UCT and Sarah Baartman
Shose Kessi, UCT Dean of Humanities, opens up the conference speaking about Sarah Baartman and her significance within UCT. Dean Kesse reflects on the violence scientific inquiry can be capable of as evidenced by the life of Sarah Baartman. She references and provides an analysis of the 2015 Rhodes Must Fall protest action of robing the Sarah Baartman sculpture by Willie Bester that was located in the UCT Hiddingh campus and the events that led up to its being removed from the Library and relocation to the Ritchie Gallery, on UCT Hiddingh campus, in 2018. The 2018 renaming the former Jameson Hall to the Sarah Baartman Memorial Hall is contextualised within the greater institutional decolonisation. The San & Khoi Centre is also described as being part of UCT's decolonial work.
