Humanities and social sciences play a major role in defining the character, excellence and values of a robust post-apartheid higher education system

Increasingly academics are finding that humour can be a good way to convey serious findings – and irony a useful analytical tool.

Universities, industry and the state need research that includes input from civil society.

Winner: Professor Kholeka Constance Moloi

Scholars should not plead "academic freedom" to avoid critiquing their discipline’s apartheid legacies.

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

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

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