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The paper starts from the premise that twenty years after the transition to formal democracy in South Africa, the issue of the production and use of socially relevant knowledge and the role of progressive researchers in contributing to social change warrant renewed attention. The analysis centers on two issues. The first relates to different ways of interpreting the knowledge needs of the current conjuncture. The second concerns the relationship between knowledge, truth and truthfulness in the world of knowledge for policy. The paper argues for greater reflexivity about the current conditions for producing research for social change in a context increasing divided about what constitutes a good society. ; Le point de départ de ce papier est le suivant. La transition vers une démocratie formelle date de vingt ans en Afrique du Sud. Cela porte à réfléchir sur la production et l'usage de savoirs socialement pertinents, et sur la contribution au changement de chercheurs progressistes. L'analyse se concentre sur deux points. Le premier concerne différentes façons d'interpréter le besoin de connaissances du moment. Le second concerne la relation entre savoir, vérité et véracité dans l'espace d'une recherche mise au service de politiques. Notre papier plaide pour plus de réflexivité sur les conditions actuelles de production de travaux visant le changement social, dans un contexte aujourd'hui de plus en plus divisé sur ce qui fait qu'une société est « bonne ».

This independent report commissioned by North West University (NWU) contradicts the university's recently published claim that it has bridged its racial divisions and addressed historical inequalities. According to the 10-year review, "Present management structures and practices are not fully conducive to achieving transformation goals [and] … racial and gender imbalances persist in the composition of student and academic staff bodies." The report follows NWU's own review published in December 2013. NWU's own findings on campus divisions differ substantially from those of the independent panel. Both reviews assess the extent to which NWU has met the many targets it set in 2004, when the government merged the formerly white, Afrikaans-medium Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and Mafikeng's former University of Bophuthatswana.