How Commonwealth universities profited from Indigenous dispossession through land grants
In the 19th century, British colonial practices of using land to fund universities was a fragmented, but far-reaching, pattern of institutional development.
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South African elections: politics shuffled, but not transformed
The ruling ANC has been seriously challenged by the Democratic Alliance, but South African politics is still about white privilege and black exclusion.
Why Biko’s Black Consciousness philosophy resonates with youth today
Black youth are grappling with the question of the meaning of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa. They seek an antidote to their reality wherein blackness continues to be mocked and marginalised.
After coronavirus, universities must collaborate with communities to support social transition
For many people, universities remain institutions embodying past imperial practices. Universities have an important role to play in society, and they must do so with society.
Black feminist writers in South Africa raise their voices in a new book
Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
How the failed ideals of 1970s activists haunt post‑apartheid South Africa
The egalitarian society envisioned by political activists and thinkers Rick Turner and Steve Biko has not been realised. But, they continue to inspire critiques of post-apartheid South Africa.
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