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Rhodes was an ardent white supremacist who believed Africans to be inferior. He intended his scholarships to be for white males only. This has since fallen away.

South Africa’s universities have been told to set their own fee increases for 2017. That’s good news for institutions, but it hasn’t been well-received by many students.

Former vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen argues that there is no future for South African universities.

It’s time South Africa stopped stereotyping its young people as being disinterested and morally bankrupt and started engaging them.

Leading during a crisis: how leaders of higher education institutions can adapt and innovate during uncertain times.

The podcast has emerged as a promising medium for facilitating ongoing debate about issues that need more time than mainstream, profit-oriented media or the changing tides of hashtags might allow.

The Andy Warhol exhibition embodies so many of the contradictions, complications and conflicts in both art and society in contemporary South Africa.

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.

The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism.

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.