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Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.
Selective activism: A problem for South Africa’s youth
To make their voices heard, young people must be more selective in the issues they support and need to put in the hard work
The unfinished business of Rhodes Must Fall, Sarah Baartman and Jameson
What does the university do with public memory?
Students, we will need your critical thinking after the Covid-19 hard reset
Economically disadvantaged students suffer most from disrupted education, but they also have the most to contribute to lessening inequality when we build the new normal
Hashtag lessons from the US and South Africa about racism and antiblackness
The #Black Lives Matter, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements show that democracy cannot happen without decolonisation
Unnatural: Conservation is yet another legacy of colonialism
Using assumptions and faulty tools leads to racist conclusions about why so few black students are taking up biological sciences
Listen to the voice of Generation C — they have answers for Africa’s future
Many young people already know how to deal with the problems the Covid-19 pandemic has wrought — they have been living with them all along
Transform campuses, transform society
These transit points can move the decolonisation process forward by breaking down barriers
What comes after nationalism in Africa? A luta continua
There are a number of cases in the past decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms as a political goal or did not spent all their energies…
Urgent strategy needed to decolonise university curricula
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
Black South Africans have embraced European ideas, so why can’t citizenship be equally fluid?
White tears: The most valuable currency
Rebecca Davis finds it hard to laugh about the obscenity of the R140k raised by indignant sentinels of whiteness for a bullied waitress.
Review: The People versus the Rainbow Nation
This new documentary is a rollercoaster ride of students’ struggles for free education. But does it move you?
Tertiary institutions must initiate change, not pacify donors
The Rhodes Trust tries to mollify criticism of Cecil John Rhodes’s legacy while not offending its wealthy alumni and other donors.
UCT gets interdict against 16 students
Eskom chief executive Brian Molefe’s son is among the students the University of Cape Town alleges were part of violent protests.