In a country where it has been suggested that the distinction
requirements at schools be moved down from 80% to 70%, it is of
grave importance that we evaluate the role of knowledge and what
significance we attach to it. Do we respect and value the
production of knowledge, or is contemporary South African society
being 'dumbed down'? And if knowledge is no longer an essential
commodity, do we have a need for a 'thinking class'; the
intellectuals? Where are our great South African minds? Are they
hiding in fear of our society's seeming intolerance of criticism
and dissent? Eminent thinkers Leslie Dikeni and William Gumede
examine how South African intellectuals have regressed from drivers
of change in the Apartheid era to disenchanted ghosts that appear
to fear critical engagement in The Poverty of Ideas. This title
offers differing but critical evaluations of the responsibility of
the progressive intellectual in a new democracy. During the
struggle against apartheid intellectuals have spoken out and more
often then not influenced the trajectory of events. But it appears
that today's intellectuals are paralysed by fear of raising the ire
of authority...
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