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Fri 25 Jun 2021 01.15 EDT Last modified on Fri 25 Jun 2021 04.11 EDT The fire that started on the slopes of Table Mountain on April 18 this year quickly swept through the University of Cape Town campus. The world watched in horror as the African Studies Library was burned to the ground. In the weeks that followed, volunteers waded through the waterlogged basement of the razed building to see which rare books had survived. What few people beyond the university realised at the time is that barely 100 metres away the Department of Biological Sciences had also suffered catastrophic losses. “We�...

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 scholar...

March 30th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Anna Torres Participate in the City Nature Challenge by spotting and recording animals and plants in your city starting Apr 30. (Katja Schulz) A special performance of “A Passion for the Planet,” the City Nature Challenge and an evening with Howard Youth; stream these free programs and more this April through the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Sixth Annual Mother Tongue Film Festival Ongoing The film “Garifuna in Peril” will be screened alongside other films during the Smithsonian’s Mother Tongu...