May 25, 2007
Academic Freedom Is Eroding in South Africa, Critics Say
A spate of recent dismissals and disciplinary actions taken by South African universities against outspoken faculty members signals a broad erosion of academic freedom in higher education, academics and civil-society groups say.
Much of the negative attention lately has focused on the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where academics say they face censorship and intimidation from an increasingly authoritarian administration.
The most recent example of this, they say, was the firing
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