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On stage: Dr Sibusiso Mashiloane will be performing tracks from ISIGQI — Live at the bird’s eye. Photo: Siya Meyiwa
AFRICAN POETS

Diary: Sibusiso Mashiloane on tour; Poetry Africa Festival; Ultimate Braai Festival

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  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
President Jinping warned that the trade war between China and the US will not see any winner.
ARI SITAS

At Brics think tank, scholars get drunk on their own rhetoric

One of South Africa’s highest-profile intellectual vehicles appears to be a victim of drunken driving by scholars

  • Patrick Bond
11 min read
Not only students but also academics will be affected by university curriculum decisions being made now.
ARI SITAS

Whose ‘way forward’ for the humanities is it anyway?

The charter document and subsequent proposals for the field show little evidence of consultation.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
Way forward for the humanities
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA

Way forward for the humanities

The groundwork has been done and it is up to academics and institutions to come on board.

  • Staff Reporter
15 min read
Blade’s budget blues: Universities to bear the brunt
ARI SITAS

Human solutions

Sociologist Ari Sitas’s ministerial task team on the humanities will convene an international workshop in Johannesburg next week.

  • David Macfarlane
2 min read
ARI SITAS

‘Humanities must lead again’ — Nzimande

Ari Sitas will head a government initiative "to rejuvenate and strengthen the social sciences and humanities", it was announced on Wednesday.

  • David Macfarlane
2 min read