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WHEN LEGACY BECOMES INHERITANCE: MADLANGA, FORT HARE AND THE STUDENTS WHO WILL WRITE WHAT COMES NEXT
Opinion

WHEN LEGACY BECOMES INHERITANCE: MADLANGA, FORT HARE AND THE STUDENTS WHO WILL WRITE WHAT COMES NEXT

The Moot offers more than a tribute to a jurist, it offers a platform for intellectual succession. BY ZOLA PINDA: Professor Mzukisi Njotini and the students' photograph, argues the writer, captures the relationship of a jurist representing accumulated legal experience, the Dean representing academic stewardship and the students representing the future. Beyond the Ceremony On 7 August 2026, at the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga stood before a generation of young law students whose professional lives may extend well into the second half of this century. The occasion was the launch of the Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga International Moot Court Competition, an initiative of Fort Hare’s Faculty ...
The Price of Reform: Why Sakhela Buhlungu Now Stands Alone
Opinion

The Price of Reform: Why Sakhela Buhlungu Now Stands Alone

By Zola Pinda: Vice Chancellor and Principal of Fort Hare, Professor Sakhele Buhlungu, who is suspended. (Image: Supplied) The suspension of Professor Sakhela Buhlungu is not a routine governance episode. It is a familiar institutional moment in South Africa’s public life — the point at which those who confront entrenched dysfunction begin to stand alone within the very systems they are mandated to reform. At the University of Fort Hare, this is not a technical dispute about procedure. It is a struggle over control, accountability, and the future character of an institution long marked by contestation over authority and governance. In such environments, reform is never absorbed neutrally. It disrupts settled interests, exposes informal networks, and inevita...
Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe University: Reclaiming Our African Identity and Depicting Our Heroes’ Resilience and Resistance
Opinion

Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe University: Reclaiming Our African Identity and Depicting Our Heroes’ Resilience and Resistance

By George Tsibani: University of Fort Hare at Alice (Image: Fort Hare website) Renaming heritage sites, towns, streets, and universities is a significant step in reclaiming African identity and acknowledging the resilience and resistance of our heroes and heroines.  This process is not merely about changing names, but about reclaiming our lost identity and moving away from colonial narratives and the related lie of 1652, retribalisation and tribalism disguised under the current neoliberalism. Dr. JJ Klaas KaNcilashe aptly articulates the rationale behind renaming, emphasizing the importance of honouring those who fought for freedom and justice. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, a prominent anti-apartheid leader and founder of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), is a...