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Drawing on its proud experience in the liberation struggle, the university is aware of a distinctive academic role in helping build an equitable and dynamic society. In particular it aims to: advance and protect the independence of the academic enterprise.
Design curricular and research programmes appropriate to its southern African context.
Further global perspectives among its staff and students, thereby strengthening intellectual life and contributing to South Africa’s reintegration in the world community.
Assist educationally disadvantaged students gain access to higher education and succeed in their studies.
Nurture and use the abilities of all in the university community.
Develop effective structures and conventions of governance, which are democratic, transparent and accountable.
Seek racial and gender equality and contribute to helping the historically marginalised participate fully in the life of the nation.
Encourage and provide opportunities for lifelong learning through programmes and courses.
Help conserve and explore the environmental and cultural resources of the southern African region, and to encourage a wide awareness of these resources in the community.
Co-operate fully with other stakeholders to develop an excellent, and therefore transformed, higher education system.
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The veteran liberation struggle activist brings gravitas to every position he occupies.
The way a parent or caregiver responds in this situation is extremely important.
Volunteering can help people gain soft skills, improving their labour market prospects.
Humans are ‘noisy neighbours’ whose behaviour has long lasting ecological and evolutionary effects on other species.
The country’s long-dominant party has been losing support in elections.
The new book is structured around apartheid profiteers, war profiteers, state capture profiteers, welfare profiteers, failing auditors, conspiring consultants and bad lawyers.
There are several reasons that TB patients don’t or can’t adhere to their treatment.
The decision is likely to be relied on by courts to order the Department of Correctional Services to grant offenders parole.
The overcrowded conditions of prisons make them a high-risk environment for the spread of infectious diseases such as TB.
Challenging myths about heterosexual white South African men, Prinsloo published four books of short stories in 12 years.
Consolidating peace efforts across the vast territory has proved difficult for close to three decades. Scholars explain why.
Predictive policing has improved in leaps and bounds and become increasingly automated thanks to big data, data mining and powerful computers.
There are ‘jewels’ among the piles of ash that remain once sugarcane’s fibrous material is burned.
The enigmatic envelope protein seems to hold the key to understanding why some human coronaviruses cause more severe disease than others.
Though child marriage rates are declining globally, the practice remains worryingly common in some African countries.
Plants have evolved several ways to deal with heavy metals that might otherwise poison or kill them.
South African legislators are steadily moulding indigenous laws into the image of western laws.
The domestic workers’ place of work, as a private household, is difficult to monitor. It is therefore challenging for government to enforce current legislation.
A comparison of star-forming galaxies suggests, surprisingly, that dark matter and visible matter do interact – taking us closer to understanding what keeps the galaxies together.
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Lecturer, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Manager, Zone Learning, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Law, University of the Western Cape
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, University of the Western Cape
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SARChI: Human Capabilities, Social Cohesion and the Family, University of the Western Cape
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PhD Candidate, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in Mathematics, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in economics, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Western Cape
