October
| Date | Article/letter | Author | Media |
| 18 Oct |
South Africa reaches 'tipping point on unbalanced affirmative action' A Nobel-prizewinning architect of apartheid's demise and one of South Africa's longest-serving vice-chancellors have spoken out about what they see as political pressure to discriminate against non-black university applicants. |
David Matthews | Times Higher Education (online) |
| 8 Oct |
Varsities' quest for right mix HISTORICALLY white universities in the Western Cape still look much whiter than the province and the rest of the country. But the rectors of Cape Town and Stellenbosch universities insist they are working on it. |
TJ STRYDOM | The Times |
| 8 Oct |
Varsities need to be transformed Higher education in SA still had to undergo "dramatic transformation" and expansion to meet the needs of the country, and this was "nonnegotiable", education analyst Graeme Bloch said at the weekend. |
Leanne Jansen | The Mercury |