TNO, “All SA Universities Shut” 13 Oct 2016:

Ongoing black “student” violence and rioting has shut all South African universities and it is now doubtful that there will be any 2016 graduates this year.

The violence has caused more than R600 million ($44 million) damage to buildings and vehicles so far, and the rioting shows no sign of ending soon.

       

Black police and black students clash at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

The University of the Witwatersrand tried to resume lectures on October 10, but had to call classes off once again after police officers and protestors engaged in violent clashes throughout the campus and the streets outside.

The black protesters, whose principle demand is free tuition—despite almost all of them failing their exams—threw rocks at the police, who fired rubber-coated bullets and used tear gas and stun grenades to control the crowds.

Such scenes, when they occurred under the previous white-run government of South Africa, were always given great prominence in the controlled media as evidence of “white racism”—but nowadays the media has largely ignored the events which have had a cataclysmic effect on higher education in the country.

A bus burned by rioting “students” in central Johannesburg..

Even when the violence is covered—such as a recent article in Newsweek—the blame for the unrest is still laughably blamed on “inequalities” resulting from white rule, claiming that the “protests highlight an ingrained frustration at enduring inequalities more than two decades after the end of apartheid.”

TNO, “SA Students: ‘Scrap White Science”, 15 Oct 2016;

Protesting #feesmust fall and #rhodesmustfall black students at South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT) have demanded that the discipline of science be completely scrapped because it is a product of white people.

“Science as a whole is a product of Western modernity and the whole thing should be scratched off. Especially in Africa‚” a black “student” was recorded as saying.

The meeting, held on the UCT campus, was captured on video and uploaded to YouTube.

A report in the Business Times said that the incident happened during a panel discussion this week in which the “student” responded to a question about the decolonization of science.

“Science as a whole is a product of Western modernity and the whole thing should be scratched off. Especially in Africa‚” she said.

“I have a question for all the science people. There is a place in KwaZulu-Natal called Umhlab’uyalingana. They believe that through the magic‚ you call it black magic‚ they call it witchcraft‚ you are able to send lightning to strike someone. Can you explain that scientifically because it’s something that happens?”

Someone in the audience—sounding like a white student—shouted out “it’s not true,” and the majority black meeting then erupted into chaos.

The meeting chairman, a dreadlocked black woman, eventually restored order and forced the heckler to apologize to the speaker and agree to “abide by the terms of the meeting” or be thrown out.

The heckler apologized, and the original speaker then continued to explain why even Newton’s Law of Gravity is nonsense because it was invented by a white person:

“Western knowledge is totalizing,” the “student” said. “It is saying that it was Newton and only Newton who knew and saw an apple falling and out of nowhere decided gravity existed and created an equation and that is it.