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The Day of the Jekyll

A story by Imraan Coovadia on the 31st of March 2015. This should take you < 1 minute to read.

To resolve the situation at the University of Cape Town that was sparked by the statue of Cecil John Rhodes, I believe we must demand the reinstatement of former vice chancellor, Dr Max Price. On his installation in 2008, Price called for an Afropolitan university, encompassing the globe without short-changing the continent. Six years later, in 2014, the same man (or what appeared to be the same man) was reduced to the argument that a black woman had once been a professor at his institution.

Read more at theconmag.co.za

 

Tagged: Cecil John Rhodes, Imraan Coovadia, Max Price, Sculpture, Transformation, UCT, University of Cape Town

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