Why this pardon for UCT’s student activist is so inadequate

By Nkosikhulule Xhawulengweni Nyembezi | Published Jul 2, 2019

As a former UCT Council member, I was pleased to learn on June 28 that students implicated and involved in various protests at UCT in 2015, 2016 and 2017 have been vindicated by the withdrawing of disciplinary cases against them. This after the university’s council adopted the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) report which began its work in February last year following a negotiated agreement between UCT’s executive, the students’ representative council and other. . .