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Rape stats unreliable
South Africa has the highest rape numbers in the world
Too much book learning, too little work for matrics
There are not enough decent mid-level jobs to tempt more young South Africans into vocational training, a Wits seminar has heard.
Archives of the non-racial: Get on the bus
What do you get when you put 60 intellectuals from all over the world on a bus for 47 hours on a mission to think and unthink history?
Frameworks on land rights need to evolve and be updated
A Wiser panel has highlighted how old traditional barriers still exist for issues surrounding land reform and ownership in South Africa.
Local government needs residents to get involved
Service delivery protests are emblematic of a crisis of representation in municipalities and will only stop when citizen participation is embraced.
Police must work with communities, not political elite – Wiser debate
Panelists at a Wits debate say the SAPS need to work with communities to be perceived positively so that protesters stop getting hurt and killed.
Wiser’s Burns responds to roundtable criticism
Following an article criticising a Wiser panel discussion’s lack of black women on its panel, the institute’s Catherine Burns has penned a response.
African studies reach out across the pond
A cross-Atlantic programme is bridging schools of thought that are often at odds with one another.
Plagiarism case kept under wraps at Wits
The university has kept quiet about an academic’s dismissal last year for ‘too perfect paraphrasing’.
Hawkers don’t want to be marginalised for 2010
Hawkers, often the breadwinners of their families, should not be marginalised in the run-up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup, a colloquium on the international soccer spectacle heard…