Text of the abortive agreement between Max Price and members of the Special Executive Task Team and Representatives of the ‘Progressive SRC Candidates’ to allow for reopening of campus, which founded on the latter’s further demands.
Resolution No: 1/2016
In the matter between:
University of Cape Town represented by the Vice-Chancellor and members of the Special Executive Task Team
And
The Representatives of the Progressive SRC Candidates
RESOLUTION ON STUDENT PROTESTS 2016
The resolution, which is approved and adopted by the above parties to the extended meeting of 30 September and 1 & 2 October 2016, and held at Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education (“TCAE”), Mowbray, Cape Town, is set out below.
We, the representatives of the Progressive SRC Candidates (referred to as the “Shackville TRC”) and the Executive Management team of the University of Cape Town, are committed in our resolve to build a unified, inclusive, transformed, non-racial and non-sexist university that we can all be proud of;
Embracing the values and precepts of the Constitution, such as human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms;
Committed to respecting and protecting the rights to freedom of expression (s 16), assembly, demonstration, picket and petition (s 17), and freedom of association (s 18) enshrined in our Constitution within the context of an open and free university;
Acknowledging of the current debates on decolonizing the university and the need to develop a progressive and shared understanding of what a transformed and decolonized university means in a constitutional democracy;
Aware of the responsibilities upon us to ensure that the university progressively reflects the demographics of the country, that its pedagogy and curricula are inclusive and inter alia respond to the daily realities of the poor and marginalized, and address the challenges of economic development in a free democratic South Africa;
Mindful of the national call for free education and universal access to places of learning, particularly institutions of higher education;