalu’s films, Looking for Ned (2019, 13 mins) and The Double Futures of Athlone (2022, 58 mins), were screened at the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
Board Member
Premesh Lalu
Historian, researcher and filmmaker, former director of CHR UWC, author of Undoing Apartheid, and documentary filmmaker screened at Encounters Festival.
Highlights
- Director: The Double Futures of Athlone (2022, 58 min)
- Director: Looking for Ned (2019, 13 min)
- Author of Undoing Apartheid (Polity Press, 2022)
- Former Director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape