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'History changes over time – nobody owns it' 31 Mar 2015
Response to Sunday Independent article: 'Adebajo distorts Price's view on Rhodes' 31 Mar 2015
Rhodes: Views from a black associate professor at UCT UCT must continue to prioritise the employment of black South Africans and come up with a firm implementation policy, says Assoc Prof Caroline Ncube, head of UCT's Department of Commercial Law. This article first appeared in the Mail & Guardian on 30 March 2015. 31 Mar 2015
The Rhodes debate: Dead men walking Take UCT students, their stories and their concerns, seriously, says Assoc Prof Xolela Mangcu – they're both early warnings of, and the antidote to, racial war. This article appeared in the City Press on 29 March 2015 31 Mar 2015
The Rhodes debate: How we can have the last laugh 30 Mar 2015
UCT Association of Black Alumni (UCTABA) view on Rhodes statue 29 Mar 2015
From the VC's Desk: Update on Rhodes statue and occupation of Bremner Building 28 Mar 2015
Podcast: The Khonza Show 27 March CliffCentral Podcast: When bad guys do good things! What do we do about it and how do we treat their legacies? CliffCentral's Andrew Levy invites representatives from the ANC, DA and UCT to debate the issue of #RhodesMustFall. 28 Mar 2015
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Cry for transformation rings out at packed assembly Heritage, signs and symbolism were superceded by the harder issues synonymous with transformation at Wednesday night's University Assembly in a jam-packed Jameson Hall. 25 Mar 2015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
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