The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty
Kamwendo’s murder is an incident that is simply at the extreme end of a spectrum of problematic dynamics in the South African academy
Substantive transformation is central to UCT’s focus in the wake of the Rhodes statue debacle.
As older academics retire, there seems to be little deliberate action to bring new blood on board.
Proper human resource development and career and succession planning in academia are far more important.
The state’s research-funding model does not serve all of academia equally well.
