Can South Africans be friends across ‘racial’ boundaries? Yes and no.
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.
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The University of Cape Town’s recent history matters as much as its past
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.
South Africa’s youth speak out on the high cost of finding work
The huge problem of youth unemployment in South Africa appears to be getting worse. New research will hopefully amplify their voices and inform more realistic interventions to combat the monster.
Students in South Africa feel unheard. Here’s one way to listen
When students are genuinely listened to and understood, and their proposed solutions to problems are taken seriously, real change can happen in university faculties.
South Africa: Ramaphosa administration lacks a long‑term perspective
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.
Marxist scholar Harold Wolpe’s ideas still speak to South Africa’s problems
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…
Lessons from Cuba about reclaiming symbols of a painful past
Cuba’s National Capitol Building has been reclaimed as the seat of the National Assembly 54 years after it was abandoned by the new revolutionary government. There are lessons in this for others.
Changing what universities teach is a process, not a single event
Curriculum transformation has to happen. But it has to go further than simply borrowing ideas and concepts.
What a new university in Africa is doing to decolonise social sciences
It’s important to shift educational discourse in and around Africa in a more equitable, representative direction.
Decolonisation involves more than simply turning back the clock
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.
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