Corrupted: A study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities Football Biographies * Champion Joins the ICU

* Champion Joins the ICU

Each time I was knocked down

corrupt officials

choose from paintings by celebrated artists Terry Harrison

Corrupted: A study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities Football Biographies * Champion Joins the ICUIn South African higher education, the images of dysfunction are everywhere. Student protests. Violence. Police presence. Rubber or real bullets. Class disruptions. Burning tyres. Damaged buildings. Injury and sometimes death. Reports of wholesale corruption. Year after year, often in the same set of universities; the problem of routine instability seems insoluble. The financial, academic and reputational costs of ongoing dysfunction are high,