Student activists are losing faith in the legacies of anti-apartheid heroes like Nelson Mandela. Perhaps all South Africans should do the same. It may just be what the country needs for its future.
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The history of artisanal training and employment in South Africa has been one of systematic social exclusion and inequality.
Collaboration is one of the keys to making African science soar: when the continent’s universities work together, they can produce amazing results.
The system of apartheid is long gone. But its legacy of poor funding for historically black universities - and of planning that banished black universities to cities’ margins - remains.
Schools need to adapt and evolve in changing circumstances and conditions as their students’ demographic composition shifts.
Teachers in South Africa need far more high quality professional development, policy direction and support to take social cohesion from concept to classroom
Decolonising the curriculum is far more nuanced than replacing theorists and authors. Universities first need to define how they approach the development and dissemination of curricula.
South Africa’s university students have shown that they can have an impact on the political landscape. That’s why it’s so important that they exercise their right to vote.
In South Africa there’s a value judgment attached to students who take part in universities’ English for Academic Purposes programmes. This shouldn’t be the case.
Decolonisation of the curriculum doesn’t have to mean the destruction of Western knowledge, but it’s decentring. Such knowledge should become one way of knowing rather than the only way.
Taking stock of modernist buildings and their potential for reuse is a necessary public project in Johannesburg. A new book that tells the stories of reuse in this African metropolis can help do that.
Sections of South Africa’s student movements regard transformation as a complete failure. Responding to this perceived failure, some have adopted an anti-democratic stance.
South Africa needs to build a mental infrastructure that will allow people to individually and collectively engage in a bold, courageous and trutfhul dialogue.
Women students have not been afraid to embrace the label of feminist, leading a wave of university protests in South Africa during 2015 and 2016.
There is a risk that because of fatigue, frustration and silencing the important moment created by South Africa’s student movements will pass by with no proper, long-term structural change.
Free public higher education is possible and necessary. It’s also realistic, if it’s based on thorough research, consultation and students giving back through community service after graduation.
Curriculum transformation has to happen. But it has to go further than simply borrowing ideas and concepts.
Land issues are increasingly at the centre of politics in South Africa, but the debate needs fresh ideas.
For law faculties, the transformative vision embodied in South Africa’s constitution provides a potent driver for change. So what does a transformed law faculty look like?
South African labour unions have shown themselves to be effective in translating the prescripts of the law into benefits for their members. This is particularly true in the public sector.
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Law, New York Law School
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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South African Research Chair in Teacher Education; Director of Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE) & Professor of International Education and Development Policy (University of Sussex, UK), Cape Peninsula 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 English Language Teaching and Literacy Development, Rhodes University
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Conservation and Applied Resource Economics, University of Kent
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Economics and South African Research Chair in the Economics of Social Policy, Stellenbosch University
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Environmental Social Scientist, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg
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Economist, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
