1. Racial Politics At UCT Alex Pottinger

2. Diversity Black students make up less than a quarter of UCT (Daily Maverick). 5% of the faculty is black. Max Price said 40% Indian, Coloured and Black. People making big decisions are mostly white.

3. Admissions Official goal: “The goal of the admissions policy of the University of Cape Town is to transform the student body into one that is more diverse and representative of the population while recruiting the best students available. ”admissions policy The university's new admissions policy (2014) is a hybrid procedure using three mechanisms for selection: one part of the class selected just on marks; a second component selected based on performance and ability, which takes account of school and home background; and a third component driven by achieving demographic targets based on an applicant's race and performance. Note that no student would be offered a place who did not exceed a minimum threshold that predicts a high probability of success. Even “privileged blacks” face institutionalized racism in their high schools, society in general and even at UCT.

4. Support for the Racial Admissions Policy Promoting fairness and social justice. It is clear that most of the variation between students' NSC marks is much more directly related to the schools they went to and other socio-economic factors, than to ability or motivation or hard work. Finding the most talented students. Recognizing potential and not necessarily just results. Aims to produce a new generation of professionals, leaders, intellectuals, political actors and analysts who are more demographically representative of the population

5. Against the Racial Admission Policy The policy promotes self-declared “non-racialism”. Difficulties with racial classification and dismissing racial identification. Creating racial division Race is not always a good indicator for privilege

6. UCT: Rhodes Must Fall Started with students protesting against the Cecil John Rhodes statue at UCT. Gained media attention when Chumani Maxwele, the ‘Poo Protester’ threw human excrement at the statue. UCT suspended him for allegedly racially abusing a lecturer, but he took the case to the High Court and got the suspension lifted. The statue was subsequently covered with bin bags and, eventually, removed after mass student action.

7. Continued Description of Rhodes Must Fall on their website: “The chief focus of this movement is to create avenues for REAL transformation that students and staff alike have been calling for. Calls that the institution have thus far ignored or silenced.” Critics accuse it of racism. E.g. use of “Azania”, controversial Facebook statuses.

8. Transformation and Institutionalised Racism Students claim that the culture of racism at UCT prevents them from being treated equally. E.g. accents, backgrounds, symbols of oppression, financial exclusion Response, goals for the next ten years at UCT. -Diversify to be more representative of South Africa -Encourage student involvement -Including African voices and heritage in the curriculum -Prof Elelwani Ramugondo appointment as advisor on transformation

9. SRC

10. Social Racism

11. Comparison to other Universities