I listened carefully to Wits University vice-chancellor Prof Zeblon Vilakazi’s inaugural speech last week. One of many highlights was that “we need to graduate brave, principled, formidable individuals, guided by reason, factfulness and deep thought, and grounded in the principles of ethics and civic responsibility”.
He also said there was a need for citizens to “break out of their narrow enclaves”, and “to become beacons of what is possible”. Our lives must be guided by reason, factfulness and deep thought, he said. Obviously, the opposite of this is too ghastly to contemplate, as it would be informed by the reckless language of political fanaticism...
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