A R17m grant over the next five years will help develop science-based solutions and developing technologies that utilise indigenous knowledge (IK) and South African iconic biodiversity.
The Constitutional Court has reserved judgement in the case in which AfriForum is promoting Afrikaans as a language of tuition against the monolingual English language policy of the University of South Africa (Unisa).
The court heard the case virtually on Thursday 20 May after the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on 30 June 2020 in favour of AfriForum’s argument that this policy is illegal and unconstitutional.
In response to Unisa’s arguments against the Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling, AfriForum’s legal team told the court that Unisa’s allegations about a decrease in students’ demand for Afrikaans tuition could not be proved with indisputable numbers and that university management also could not indicate how other languages had been promoted as a result of the abolition of Afrikaans tuition since the implementation of the policy in 2017.
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Issues of gender and sexuality have been strongly debated in South Africa’s new democracy. From the National Women’s Coalition (NWC) in the early 1990s who influenced the progressive gender dimension of South Africa’s current Constitution to the protests of the late 1990s and early 2000s led by gay and lesbian activists. Still further, the Fees Must Fall movement in 2015 and 2016 put the issue of intersectionality square on the agenda for decolonising post-Apartheid society.
Yet, gender studies are still largely missing from university curricula and, in the realm of social policy, ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often and incorrectly conflated. The reporting of cases of femicide, intimate partner violence, and gender-based violence – which has sadly also affectedUJ students – have sparked public outrage and inspired numerous academic studies that attempt to understand how issues of patriarchy, heterosexism, and rape culture function and occur