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Unisa surges ahead in global subject rankings and national creative outputs

On 25 March 2026, QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Ranking released results for institutions in the subject areas in which such institutions have been nominated for…

  • Professor Mpho Ngoepe
2 min read
Expressing anger on social media is merely performative outrage and does not result in action to prevent such abuse
ACADEMICS

Universities need to better address gender inequality, report says

The report by the Commission for Gender Equality found that universities were reluctant to review their sexual harassment policies This content is restricted to registered users…

  • Umamah Bakharia
1 min read
Young People take part in a Trans freedom march for victims of transphobic hatred with a banner saying Trans lives matter, on November 20, 2021 in Rome, Italy. Transgender Day of Remembrance (Tdor) is the global day of remembrance for victims of hate and violence against transgender people. (Photo by Simona Granati – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
ACADEMICS

South Africa is home to a culture of transphobia

Two M&G articles defending trans-exclusionary views draw on the insidious anti-trans rhetoric flourishing in the UK, but ignore our country’s constitutional protections

  • Cassandra Roxburgh
6 min read
ACADEMICS

Condemnation of UCT lecturer misses context

Groups slam UCT professor’s Hitler comment without an understanding of the lecture’s purpose

  • Andile Zulu
8 min read
ACADEMICS

Teaching cannot live on technology alone

The assumption of digital fluency for staff and students threatens a socially just education system

  • Karin Wolff
5 min read
ACADEMICS

Nattrass’s article should be retracted rather than debated

The relationship between science and ethics is inextricable and a study that does not consider the latter in its design cannot be supported

  • Keymanthri Moodley
6 min read
The fate of all African countries is bound together. We prosper or suffer sustained underdevelopment together. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)
ACADEMIA

Tawana Kupe: It takes a continent to raise the Africa we want

Collaborating with other universities will assist in dealing with diseases and other social issues that know no borders

  • Tawana Kupe
6 min read
What are the chances for humanity to come to its senses and ditch the disastrous capitalist system for something better — whatever one might call that — something that would factor our indissoluble relationship with nature into economic relations? (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACADEMICS

Covid-19 pandemic: An opportunity to press the reset button on capitalism?

Human greed has brought us to the brink of societal collapse. It is time for a student-led revolution to promote a transition to a new economic system

  • Bert Olivier
10 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
ACADEMICS
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Academics must reach out to the public

By sharing their ideas and knowledge, they can change the world. What’s holding them back?

  • Savo Heleta
4 min read