While the experience of transitioning from higher education to entrepreneurship was challenging, participants were able to draw heavily from informal networks to build and grow.
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University of Fort Hare
The University of Fort Hare is redefining its role as the producer and disseminator of new knowledge, particularly focusing on its central place in the reshaping of post apartheid South Africa, and repositioning itself as the empowerment agent in the political, economic, cultural and social revolution that is unfolding in the subcontinent and beyond. Its curriculum and research agenda is being tuned to resonate with the contextual social renaissance, both by stimulating it and by responding to it. At the same time it is utterly conscious of the need to engage and partner with the surrounding communities and region in a serving capacity and to extend into society at large through interesting new interconnections.
Following a decision by the Ministry of Education, the university has, since January 2004, been incorporating and integrating a new campus in the city of East London, formerly of Rhodes University, into UFH. This significant development in a new larger operating environment presents significant challenges as well as strategic opportunities for the calculated expansion of UFH into new markets, enabling it to play a stimulating and catalytic role in the development of the Buffalo City region. Hence it is strategically planning to grow and develop programmes in a much wider student market and is re-profiling Fort Hare across the three campuses in Alice, Bhisho and East London. As the backbone to a new academic system, five new faculties were established in 2005-6. Over the next period significant expansion in the portfolio of academic and strategic programmes are foreseen.
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Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa is a new book that explores how apartheid monitored and shaped white life, and how all classes of white people were complicit.
These social media posts aren’t just for fun – they’re a way to fight back against discrimination and show the world that queer love is powerful and important.
Students want more relatable examples, both of business leaders and of industry case studies.
Lovemore Mbigi saw the African concept of ubuntu as a basis of effective human resources management.
By building and maintaining a personal brand, young social media users can identify work opportunities.
Social enterprises need to be proactive in improving their internal processes and structures. They also need to share essential information.
In over 30 countries LGBTIQ+ people would face imprisonment. Progress has been made but there is still a long way to go.
Singing at the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral and at King Charles III’s coronation tells a story of global histories coming full circle.
Remote working policy needs to strike a balance between productivity and individual rights of employees.
Bilingual education is possible for all South Africa’s children.
More than a third of people living in South Africa’s richest province Gauteng can’t afford to buy enough food.
The study revealed a link between youth, troubled behaviour and a lack of access to recreational spaces in marginalised communities.
Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
South Africa’s greatest composer was uniquely shaped by his early years of singing at traditional Zulu weddings and working in jazz bands and church choirs.
African governments should prioritise investment in high speed internet connectivity because it can have spillover benefits for education systems, as well as economic and social growth.
Both choirs and classical music were childhood influences on a stellar career that would leave behind major new recordings in these areas.
As African economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, governments should explore technologies like global positioning systems and blockchain for use in the registration of land rights.
Like Pata-Pata, Homeless and Mbube, the song Jerusalema is elevated by a historical moment in time and has the power to cross over to different audiences.
It is vital that the latest move by government towards restructuring succeeds in making the industry safe, reliable and viable, contributing to the country’s economy.
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Fort Hare
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Deputy Director, University of Fort Hare
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Senior Researcher, UNESCO 'Oliver Tambo' Chair of Human Rights, University of Fort Hare, University of Fort Hare
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Researcher, Social Sciences, University of Fort Hare
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Professor in Health Informatics, University of Fort Hare
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Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Fort Hare
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Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Fort Hare
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Professor, University of Fort Hare
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Fort Hare
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Acting Executive Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Teaching and Learning, University of Fort Hare, University of Fort Hare
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Fort Hare
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Lecturer, University of Fort Hare
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Professor in Physical Geography, University of Fort Hare
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Professor, University of Fort Hare
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South African Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies, University of Fort Hare
