Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.
To make their voices heard, young people must be more selective in the issues they support and need to put in the hard work
What does the university do with public memory?
Economically disadvantaged students suffer most from disrupted education, but they also have the most to contribute to lessening inequality when we build the new normal
The #Black Lives Matter, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements show that democracy cannot happen without decolonisation
Using assumptions and faulty tools leads to racist conclusions about why so few black students are taking up biological sciences
Many young people already know how to deal with the problems the Covid-19 pandemic has wrought — they have been living with them all along
These transit points can move the decolonisation process forward by breaking down barriers
There are a number of cases in the past decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms as a political goal or did not spent all their energies…
The current model of curricula and how it is carried out needs to change in order to be effective, writes Suellen Shay.
Black South Africans have embraced European ideas, so why can’t citizenship be equally fluid?
Rebecca Davis finds it hard to laugh about the obscenity of the R140k raised by indignant sentinels of whiteness for a bullied waitress.
This new documentary is a rollercoaster ride of students’ struggles for free education. But does it move you?
The Rhodes Trust tries to mollify criticism of Cecil John Rhodes’s legacy while not offending its wealthy alumni and other donors.
Eskom chief executive Brian Molefe’s son is among the students the University of Cape Town alleges were part of violent protests.
Students have found themselves without accommodation and feel abandoned by the University of Cape Town and the #RhodesMustFall movement.
Youthful activists are bringing the memory of South Africa’s oppressive apartheid history alive.
Mr Chancellor, you canvassed only imperialist beneficiaries about whether the statue of Cecil Rhodes should stay, writes Carina Venter.
To build a more pluralistic, peaceful world, denunciations of what others hold sacred and assertions of superiority must be avoided.
Chris Zithulele Mann says that to remove the statue is to ignore what lurks within all of us, making it more difficult to identify our own prejudices.
