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Unless it can improve its universities, Africa risks losing out in a globalised knowledge economy. Yet many African universities, including South Africa's, are under threat with policies and management styles too frequently inimical to academic quality. Focusing on recent developments at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), RW Johnson is scathing about 'nationalist fundamentalism' and the 'Big Man' syndrome. A hard-hitting look at the state of African and South African higher education.
Tafelberg Kort: Rigtingbedonnerd
Dis stiller, veiliger … en verveliger? Onwillige Voortrekkers is wat Fred de Vries die 21ste eeuse Afrikaners noem wat hulle oorsee gevestig het. Hoe ervaar hulle die lewe in Perth of Melbourne? Is dit nie net sissies of verraaiers wat die hasepad kies nie? Fred gesels o.a. met die Claassens, die De Villierse van Fremantle en Frikkie Kotzé wat Potch vir Perth verruil het. In Melbourne kuier hy by die filosoof Johann Rossouw, wat uiteindelik tog huistoe kom. Aangrypend.
Tafelberg Kort: Jonk en krapperig
Politieke straatgevegte is aan die orde van die dag en leiers skiet klaaglik te kort. Waar staan ons land vandag, amper agtien jaar ná die demokratiese oorgang? Jan-Jan Joubert, bekende politieke ontleder, betoog dat hoewel die land se puberteit nie sonder storm en drang is nie, alles nie net bleek lyk nie. Hy kyk indringend na sosiale euwels, ekonomiese kwessies en die lesse van Marikana in 'n deurdagte blik op die stand van die nasie.
Tafelberg Kort: Die enigma van Hendrik Verwoerd
Die lewe en politiek van Hendrik Verwoerd – met nuwe inligting gevind deur gerekende historikus Hermann Giliomee. 'n Insiggewende en deurdagte kyk na Verwoerd se beleide en keuses, en hoe hulle vandag nog Suid-Afrika beïnvloed. Hoe kon so 'n intelligente persoon vir so lank help om 'n onderdrukkende stelsel te handhaaf? Giliomee soek die antwoord.
Tafelberg Short: The Politics of Pregnancy
South African women's fertility poses a puzzle: despite immense poverty, our population is growing very slowly, against all international experience. Sadly, this cannot be attributed to the empowerment of women… Activist and analyst Rhoda Kadalie and her daughter Julia Pollak take a hard look at the politics behind our low fertility rate and related quandaries: low use of contraception and staggering rates of teen pregnancy. A wake-up call and a call to action.
Tafelberg Short: The ANC's Battle of Mangaung
Much of the country's political future is determined by the ANC's internal elections. Here political analyst Susan Booysen gives an incisive breakdown of the cutthroat elections of Polokwane in 2007 and Mangaung in 2012, which will set a course for the party and its potential for renewal for years to come – and for South Africa.
Tafelberg Short: Reconciliation's vengeful echo
The post-Apartheid era shows fascinating echoes of the era after the Boer War: Afrikaners learning that they can win by 'losing', the trade-off between vengeance and forbearance, and a worrying trajectory towards nationalism. Efforts to reconcile 'the nation' are treacherous and demand trade-offs. Tim Cohen looks at how Louis Botha and Nelson Mandela managed the transitions they were overseeing – and how both suffered the backlash. Is reconciliation even possible?
Tafelberg Short: The Zuma Moment
The battle for Mangaung will be lost and won on different fronts, as was the case at Polokwane. Astute political observer Aubrey Matshiqi takes a sharp look at the various players, from the intelligence community to the courts, the alliance and the media, as he casts his searchlight on the 'deep state', moral bankruptcy and bad leadership. A sobering, razor-sharp analysis of the uncomfortable 'Zuma moment'.
Tafelberg Short: I remember Steve Biko
Steve Biko made a deep impression on youngsters in his hometown, Ginsberg. Among them was Xolela Mangcu, who here delves into Biko's own childhood: Steve as prankster at Forbes Grant school, and his lack of interest in politics – until, at St Francis College, his brother Khaya is arrested and Steve too is bundled into a police car. Mangcu looks at how Biko has affected the course of his own life – and at the legacy he left, giving us the courage and the language to claim our freedom.
Ena Murray Omnibus 35
In Die vrou in die spieël word die hoofkarakter een oggend wakker . . . en ontdek dat sy niks kan onthou nie, nie eens haar eie naam nie. En toe ’n lang, aantreklike man skielik die kamer binnestap, noem hy haar Ansie, ’n naam wat sy in haar diepste wese wéét nie hare is nie!In Die oujongnooi van Polkadraai gebruik Silpa haar besonderse grimeertalent om haarself ’n volle twintig jaar ouer te laat voorkom – sy beeld ’n middeljarige oujongnooi uit wat aansoek doen om die pos van huishoudster vir twee jong kinders. Maar sy het nie rekening gehou met die streng dog aantreklike pa van die kinders nie. En in Die kleine kring lig Henda se verloofde haar ’n maand voor hul troue in dat hy ’n ander vrou liefhet. Om aan die lewe te bly aanvaar sy ’n pos as huishoudster op Brakrivier, maar die opset waarin sy haar bevind is veel anders as wat sy haar dit voorgestel het . . .