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UCT Students/Workers Alliance Awareness Week

Posted Mon, 09/15/2008 - 11:19 by Emma Holtmann

Student Awareness Week

UCTSWA (UCT Student/Worker Alliance) is a new body aimed at mobilizing students to use their power to support the demands made by UCT workers at their forum. They have planned a series of events to raise consciousness of the treatment of outsourced UCT workers, to promote worker-student dialogue and to introduce themselves to students.
The events are:

· Roger Ronnie Talk:

To be held in Kramer 2 at 1:00 on Thursday 18 September

UCT outsourced workers petition

Posted Fri, 07/25/2008 - 09:31 by Emma Holtmann

Attached is the petition in support of outsourced workers at UCT, circulated by the Workers' Support Committee, in pursuance of a more responsible attitude from our University towards our workers. If you would like to add your name please email Robert Krause on rdkrause@yebo.co.za with your name and student number.

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An account of the inaugural seminar

Posted Sat, 02/23/2008 - 19:28 by Emma Holtmann

The University of Cape Town has a powerful history of activism in the struggle against apartheid. This legacy of political activity has finally been taken up by five students in the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town. They put together the Students' Seminar for Law and Social Justice, a weekend away for 130 students (from both UCT and the University of the Western Cape) and 25 presenters, dealing with issues of social transformation in South Africa.