This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how
the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its …

Transformation is often loosely defined. We argue that the reason for this is its inherent
complexity. Paradoxically, its lack of definition is an asset, which provides an opportunity to …

In the past two years, higher education institutions (HEI) have been inundated with students'
demands for a decolonised education. Their voice led to the resuscitation of debates on a …

Transformation in higher education has tended to focus on race and sex, at the expense of
other forms of discrimination. This article addresses the silencing of'queer'issues in higher …

This chapter has three key aims. The first is to discuss Academic Literacies as a particular
orientation to writing and writing pedagogy in terms of epistemology, ideology and …

The post-apartheid higher education transformation project is faced with the challenge of
recruiting and retaining black academics and other senior staff. But when we shift the focus …

Background Students from South African institutions of higher learning have been engaged
in the largest student-led movement ever, calling for the radical reimagination of the higher …

Abstract Doctoral education in South Africa is at crossroads between the transformation
agenda of higher education and the production of knowledge, whereas policy imperatives to …

A presumed indicator of change, in terms of the South African higher education sector's
racialised past, are the quantitative measures of numerical 'diversity'within the academic …

This study draws on in-depth interviews conducted with twenty black students from different
socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds studying at the University of the Witwatersrand in …