Rhodesmustfalll explained

Yeah fantastic story the ANC is telling.
You raised these retards. Now you have to get them in line or we are all going to suffer the idiocy for many years to come.

Where is our so called leader when this is happening? Looting under this thinly veiled deflection tactic?
 
It's no nice and easy not to take responsibility for your actions.

"University management made us do it!"

Expel the lot - and bar them from any other public university in the country.
 
Necropolis said:
It's no nice and easy not to take responsibility for your actions.

"University management made us do it!"

Expel the lot - and bar them from any other public university in the country.
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This guy makes me think of the man hitting his wife and telling her 'now look what you made me do'

The entitlement is strong in these losers.
 
RMF seem to have hacked the university's email system last night. They sent the following email through the SRC's and uni spokeswoman's accounts:

Dear Students,

Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) wishes to provide clarity on the events of 16
February which culminated in levels of violence against student
protestors unprecedented at UCT since 1994, and the unlawful destruction
of Shackville, a symbol of black dispossession and exclusion both within
and outside of the university, constructed to both house homeless
students and disturb the daily comfort of whiteness.

At around 3pm on Tuesday the 16th, black students occupying Shackville
were handed an unsigned document by the vice-chancellor’s watchdogs,
Francis Peterson, Anwar Mall and Russell Ally. All three are Black
members of both senior management and the newly appointed Special
Executive Task Team (SETT), whom two weeks prior had been in a period of
constructive engagement with RMF around the UCT residence crisis. This
engagement included private emails acknowledging and thanking RMF for
their help and verbal admissions that the UCT residence system is wholly
dysfunctional, accompanied by the promise that an official statement to
this effect would be released. The SETT then unashamedly proceeded to
send numerous emails to the entire university community insinuating that
RMF and #FeesMustFall, as opposed to a dysfunctional residence system,
are to blame for the residence crisis. These emails also defended the
hiring of unmarked and unlawful private security on campus for R2
million per month in the midst of the supposed shortage of funding. Such
bad faith prompted RMF to hold the position that it is the intention of
Max Price and the imperial university council to use Black bodies to do
their dirty work and avoid engaging with RMF on our demands. As a result
of this RMF has ceased all engagement with the SETT and commit to
speaking only with the vice-cancellor Max Price. This demand which was
made both publicly and via direct correspondence with UCT management.
The vice-chancellor has vehemently taken a tacit decision not respond to
this demand or agree to directly engage with students.

The document presented to the Shackville occupiers instructed RMF to
move the shack to an area that would not disrupt traffic, and contained
the threat of forced removal if this was not done by 5pm.

The events that followed the handing over of this document (which we
assert does not constitute an eviction notice of any lawful standing)
are as follows:
Black UCT students naturally gravitated in numbers to defend Shackville.
Barriers were erected at both ends of Residence Road. Tyres were burnt
in the Fuller/Smuts parking lot adjacent to Shackville around which
students gathered and sang.
A meeting was held on Marikana Memorial steps to plan a way forward.
Many had not eaten the entire day and it was decided that the students
who had been defending Shackville would peacefully enter Fuller Hall for
dinner.
After eating, students spontaneously removed old house committee group
photographs and other images and paintings upholding and glorifying
white supremacy and the legacies of colonialism and apartheid from the
walls of the dining hall and brought them into the middle of the parking
lot. They were set alight. Students then entered Smuts Hall and finally,
Marikana Memorial Hall to remove similar paintings and photographs from
the walls to be burnt. Students celebrated and sang around the fire.
Amidst the chaos the paintings of Tata Keresemose Richard Baholo were
regretfully burnt.
Police presence, which had been gradually increasing over this period,
escalated with police suiting up in riot gear and carrying rifles at the
sidelines of the gathering. Students decided that they would not provoke
the police and would continue to sing and later meet to plan the way
forward in addressing the crisis of academic, financial and residence
exclusion at UCT.
This peaceful meeting on the steps of Marikana Memorial Hall in front of
Shackville was interrupted by the sudden arrival of about 30 unmarked
private security guards. Students immediately stood up to protect
Shackville, linking arms to make a human chain around it. They were
aggressively manhandled by the private security in full view of police
officers and in the ensuing chaos, stun grenades were thrown by the
police who were still on standby. The private security proceeded to
chase students up the stairs, beating those they got their hands on.
Students were beaten and pepper sprayed by unmarked private security in
the presence of the police who stood by and observed. Some students
began to throw stones at the police and security before dispersing.
A car parked on campus was set alight by unknown individuals. During
this time, the shack was flattened by a SAPS vehicle.
Two students, one of whom had already been badly brutalised by private
security, were walking away from the site of eviction seeking medical
attention when a black SUV screeched to a halt next to them. The
students fled in opposite directions and the car gave chase to the
injured student onto the M3 highway. The student was caught and thrown
in the back of the SUV and brought back to the Shackville site - it
later emerged that he had been beaten by private security for the
duration of the journey.
Students reconvened and gathered in solidarity around their injured and
bleeding comrade who was being guarded by riot police. Many sat down in
front of the police and began singing Thina Sizwe. The police rolled a
stun grenade into the group of seated students, causing the gathered
crowd to disperse.
In an altercation between one student and a police officer, the latter
verbally abused the student and a video was taken. The student was
apprehended. It was then decided that the masses would move down to UCT
lower campus, where it had just been reported that a bus had been set
alight by unknown individuals.
At lower campus, students mobilised other students from the surrounding
residences. The police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse
the crowd.
At some point in the evening, unknown individuals petrol bombed Max
Price’s office in Bremner.
Eight violent arrests were made throughout the night.

ON FORMS OF PROTEST AND VIOLENCE

The public and institutional response to these events follow an old
pattern of argumentation that resurfaces after every protest action by
Black bodies which does not fall within the parameters of the law.
Protests which do not ask for permission from those in power are
regarded as illegal and illegitimate. Indeed, legitimate protest in
post-apartheid apartheid South Africa are restricted to actions which do
not disrupt the white supremacist capitalist patriarchal status quo and
which occur on the oppressor’s terms. Effectively, legally acceptable
forms of protest are those which produce such incremental change so as
to lubricate the rainbow nation image which preserves systems of power
and inhibits the realisation of the decolonisation project. The
disproportionate brutality of state and private forces which meets
protest action, invariably causing it to escalate spontaneously, are
left out of subsequent official versions of events.

The public has framed the events of the 16th as violence on the part of
students and has centred the destruction of ‘priceless artworks’ and
‘heritage’ in the narrative. This same narrative refuses to question why
these imperialist, patriarchal and colonial symbols have not been dealt
with by the University. Management has again and again stated publicly
that it respects the right to protest except when it results in
‘criminal acts, intimidation and the violation of the rights of others’.
We understand these arguments to form part of a particular colonial
mythology which hides present structural violence and instead falsely
construes responses to this system as the greater violence. The burning
of colonial artefacts of white heritage is seen as a violent act, while
the psychological violence these inflict on Black bodies at the
university is never considered. The violence of the systematic exclusion
of black students from dignified accommodation and access to education
and the general absence of dignity which characterises Black life in
this country, is drowned out by an uncritical public outrage
at the ‘violent’ destruction of property. Such a response serves only to
sustain the violence of the status quo. This mythology of what
constitutes violence allows Management to simultaneously argue that
Black students are intimidating and violating the rights of others while
setting aggressive, brutal, private security forces on protestors.

RMF are dismayed but not surprised when the burning of private property
evokes more public outrage and accusations of violence than the
occurrence of two suicides of black students, several instances of
sexual assault and rape and the displacement of hundreds of students
from dignified accommodation that have occurred on and around UCT campus
in the past month, giving rise directly to the present climate of
protest. We are dismayed when the unfortunate destruction of the work of
Tata Keresemose is instrumentalised by white critics who never knew or
cared about him or any other Black artist before, precisely to
legitimise their reactionary framing of Black protest as barbaric,
senseless and violent. Despite the fact that he may not agree with the
present modes of protest, we welcome Tata Keresemose’s continued support
for the student movements for decolonisation in the Mail & Guardian
today.
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cont.

In summary it is clear, as always, that white fears and private property
are elevated over Black lives.

We in no way condemn the actions of students on the 16th as our
spineless SRC has. To condemn spontaneous protests of the oppressed
which whiteness sees as violent is the unacceptable policing of black
pain which seeks to cloak the underlying structural issues which give
rise to such actions. Black students and their modes of expression are
by no means above reproach by fellow supporters of the decolonisation
project, but in the case of private property being prioritised over
Black dignity, we refuse to choose the side of white capital. Instead,
we condemn the actions of the university management which have pushed
Black students to this point. Management’s inaction and growing fascism,
paired with its underhanded tactics of criminalising and brutalising
students, has led to the eventuality of students acting on their
frustration.

Presently, student demands for the issues of financial exclusion and
subsequent academic and residential exclusion remain largely
unaddressed. At the time of writing it is the last day for registration
and students are unable to register due to lack of funding, the presence
of private security on campus has increased, and many students have been
victimised by suspensions and court interdicts for charges which remain
undisclosed. The university meanwhile attempts to continue its “normal
functioning” which is and always has been a state of social, academic,
financial and existential exclusion of the Black child.

As indicated above and in conclusion, management’s continuing
disingenuousness with regard to RMF and black students in general is
clear. It follows a pattern that began in March last year: A negative
perception of RMF is constructed through statements sent by Management
to the entire university. Despite this, RMF and its allies persevere,
all the while facing suppression from Management in the form of
suspensions, interdicts, private security and the calling of police onto
campus, until a particular goal is met. We are then patronisingly
thanked for raising a legitimate issue and the successes of Black
students and workers are appropriated by the university under the banner
of ‘transformation’ which materialises into very little but the
continued preservation of white privilege. It is exhausting that after
a year of engagement, UCT Management has persisted with this approach.
If this pattern is continued by UCT Management and the management of
other institutions of tertiary education across the country, they will
only continue to aggravate and frustrate those they continue to
marginalise on their campuses, and will continue to effectively mandate
engagement through stones, tyres and fire.
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Yeah right!!!!

"Unknown individuals" burned a car, a bus and petrol bombed Max Price's office etc

Typical of these RMF youth. No desire to accept responsibility for their actions whatsoever. Just "Give me, give me, give me!".

And then when they don't get exactly what they want, they turn into three-year olds and throw a hissy fit.

More recently they have begun barring South African students of minority groups from eating in the dormitory canteens. This is pure, unadulterated RACISM!

For 90% of the students attending UCT and other places of higher learning, university is a place to study and get educated. This is their right. For many non-white students, their parents and ancestors fought a long struggle for them have enjoy this opportunity. Now some thugs are threatening to take away this right by disrupting their studies.

For these RMF minority, it seems their only reason for being at varsity is to terrorize other students and do all things criminal to draw attention to themselves and their racist cause.

Each one should be served a summary expulsion notice and individual court interdicts from gaining entry to the UCT's premises in future. Then if they return, they should be dished out with the maximum penalties under the law.

Then, lets see how their criminal records advance their careers or prospects of working abroad in future.

And as for all the Caucasian RMF supporters who are mainly foreign exchange students, they should also be charged and have their student visas cancelled, then deported.

The TIME IS NOW to say "Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish!"
 
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The student interviewed displays why this whole RMF thing exists in the first place.

They are simply too stupid to understand what is going on. They should never have been allowed into university in the first place because they are just too stupid.
 
Ancalagon said:
The student interviewed displays why this whole RMF thing exists in the first place.

They are simply too stupid to understand what is going on. They should never have been allowed into university in the first place because they are just too stupid.
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Higher education in South Africa is not an absolute right, its a privilege.
These thugs have relinquished that privilege by committing, inciting and aiding and abetting criminal acts on campus.

'They should be:

(1) expelled,
(2) criminally charged,
(3) civilly charged in their personal capacities to pay back the money for all the wanton destruction of private property.
(4) exposed by having their mugshots, names and ID numbers published on the front page of the newspapers.
(5) Their parents or sponsors who signed surety for their student fees and accommodation should be forced to pay all outstanding fees for the year and previous years by means of a civil claim.

The Dept of Higher Education should also make a shared database available where are all these criminals are listed, so that if they attempt to enroll elsewhere they are denied enrollment for a period of years (depending an severity of crimes committed).
 
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My brain reading those responses by Simon Rakei. At least he proves what he is saying that anybody can put their name up to be a spokesperson.

/adds to list of names who's CVs will never get further than the trashcan
 
Response by UCT RE Hacking:

Dear colleagues and students,

You may have received an email purporting to be from the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) movement. The email is a statement from RMF and it has been made to appear that it has been sent from University of Cape Town accounts, including the Student Representative Council’s email account. This is not the case. This email was not sent from a UCT account, nor has UCT endorsed the message of the mailer. We caution all recipients of this message to be aware that it was not sent by the accounts that it is alleged to have come from.

We have no evidence that the UCT account holders have been hacked or that any sensitive UCT information is at risk. We believe the email message account was simply camouflaged to appear to be a UCT account.

UCT notes that the sending of an email in this manner is illegal and is contradictory to the UCT code of conduct. The university is investigating.

Sincerely
Kylie Hatton
Deputy Director: Communication and Marketing Department
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