IRTC final report released

Dear members of the campus community

On Monday night, 18 March 2019, the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) met with the IRTC Steering Committee and released its final report.

The IRTC was set up following student protests of 2015 and 2016 and formed part of the 6 November 2016 agreement. The commission was mandated to look into “institutional culture and practices, including decolonisation and any that entail unjust discrimination, domination or violence including sexual violence” and to make relevant recommendations in this regard, in particular in relation to “institutional culture, transformation, disability and any other matters which the university community has raised over the years or may wish to raise”.

The IRTC was also requested to deal with the issue of amnesty for those students who were granted clemency by the university, and to make recommendations on how to deal with the outstanding cases in the spirit of restorative justice. The commission commenced its work in February 2018.

A second IRTC Steering Committee meeting will be held on Friday, 22 March, during which members of the committee will discuss the report’s recommendations and develop initial consensus on which of these the committee will recommend to Council. The IRTC Steering Committee will, over the next three months, continue to engage with its constituencies and make a final recommendation to the June meeting of UCT’s Council.

• Read the final report by the IRTC.

Sincerely

Sipho M Pityana
Chair of UCT Council

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