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Questions, but no answers, about decolonizing South African university curricula
07:00, 19 October 2018
Opinion
UCT skeletons in the cupboard not a mistake, but evidence of a colonial crime against humanity
13:25, 18 October 2018
Opinion
Let's move beyond talking about quality of teaching at South African universities and do something about it
14:47, 7 October 2018
Opinion
UCT needs a zero-tolerance approach to crimen injuria in general and racist utterances in particular
07:18, 6 October 2018
Opinion
Identifying and building on past successes can also help realign the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) future
09:00, 4 October 2018
Opinion
The Place of Sara Baartman at UCT
13:15, 20 March 2018
VC Dr Max Price responds to BAC
13:50, 2 March 2018
Black Academic Caucus statement
11:15, 1 March 2018
Now’s the time for transformation to build excellence in higher education
17:00, 23 January 2018
Opinion
Statement by civil society organisations on the integrity of the budget process
09:45, 23 November 2017
Republished
UCT Philosophy Department statement on the Rocking the Daisies concession
15:47, 20 October 2017
Open letter
‘Decolonisation’ at the University of Cape Town: What is it? How should it be achieved?
14:28, 26 September 2017
Opinion
Emancipated ‘decolonisation’ at the University of Cape Town: What is it? How should it be achieved?
14:20, 26 September 2017
Opinion
From classroom 5A at UCT to Parliament: a lecture that became reality
14:00, 30 August 2017
Response to Premier's statement about drought
15:47, 2 June 2017
Interrogating Free Decolonised Higher Education Funding
10:19, 30 May 2017
Response to UCT Free Education Planning Group documents
14:35, 15 May 2017
Does UCT value its values?
08:43, 3 May 2017
Academic climate change at UCT: An inconvenient truth
13:30, 6 April 2017
Vice-Chancellor responds to the statement by members of the Science RAC
12:29, 5 April 2017
Statement by members of the Science RAC (Readmission Appeals Committee)
11:51, 4 April 2017
Who owns a photograph? Goldblatt archive should remain in Cape Town
13:31, 24 March 2017
Existential fatigue, psycho-emotional weight and a revolt
11:00, 23 March 2017
Simplistic racial constructions and mistaken assumptions
11:00, 22 March 2017
Tim Crowe on Suellen Shay's perspective of UCT's Convocation
08:31, 18 January 2017
Statement of the University of Cape Town Council
12:00, 13 December 2016
To survive, South Africa’s universities must learn to engage with chaos
13:33, 26 October 2016
Open letter to the VC: Dr Jenny Durandt
09:00, 25 October 2016
UCT Council statement
06:30, 24 October 2016
Statement from UCT Black Academic Caucus
14:07, 23 October 2016
A letter on Fees Must Fall
14:05, 23 October 2016
Senate motion as adopted at the meeting on 24 October 2016
14:03, 23 October 2016
Statement by the UCT Trust (UK)
13:57, 22 October 2016
Health Sciences Deanery and Dean’s Advisory Committee statement
14:09, 17 October 2016
Young scientists seek solutions to South Africa’s higher education crisis
13:54, 17 October 2016
Republished
UCT staff petitions
12:00, 17 October 2016
#UCTOpen
12:00, 17 October 2016
Science and decolonisation: a way backward
13:50, 15 October 2016
Call for an urgent high-level summit
14:11, 14 October 2016
Professor Anwar Mall urges the UCT community to reopen the university
14:00, 30 September 2016
UCT Chair of Council calls for reopening of academic programme on 3 October 2016
18:00, 29 September 2016
Open letter to the VC
14:13, 26 September 2016
Transforming higher education?
14:16, 22 September 2016
Academic Freedom Committee Statement
14:17, 21 September 2016
The constitution enables student protest (and it’s a good thing too)
14:15, 21 September 2016
Opinion: Elisa Galgut
13:30, 4 August 2016
Go out and vote
14:30, 2 August 2016
An open letter to university students: your vote matters
10:15, 27 July 2016
Withdrawal of invitation to speaker of TB Davie Academic Freedom Lecture
15:35, 22 July 2016
Professors are made by hard work
09:00, 14 July 2016
Disagreement can become an act of love and reconciliation
12:00, 21 June 2016
Curriculum transformation
17:30, 15 June 2016
Decolonising the curriculum: it's time for a strategy
17:00, 13 June 2016
Campus rape: Silence isn't going to cut it
11:30, 10 June 2016
Decolonise UCT Economics statement
10:30, 27 May 2016
UCT: No need to fear the curriculum review
14:21, 18 May 2016
Academic Freedom Committee statement
13:00, 17 May 2016
CMD response to the AFC statement
16:30, 31 March 2016
Academic Freedom Committee statement
14:30, 30 March 2016
Former SRC president offers his views on the protest conversation
14:23, 16 March 2016
CAS statement on RMF exhibition events
12:00, 11 March 2016
Open letter calling on the UCT community to reject violence and divisiveness
10:00, 8 March 2016
Open letter from UCT staff members concerning violent protest on campus
10:00, 7 March 2016
Shackville and the Securo-state
14:34, 26 February 2016
Faculty of Law: Statement on the Constitution and lawful protest
14:36, 25 February 2016
A mother's plea to protesting students
14:37, 18 February 2016
AU Executive response to student protests on 16 February 2016
14:30, 18 February 2016
On the destruction of art and the loss of collective histories
13:20, 18 February 2016