Tag: Adam Habib
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Podcast: On the frontline of Change with Adam Habib, the troublemaker who became a campus leader
At the height of the Fees Must Fall protests that rocked South African campuses in 2015, Professor Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor of Wits University, was offered a chair to sit on during a mass meeting with students. He declined, and sat down on the floor instead to listen to their grievances. It was a gesture of…
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On the frontline of Change with Adam Habib, the troublemaker who became a campus leader
Professor Habib tells Ruda about his rabble-rousing early years, his political reawakening far away from home, and his realisation that the struggle for liberty continues to rage, even in a free society.