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UCT Commerce Prof explains: Why I called protestors “selfish f..ing c…ts”
Academic Peter Ouwehand was angry and admits he would probably do it again. But whatever the merits (or demerits) of firing off a string of expletives at a group of protesting students, his actions will have consequences. Welcome, Prof, to the age of visibility. As the group of Hilton College students discovered when someone posted their “simulated rape” picture on Instagram last week, privacy can no longer be taken for granted. The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, tells us to never do anything of which we’d be ashamed were it to end up on the front page of a Sunday newspaper. Never has that advice been more prescient. – Alec Hogg
By Tammy Petersen, News24
“It’s exam time next week [and] they are preventing people from coming onto campus,” Ouwehand said.
The video of Ouwehand was recorded on Monday morning by Twitter user Raeesa Pather. By Monday afternoon it had been retweeted more than 300 times.
In the video, Ouwehand is seen getting out of his car and is heard telling the group, “You guys are not helping. Those poor students are not going to get any of their lecturers in here today. How is this going to help? Why are you doing this? Bloody hell, it makes me insane.”
As he gets back into his car, he is heard calling the students “fucking selfish cunts”.
“There were about 12 of them,” he told News24.
Peter Ouwehand, associate professor at UCT commerce dept, calls protestors “cunts” #Uctshutdown pic.twitter.com/PZJV0taCLg
— raeesa pather (@raediology) October 19, 2015
Nzimande will today meet with representatives of UCT to discuss tuition fee increases that have resulted in student protests #VarsityFees — Leanne Manas (@LeanneManas) October 20, 2015
“I flare up quickly and I calm down again quickly.”
But Ouwehand insisted the students “are wrong in this”.
“They may be right about the issue, but they are wrong about the time. Now is a dreadful time.”
UCT spokesperson Pat Lucas confirmed the university was investigating the incident.
Students are protesting at several universities nationwide against proposed fee increases for 2016. – News24
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