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White liberalism shouldn't forget
Sonwabo Ngcelwana Academic Planning Unit "The presence of colonial symbols on campus always revealed the culpability of white liberalism in the plundering and mass murder (of Afrikaners and blacks)....
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Until the lion has its own storyteller
Dr Russell Ally Department of Alumni and Development "The Rhodes statue captures in essence many of the underlying challenges of transformation that UCT faces. It represents the origins of the...
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Heritage that hurts
Assoc Prof Shadreck Chirikure Department of Archaeology "Under normal circumstances, there would be no problem with Rhodes' statue: Jameson, Smuts and others have all done terrible things, and yet they...
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Statute of liberty? Transformation on our minds
Photo by Michael Hammond. Design by Sean Robertson. In the past weeks of protests, sit-ins and assemblies, the statue of Cecil John Rhodes became the lodestone for transformation debates at UCT. To add...
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Rhodes falls
One month to the day after students publicly demonstrated their disgust at the legacy of Cecil John Rhodes – and the words "poo protest" hit the headlines – the statue of Rhodes on...
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Rhodes makes way for transformation
Amid scenes of jubilation, the two–ton bronze casting of Cecil John Rhodes went quietly on 9 April, lifted by crane onto a flatbed truck and into temporary storage. Surrounded by euphoric...
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What matrix made Rhodes?
Illustration by Edward Linley Sambourne Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902) was a colonialist, arch–capitalist, politician and white supremacist. He used his connections with the British...
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Past tense, present imperfect: now what of the future?
Photo by Yusuf Omar "What's going on at UCT?" It's a question many of us have been asked in different ways as we've covered the rolling protest of past weeks, centred on the statue of Cecil John Rhodes...
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You said it: Voices from the University Assembly
Read more stories from the April 2015 edition.
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UCT for everybody
Olumide Ogunmodimu PhD in engineering UCT is rated higher than some European schools. I think the international community at UCT should be well represented. It's good when everybody's opinions are...
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Shedding the colonial curriculum structure
Assoc Prof Suellen Shay Dean of the Centre for Higher Education Development The calls from academics and students in the past few months for a 'decolonisation' of the curriculum are critically...
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Decolonisation is not unique to South Africa
Assoc Prof Pumla Gqola Wits University Decolonising our universities requires mindfulness of our contexts and location in history. It requires that we confront quite directly what it means to be a...
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Find the points of intersection
Ali Sayed Postgraduate social sciences student In the context of UCT, decolonising the university - more than just getting rid of the shackles of the past, so to speak - would also be engaging with the...
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A decolonised curriculum has space for European discourse
Ramabina Mahapa SRC President The process of decolonisation must begin with an identification of the oppressed - who are the marginalised - at the institution. From then on, issues of curriculum must...
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Knowledge of the marginalised essential to curriculum
Assoc Prof Harry Garuba School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics Curriculum transformation is an area that does not lend itself to the simplicity of numbers. It is easy to...
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Universities enmeshed in the fabric of colonialism
Assoc Prof Zine Magubane Van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Chair, Boston College, US Why is it necessary that we not speak of transformation, but decolonisation? Often these terms are used interchangeably....
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What does decolonisation look like?
Pulling this edition of Monday Monthly together, with its focus on the current decolonisation debate, we hit a snag: how do you visualise decolonisation? What does transformation of a university look...
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How do we decolonise UCT?
Following the removal of the Rhodes statue, a great deal of debate on campus has been focused on decolonising the university. Various commentators (students, staff as well as academics from other...
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Shake the dust
As you're walking up the stairs passing through the centre of Bremner, towards Archie Mafeje Room, at your back is a display cabinet of chalkboard dusters. 175 of them, to be exact. Gathered from...
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UCT MOOCs have worldwide appeal
More than 20 000 people from over 120 countries participated in UCT's first massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered in the first half of 2015. MOOCs are free online courses in which classes can...
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