80th birthday celebration: a tribute to Prof Lumkile Wiseman Nkuhlu
Read in magazine The challenge today is not people being uneducated. The greater challenge is that they are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught and not…
Organic leadership through five decades: a set of reflections
Read in magazine Prof Mahlo Mokgalong spoke to Leadership Editor Prof JJ Tabane about his extraordinary leadership journey from an unassuming science student in the early 1970s to ascending to the role…
Africa month: Pan-African thought leadership
Read in magazine Unearthing and researching African and global thought leadership in the African 21st century with Maggie MacDonnell and Mayank Dhingra: uplifting educators is key to advancing transformation in…
Phakeng: ‘I’ve had a great time in spite of everything’
Read in magazine Despite the scrutiny and constant complaints about her, outgoing UCT vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng said she had a great time leading the institution. In an interview with…
Education storm bodes ill for South African schoolchildren
Read in magazine We need to rediscover the ethical and human dimensions of learning, yet schools are becoming less focused on balance, with the child in the centre, and are…
Decolonising education in South Africa: what is to be done?
There is a need to develop knowledge frames and approaches that can inform curriculum knowledge selection in cumulative and principled ways. It is only then that we will say we…
Good is bad when excellence is available
Joe Makhafola sat with Edward Mosuwe, the head of the Department of Education in Gauteng. He manages a R52 billion education system, which is the second-largest basic education sub-system after…
The fight for decent school infrastructure is far from over
The state of school infrastructure is a national crisis, and the government ought to treat it as such, writes Mila Harding of SECTION27 Despite significant progress by the government in…
The young gun with an academic eye for the future
Joe Makhafola sat down with the youngest head of the department (HoD) of politics and international relations at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), Dr Bhaso Ndzendze. At the age of…
An African dream of transformation, a dream she wants us to follow
After exchanging pleasantries with Dr Judy Dlamini, Chancellor at the University of Witwatersrand (WITS), we jumped straight into profound conversation about the value of education, writes JJ Tabane. I did not…
