Speaking about staffing patterns at the University of Cape Town, Tebogo Letsie, chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, expressed concern that 39.7% of professors are white, 39.3% are foreign nationals, while African, Indian and coloured professors account for only 22.6% combined.
MORE than three decades after the end of apartheid, it is alarming that South Africa’s lawmakers continue to frame national debates through the racial lenses inherited from that era.
The latest controversy surrounding the employment of foreign academics at universities amid countrywide protests over xenophobia reveals just how deeply those divisions remain embedded in our political discourse.
Tebogo Letsie, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
Speaking about staffing patterns at the University of Cape Town, Tebogo Letsie, chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, expressed concern that 39.7% of professors are white, 39.3% are foreign nationals, while African, Indian and coloured professors account for only 22.6% combined.
