Browsing by Author "Sesanti, Simphiwe"

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    The African intellectuals’ project
    (UNISA Press, 2020) Sesanti, Simphiwe
    Soon after taking the position of editor of IJARS at the beginning of 2019, I was contacted by the dean of Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies (CGS), Prof. Lindiwe Zungu, who informed me that the university’s principal and vice-chancellor, Prof. Mandla Makhanya, had decided to revive his project, the African Intellectuals’ Project (AIP). I was asked to coordinate this project, through which Makhanya sought to invite scholars, academics, and intellectuals, both on and outside of the African continent, to deliver presentations reflecting on the ills afflicting Africa and, at the same time, to offer possible solutions. In pursuing the AIP, Prof. Makhanya was carrying on a perennial tradition.
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    Phyllis Ntantala: An African Woman’s Leadership in the Struggle against a Pan-Eurocentric Education
    (University of Johannesburg and Unisa Press, 2022) Sesanti, Simphiwe
    The years 2021 and 2022 marked a significant period in the Pan-African struggle against the Pan-Eurocentric academy’s destruction of African dignity and freedom. 2021 marked the 70th anniversary of the Eiselen Commission’s report on Bantu Education. 2022 marked the 30th anniversary of the publication of Phyllis Ntantala’s autobiographical work, A Life’s Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala. Ntantala’s book documents African teachers’ and parents’ resistance to Bantu Education, which culminated in some African teachers being fired for refusing to “poison the minds” of African children. While the “heroism” of resistance to Bantu Education is well-recorded and celebrated, the “sheroism” of the struggle against Bantu Education is less illuminated and appreciated. This article, by examining Ntantala’s intellectual legacy in African people’s struggles for justice—including justice in education in South Africa, as well as in Europe and the United States of America—celebrates African sheroes’ institutional leadership in the struggles associated with education in politics and politics in education. A critical examination of Ntantala’s leadership against Bantu Education gives recognition to an important, yet often overlooked, aspect in ecolonisation and re-Africanisation struggles in education, namely, that colonialism did not only express itself through racism, but also sexism
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    Reading challenges experienced by the foundation phase learners at two selected primary schools in the Western Cape
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Oyowe, Anthonia Oritsemauruntosan; Sesanti, Simphiwe
    Reading is a key component of literacy that plays an important role in knowledge access. It helps children's minds grow, and stimulates their comprehension of reading content, enabling them to function and interact effectively in society. Although, reading is prioritised as an indispensable aspect of literacy, reading comprehension remains a global challenge (Ligembe, 2014). Most South African learners in the Foundation Phase perform poorly in literacy particularly in reading and writing and are reading far below appropriate expected age levels according to the reports on systematic evaluations by the Department of Education (DoE), and other international research organisations on learners reading skills (Hugo, Le Roux, Muller & Nel, 2005).