https://insideeducation.co.za/students-activists-say-uct-anti-black-environment-responsible-professors-suicide/ Discover the latest education features and news. Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://insideeducation.co.za/students-activists-say-uct-anti-black-environment-responsible-professors-suicide/#comment-344 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:05:56 +0000 https://www.insideeducation.org/?p=4279#comment-344 Ahhhh…what a waste, what a sadness. And every single person who was involved in hounding this gentle and excellent man is implicated. The discussion should not just stop with that of mental health, but should also include the impact and effects of institutional bullying, the fact of the horrible effects that unconsidered, one-sided, screechings have on those who are built differently. Not every activism should be about riots and the destruction of a person’s life work, minimising and reducing this person just because they do not speak/behave/concur with you. What a tragedy. What a loss to nation and continent and race. What a shame. Cruelty has direct and awful human consequences. What a sadness. Oh dear Professor, what a sadness. So deeply sorry, so sorry.

]]> https://insideeducation.co.za/students-activists-say-uct-anti-black-environment-responsible-professors-suicide/#comment-343 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:59:11 +0000 https://www.insideeducation.org/?p=4279#comment-343 Beyond the institution, the role of protestors whose zero sum goals refuse to accommodate the sensitivity of the kind of ‘nerds’ who believe in a certain excellence, who are not like everybody else, whose activism is their work, and their focus, who are denied this, and who because they are not screaming the common messages expected of them because of the colour of their skin, are called ‘coconuts’, have their offices ‘occupied’, are publicly humiliated, whose contributions are erased by the strident who demand that only their way or no way at all. Dear Professor Bongani, the country did not deserve you. I wish the rest of the continent and the world had reached out to drag you out of the quagmire that the entitled have made of your country. There is a world and continent that would have cherished you, given you space to excel and heal the human heart in peace, love and gentleness. To you the gentle souls who long to sing a kinder song, hang in there. And remember, there are many other countries to which to belong. I hope you have found your peace, Professor. Sleep well, great man.

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