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Students want more relatable examples, both of business leaders and of industry case studies.
Toyin Falola has turned 70.
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With over 200 publications to his name, his three most recent books give a sense of why he is so famous as a historian.
The integrity of the academic project should underscore universities’ work at all times.
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Where both capacity and integrity are weak, dysfunction is inevitable.
Loyalists of the ANC’s Radical Economic Transformation (RET) at the Olive Convention Centre in Durban.
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Despite its vagueness, the RET has become central to the contemporary ANC. It is destined to remain a powerful bloc within the party, and a constant constraint on Ramaphosa leadership.
A woman at a protest in support of victims of the Marikana massacre outside the South African parliament.
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Individual beliefs about the past and its relevance to the present strongly influenced awareness of the Marikana tragedy.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, right, receives the final State Capture Report from Chief Juistice Raymond Zondo.
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The commission could have made more of the evidence and been more categorical about when it thought criminality had taken place.
Students protesting over financial exclusion on March 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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South Africa’s economic challenges and the high number of students from poor and working class families call for a funding model that doesn’t create an affordability crisis for students and the state.
Protesters clash with police in February in Cape Town over student funding.
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Instead of being a democratic right and legitimate form of expression, protests have increasingly been framed as threats to national security.
The rights entrenched in South Africa’s progressive constitution work for some, but not those living in abject poverty.
Whites lived well under apartheid and it is not absurd for black leaders to want all to live in the same way.
Various crises have revealed that leaders’ decision-making roles have become more intense.
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Leading during a crisis: how leaders of higher education institutions can adapt and innovate during uncertain times.
A police van lies in flames after white farmers went on a rampage in Senekal, South Africa.
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There are individual activists and political groupings who believe violent action is legitimate and use the circumstances to actively drive such behaviour.
Student protests dubbed #FeesMustFall in 2016 in Pretoria.
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An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
Supporters of outgoing Senegalese President Macky Sall cheer during a rally ahead of presidential elections in 2019.
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Africa is now formally free of colonial rule. Yet, the aim of remembering and furthering the fight for self determination remains relevant as ever.
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It's important to focus on the challenges facing higher education before the reach a boiling point.
Onkgopotse Tiro.
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The book depicts how Onkgopotse Tiro’s time at Turfloop amounted to a revolutionising political script for generations to come.
Harold Wolpe showed how poor rural areas subsidised low wages of migrant workers’ wages.
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During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
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More than ever, South African universities need a new social contract that charts a way forward and begins to heal divisions.
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering the 2019 State of the Nation Address.
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Education remains one of government’s key priority sectors yet it continues to be in a crisis.
Students shut the University of the Witwatersrand down during protest action.
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South Africa students are protesting and have brought university campuses to a stand still. This could have been avoided.
South African students protest outside Parliament in support of students convicted over the #FeesMustFall protests.
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Certain criteria are needed to lead a university but additional knowledge is also useful.