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UCT protests prompt Portfolio Committee visit

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training is due to visit the University of Cape Town on Thursday following the recent disturbances at the institution. Last week, seven students were arrested for unlawful protests linked to possible fee increases and demands for the release of the fees commission report. The Committee will meet with the university’s council, management and the student representatives’ council. UCT management says there’s been no […]

today9 November 2017

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Mamdani’s decolonization talk sparks uproar against UCT management

By Yaseen Kippie On Tuesday night, The University of Cape Town held its annual TB Davies Memorial Lecture, organised by the Academic Freedom Committee. Professor Mahmood Mamdani, previously employed at UCT, returned as the guest speaker after 16 years away. He answered critics of his acceptance to speak at the memorial lecture, by saying that he was back because “Rhodes fell”, in line with the topic ‘Decolonising the Post-Colonial University. […]

today24 August 2017

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Don’t ignore the power imbalance in the Israeli-Palestinian narrative

Tensions have broken out at the University of Cape Town’s upper campus as pro-Palestinian student activists had a war of words with Zionist supporters. Hundreds of students who form part of the Palestinian solidarity movement staged a rally on Thursday, which raised the ire of Jewish Zionist students trying to depict a different narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  The rally is part of the activities for Israeli Apartheid Week, an […]

today30 March 2017

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