Imbumba yaba Sebenzi base NMMU

Imbumba yaba Sebenzi base NMMU Concerned staff members from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University relating to the movement of 2016. These issues included:

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With the demand for Free Quality Education for All, we believe it is imperative for academics to engage more actively in building solidarity with students. We further believe that such engagement contributes to fostering a more humane university community and society. The issues suggested for engagement arise from 2 primary considerations:

1. The importance of keeping a focus on the critical issu

e of the struggle for fee free education as a commitment of this group of concerned staff.

2. The need to engage with activities which advance both the agenda of fee free education and other immediate issues that have relevance to the life and work of the staff of the university arising from their daily lived experience as members of the staff of the university. Several other issues were signaled in addition to the above in meetings held on the 26th & 29th September, which could be taken forward concretely. The question how the mandate of transformation which is convened by the Transformation of Institutional Culture Unit (including issues of racism, sexism, decolonization, etc.) are being dealt with – including the mandates, processes, progress, etc. have been taken forward.
2. To engage with students in an organized, systematic and regular way to exchange ideas, substantive issues and to build common platforms around issues of mutual interest.
3. To engage with Management around the fundamental issue of free education, the development of a violence free and safe institutional environment for constructive discussions to take place and to find a unified position on these issues.
4. To develop processes to identify and engage with the broader communities of the university.

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25/11/2016

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Education Inc: A play and discussion on the corporatisation of education. Date: 1 Dec 2016Time: 5pm-7pmVenue: South Camp...
22/11/2016

Education Inc: A play and discussion on the corporatisation of education.

Date: 1 Dec 2016
Time: 5pm-7pm
Venue: South Campus Auditorium

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08/11/2016

SA student movements have focused on transformation in higher education, with a particular focus on diversity and an Afrocentric curriculum but KOKETSO MOETI thinks we need to start fighting this battle much earlier. University student collectives from Rhodes Must Fall and Transform Wits to Open Ste...

08/11/2016

In the wake of Fees Must Fall protests, institutions are using the courts to complete the academic year

Pathways to Free Education 2: Strategies & Tactics
03/11/2016

Pathways to Free Education 2: Strategies & Tactics

03/11/2016
There are tensions, the situation is complex and we all stand in different places, even if we support the call for free,...
02/11/2016

There are tensions, the situation is complex and we all stand in different places, even if we support the call for free, quality, decolonised education. This is why dialogue and a commitment to ongoing engagement towards this end is essential.

The fault line is growing deeper by the minute: are you with the protesters or are you against them?

02/11/2016

Money poured into colleges has been wasted as few students complete their courses

01/11/2016

Protest movements become radicalised by two factors: escalating policing and competitive escalation between political adversaries and other protesting groups.

31/10/2016

Ivor Baatjes on 'violence':

I can’t speak for others, but I personally denounce and condemn all forms of violence and injustice – in all its forms be it subjective/visible or objective/structural.

At the same time, I have learnt, like many others, to resist a fascination with visible ‘subjective’ violence – the horror and pain of violent acts that we witness daily. I believe that it is important for us to extricate ourselves from the captivating attraction of violent acts so that the constellation of violence could be better understood and become the focus of much deeper engagement, analysis and a programme for action.
I’m afraid that the preoccupation with subjective violence is a great limitation and yet it is the daily loaf of bread fed to the public by the media. Perhaps, and I don’t know how true this is, it partly explains why the condemnation and denouncement of violence by critical scholars and activists appears ‘silent’ because their preoccupation is the dialectical relationships and complex interaction between and of modes of violence, i.e. the visible and the invisible; the violence behind the violence.
This preoccupation has great value because it refuses a distraction from the nucleus of the problem.
Many scholars in South Africa have focused on the structural violence that plays itself out and yet their work goes unnoticed.

Jane Duncan’s new book, in which she aptly refers to us as the protest nation, goes a long way in expanding analysis on student protest so desperately needed.

The lack of a focus on structural violence is deeply worrying and which is glaringly absent from the daily loaf of bread. I concur with many others who argue for making the invisible violence more visible and not to close down debate, critique and analysis through a focus on visible violence only.

I think we need to keep our eye on the topic, and not to change it.

30/10/2016

We look at the funding of tertiary institutions in four developing countries.

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