An alleged serial rapist, at this stage facing 23 rape charges, abandoned his intended bail application when he made his second appearance in court on Wednesday. The man, aged 33, may not be identified until he pleads to the charges. He was arrested on May 10, and made his first[…]
An interdict against a number of University of Cape Town students was made an order of court on Wednesday. As a result, five students find themselves effectively expelled, GroundUp reports. The five (of the original 16 named respondents) are not allowed on campus for an indefinite period of time, except[…]
A recent report released by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of Cape Town revealed that 19.6 in every 100 000 children are killed within the first 28 days of life in South Africa – the highest reported rate of murdered babies in the world. The study, which[…]
Two artists have expressed dismay after UCT management decided to remove and cover up their artworks on display at the university. During a recent student protest, 23 paintings and photographs were destroyed on campus prompting university management to remove 75 artworks for safekeeping. The university has 1 100 artworks by[…]
A UCT student is facing university disciplinary procedures, charged with making racist and defamatory remarks about a lecturer on social media. Undergraduate student, Busi Mkhumbuzi, has refused to retract the statements she made about the head of UCT’s philosophy department Professor David Benatar. “I have called him racist, ableist and[…]
The University of Cape Town (IAW) was buzzing on Thursday with students gathering on Jameson Steps on upper campus to partake in an Israeli Apartheid Week rally organized by the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (PSF). The rally hosted a number of speakers all there showing their support for the Palestine. The[…]
Protests over racial issues such as statues and other symbols of the country’s divided history, as well as tuition and student housing, have spread at universities across South Africa. At some universities, students protested the use of Afrikaans as an official language, frustrated that decades after the end of minority-white[…]
In a statement issued in the wake of “violence that took place on some South African campuses the last two days”‚ Price urged: “Again‚ I ask you to think about how you want to be treated and how you want to treat others on campus.” The University of the Free[…]
UCT had known it would be short of student accommodation but had turned down offers of accommodation for nearly 800 students, say the directors of two different property firms. They had foreseen the accommodation problem UCT now faced, but the university was seemingly not serious about the issue. While UCT[…]
A group of University of Cape Town (UCT) students and supporters of the Rhodes Must Fall movement laid charges against vice chancellor Max Price on Thursday. Western Cape police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut confirmed that charges of assault, malicious damage to property and intimidation were laid at Rondebosch police station.[…]
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