Former President Thabo Mbeki addressing the National Dialogue launch held at Nelson Mandela University, Eastern Cape on November 1. The intellectual mandate of the post-apartheid university is to dismantle epistemic hierarchies that privilege Eurocentric thought while marginalising African perspectives, languages, and ways of knowing, says the writer. Image: X
Zamikhaya Maseti Last week, former President Thabo Mbeki, addressing the launch of the National Dialogue on Higher Education at Nelson Mandela University, challenged the South African intelligentsia to reclaim its rightful place in society, to be thought leaders and to provide thought leadership at all times. In taking up and claiming that role, I contend that universities must begin at their own doorsteps, behind the dark walls, and confront with the utmost seriousness the unfinished task of tra
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