Wolhuter, CharlMushaandja, John2020-08-262020-08-262015Wolhuter, C.C. & Mushaandja, J.:2015. Contesting Ideas of a University: The Case of South Africa. Humanities, 4, 212-223.2076-0787http://hdl.handle.net/10394/35646https://doi.org/10.3390/h4020212This article portrays four historically evolved ideas of a university, as they have developed in the South African context, namely the British liberal-humanistic education idea, the Afrikaner idea of an ethnically-oriented developmental university, the idea of an African university, and the idea of a university proclaimed by neo-liberal economics. The global significance of this contest, as it plays out itself on South African soil, is notedenAfrican universityneo-liberal economicsliberal-humanistic educationSouth AfricaUniversityArticle