Time to hit the road for Rhodes: South Africa’s University of Cape Town decided on Wednesday to remove a contentious statue of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes which has triggered protests from students over the past month.
Once again, a good chuckle or five is guaranteed when reading Peter Wilhelm’s latest piece of satirical brilliance for BizNews.
Oxford don, political scientist and the BizNews tribe’s favourite columnist, RW Johnson, provides a rational proposal for the structure of a post-ANC South Africa.
Andrew Kenny discusses the controversial tenure of Dr. Rosina Mamokgethi Phakeng as Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT)
Ground-breaking research by Tamryn Marsberg and Michael Jukes has led to the development of two viral-based biopesticides, MultiMax and CodlMax,
Last week this column highlighted what Prof Benatar described in his book as the manufacture of the ‘narrative’ of UCT as an anti-black ‘racist university’.
UCT, writes Professor Benatar, is not all bad. There are pockets of the university that function really well, and many people of goodwill who span the racial spectrum.
Graham McIntosh responds to UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng’s invitation to share suggestions on the renaming of campus spaces and places.
Although he spent years at the top of SA’s financial services tree, co-founder of the mighty Coronation David Barnes always let others do the public stuff.
If you want to understand how much the University of Cape Town has declined as a centre of academic freedom, you can do no better than read its Alumni News for 2018.