<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="margin-top:0px">I Am Stellenbosch aims to bring ‘awareness’</h1><div><a href="http://connect.citizen.co.za/author/tshepisolinda/"><font color="#0066cc"><span>Tshepiso Linda</span>                                                                        </font></a>                                                                        |                                                                        <span>25 September 2015</span>                                                              </div>                                                            <p><strong>A documentary titled <a href="http://connect.citizen.co.za/15907/luister-racism-at-stellenbosch-university/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">Luister</font></a> fueled debates around issues of institutional racism, language policies and transformation at Stellenbosch University in August when it was released.</strong></p><p>Created by members of small media group Contraband Cape Town, Dan Corder, Declan Manca, Erik Mulder and Markus Hegewisch, the documentary featured 32 students and a lecturer speaking openly about their experiences at the university, which has been increasingly plagued by criticism over its alleged lack of transformation.</p><p>On Friday morning, #IAmStellenbosch was trending on Twitter. A group of apparent Stellenbosch students expressed their opinions on the whole issue of transformation and language policy at the university.</p><p>The group said in a statement released on its Facebook page that the aim is to create “awareness of the thousands of individual identities that are housed in this university and bring them together into a single identity that is Stellenbosch University.”</p><p>“It comes from a place in which we as students get to understand and recognize that we are different, our experiences are different, our goals, values and many other attributes are different. However, it is these differences that hold us together as an entity of Stellenbosch University.”</p><p><strong>Here are the images that have been posted:<br></strong><strong> </strong></p><div id="attachment_22684" style="width:353px"><a href="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/Stellies-2.jpg?4cc338"><img width="343" height="457" alt="Stellies 2" src="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/Stellies-2-225x300.jpg?4cc338"></a><p>Picture: Facebook</p></div><p> </p><div id="attachment_22688" style="width:371px"><a href="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/sellies-boy.jpg?4cc338"><img width="361" height="361" alt="Stellenbosch " src="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/sellies-boy-300x300.jpg?4cc338"></a><p>Facebook: Twitter</p></div><p> </p><div id="attachment_22694" style="width:387px"><a href="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/setho.jpg?4cc338"><img width="377" height="283" alt="Stellbosch " src="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/setho-300x225.jpg?4cc338"></a><p>Picture: Facebook</p></div><div id="attachment_22682" style="width:340px"><a href="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/Stellies-1.jpg?4cc338"><img width="330" height="440" alt="IamStellenbosch" src="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/Stellies-1-225x300.jpg?4cc338"></a><p>Pictures: Facebook</p></div><div id="attachment_22696" style="width:365px"><a href="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/rap-music.jpg?4cc338"><img width="355" height="266" alt="Stellies " src="http://connect.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2015/09/rap-music-300x225.jpg?4cc338"></a><p>Picture: Facebook</p></div><div>See more pictures in our gallery to follow.</div><div><a href="http://connect.citizen.co.za/22678/i-am-stellenbosch-aims-to-bring-awareness/">http://connect.citizen.co.za/22678/i-am-stellenbosch-aims-to-bring-awareness/</a></div><div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message.  A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well.  (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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