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BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, I left Gaza, but Gaza did not leave me

Your family is there, your colleagues are there: watching conflict at home from abroad

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It's time for Africa

The Hillbrow and Braamfontein skyline seen from the west of the city. The mere fact that Africa is the birthplace of humankind should be drenched in significance for anyone interested in exploring the common roots of different nations, says the writer. Picture: Karen Sandison/African News Agency (ANA)
Itâs time for Africa
By Opinion
Professor Francis Petersen
Africa has come a long way in shaking off the image of a continent that is consistently dependent on and trailing the rest of the world for investment, development, direction and validation. We are diversifying our economies to move away from economic dependence on the global north, and actively searching for African solutions to African problems. Moreover, while Africa remains an attractive investment destination, it is now more sought after for its people than for its physical assets.

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African solidarity holds great lessons for the rest of...

Covid-19 has taught us that no country is an island and that we should learn from one another’s mistakes and successes. The solidarity that is so important to Africans should become a priority for the rest of the world, too. And at the core of African solidarity lies the age-old concept of ub...

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DOCUMENTARY: The Cape of flames

DOCUMENTARY: The Cape of flames
News24
A fire started in the vicinity of Rhodes Memorial on Sunday, 18 April.
It quickly spread over the mountain, scorching about 600 hectares of land.
Its biggest victim was UCT's library, where 75 000 books from the African Studies Collection went up in flames.
Fires in Cape Town are a relatively regular occurrence, but few are quite as devastating as the recent runaway fire, which started on Sunday, 18 April.
It culminated in the destruction of some priceless cultural heritage.
The Western Cape recorded about 17 000 fires during a previous season, James-Brent Styan, spokesperson for Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell, told News24.

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WATCH | DOCUMENTARY: The Cape of flames - it takes just one spark to ignite a catastrophe

It quickly spread over the mountain, scorching about 600 hectares of land.
Its biggest victim was UCT's library, where 75 000 books from the African Studies Collection went up in flames.
Fires in Cape Town are a relatively regular occurrence, but few are quite as devastating as the recent runaway fire, which started on Sunday, 18 April.
It culminated in the destruction of some priceless cultural heritage.
The Western Cape recorded about 17 000 fires during a previous season, James-Brent Styan, spokesperson for Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell, told News24.
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He said 95% of these fires were doused within the first hour, which "speaks to what we've got in place".

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Verne Harris's 'Memory Bandit': The political and...

In this, the second series of Reflexions: Reading in the present tense, Ingrid de Kok and Mark Heywood continue to invite established and younger writers and other creative artists to reflect on a text that moved them, intellectually engaged them, frightened them or made them laugh. Our reviewer today is Jacob Dlamini who considers Ghosts of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis
by Verne Harris.
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In one of his popular essays, Verne Harris tells the story of a former activist-turned-government functionary who, upon seeing the ghosts that live in the apartheid security archive, remarked of the old order: “They should have destroyed more.” This was in the early days of South Africa’s transition to democracy, and Harris and the bureaucrat were part of a team given the unenviable job of going through the remnants of the apartheid security archive and figuring out what to do with it. But after seeing the ghosts — meaning the accounts of intimate betrayal, the informer reports, and evidence of struggle icons caught in compromising positions — that lurked in the dark corners of that archive, the former activist wished that his erstwhile enemies had incinerated more of this material than they already had. The man hoped that, by burning more than they had, his former enemies would have exorcised the ghosts of the past and spared him and Harris the thankless task that faced them that day.

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Cape Town Fires: UNESCO Regional Director visits affected areas

The UNESCO Regional Director for Southern Africa, Prof. Hubert Gijzen visits the Cape Floral Region Protected Areas and University of Cape Town (South Africa) on 11 May 2021 to assess the damage caused by the fires that broke out last month.The fires

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Devastating UCT inferno has exposed the university's...

The devastating fire at the University of Cape Town on 18 April 2021 raises questions about the character and governance of South African universities. Are our universities collective projects, communities in which scholars, students and support staff work together? Or are they hierarchical businesses run by managers, of employees, for customers? The university’s response to the fire reminds us of the importance of community, the role of the university in society and the limits to managerialism.
Anyone who has written or read the acknowledgements in scholarly publications knows that scholarship is, in part, an intensely collaborative and cumulative activity. Scholars read each other’s work, engage with each other’s ideas, mixing praise and criticism, as they – we – build on the foundation of existing scholarship. As we remind our students, we are all standing on the shoulders of giants. This includes the librarians and archivists who have built the collections on which we rely.

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Pick n Pay donates 8000 crates to help in salvaging UCT academic material

Pick n Pay donates 8000 crates to help in salvaging UCT academic material
By Kristin Engel
by KRISTIN ENGEL
Cape Town - Pick n Pay assisted UCT with a further 6 000 crates over the past weekend, to help salvage and restore the damaged academic resources from the historic Jagger Library during the recent Table Mountain National Park fires, bringing the total number of crates donated to 8 000.
In the destroyed Jagger Reading Room, a unique collection of more than 83 000 items of African studies material and other specialised subjects were housed, as well as 1 300 sub-collections of unique manuscripts and personal papers.
After receiving the first 2 000 crates, Ujala Satgoor, Executive Director of UCT Libraries, said that this was a solemn period as UCT mourned their history and the loss of a great institutional asset.

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UCT fire damage: Call for volunteers to help with salva...

The executive director of UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor, said volunteers were still needed to help salvage and remove works in the Jagger Library in the wake of the recent fire that swept across Table Mountain.
The University of Cape Town’s Jagger Reading Room was left in ruins after a wildfire destroyed the facility. (Photo: Gallo Images / Die Burger / Jaco Marais)
“Volunteers are needed to help move vulnerable materials to a safer location. They can use this link to register and get more information in terms of dates that are available for shifts.
A firefighter walks through the destroyed nearly 200-year-old Jagger Reading Room. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Nic Bothma)

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