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Abstract
The ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ crusade, and its consequent movements, has had remarkable coverage in serious academic debate and in the popular press ever since the first rumblings of the protest began at the University of Cape Town. Comments on the news items have flourished; tweets have hit the highest song-bird notes. Former Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University, Saleem Badat, has claimed: ‘The recent developments at the University of Cape Town and at Rhodes mark the beginnings of a social movement. It comprises students and academics, mainly black, but some white. This social movement is likely to extend to other universities, expand, and strengthen over time.’
Highlights
A senior staff member at the University of Cape Town feels otherwise, and expresses her personal views below
On 9 March 2015, our desire to be a leading African world-class research-intensive university came under scrutiny, with the start of a critical examination of our position as a public institution of higher education in a country two decades post-apartheid
A few attempts by a group of University of Cape Town (UCT) academics over the past few months to openly criticise and raise awareness about the lack of transformation at UCT, and the lack of black academic staff,[2,3,4] were not sufficient to gain the attention of the university body
Summary
A senior staff member at the University of Cape Town feels otherwise, and expresses her personal views below. The country is not about to implode because some UCT students tackled the Rhodes statue.
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