The Rhodes Trust tries to mollify criticism of Cecil John Rhodes’s legacy while not offending its wealthy alumni and other donors.
Rhodes University students closed down campus on Monday, protesting the Minimum Initial Payment of 50% that they say is too high for students to pay.
It is scientifically unsound and forces institutions to act in ways that go against their best interests.
Students from the Black Student Movement at Rhodes University have occupied the council chambers as they demand transformation at the university.
M&G readers have their say: Should Rhodes University change its name and, if so, to what?
Don’t belittle the act of defacing symbols of the oppression students say is being upheld at universities, writes Victoria John.
The campaign to remove the statue is gaining momentum, placing the ‘Eurocentrism’ of national university curricula under the spotlight.
Cecil John Rhodes is buried just outside Bulawayo, but a Zanu-PF official – inspired by UCT protesters – wants his remains sent to the UK.
Black students have taken to Twitter to voice their experiences of white privilege on the Rhodes University campus.
Dr Sizwe Mabizela invoked ‘giants of the liberation struggle’ in his inaugural address at Rhodes last weekend.
Rhodes University’s Professor Tebello Nyokong wants to produce students who push the boundaries of innovation.
Rhodes University has appointed a new vice-chancellor who promises transformation, not just at student level, but in all spheres.
Rhodes University’s first black vice-chancellor Saleem Badat has announced he will be stepping down from his position.
Quacquarelli Symonds has published its top 100 universities in the five Brics countries, of which eight are South African.
Hussein Badat responds to Fred de Vries’s article "Grahamstown: Love and sex in the city of saints."
Passion is in the air in the town of 60 churches, where people do things together they never thought they would, and probably never will again.
Rhodes University was "again on the brink of closure" because the municipality had failed to provide water to the campus, says the vice-chancellor.
Rhodes University is standing by its law clinic’s decision to fund 16 members of the Mandela family, who apparently qualified for aid as indigents.
It is appalling that a senior academic such as Robert van Niekerk could be so confused and ignorant in his remarks.
Rhodes students and staff are livid after “racist, xenophobic” posters were displayed on campus.
Students are abusing schedule six pills ahead of exams – with the help of their doctors.
Academics need to re-enter the public sphere to influence national debates.
The increasing availability of high-quality free content on the internet should be encouraged.
Activists have accused police of assaulting and laying false charges against UPM’s Ayanda Kota in retaliation for his anti-government stance.
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/ 31 October 2011
The work-in-progress of liberation requires students to muster a daily heroism.
Trying to find ways of teaching English better won’t solve anything for most in South Africa.
Henry Louis Gates Jr’s admission reflects a fundamental problem with affirmative action.
Where is the Black Consciousness Movement for our time? We need it, argues <b>N Barney Pityana</b>.
Graduations took place all over the country last month. Flashbulbs popped on stages as chancellors conferred degrees on the bowed heads of thousands.
Learning an African language is essential to breaking down barriers, writes <b>Russell H Kaschula</b>.
The debate around the Centre for African Studies at UCT is really about the perceived need to institutionalise difference.
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/ 15 October 2010
There is a crisis in African languages, particularly at school level, that everyone concerned will have to address.