The anxiety was palpable. The air was thick with impatience. The winds of change blew furiously. I do not usually gamble, but if you had asked me seven years ago to predict the outcome of the waves of student protest hammering South Africa, I would have bet with confidence that this was the tipping point for a dramatic revolution in student politics in this country.
No one is going to beat the African drum if we don’t do it. Universities must be wary of giving up their strengths for the sake of ‘radical transformation’
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