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Good, Bad and No News: Teaching at UCT

13 November 2018 Prof Tim Crowe 0 Comments decolonisation, Education, Fallism, Protests, University of Cape Town, Vice Chancellor Phakeng

Even the title of the 84-page 2017 UCT Report on Teaching and Learning creates concern. Just what are teaching and

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Shifting the Overton Window in South Africa

14 September 2018 Daniël Eloff 0 Comments Academia, Arguments, Ben Shapiro, debating, Donald Trump, Education, expropriation, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, Logic, Marxism, Overton Window, social justice

The ‘Overton window’ has become a buzzword among many liberty-loving colleagues and allies during the past few years. The term,

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Why The EFF Seeks To Make South Africa Ungovernable

25 May 2018 Nicholas Babaya 0 Comments Alt-Right, Brexit, Crime, Economic Freedom Fighters, Education, European Union, Fallism, Germany, Greece, Islam, protest, Protests

Earlier this year, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) called on matric graduates to simply arrive at universities to register at

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Malema and the Myth of Whiteness: An Eastern Cape Case-Study

22 May 201823 May 2018 Anthony Stuurman 0 Comments African National Congress, collectivism, Critical Theory, Eastern Cape, Education, Julius Malema, Racialism, racism, social justice, South African Democratic Teachers Union, unions

The fascist myth of “whiteness” (and other variations) has been used over and over again by Julius Malema to gain

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UCT’s Reconciliation and Transformation Commission Perverted Justice

9 April 201810 April 2018 William Gild 0 Comments Crime, Education, Fallism, Max Price, protest, protesters, University of Cape Town

Written by: William Gild On or about 29 March 2018, the University of Cape Town (UCT)’s Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission

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Black Consciousness In Modern SA: The Inferiority Complex (Part 1)

21 March 201821 March 2018 Mpiyakhe Dhlamini 0 Comments African National Congress, Black Consciousness, collectivism, Critical Theory, Education, individualism, Racialism, racism, social justice, Steve Biko

When considering the usefulness of any idea or set of ideas, it is obviously counter-productive to have as your premise

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South Africa Is Suffering From A Disease That Ramaphosa Won’t Cure

23 January 201816 July 2018 Nicholas Woode-Smith 0 Comments African National Congress, collectivism, corruption, Crime, Cyril Ramaphosa, Education, expropriation, Fallism, government intervention, Jacob Zuma, Racialism, racism

Jacob Zuma is no longer the leader of the African National Congress (ANC), and it is only a matter of

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Rebutting Mamdani on Decolonization

1 November 201730 October 2017 Prof Tim Crowe 0 Comments Academia, Academic freedom, Africa, David Benatar, decolonization, Education, Fallism, Flemming Rose, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, hate speech, Mahmood Mamdani, Marxism, social justice, Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town

‘Decolonization’ at the University of Cape Town (UCT): What is it? How should it be achieved? Part 2: Mahmood Mamdani

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Does UCT have any principles left?

16 October 2017 Prof Tim Crowe 0 Comments #RhodesMustFall, Academia, Academic freedom, Education, Fallism, Max Price, Racialism, racism, University of Cape Town

Is the University of Cape Town (UCT) abandoning ‘universality’, academic freedom, excellence, pursuit of the ‘Truth’ and non-racialism in favour

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