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<h1 class="">ANCYL plans sit-in at CPUT's Wellington campus over alleged racism</h1>
<span id="spnDate" class="">2016-01-27 15:17</span>
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<p class="">Tammy Petersen, News24</p>
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<p>Cape Town - The ANC
Youth League says it is planning a sit in at CPUT's Wellington campus to
show opposition to alleged racism at the Boland institution.</p><p>Mika
Mahlaule, NEC member of the ANCYL, said on Tuesday that the sit-in was
planned for next week, following numerous complaints from students and
staff.</p><p>The university’s "exclusive language policy" was at the top of its list of issues, he told News24.</p><p>"They
still use Afrikaans as their primary language of communication. This
disadvantages the black students, many of whom have not been doing it as
a subject since Grade 10," Mahlaule said.</p><p>But CPUT spokesperson Lauren Kansley disputed this.</p><p>"The language of instruction at CPUT is English, except for undergraduate BEd for teaching students at Wellington," she said.</p><p>"Mowbray
- an exclusively Education faculty campus - trains teachers in English,
while Wellington trains teachers in Afrikaans. The two campuses,
therefore, supply teachers for all of SA where a great need remains for
graduates in both languages."</p><p>Wellington Bachelor in Education
graduates very often came from poor farming communities to study at the
Wellington campus, Kansley said.</p><p>"After graduation many return to
those same communities and use the multi-grade method of teaching.
Multigrade allows learners of varying grades to be taught in one class
and is critical for education in rural communities."</p><p>Unathi
Mtshotwana, ANCYL convenor for the Dullah Omar region, said earlier this
week that black students must "get up and walk out" when a class was
given in Afrikaans.</p><p>"White students are passing more than our black brothers and sisters. It’s because they are taught in their language," she said.</p><p>"Why are they then not teaching in isiXhosa?"</p><p><strong>Lack of transformation</strong></p><p>Mahlaule
further claimed there was a lack of transformation and that a number of
black academics had resigned from the Wellington campus after being
treated "badly" by white staff and students.</p><p>But Kansley said during the last three years, 13 black staff members had been appointed at Wellington.</p><p>"[This]
includes the current Assistant Dean who is the first black Assistant
Dean at Wellington, two secretaries and a senior researcher in the
Multigrade Centre.</p><p>"No black lecturer has resigned from Wellington."</p><p>Political organisations, Mahlaule said, were also not allowed to operate and meet freely on campus.</p><p>"They
first have to give their agenda to the university management who then
decides whether they will be allowed to meet or not," he claimed.</p><p>Kansley
countered that student activities fell under Student Services, and that
campus management would not decide on such an issue.</p><p>"In the case
of the Faculty, the Dean stresses that we have a very good relationship
with the local SRCs on both campuses. In Mowbray, for the last two
years, the local SRC is SASCO-led - which is an ANC associate - while at
Wellington, the local SRC is led by Independents."</p><p>Mahlaule,
however, insisted that the institution was "untransformed” and that the
Youth League would descend on the campus next week.</p><p>"We are demanding change," he said, adding that a task team had also been established to look into the complaints received.</p><p><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><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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