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Molengraaff Dispute group visits (and debates) UWC A group of students from the University of Utrecht visited the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) Law Faculty on 24 May 2012. The twenty students were members of the Molengraaff Dispuut, an association for high achievers in the field of Private Law. Every year they arrange an over-seas visit to a university of their choice; this year they chose UWC. The visitors were led on a tour of the University campus by students from the Law Faculty. They then attended a lecture on the foundations of South African Law, and on the impact of the Constitution on South African Property Law. But all that was just a warm-up for the main event: a debate with UWC law students. Specifically, they debated the interplay between freedom of expression and children's behaviour in the school context, with reference to the constitutional court case of Le Roux v. Dey, in which children were held liable for defaming the deputy headmaster of the school. By all accounts, it was a very lively debate, with strong views being expressed by both UWC and Utrecht students. But there were no hard feelings, with both groups agreeing that the experience provided a valuable opportunity to argue legal points and hone their debating skills.
Former Chancellor (and Archbishop) Desmond Tutu statue hangs out with the visiting debaters.
Molengraaff Dispuut students posing in front of UWC's Law Faculty building.
UWC law students and the Dispuut group getting to know each other.
UWC lecturers school the Dispuut high achievers on South African Law.
Uncontained: Opening the Past
UWC's Centre for Humanities Research is hosting – in conjunction with the City of Cape Town – Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project Archive, an exhibition running from 9 May to 18 June 2012 at the Art.b gallery in Bellville. In 2008, the CHR acquired the Community Arts Project (CAP) collection, a historic and important body of artworks consisting of over 4 000 paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings by various artists. The exhibit comprises a selection of prints (mainly linocuts) from this collection, from CAP's emergence as a community-based non-racial art initiative (considered transgressive by the Apartheid state) in 1977 through to its end three decades later. Pictures are often said to be worth a thousand words. UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian O'Connell, speaking at the opening of the exhibition, pointed out that with just one painting, one can say a million words. And that especially now, in our changing world, art is one of the most interesting means of communication and self-expression.