This chapter proposes that the current dualistic system in universities is inadequate to discharge their mandate to narrow the gap with communities. In contrast, the Gandhian model, rooted in the life of its people and Ubuntu, with community building at its core, present potential opportunities to develop social responsibility. Keywords community engagement -social responsibility -transformation -dualism -holistic approach -Ubuntu An unmatched obligation, which has not been adequately

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... to help lay the foundations of a critical civil society, with a culture of public debate and tolerance which accommodates differences and competing interests. It has much more to do, both within its own institutions and Kanya Padayachee, Darren Lortan, and Savathrie Maistry -9789004459076 Downloaded from Brill.com05/05/2021 02:31:15AM via free access He concludes that, while these two tendencies need not be inherently contradictory, with the deep divisions of class, race and gender in South Africa, there exists the possibility of pulling in opposite directions. Avoiding this potential "tug-of-war", therefore, seems to point to the urgency for universities