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Statement of the University of Cape Town Council
13 Dec 2016
UCT Council agrees on fees for 2017
13 Dec 2016
Agreement with the SRCCandidates/ShackvilleTRC and other student formations
Read the agreement and the declaration by students seeking clemency.
06 Nov 2016
Tim Crowe comments on BAC statement
27 Oct 2016
Opinion
To survive, South Africa’s universities must learn to engage with chaos
Suellen Shay writes that university communities need to step out of their comfort zones and listen to views with which they bitterly disagree.
26 Oct 2016
Open letter to the VC: Dr Jenny Durandt
25 Oct 2016
UCT Council statement
24 Oct 2016
Statement from UCT Black Academic Caucus
UCT Black Academic Caucus calls for a national multistakeholder solution to the current crisis facing South African university campuses.
23 Oct 2016
A letter on Fees Must Fall
Current PhD student Nathan Geffen – who previously worked as treasurer, national manager and policy director of the Treatment Action Campaign – writes a personal reflection on Fees Must Fall’s strategy, particularly in relation to organisation, moral consensus, constitutionalism, claiming no easy victories, and civil disobedience.
23 Oct 2016
Senate motion as adopted at the meeting on 24 October 2016
UCT Senate resolves to request the VC to define the limits of legitimate protest, including the conduct of security services.
23 Oct 2016
Statement by the UCT Trust (UK)
At their board meeting on 3 November 2016, the Trustees of the University of Cape Town Trust (UK) noted concern, expressed support, made calls upon students and government, and reiterated their determination to support the university and its values, and to redouble efforts to promote knowledge of the university’s outstanding achievements in teaching and research.
22 Oct 2016
Q&A: Max Price on UCT’s year of living on the edge
Andrew Brown is a UCT graduate and a practising advocate. As a parent of two students at the university and a police reservist stationed at Mowbray SAPS, he has had to deal with both sides of the student protest action on the campus. In light of the pending no-confidence vote proposed by certain members of the Convocation, he requested an opportunity to ask Vice-Chancellor Max Price some of the tough questions.
21 Oct 2016
Republished
Health Sciences Deanery and Dean’s Advisory Committee statement
A statement from members of the Faculty of Health Sciences Deanery and Dean’s Advisory Committee expressing their outrage on the physical assault on Vice-Chancellor Max Price on Friday, 14 October 2016.
17 Oct 2016
Young scientists seek solutions to South Africa’s higher education crisis
The South African Young Academy of Science has decided that it is time to speak out about the country’s higher education crisis. This is a summary of a statement formulated at the organisation’s 2016 general assembly in October.
17 Oct 2016
Republished
UCT staff petitions
Staff have spearheaded a number of petitions calling for peaceful engagement in debate and a cessation of violence on campus.
17 Oct 2016
#UCTOpen
The broader UCT community – including students, administrative staff, academic staff and parents – have voiced their views and opinions about the ongoing student protests on our campuses. These are the unedited questions that they are asking and messages that they would like to have heard.
17 Oct 2016
Science and decolonisation: a way backward
Emeritus Professor Tim Crowe responds to Professor Nicola Illing and Dr Alastair Sloan’s article about recent discussions around decolonisation in the sciences.
15 Oct 2016
Call for an urgent high-level summit
Members of the politics postgraduate student body have drafted a mission statement, published as an open letter, with their demands and concerns.
14 Oct 2016
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