Mcebo dlamini biography of michaels
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Dlamini puts “Hitler loving” past behind him
Six years ago, infamous campus rabble rouser and Fees Must Fall student activist Mcebo Dlamini was a fiery, Israel-bashing antisemite prone to hurtful and divisive words, including his love and admiration for Hitler.
Today, he appears to be a different man. The erstwhile University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) student representative council president says he has had time to reflect on what he now admits was a shameful and misguided period in the impressionable springtime of his political career.
“I was naïve and overwhelmed by the space inom occupied as a ung leader. inom lacked a role model and mentor to guide me,” a repentant Dlamini told the SA Jewish Report this week.
Just two days before the Day of Reconciliation on 16 December, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) accepted a written apology from Dlamini and engaged in mediation with him, facilitated by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). It was a poigna
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Don’t take us for fools, Mr Mcebo Dlamini
MIKE BERGER
I together with some friends, all of us white and most of us Jewish, recently visited Sutherland, the home of SALT the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere situated on the summit of a koppie. There it stands surrounded by more than 15 other telescopes, host to a small international army of scientists, mathematicians, engineers and communication experts probing the secrets of the universe, of which we are an infinitesimally tiny part.
Together with the exquisitely delicate but intricate and robust technology on which this endeavour rests, the Sutherland hilltop represents all that is best and most hopeful in the imperfect human spirit: co-operation, focused intelligence, dedication and patience and the transcendence of the individual human ego in the service of something greater than any single individual, group or nation. Contemplation of this project, itself part of a global network of similar en
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South Africa's universities have become a battleground.
In October 2015 student protesters adopted the banner of #FeesMustFall in response to a proposed hike in university fees for 2016. After South Africa's government, led by President Jacob Zuma, relented and promised no fee increase in 2016, the protests subsided. Since then protests have reignited and are becoming increasingly violent. The spark was a September 19 announcement by Blade Nzimande, South Africa's higher education minister, that universities would be allowed to raise their fees by a maximum of 8 percent in 2017.
The prestigious University of the Witwatersrand, based in Johannesburg, has become a central arena for such clashes. Disruption caused by the clashes caused the university to shut down on several occasions; part of the Wartenweiler library was set on fire; and, on one occasion, a Catholic priest was caught in the crossfire and hit by a rubber bullet, leaving his white robes blood-stained.
The #FeesMustFal