Opinion and Analysis

Making sense of the student protests

An analysis of their demands and strategies

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Analysis | 9 October 2016

Wits: The Assembly that wasn’t (or perhaps was)

Why an apparent consensus between management and Fallists broke down

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Analysis | 8 October 2016

Wildebeestkuil residents have been waiting 15 years for their land

A stone's throw away but no land in sight

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Opinion | 6 October 2016

The poll at Wits was meaningless

Rights can't be voted away

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Opinion | 5 October 2016

Fees Must Fall 2016: Where to from here?

Academic programmes on brink of closure

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Analysis | 4 October 2016

UCT academics ask Max Price not to use private security

"The fees announcement by Dr Blade Nzimande ... is a regression on last year's achievement"

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Opinion | 2 October 2016

Pula! Botswana at 50: love, race and duty in the struggle for freedom

Shunned by the British Empire, for Seretse and Ruth Khama the personal was political

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Analysis | 30 September 2016

Corrupt police and drug dealers - Jo’burg’s criminal ecosystem

Police taking drug money is an open secret

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Opinion | 26 September 2016

Urgent need for public inquiry into Lily mine disaster

We need to know how it happened to prevent another catastrophe

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Opinion | 26 September 2016