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  "tags": [
    "Education",
    "Fort Hare Governance Crisis",
    "Francis Petersen",
    "Governance Failures",
    "governance reform",
    "Higher Education Crisis",
    "Higher Education South Africa",
    "institutional Capture",
    "Mangosuthu University Of Technology",
    "Misinformation Campaigns",
    "Political Interference Universities",
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  "textContent": "South Africa’s universities face growing risks of “institutional capture”, with Universities South Africa warning of governance failures, political interference and rising misinformation",
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