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The art of hypocrisy: Appeal to re-constitute Shackville

Black Academic Caucus by Black Academic Caucus 8 March 201622 March 2016

By Shobane A wave of condemnations and outrage hit the media after University of Cape Town artworks were burnt on campus. Even those academics, who from the rooftops declared their support for the fees must fall movement were very quick to distance themselves from what they saw as a particularly “senseless” act. This violence, it […]

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#Shackville is your struggle too, black graduates

Reader Blog by Reader Blog 18 February 20168 March 2016

By Michelle October What a time to be alive, students revolting and the flames of rebellion licking at the doors of the colonisers. The Rhodes Must Fall movement’s reignited its efforts and burning historic artworks at the University of Cape Town. This activism could just as easily be airlifted and placed outside Parliament’s doors because […]

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