Varsities strife turns into tedious tango

28 February 2016 - 02:00
By CARLOS AMATO

The campus crisis has entered a depressing sysle of attrition - but not everybody is shouting, writes Carlos Amato. If South Africa's universities are the incubators of social progress, then we're in trouble. Because nobody is emerging with much credit from the neurotic theatre of campus conflict.Since the early triumphs of #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall - feats of peaceful mass action for achievable change - university management and student activists have danced a tedious tango of kneejerk...

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