What UCT is not telling its first years · The Medicine Chest

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What UCT is not telling its first years

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On the 19th of January 2015, an article appeared in the Cape Argus titled 'What UCT is not telling its first years' written by Dr Siona O’Connell, a staff member of the Centre for Curating the Archive, and lecturer at the university. In it she wrote about the absence of transformation in the university, evident in its lack of black academic staff, describing the campus as "mired in unarticulated tensions and divisions, many of them pivoting on race” and “guarded by the Rhodes Memorial – a significant imperialist edifice” that continues to shadow it “in many overt and covert ways” "(O’Connell 2015). In the article she pinpoints that even though, as first years, they will most certainly be greeted by the statue of Cecil John Rhodes overlooking the rugby field during their tour of the campus, their chances of being taught by a black professor during the full span of their degree, will be incredibly slim…

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2015

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O'Connell, S. 2015. What UCT is not telling its first years. Cape Argus. [Online]. Available: https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/what-ucts-not-telling-their-first-years-1806441. (31/08/2021).

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