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South Africa: Jacob Zuma and the difficulties of consolidating South Africa's democracy
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 107, Heft 427, S. 261-271
ISSN: 0001-9909
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The poverty of ideas: South African democracy and the retreat of intellectuals
"In a country where it has been suggested that the distinction requirements at schools be moved down from 80% to 70%, it is of grave importance that we evaluate the role of knowledge and what significance we attach to it. Do we respect and value the production of knowledge, or is contemporary South African society being 'dumbed down'? And if knowledge is no longer an essential commodity, do we have a need for a 'thinking class'; the intellectuals? Where are our great South African minds? Are they hiding in fear of our society's seeming intolerance of criticism and dissent? Eminent thinkers Leslie Dikeni and William Gumede examine how South African intellectuals have regressed from drivers of change in the Apartheid era to disenchanted ghosts that appear to fear critical engagement in The Poverty of Ideas. This title offers differing but critical evaluations of the responsibility of the progressive intellectual in a new democracy. During the struggle against apartheid intellectuals have spoken out and more often then not influenced the trajectory of events. But it appears that today's intellectuals are paralysed by fear of raising the ire of authority"--Kalahari.net website
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Fees must fall: student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa
FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. In-depth assessments reflect on the complexities of student activism, its impact on national and university governance, and offer provocative analyses of the power of the revolt
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