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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
UCT Student Parliament's statement on Rhodes statue 20 Mar 2015
Assoc Prof Xolela Mangcu argues that UCT student protesters have shattered the myth that 'race doesn't matter' Assoc Prof Xolela Mangcu argues that UCT student protesters have shattered the myth that 'race doesn't matter'. His article appeared in the Sunday Times on 22 March 2015. 20 Mar 2015
Price applauds students for bringing transformation issues into focus 20 Mar 2015
UCT response to posting of swastika photos on Jameson Hall 20 Mar 2015
Transform UCT: It's about more than race 19 Mar 2015
Reflections on Rhodes: A story of time The statue of Cecil John Rhodes overlooking UCT has been at the heart of heated debates on transformation. In his introduction to Viewpoints, published in November 2013, former Vice-Chancellor and Emeritus Professor Njabulo Ndebele writes of the vexed legacy Rhodes left UCT. 19 Mar 2015
Open letter from former SRC presidents: ‘Rhodes must fall’ 19 Mar 2015
Rhodes: The unresolved question of symbolic justice   The timid responses of university managers and governors to these troubled monuments simply stoke the fires of discontent, writes University of the Free State Vice-Chancellor Professor Jonathan Jansen. 19 Mar 2015
Academics Union Executive Statement on Rhodes 18 Mar 2015
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