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Pedro Mzileni

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Pedro Mzileni

Dr Pedro Mzileni is a sociology lecturer at the University of the Free State. He writes in his personal capacity

A photojournalist by formal training with a diploma in journalism and media studies, Mbulelo was a self-made intellectual and creative. Photo supplied

Lower the flag for struggle photojournalist and intellectual Mbulelo Linda

Linda used his pen and camera to expose the unspeakable crimes of the apartheid regime and continued to fight for equality after democracy

Public-facing SAPS communication has, for years, referenced social media as a tool in policing and service delivery. File Photo

Social media the battlefield for SA’s political parties in this elections

Even social media during the 2019 elections did not have as big a presence as it has in the 2024 elections

Fort Hare University, along with the Centre University of Technology, Free State, has been subjected to xenophobia accusations spread on social media. Photo: Supplied

Buhlungu’s mission is to fix Fort Hare but it comes at a high cost

The vice-chancellor faced danger in his bid to turn around a university overwhelmed by crime and with teaching, research and human resources in shambles.

(John McCann/M&G)

How Covid-19 will affect students

Universities and vocational colleges have the responsibility of protecting graduates’ futures

We must fight for Fort Hare’s unique project

Political calls for the vice-chancellor to resign misunderstand the mandate of a university

South African Students Congress members and student and staff collective Open Stellenbosch protest against the language policy at Stellenbosch University. Sasco is celebrating its 27th anniversary this month. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

Sasco must introspect to succeed

The student organisation must be involved in the transformation of education and the country

For the past two weeks students at several campuses embarked on a protest to call for the debt to be scrapped. (Gallo Images)

Market affects students’ lives

The state should intervene and rezone suburbs to lower property prices and rent

Victims of abuse, harassment and rape are too often confronted with obtuse bureaucrats behind the counter. (Media24/Lulama Zenzile)

Place of learning is a female fear factory

Unless the middle management at Nelson Mandela University changes, poor, black women students will remain threatened

Unless structural racism is addressed, inequalities in the law profession will persist

Blackness in a white world

Whiteness has spread its colour through knowledge production, teaching and learning

Work hard

Cultural barriers must fall

The exclusionary obstacles that international students face affect their academic performance.

Nelson Mandela University must be named in full. Nobody refers to Harvard University as HU

Name change is a game-changer

The Port Elizabeth university is no longer named after a metro but a man — Mandela