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Hashtag lessons from the US and South Africa about racism and antiblackness

Opinion Nelson Maldonado-Torres - 29 Jun 2020

The #Black Lives Matter, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements show that democracy cannot happen without decolonisation

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Unnatural: Conservation is yet another legacy of colonialism

Opinion Gabriel Hoosain Khan & Sianne Alves - 10 Jun 2020

Using assumptions and faulty tools leads to racist conclusions about why so few black students are taking up biological sciences

Transform campuses, transform society

Article Colin Chasi 1 & Ylva Rodny-Gumede - 7 Feb 2020

These transit points can move the decolonisation process forward by breaking down barriers

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What comes after nationalism in Africa? A luta continua

Article Sean Jacobs - 13 Jan 2020

There are a number of cases in the past decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms...

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Urgent strategy needed to decolonise university curricula

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Jun 2016

The current model of curricula and how it is carried out needs to change in order to be effective, writes Suellen Shay.

Look at the kwerekwere in the mirror

Analysis Staff Reporter - 9 Jun 2016

Black South Africans have embraced European ideas, so why can’t citizenship be equally fluid?

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White tears: The most valuable currency

Article Staff Reporter - 4 May 2016

Rebecca Davis finds it hard to laugh about the obscenity of the R140k raised by indignant sentinels of whiteness for a bullied waitress.

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Review: The People versus the Rainbow Nation

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 20 Apr 2016

This new documentary is a rollercoaster ride of students' struggles for free education. But does it move you?

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Tertiary institutions must initiate change, not pacify donors

Article Sen Muller - 9 Mar 2016

The Rhodes Trust tries to mollify criticism of Cecil John Rhodes’s legacy while not offending its wealthy alumni and other donors.

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UCT gets interdict against 16 students

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Feb 2016

Eskom chief executive Brian Molefe's son is among the students the University of Cape Town alleges were part of violent protests.

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Students are #Shackville’s collateral damage

Article Raeesa Pather - 18 Feb 2016

Students have found themselves without accommodation and feel abandoned by the University of Cape Town and the #RhodesMustFall movement.

Student protests forge links with past

Analysis Raeesa Pather - 18 Feb 2016

Youthful activists are bringing the memory of South Africa's oppressive apartheid history alive.

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Fort Hare: Forge the way for former black institutions

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Feb 2016

The university has played a historic role but must now lead the way in establishing leading African institutions of knowledge.

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Oxford’s racist ‘superiority’ is founded in Christian myopia

Article Staff Reporter - 11 Feb 2016

To build a more pluralistic, peaceful world, denunciations of what others hold sacred and assertions of superiority must be avoided.

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#RhodesMustFall: Oxford alumni keep the colonial fires burning

Article Staff Reporter - 11 Feb 2016

Mr Chancellor, you canvassed only imperialist beneficiaries about whether the statue of Cecil Rhodes should stay, writes Carina Venter.

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