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In the country’s insider politics, the majority who try to survive outside the formal economy are talked about, but are never heard.
An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
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It's important to focus on the challenges facing higher education before the reach a boiling point.
South Africa needs to improve efforts to increase student numbers at technical colleges.
In many respects, President Jacob Zuma’s free higher education proposal in South Africa is the worst kind of populism.
The South African oddity is that those who in other societies would be arguing against free passes for the affluent, argue for them.
The imposition of the fee free higher education proposal on South Africa’s National Treasury without due consideration represents an escalation of the state capture led by President Jacob Zuma.
South Africa’s finance minister Malusi Gigaba failed to impress when presenting the eagerly awaited 2017 medium term budget.
South African universities are under enormous financial pressure. They also face a fresh round of student protests ahead of a decision on next year’s fees. Hard choices need to be made.
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