IN A SPEECH littered with offensive references to 'men' and 'man' that ignored the substantial role played by African women, both during the struggle against apartheid, and the fight against colonialism, Prof PLO Lumumba gave students a one-sided...
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Misguided academic rails against Die Antwoord’s postmodernism
Adam Haupt's stock ideas are derivative and contrived. Deserve to be rejected by anyone supporting freedom of expression. There is no rock without drums. Without the cross-pollination of African rhythms, there would be no jazz music, and likewise hip hop. Ditto, Die Antwoord. In a piece published...
Debate: Non-racialism vs Anti-racism
Neville Alexander's Unity Movement opposed the now defunct, multi-regionalist theory of human evolution and proposed that all of humanity was the result of a common stream, not separate and distinct 'race groups'. Given that non-racialism is now the basis for our Constitution one would think that...
Cheadle-stan: A brave new shameful world?
STUDENT bodies have resoundingly rejected calls for 'mandatory vaccination' on our nation's campuses. Coercion defeats the purpose of constitutional guarantees, including bodily integrity and freedom of movement, not to mention academic freedom. The students say immunisation programmes should be...
Lushaba 2: That record needle skipping faux pas remains
READING some of the latest 'academic' defenses of Lushaba in the 'petit press', one could be forgiven for thinking that he had delivered an important speech at UCT pronouncing on the supremacy of politics over law, utilising dialectical materialism to thoroughly debunk so-called legal institution...
UCT skeletons continue to haunt student body
READERS MAY be familiar with my correspondence with the previous UCT Vice Chancellor, Max Price, and the follow-up penned to his successor, Mamokgethi Phakeng, written after a seminar 'Let’s Talk About the History of Racism in Science: Darwin’s Hunch and the Search for Human Origins' by Christa...