RMF Scholarship Fund and Public Lecture

#RMF Scholarship Fund and Public Lecture

Following an initiative of the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) Scholarship Committee as proposed by student activists at the University of Cape Town, the university has launched the #RMF Scholarship Fund and hosted an RMF public lecture on 9 April 2021. The lecture will be hosted annually hereafter.

Lectures and speeches Inaugural #RhodesMustFall Scholarship Public Lecture

On 9 April, Emeritus Professor Njabulo S Ndebele presented the first #RhodesMustFall Scholarship Public Lecture.

14 Apr 2021

News #RhodesMustFall Scholarship Fund and annual lecture launched

Following an initiative of the Rhodes Must Fall Scholarship Committee, as proposed by student activists, UCT recently launched a scholarship fund and public lecture.

12 Apr 2021 - 6 min read

The Rhodes Must Fall Scholarship Fund is a new initiative that aims to raise funding to support students engaged in scholarship around the decolonisation of higher education.

Looking back to 2015

News Rhodes goes quietly amid jubilation

The statue of Cecil John Rhodes had finally fallen after a month of rolling protest about UCT’s colonial symbols and heritage, and calls for greater transformation.

09 Apr 2015

News SRC welcomes Council's decision to remove the Rhodes statue

The decision by Council to remove the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from campus is one that the Students’ Representative Council ‘wholeheartedly welcomes’.

08 Apr 2015

News UCT Council votes in favour of removing Rhodes statue

Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, chairperson of UCT’s Council, issued the following statement regarding the status of the Rhodes statue, following a special sitting of Council on 8 April 2015.

08 Apr 2015

News UCT Academics Union statement on #RhodesMustFall

01 Apr 2015

News 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Heritage, signs and symbolism were superceded by the harder issues synonymous with transformation at Wednesday night's University Assembly in a jam-packed Jameson Hall.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

News Black academics support #RhodesMustFall campaign

TransformUCT, a grouping of black academics from different departments and faculties at UCT, stands in solidarity with students in the #RhodesMustFall campaign and the removal of the statue.

24 Mar 2015

News Open letter from former SRC presidents: ‘Rhodes must fall’

19 Mar 2015

News UCT’s elephant in the room: #RhodesMustFall

Chevening scholar and UCT fine arts alumnus Wandile Goozen Kasibe comments on the Rhodes debate.

18 Mar 2015

Removing Rhodes: a photo essay from April 2015

After one month of rolling protests about UCT’s colonial symbols and heritage, and calls for greater transformation, the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was removed from campus on 9 April 2015. We looked at the events leading up to its removal through a photographer’s lens.