One topical issue in South Africa since the 1994 democratic elections is how a socially just higher education may be advanced in the context of the decolonial demand for the recognition of diverse epistemologies in the curriculum. The challenge since 1994 however has been what social justice means in the decolonial and post-apartheid settings where injustices continue to be perpetrated on the basis of race, albeit covertly. This article examines African and South African epistemologies and ontologies of social justice, in the context of decoloniality and curricula transformation in higher education, that became more pronounced through the #Feesmustfall protests in 2015. I argue that while social justice occurs within particular historical and political contexts, it is necessary to discern some ontologies of social justice that are not necessarily reducible to contexts. Use is made of Realist (R), Critical Realist (CR) and Race Realist Theory (RRT) perspective to unpack paradoxical constructions of social justice in post-colonial and post-apartheid South Africa.

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非殖民化和后种族隔离背景下的社会正义本体论

自1994年民主选举以来，南非的一个热门话题是，在对殖民主义的要求承认课程中各种认识论的背景下，如何推进社会公正的高等教育。然而，自1994年以来的挑战是，在种族隔离和种族隔离之后的环境中，社会正义意味着什么，尽管种族歧视是秘密的，但种族歧视仍在继续基于种族而造成。本文研究了非洲和南非社会正义论的认识论和本体论，以及高等教育中的殖民主义和课程改革，这些问题在2015年的#Feesmustfall抗议中更为明显。我认为，尽管社会正义发生在特定的历史和政治领域上下文 有必要辨别一些社会正义的本体论，这些本体论并不一定要根据具体情况来简化。利用现实主义者（R），批判现实主义者（CR）和种族现实主义者理论（RRT）的观点来剖析后殖民时期和后种族隔离时期南非的社会正义悖论建构。