Archive for May, 2007
Fazel’s Video Work
Fazel has worked with the Abahlali baseMjondolo Shackdweller’s movement since it began in 2005, and has produced a number of videos with them, in partnership with Sally Giles. Below is the first part of Breyani and the Councillor. You can see it all, here. There’s also a fantastic video from last year’s strike. See here […]
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Fazel’s Letter to UKZN COMSA Union Members
Sunday, 29 April 2007
To all COMSA members
Comrades,
As you all know, last week I was finally fired after a 7 month disciplinary process. I am not the first person to have been forced out of this university on political grounds in recent months. When I was fired I was clearly told that I will not be […]
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Freedom of Expression Institute Writes in Support of Fazel
Dear Professor Makgoba
We write to you because of a growing concern that the Freedom of Expression Institute has had over the recent past regarding the state of freedom of expression and of academic freedom at the University of KwaZulu Natal. We believe that free expression and academic freedom are in severe decline at your university […]
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South Africa: Lecturer Faces Dismissal for Media-Interview - Alert from Network for Education and Academic Rights
Fazel Khan, a sociology lecturer at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), faces a disciplinary committee and possible a dismissal for an interview he gave to members of the media. The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), a member of IFEX reports this is not an isolated case. The Organisation informs that in the past six […]
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Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa supports Fazel
Available at the South Africa Indymedia site.
October 12, 2006
Dear Vice-Chancellor M. W. Makgoba,
I am writing on behalf of the editorial board of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA) to express our concern about disciplinary action instituted against University of KwaZulu-Natal sociologist, Fazel Khan. Our belief is that charges against Khan to be presented […]
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Solidarity from Shackdwellers
Letter to the Editor, Mail & Guardian, November 24 to November 30 2006,
We need Khans In the shackdwellers’ movement, we do not have the money to train as academics or send our children to train as academics. Therefore, we rely on others to bring back the fruits of their knowledge to the poor.
University of KwaZulu-Natal […]
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Review of Asinamali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa - by Salim Vally
When former Minister Kader Asmal described the landscape of higher education in 1999 as one which was “largely dictated by the geo-political imagination of apartheid planners” many academics and students eagerly anticipated a new imagination upon which the academy would be reconfigured, one which would even inspire a continental renewal. Today, on the back of […]
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A longer history of Makgoba’s intimidation
At the end of 2005, the Mercury published the article below. Although it contains some inaccuracies (not least around Fazel Khan’s affiliation - he was with the Department of Sociology, not the Centre for Civil Society), it indicates a history of intimidation directed towards Fazel.
UKZN academic accuses mayor of meddling
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Six Percent or Nothing - video from UKZN’s 2006 Strike
Here’s a video from UKZN’s February 2006 Strike, made by Giles and Khan.
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The documents in Fazel’s Case
All kinds of rumours are circulating about this case. The best way to show the truth is to use the official documents from the case. Here is a list of those documents to which Fazel has access, unedited, so that you can make up your own mind. All the links are clickable.
The Charges against Fazel
An […]
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