24 August 2022 - “Fake News” – the deliberate propagation of false information – poses a threat to democracies and open societies across the world. What can be done about it is, however, a difficult question. This was the message of a webinar last week hosted jointly by the Department of Political Studies and Governance at the University of Free State and the Institute of Race Relations.
Very few countries have taken steps to indigenise and normalise the idea of African languages as languages of instruction. That is what needs to happen in order for decolonisation to begin, said Segobye.
Meanwhile, UJ Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, Nyasha Mboti said colonisation and decolonisation was a non existent theory. Colonisation and decolonisation is a fiction just like the movie, The Matrix. It simply does not exist, said MbotI.
Mboti said in order for the two theories to exist, “colonists” needed to tell the “truth” about how they took over Africa.
UJ Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania interim chairperson Mokgweetsi Keikabile said: ”Decolonisation of the curriculum cannot be seperated from decolonising society. If the process of decolonising begins, then land must be brought back to rightful owners also,” said Keikabile.