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UCT Senate vote in favour of moving Rhodes statue The University of Cape Town Senate has voted overwhelmingly in favour of recommending to Council that the statue of Cecil Rhodes be moved when Council holds its special sitting on Wednesday 8 April 2015. 27 Mar 2015
UCT protest is not about Cecil 27 Mar 2015
South Africa's odious monument to Cecil John Rhodes For two decades, many South Africans assumed that our university campuses had become politically apathetic. But this may be the year that South Africa's students wake up from a deep sleep, refreshed and determined to demand transformation of their educational institutions, Eusebius McKaiser writes in The New York Times. 26 Mar 2015
Cry for transformation rings out at packed assembly Heritage, signs and symbolism were superceded by the harder issues synonymous with transformation at Wednesday night's University Assembly in a jam-packed Jameson Hall. 25 Mar 2015
Decolonising institutions, organisations, and minds Those who know the past in textured detail, not just in sweeping generalisations or in the sanitising and glorifying terms of jingoism (whether imperialist or nationalist) which enable and encourage reinvention and mis-memory, are better equipped to imagine the future in novel ways which neither repeat nor reinstate the past or its exigencies, writes Angelo Fick in an opinion piece for eNCA. 25 Mar 2015
UCT: An ode to Rhodes If we're going to remove the Rhodes statue, why not reject all of Rhodes' inheritance. There are always positives and negatives to a heritage, but why don't we just demolish the whole damn thing, writes Rhoda Kadalie in an opinion piece for Politicsweb. 25 Mar 2015
Rhodes, Rancière and the politics of aesthetics Jaco Barnard–Naude revisits the politics of aesthetics to review the events surround the Rhodes statue protests. This article first appeared in the Mail & Guardian on 24 March 2015. 25 Mar 2015
Must Rhodes fall? 25 Mar 2015
Racism at Rhodes, Cecil's statue at UCT I completed my undergraduate studies at Rhodes University five years ago, before I transferred to University of Cape Town to pursue my Honours degree in Information Systems. I must admit, I owe these two institutions prodigious gratitude but the recent developments leave me disappointed, writes Phumlani M UMajozi. 24 Mar 2015
Podcast: The Daily Maverick Show 24 March CliffCentral Podcast: Together with Daily Maverick assistant editor Ranjeni Munusamy and talk show host Gushwell Brooks, CliffCentral's Kingsley Kipury touches on three contentious topics – firstly "Rhodes must fall", secondly Chabane's passing and thirdly the Hawks judgement. 24 Mar 2015
The Rhodes to introspection The #RhodesMustFall campaign provides an opportunity to interrogate how South Africa should be dealing with its colonial and apartheid past, argues Pierre de Vos, who holds the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT. This article first appeared in the Daily Maverick on 25 March 2015. 24 Mar 2015
Danger of 'rationalist conceit' Assoc Prof Xolela Mangcu asks the academy to listen to student voices and transform a potentially volatile moment in history into a creative one. This article appeared in the Cape Times on 25 March 2015. 24 Mar 2015
The big racial divide: Rhodes statue Noluvuyo Mpekelana, an information systems student at UCT and founder of Inside Out Mentors , a non-profit organisation dedicated to educating young girls and encouraging them to have an entrepreneurial mindset, speaks up about how she's experienced the last two weeks' worth of debate and protest on campus. 24 Mar 2015
Black academics support #RhodesMustFall campaign TransformUCT, a grouping of black academics from different departments and faculties at UCT, stands in solidarity with students in the #RhodesMustFall campaign and the removal of the statue. 24 Mar 2015
From the VC's Desk: Progress in discussing the removal of Rhodes statue 24 Mar 2015
Until the lion has its own storyteller 23 Mar 2015
Students continue peaceful occupation of Bremner 23 Mar 2015
Whose heritage are we preserving? 23 Mar 2015
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