This is a “historic session” as delegates waited for the formal declaration at the end of Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s two-day summit.

This country has an amazing higher education system — there is nothing like it in the rest of Africa.

Transformation is a long-term process, but we need to bite the bullet now, Nzimande tells delegates. Janis Kinnear reports.

“Never fight the crocodile in the water”: the phrase has been much on my own mind since I was asked to join the planning committee…