University of Cape Town students, calling for the removal of the Cecil John Rhodes statue, on Monday said they were staging a sit-in at the campus. “We, the Rhodes Must Fall movement, are occupying the Bremner building with the intention to disrupt the normal processes of management and force management[…]
Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) say there is a lack of understanding and consciousness regarding so called “white privilege” at the institution. The “Rhodes Must Fall” campaign has entered its second week of protest action from students who say the statue is a symbol of the violent[…]
OPINION by Andriques Che Petersen – Less than twenty four hours ago, I said the University of Cape Town is sending off smoke signals indicating a deep blaze of white privilege brewing underneath. But today I’d like to say that we’re all hiding from that ever burning fire. When we[…]
OPINION by Andriques Che Petersen – The classic, and overused, cliché goes: ‘Where there’s smoke, there’s fire’ and at this very moment in time we find ourselves occupying, the University of Cape Town, where there is a cloud of smog pointing towards a bevy of flames pulsating underground. And when[…]
The ongoing protest action by the University of Cape Town students to remove a statue of colonial-era industrialist and mining magnate Cecil John Rhodes from the varsity’s grounds has galvanized a large body of the student population, and even sparked a large and growing social media campaign. Students on campus[…]
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) management will engage in public dialogue with students, academic and the public over calls for the removal of the controversial Cecil John Rhodes statue located on its upper campus. A storm has been raging over the statue of the former prime minister of the[…]
The UCT Palestine Solidarity Forum (PSF) has given its backing for the removal of the controversial Cecil John Rhodes statue, describing it as a symbol of white colonialism and institutionalized racism that persists at the university. This comes after a group of students took to the monument on Monday, dousing[…]
University of Cape Town (UCT) students, for the most part, want monuments and symbols reminiscent of South Africa’s colonial and Apartheid past removed. This follows an incident on Monday during a protest where human excrement was thrown at the feet of a statue of Cecil John Rhodes, to some a[…]
Israel and their policies regarding Palestine, and the occupation of Palestinian land, are quickly becoming efficient tools in the fight against that very oppression. So says Josh Budlender, spokesperson for the University of Cape Town’s Palestine Solidarity Forum (PSF). After delivering a speech on the Israeli-Palestine issue on UCT’s Jameson[…]
The Palestinian Solidarity Forum (PSF) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are to host several events on campus during the week ahead, in line with the global Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) campaign. IAW, which takes place in South Africa from the 2nd until the 8th March, seeks to bring[…]
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