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FREE TO READ: Jansen forgot about white ‘affirmative action’ academics

22 August 2019 - 07:00 By Madidimalo Richard Moila
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Prof Jansen should encourage Black academics to typically apply because they were the ones who experienced the most horrendous discrimination during colonialism in SA than all other races.
Prof Jansen should encourage Black academics to typically apply because they were the ones who experienced the most horrendous discrimination during colonialism in SA than all other races.
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It is an insult for Prof Jonathan Jansen to juxtapose “weakest academics” with a revered institution like Unisa.

To rub salt into the wound he uses racist language to say that “if you are Black, it’s a walk in the park to the first rank of the professorship”.

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