Research Catalog

Title

The fall of the University of Cape Town : Africa's leading university in decline / David Benatar.

Author

Benatar, David

Publication

• [South Africa] : Politicsweb Publishing, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

vii, 481 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Destructive forces have been eroding the University of Cape Town, Africa's leading university. This book tells the sad, true tale of what has been transpiring. It is a saga of lunacy, criminality, pandering, and identity politics. The mad and the bad - the deranged, deluded, the depraved - have been granted endless latitude in bullying and abusing others. The decline began in 2015 with the Rhodes Must Fall protest that resulted in the offending statue's removal within a month, and which spawned similar protests abroad. Emboldened by their local success, the protestors issued new and ever-increasing demands later that year and then again in 2016 and 2017. Their methods also became criminal - including intimidation, assault, and arson. The university leadership capitulated to this behaviour, and this fostered a broader and now pervasive toxic environment within the institution." --

Subject

• University of Cape Town
• Education, Higher > South Africa > Cape Town
• Educational change > South Africa > Cape Town
• Universities and colleges > South Africa > Cape Town
• Student movements > South Africa > Cape Town
• Education, Higher
• Educational change
• Student movements
• Universities and colleges
• South Africa > Cape Town

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-473) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- What are transformation and decolonization? -- Must UCT also now fall -- The censure -- A blow to academic freedom -- The taming of the Academic Freedom Committee?-- The University of capitulation -- The insufficiently "concerned philosophers" -- Dr Pangloss and the best of all actual African universities -- Academic climate change -- The academic freedom farce continues -- Impugning with impunity -- Genocidal tweets -- A very strange invitation -- Liquid bullshit -- Crybully medical students -- Racial preferences -- Selecting a dean : racists v racists xenophobes -- Manufacturing the narrative of a racist university -- Bending over BAC-awards -- Excremental behaviour -- Commandante Lushaba and the Führer -- An enduring toxic climate -- Conclusion

Call Number

ReCAP 23-2991

ISBN

• 9783982236438
• 3982236436

OCLC

1287995034

Author

Benatar, David, author.

Title

The fall of the University of Cape Town : Africa's leading university in decline / David Benatar.

Publisher

[South Africa] : Politicsweb Publishing, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-473) and index.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-2991