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Connected? The hooked-on-social-media-world inhibits spontaneous conversation

#FeesMustFall and the greater struggle of racism

Nothing has changed. The people who could not access education institutions during apartheid are the same people who can’t access them today.

We will never survive as a nation or as humans if we put up racial barriers to isolate ourselves from one another, economically, socially and politically.

US students expelled over racist video

Two university of Oklahoma students have been expelled for joining in a chant which included racial slurs and references to lynching.

Residence traditions are a hangover from a discarded era

Residence cultures too often promote unequal power, unconditional loyalty and groupthink.

Kodwa siyaqhelwa – we’re being taken for granted #blackface

Every time anti-black racism rears its ugly head – as it did this week on Facebook – someone tells black people how they should respond to it.

NWU trapped in an ‘iron cage’ that stifles transformation

A new report shows that racial and gender imbalances persist in the student and academic staff.

NWU transformation officer to fight dismissal in court

A battle is brewing at North-West University after its executive advisor for transformation was allegedly dismissed unfairly.

No more excuses for racist conduct

Jonathan Jansen’s method of dealing with the Reitz four does not adequately address ingrained notions of prejudice, argues academic John Sharp.