Cape Town
Universities have a role and responsibility to speak out and use their knowledge base to guide post-apartheid South Africans.
This came out when a number of vice-chancellors and university representatives gathered at St George’s Cathedral on Tuesday night for a conversation on the role of institutions in developing post-apartheid South Africa.
University of the Western Cape vice-chancellor Brian O’Connell pointed to the increasing number of service protests. There was an expectation due to “outlandish promises” that there were sufficient resources to provide jobs and homes now for all South Africans, he said.
O’Connell said all universities should speak to the nation as a single system.
