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Former University of Fort Hare vice-chancellor Professor Derrick Swartz will appear before the Special Investigations Unit, regarding its investigation into allegations of academic fraud.
In 1999, Prof Derrick Swartz took an enormous risk when he accepted the position of vice-chancellor at the University of Fort Hare. Ironically, that university enjoyed its golden years during apartheid when it served, as all universities should, as a bastion of principle and intellect where the illicit, cruel and inhumane policy of apartheid was dissected, questioned, rejected and resisted.
“Admirable.” That is how Northern Areas People’s Development Initiative (Napdi) patron Sophia Williams-De Bruyn has described the work of the community organisation formed in 2009.
Nelson Mandela University (NMU) has formally launched its new medical school with the focus on producing top drawer community-minded doctors willing to practise in poor and rural areas.
Prof Shireen Motala is the South African Research Chair in Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg. Since the advent of democracy in 1994, the South African government has relentlessly pursued equity in education, despite increasingly limited public finances. While discrimination in social spending has reduced, with race no longer a criterion, inequalities remain because of the high costs of achieving fiscal parity in education. In higher education, slowly growing fiscal inputs are not translating into greater efficiency and quality outcomes. As such, que...