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14/08/2021

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Applications for the 2022 academic year are now open Applications close on 30 September 2021 (except MPsych which closes on 14 May 2021, and Bachelor ...

02/02/2021

01/02/2021

Greetings Black Lives Matter Family!

Happy Black History Month! As we vision and build Black futures, we are deeply committed to the African principle of Sankofa...that we must embrace and honor the freedom fighters, struggles, and lessons learned from the past as we chart the course forward.

Black History Month was founded initially as Negro History Week in 1926 by our honored Ancestor Dr. Carter G. Woodson and taken as month of remembrance by Black Student Union organizers at Kent State University in 1969. It was, and continues to be an expression of Black autonomy, not officially recognized by the U.S. government until 1976.

Since our birth, Black Lives Matter has always acknowledged that we are but one marker in the long struggle for Black freedom. Those who walked before us continue to serve as a source for us. Over the years, our Black History Month efforts have ranged from political education sessions, to social media posts, to arts initiatives.

This year, we are most excited about the deepened partnership with and the daily offering of Black history as political education by some of our leading Black radical intellectuals. Daily installments will be posted on our Instagram page: . It is our hope that these brief tellings of Black history will inspire us to struggle forward with renewed vigor and vision.

Peace, Justice, and Freedom,

Melina Abdullah ()
Co-Director, Black Lives Matter-Grassroots
Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles

and

Charles H.F. Davis III ()
Founder and Director, Scholars for Black Lives

06/09/2020

On this first September Sunday As we remember Prof Gerwel who "by the time [he] Gerwel became rector and vice chancellor of his Alma Mater UWC in 1987, he had already gained prominence as proponent of Steve Biko’s black consciousness ideology in the 1970s."

Read more: https://jgf.org.za/who-was-jakes-gerwel/

On this day, 06 September 1977, sustained a massive brain hemorrhage resulting from brain injury. He was beaten up to a pulp by about five policemen. After suffering from brain injury they still kept him in standing position, hands and feet chained in steel. He had been arrested on 18 August 1977 at a roadblock in Grahamstown, together with his colleague, Peter Jones. Biko was detained and interrogated at Walmer Police Station in Port Elizabeth, where he was beaten up until he sustained brain injuries. The Police then collaborated with the medical establishment as Doctors Lang and Tucker were brought in to examine him. Instead of giving him necessary and immediate medical attention, they claimed Biko was "shamming".

06/09/2020

Hello friends ✊🏾 The pen is still mightier than the sword!

We haven't been active in a long time. But still, we are thinking of the late great Professor Jakes Gerwel, "the son of an Eastern Cape sheep farmer, Gerwel was to become one of the most influential figures in the country", on this September Sunday, Heritage Month 2020 in South Africa. His contribution and memory live on.

We will be undergoing a few changes but we will remain authentic to our UWC heritage and adopt a broader approach in sharing the same resources & content.

To a better UWC & Africa 🖤🙏🏾🙏🏾

01/02/2019

Today Mark's the first day of Black History Month.

For more information on the origins follow: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month

Mayibuye! iAfrika!

12/09/2016

22/02/2016

We'd like to introduce you to the Head of the History Department, Professor Leslie Witz.

Leslie Witz’s major research centers around how different histories are created and represented in the public domain through memorials, museums and festivals and tourism. He led the project on ‘The Heritage Disciplines’, a National Research Foundation funded research project based in the History De…

17/02/2016

The Factory of the Arts, a satellite of the CHR at UWC will be participating in Art Week Cape Town 2016, an initiative of the Contemporary Art Development Trust. Art Week is “aimed at increasing the visibility of, and strengthening the visual art industry.”