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.
Robert Mugabe, former President of Zimbabwe, addressing media in Harare, in July 2018.
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Robert Mugabe’s years of playing one group off against the other to favour himself finally wore too thin in 2017.
The demand for free higher education is one of the key factors that have led to competing waves of thinking and organisation in the sector.
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South Africa’s universities are detached from society because of a waning public and civic sector that once fueled the anti-apartheid struggle. Here’s what can be done.
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It’s time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.
Historically, Khoisan people from southern Africa were used as scientific subjects in racist experiments.
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Modern western science must be stripped of the epistemological and methodological privileges it enjoys.
Protests by students in New Delhi after the suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula.
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Text books are being rewritten and the history of caste in India questioned as ‘decolonisation’ has become the rhetoric of militant nationalism.
Many remote Indigenous communities are not connected to the electrical grid and produce their own electricity using diesel generators.
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A new federal program aims to reduce diesel-dependency in remote Indigenous communities. But are these communities able to do this on their own terms?
Conservative lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have raised fears that Islamic fundamentalists want to impose Sharia on Americans.
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There is no inherent tension between Islam and democratic values. Like any use of religion in politics, the application of Sharia as law depends on who is using it – and why.
Sports science needs to race towards a different approach.
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The Greek body - white, muscular, masculine and middle class - dominated as an ideal type. This dominance continues today.
A process of making knowledge in the South is underway.
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In the past few decades, there’s been more critique of global knowledge inequalities and the global North’s dominance.
If passed as is, the South African Copyright Amendment Bill will lead to revenue and job losses in the publishing industry.
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If South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill is accepted as is, it will be detrimental to academic content production.
African students at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1964 protesting against being called “savages” in parliament.
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African universities were key actors in developing post-colonial and decolonised societies.
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A decolonising curriculum would consider ways in which writers negotiate linguistic, literary and cultural legacies of the colonial era.
UCT will honour Sarah Baartman by naming a hall after her.
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Sarah Baartman’s name can be elevated to the highest point of the University of Cape Town’s campus, but if her legacy isn’t built into each classroom and interaction the honour is hollow.
The renewable energy industry can also create jobs.
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The idea of a renewable energy transition is exciting. It opens up space to think about enhancing democracy and decolonization.
Asking questions can create new ways of teaching and learning.
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It’s vital for academics in South Africa to start asking deep questions that examine what decolonialism could look like in their teaching.
Diego Garcia, as seen from space.
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The UK is increasingly isolated in its claim to the Chagos Islands. If an international court finds in Mauritius’s favour, the implications could be huge.
The myth of the empty sea is largely the product of European imperialisms and their map-making.
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A new project takes a different look at the role of oceans.
The late V.S. Naipaul is a celebrated son of Trinidad and Tobago. But he is also a prodigal son.
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Author V.S. Naipaul, who died on Aug. 11, both scorned and mirrored his Caribbean origins. At the University of the West Indies, students must reconcile this conflicted titan’s literary legacy.
Empires massively affected the development of science.
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This episode of the In Depth Out Loud podcast outlines the importance of finding a way to remove the inequalities promoted by modern science.