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Electrical Engineering celebrates academic excellence
27 Mar 2015
UCT protest is not about Cecil
27 Mar 2015
A history of violence
27 Mar 2015
Law in Africa
27 Mar 2015
Pressing questions
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
UCT and Oxford collaboration: established universities with emerging solutions
26 Mar 2015
UCT Great Minds: 18 of the best local contemporary writers
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Heritage, signs and symbolism were superceded by the harder issues synonymous with transformation at Wednesday night's University Assembly in a jam-packed Jameson Hall.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
Google Hangout with VC and
The Daily Vox
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
UCT Great Minds: Four of South Africa's most important writers
25 Mar 2015
A 'one-stop-shop' for economics writers
25 Mar 2015
Must Rhodes fall?
25 Mar 2015
Technology trends shaping higher education
25 Mar 2015
UCT rocks
25 Mar 2015
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