No one else but the students of our country are able to halt the steady progress of campus violence to full-blown revolution. This is so because the generational distance in lived experience between public decision-makers and students is such that it disallows an authentic engagement between the student movement and “our parents” – young people […]
Rudi Buys
BR Rudi Buys is dean of humanities at Cornerstone Institute, a non-profit private higher education institution in Salt River, Cape Town. He previously served as dean of students at the University of the Free State and as provincial youth commissioner in the Western Cape.
Posted inEquality, General
Universities need vibrant student affairs officers to drive transformation
Did South African higher education have a hand in our resurgent student voice? Absolutely, student activists would argue, but for its lack of transformation serving as an obstacle rather than an ally in the project of change. Campus debates on change relate not only to transformation but also to how prominent and capable student voices […]
Posted inEquality, News/Politics
I too, am Africa
To debate colonial statues or white privilege in South Africa will not help us to transform society, unless it helps us build the much needed coalitions to do so. Frequent racist incidents and the racial rhetoric in public debates show that our coalitions of trust are floundering. It is not the raw frankness of our […]