The function of a university in South Africa: Part 2

Social insurance institutions appeared after World War I, and were intended to provide safety nets for the income, health, education and pension levels of individual citizens.Later in the 20th century, enthusiasm for the concept of human rights generated a remarkable boost of research interest within universities in the aftermath of World War II.This war had witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of atrocities, most notably genocide, as well as human neglect on a mass scale, followed by the reaction against colonialism already on the brew.One defining feature of what became the human rights movement has been a concern and set of state policies aiming to raise individual welfare, as well as the emerging conception of the well-being of all of a nation's citizens.Eloquent refugee experience in the aftermath of World War II illustrates this feature clearly:Hannah Arendt, exiled in 1933, stripped of her German citizenship in 1937,…also wondered how Europe had betrayed the stateless in her own time.In 1948, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, she observed that it was citizenship that gives human beings the 'right to have rights'.As for stateless persons, she concluded, they ought to have rights simply because they are human, but her own experience had taught her a different lesson.1(p.2)

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