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coming out of the conference, and this was why student organisations were invited to the summit, to be held between October 15 and 17 in Durban, and a prior dialogue session on October 5 in Johannesburg. </p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center"><div id="ad-600x50-1" class="" style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="" style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px"></div></div></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">"As much as demographics are important, they are not the only aspect of transformation. We need to change institutional cultures - and it is given further urgency by the recent student protests," Nzimande said.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">"Our universities are very uneven. We do need to improve quality... We hope that this summit will provide a platform to raise all these issues that are being raised by Open Stellenbosch, Rhodes Must Fall, and so on."</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px"><strong style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px">Language policy adopted in 2001/ 2002</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">He said these problems illustrated that transformation was still not complete.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">"For example, in 2001/2002, the then department of education adopted a language policy for higher education.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">"But there is still a vast differences between those language policies and reality... including the issue of promoting multilingualism."</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">At least one student was injured in a protest that turned violent at the Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute last month, as people who tried to enter lecture halls were sjambokked.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">The protest concerned the college's language policy.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">At Stellenbosch University, the institution's language and transformation plans came under criticism following the release of a documentary called <em style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px">Luister</em> (Listen), in which students and lecturers tell of discrimination on and off campus.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">Last month the Black Student Movement staged a sit-in at Rhodes University's council chambers in Grahamstown, reportedly over the failure of transformation at the university.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">Earlier this year a statue of colonialist Cecil John Rhodes was removed from the University of Cape Town following protests, headed by the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.</p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px"><a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Nzimande-promises-to-tackle-university-transformation-20150922">http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Nzimande-promises-to-tackle-university-transformation-20150922</a></span></font><br></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. 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