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From the VC's Desk: Rhodes statue protests and transformation
18 Mar 2015
Legacy of Rhodes is not black and white
The call to have Rhodes's statue removed from the University of Cape Town (UCT) forces a confrontation, once again, with how modern SA memorialises those who have shaped it with the blunt tools of domination, writes economist and Rhodes scholar Trudi Makhaya in Business Day .
17 Mar 2015
Students campaign for Rhodes statue removal
16 Mar 2015
'The Rhodes statue must fall': UCT's radical rebirth
16 Mar 2015
White students: Why we need to think deeper and do better
It has been an incredibly emotional week for students at the University of Cape Town. I have been turned inside out as I have watched and engaged with my fellow students around issues of transformation, race and Rhodes, writes UCT student Jessica Breakey.
14 Mar 2015
Forced removal: Time to claim new space by removing Rhodes statue
The year 1994 was a watershed moment, a moment where millions were for the first time citizens in the country of their birth, a country that had enforced a systematic approach of making black South Africans less and depriving them of their citizenship, writes Andrew Ihsaan Gasnolar in the Daily Maverick .
13 Mar 2015
What students think of the UCT poo protest
Poo protester Chumani Maxwele, SRC president Ramabina Mahapa, and other students told The Daily Vox 's Ra'eesa Pather what they make of the protest.
13 Mar 2015
Statement by Students' Representative Council
Contrary to what has been reported in the media, neither the SRC nor any SRC members were involved in organising the protest. Furthermore, no SRC members threw any substance at the Rhodes statue, SRC President Ramabina Mahapa said in a statement released on 11 March 2015.
11 Mar 2015
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