A reminder of just some of the things that have happened at UCT over the past decade:
1. Rhodes Must Fall protesters chanting “One settler, one bullet” on campus.
2. An activist wearing a “Kill All Whites” T-shirt in a university dining hall.
3. White students, and reportedly coloured and Indian students, being ordered out of residence dining halls because of their race.
4. “Fuck White People” graffiti appearing on campus during the Fallist protests.
5. UCT's own Institute for Creative Arts promoting the artist behind the FuckWhitePeople artwork.
6. Protesters burning historical paintings, including works commemorating the anti-apartheid struggle.
7. The petrol-bombing of the vice-chancellor's office.
8. The burning of a Jammie Shuttle bus and university research vehicle.
9. Students and lecturers facing threats, intimidation and disruption during the Fees Must Fall protests.
10. Internationally respected Professor Bongani Mayosi suffering abuse during the protests. He died by suicide in 2018.
11. Students arguing that modern science should be discarded and rebuilt during the notorious #ScienceMustFall discussion.
12. UCT's former vice-chancellor, Mamokgethi Phakeng, being implicated in an independent investigation that found she used racial divisions, intimidation, ethnic slurs and racially offensive social media posts against colleagues.
13. The same investigation finding serious governance failures involving Phakeng and former Council chair Babalwa Ngonyama.
14. UCT law professor Pierre de Vos becoming the subject of a criminal complaint after child sexual abuse material was shared through his Twitter account.
15. Representatives of internationally designated terrorist organisations (Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad) addressing a campus event remotely in March 2023.
16. A representative of an internationally designated terrorist organisation (Hezbollah) addressing another campus event later that year.
17. Flags of internationally designated terrorist organisations (Hamas and Hezbollah) being displayed at student events.
18. Jewish students reporting verbal abuse, intimidation and harassment while displaying posters of Israeli hostages.
19. Jewish students reporting being told to “go back to Europe”.
20. Representatives of Hezbollah and the Houthis participating remotely in another campus event in 2024.
Such a wonderfully welcoming, safe, tolerant and non-discriminatory environment for students, academics and staff.
How dare @AdvOppenheimer speak out against hate? And @DavidAnsara had the audacity to share a post praising him for it!
Horrible people who deserve to be punished, obviously.
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Roelf Meyer says he's working hard to fight the narrative created by some people in South Africa that there is a white genocide in the country.
Asked who these people are, he says that he'd rather not say.
The new Tesla Roadster accelerates faster than a fighter jet taking off from an aircraft carrier
The new Tesla Roadster produces more thrust than an F-16 fighter jet at military power
Roadster Thrust augment:
>80 kN (~18,000 lbf)
F-16 with F100-PW-229:
~79.2 kN (~17,800 lbf) without afterburner
Tesla packed enough cold-gas thrust into a car that exceeds the non-afterburning thrust of an F-16 engine
With afterburner, the F-16 exceeds at ~130 kN
But the fact this comparison even exists is insane
Tesla just pushed automotive engineering deep into aerospace territory
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"Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will make a fire with your beautiful oak door..."
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Beautiful Town hall in Limoges survived for 143 years, including two World Wars against Germany.
But it had no chance against "Palestine".
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Whatever your view on the Akademia project, this is remarkable. The pictures are from March, May, August and October. They have a vision, a budget, a timeline and deadlines, and they are getting it done. Every cent is spent where it is allocated and accounted for.
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I wonder why the BBC cropped his photo?
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A nurse in the UK has lost his license after conducting unnecessary, “sexually motivated” genital examinations on children.
Ashley Boyd was the Great Western Hospital NHS Trust's first Trans Liaison, and served as a Chair for Swindon Pride.
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