Universities cannot continue to be tools used to sustain and promote inequality.
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Like Chrispin Phiri, my financial position qualified me for the University of the Western Cape, which then carried the tag of an institution for previously disadvantaged.
Universities are strategically located to have an appreciation of societal challenges.
We continue to see university managers falling for the urge to impress at the expense of excellence.
We have always maintained South Africa as a developing state.
Our approach, therefore, to what should define development, is the creation of an environment that allows our youth to learn, so as to work in the economy.
The structure of universities should be arrested from becoming a barrier to the development of a nation that thrives on equality.
