Archive for the 'Media' Category
NTESU’s statement of support for Fazel Khan
Dear NTESU Members,
Many of you have approached us for a response to the dismissal of Fazel Khan. We have chosen to respond now, having carefully read the judgement published by the Management and having followed with interest the various debates on the issue in e-mail fora around the University.
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Chronicle of Higher Education report: Dismissals Raise Fears for Academic Freedom in South Africa
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Today’s News
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Dismissals Raise Fears for Academic Freedom in South Africa
By MEGAN LINDOW
Cape Town
A spate of recent dismissals and disciplinary
actions taken by South African universities
against outspoken faculty members has signaled a
broad erosion of academic freedom in higher
education, academics and civil-society groups
here say.
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Letters in the Mail and Guardian
UKZN: concern is mounting
The Mail and Guardian published a series of letters in response to Dasarath Chetty’s lies and misrepresentations. Here are the four that were published.
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A Thousand Flowers – Social Struggles against Structural Adjustment in African Universities
A Thousand Flowers – Social Struggles against Structural Adjustment in African Universities
A review by Refilwe Senatla and Fazel Khan
‘A Thousand Flowers’ is a project of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, and is published by African World Press and edited by Silvia Federici, George Caffentzis and Ousseina Alidou.
The book is a collection of articles […]
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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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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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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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