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/ 20 December 2003

Journey into the unknown

For South Africans, one lesson there is that revolutions are not once-and-for-all-time eruptions: the ones that matter — that enable the enactment of fundamental human rights for all — need constant renewal, rethinking. Kader Asmal’s Revolutionary Express train departs on January 1, writes David Macfarlane.

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/ 2 October 2002

Students say no to mergers

Most university and technikon students do not support the Cabinet-endorsed tertiary mergers as the chief means of restructuring higher education. This is the conclusion of a survey detailed in the latest edition of the <i>Quarterly Review of Education and Training in South Africa</i>.

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/ 19 August 2002

Unisa’s moral stand

Concluding a torrid meeting on Wednesday, the Unisa council voted overwhelmingly that the university would not pay the legal costs its chairperson McCaps Motimele incurred in defending charges of sexual harassment and defamation brought by former Unisa Professor Margaret Orr, well-placed sources say. And it voted unanimously that Motimele should resign from the council.

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/ 1 August 2002

Mergers under the microscope

Strategic institutional leadership, strong government and staff participation are among the factors that are essential to successful mergers among tertiary institutions. But mergers already under way in South Africa do not show clear efficiency or financial gains, nor have they achieved greater racial or gender equity among staff and students.

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/ 31 May 2002

A massive triumph for Asmal

Fort Hare survives, the University of the Transkei goes, and Rand Afrikaans University will merge with Technikon Witwatersrand. But "no institution will be left untouched", said Minister of Education Kader Asmal, announcing the Cabinet’s approval this week.

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/ 24 August 2001

NDA mired in controversy

Millions of South Africa’s poorest citizens continue to have their plight ignored because of the National Development Agency’s (NDA) ongoing inability to perform its central function, which is to channel money to non-profit organisations in their battle against poverty. And some NDA board members are now under attack for abusing their positions to enrich and […]