LAST year, a group of political studies postgraduate students, including myself, wrote a memo to the department of political studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, which was called the Transformation Memo.It outlined our grievances with the department — the lack of black, African staff, lack of African scholarship in the curriculum, lack of student representation in decision-making structures at the university and the lack of academic development.This weekend we attended a conference at the institution currently known as Rhodes University with the theme (Re)Making the South African University: Curriculum Development and the Problem of Place.But the issues of transformation we had prepared to speak on at the conference were given little space. It quickly became clear the situation we find ourselves requires more urgent and remedial interventions than transformation can achieve.Transformation is a process that involves using structures within an institution to reform that ins...
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