Let’s recap what’s happened at UCT over the past month, a period described as a “tide of intimidation”:
Rhodes statue and the poo protesters
Students at UCT run amok throwing human excrement at the statue of Cecil Rhodes to protest against institutional racism, white privilege and the lack of transformation at the university.
Attack of staffer
Protesting students attack a member of staff on campus for carrying a poster urging these students to improve their arguments.
Swastikas, Hitler
As part of their protest, students at UCT brand campus buildings with posters of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi flag, the Swastika.
“One settler one bullet”
UCT holds a Council meeting to decide whether Rhodes must fall. Students forcefully occupy the meeting and bring out their true colours and motives for the protest when they dance on tables and sing “One settler one bullet”, which is an incitement to violence and a direct contravention of S16 of the Constitution. A journalist described the vote as a “North Korean election result”.
What would Nelson Mandela say?
Unfortunately he has passed away, rest in peace, but fortunately I know what he would say because he has already said it…
In 1995, Mandela issued a statement in which he accused vice chancellors at universities of “racism in reverse” for allowing unruly black students to disrupt campuses during destructive and violent campus protests.
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He called on university authorities to take “strong disciplinary action” against these students and said white authorities were “scared” of dealing with these students because they were black.
This sounds very much like the situation at UCT where students are allowed to deface a statue, practice hate speech and incite violence, and to intimidate a democratic vote.
“Their failure to clamp down on black students implied that blacks could not be expected to be sufficiently disciplined”, he added, “and constituted racism in reverse and an insult to black people.”