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
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." -- Back cover.
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