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.
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Prevailing patriarchal and cultural norms in some societies prevent women victims of sexual crimes from talking out by shaming them.
The ethical and political reasons to avoid free higher education are unambiguous.
Both the state of the nation address and budget speech didn’t leave a sense that there has been much reflection on the depth of the economic malaise gripping South Africa.
Jacob Zuma was removed by the people’s effect, which connected the dots of corruption, a mismanaged state and rapacious capitalism.
Alternative scenarios for tertiary funding in South Africa are set out in a completely separate report from the Davis Tax Committee drawing from work done by the higher education department.
The returned musical “King Kong” embodies the germinating seeds of two potential and mutually exclusive South Africas.
Universities have the power to transform society not just through how they operate their campuses, but also through how they invest their endowments and pensions funds.
Former vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen argues that there is no future for South African universities.
The Andy Warhol exhibition embodies so many of the contradictions, complications and conflicts in both art and society in contemporary South Africa.
It’s important to shift educational discourse in and around Africa in a more equitable, representative direction.
The growth of new, vibrant, independent media sites and projects in South Africa have challenged conceptions of what a newsroom is. On limited budgets, some even fare better than mainstream media.
Generational rebellion is an enduring feature of all societies. Indeed, it is the dynamic through which societies renew themselves and move forward.
Author Miriam Tlali was an intersectional feminist long before this term was coined or its politics made fashionable in South Africa by student movements.
It’s easy to understand why the government treats each student demand as distinct. But these are complex issues and they are intertwined.
South Africa’s end of term report at the helm of the Open Government Partnership shows that it failed to meet key targets it set for itself. But it also shows improvements in some areas.
The push for decolonisation could ironically end up trapping universities in a colonised curriculum.
2017 promises to be another tough year as South African universities head into the uncertain terrain of further addressing and healing the divisions that have been exposed.
Young black South Africans have been raised to believe that friendship across the races is an indicator of progress. Now, a generation into democracy, they are questioning this.
South Africa’s problem is that its constitution is a perfect brochure of the nation it aspires to be. But the contractors entrusted with its future have an entirely different project in mind.
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Researcher, Social Sciences, University of Fort Hare
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Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation and Associate Professor of Education, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Researcher in Labour Studies and Education, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Fellow, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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PhD Scholar, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Chief Director: Tshwane University of Technology – Institute for Economic Research on Innovation; Node Head: DST/NRF SciSTIP CoE; and Professor Extraordinary: Stellenbosch University – Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology., Tshwane University of Technology
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of International Affairs and the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning), Carleton University
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ruth First Fellow, Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Academic Staff Development Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town
