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It was with personal sadness for many of our Lay Of The Land readers – alumni of UCT- to watch this past week, historic buildings of their alma mater go up in flames, notably the 100-year-old library containing priceless books and manuscripts. Despite the distressing issues many alumni have with certain campus trends (see article below), all will share in our heartfelt message of solidarity with the people of Cape Town.
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Articles
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Quo Vadis UCT?
By Stephen Schulman
“Where are you going?” or more poetically, “Whither goest thou?” asks the writer of his alma mater regarding a lecturer in its Political Science department telling impressionable first year students that “Hitler committed no crime.” Offending not only Jews but all decent and rational human beings, the writer sees UCT at a critical moral crossroad as to how it will respond?
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IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN?
By Craig Snoyman
Having watched late into the night the interview on TV of Judge David Unterhalter for a position on South Africa’s Constitutional Court, the writer, a practicing advocate, “battled to sleep”. What bothered him were questions focusing on the applicant once being a member of a leading Jewish communal organisation – the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. Is this the new direction of South African justice?
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Jerusalem!
Poetic Perspective of Israel’s Capital
By Gill Katz, journalist, author and TV script writer
While the walls of the Old City project a place of war and bloodshed, the writer reflects in poetry an old city – not in capital letters – of “another Jerusalem”, not of “cultural clashes” but of bumping shoulders with bearded Greek Orthodox Priests and Haredi Jews to bare bellied tattooed teenage girls.
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