Integrity of universities is critical
UNIVERSITIES are hallowed spaces dedicated to a relentless search for truth, knowledge and the acquisition of skills and expertise. It
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Mosibudi Mangena
The shrinking feeling
LAST week Friday I flew to Cape Town for a meeting. I specifically requested that I be booked on SAA
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The unifying spirit of Bantu Biko
MOSIBUDI MANGENA I spent the whole weekend in Ginsberg, Bantu Biko’s township, on what I will call a pilgrimage. I
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For South Africa to thrive, we need blacks who are free from colonial mentality; blacks in the mode of Lot Ndlovu: ethical, solid, sincere, proud, conscious and that exude empathy.
MOSIBUDI MANGENA MADUKE Lot Ndlovu was born on a white man’s farm in Kriel, Mpumalanga. He lived in a mud
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Unending cycle of dehumanisation
MOSIBUDI MANGENA DURING the apartheid years, black men were frequently arrested for the pettiest of “offences” such as failure to
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Dear South Africans, we are a capable people
MOSIBUDI MANGENA A White Paper on the improvement of the rail system in South Africa has just been published. About
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Running blind folded
MOSIBUDI MANGENA A Cuban mathematics and science tutor who was part of a group I was working within the Department
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We are laggards in governing
MOSIBUDI MANGENA MY wife, who is a teacher, could not get a teaching post in Botswana when we landed in
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Ramp up civic education
MOSIBUDI MANGENA IN the early days of Zimbabwean independence in the 1980’s, the political space in Harare was just as
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