The arrogance of apartheid-denialism at #Stellenbosch_University
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The management of Stellenbosch University has announced that they will remove the plaque honoring H F Verwoerd, President of #South_Africa from 1958 until 1966, when he was assassinated. The.....
]]>What’s the matter with … Stellenbosch University
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One afternoon, during my final year of high school, I first found myself at Stellenbosch University (also known as #University_of_Stellenbosch) on a tour of potential #universities in the Western Cape, #South_Africa’s south-western province. Walking around the various buildings on campus and after a quick stopover in the Neelsie, the university’s mall, I […]
]]>What they don’t tell you in the brochure about #Stellenbosch
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Stellenbosch strikes me as one of those places that got put on the table by the National Partyduring the negotiated settlement pre-1994, something the ANC conceded in exchange for democracy. In fact, there’s a joke with more than a single grain of truth that the design of apartheid was conceived in one of the student residences of Stellenbosch University, where the young “architects” lived together. The divided socioeconomic structure of Stellenbosch is a living testimony to the long-term objective of apartheid.
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]]>Winter Reading List
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In Lost in Transformation: South Africa’s Search for a New Future Since 1986, Sampie Terreblanche (emeritus professor of economics at Stellenbosch University) argues that South Africa’s ANC government is in a catch-22 from which it is unlikely to extricate itself. Poverty, unemployment and inequality, what Terreblanche calls the near-unsolvable ‘PUI problem’ bequeathed by the apartheid government (...)
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