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At the Uruguayan piano recital (from left to right): the Director of the Latin American Section, Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr
Lenin Shope, the Uruguayan Ambassador and Mrs de Aldabalde, and Mrs Shope
BRAZILIAN HISTORIAN AT UNISA
Pio Penna Filho, a professor of History at the Federal
University of Mato Grosso in Brazil, spent three
months at Unisa this year while engaged in research
towards a PhD on Foreign Relations between South
Africa and Brazil (1947-1996) at the University of
BrasõÂ lia (Unb).
At Unisa Pio Penna was a guest of the Centre and
of the Department of History. He was able to collect
important material at Unisa, the National Archives and
the Department of Foreign Affairs.
His supervisor Prof Jose Fla vio Sombra Saraiva, a
specialist in African History, is an associate of long
standing of the Unisa Centre for Latin American
Studies.
The completed thesis will be of great importance for
scholars interested in bilateral relations between Brazil
and South Africa.
UCLAS FELLOW REPORTS BACK
At a UCLAS seminar on 13 September Ana Agostino,
the UCLAS Research Fellow for 2000, presented a
paper on the subject of her fellowship research
`Global Barter Network ± new social and economic
relationships within a post development era?' This
was one of the series intended by UCLAS to draw
Pio Penna Filho
decision makers' attention to experiences in Latin
America relevant to the RDP.
In her presentation she described the way in
which people in several South American countries,
82 ISSN 0256±6060±Unisa Lat. Am. Rep. 16(2) 2000