Celebrated UWC’s Graeme Bloch left an indelible imprint on his students

Myolisi Gophe

Myolisi Gophe IT HAS been almost three weeks since UWC’s Graeme Bloch passed away. But tributes for the stalwart Struggle activist and celebrated education expert are still pouring in from those whose lives he touched, from all walks of life. Bloch’s spirit is still powerfully felt in the halls of academia, where he fought tirelessly for the rights of future generations to equip themselves with the thinking tools they would need to build a better South Africa. His former colleagues in the Faculty of Education remember him fondly, and many have taken his work to different institutions around the country. Professor Aslam Fataar of the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University met Bloch while doing a master’s programme in education and democracy at UWC in 1990. At the time Bloch…

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