2015 has been a difficult year for the University of Cape Town(link is external) (UCT). It has been at the centre of multiple controversies. First, there was a protest movement to have an iconic statue of Cecil John Rhodes removed(link is external). The campaign brought out bitter enmities between those in favour of and against the removal. The controversy deepened when it suspended the instigator(link is external) of the movement over harassment charges on the staff. Then it saw a public fallout over a comment(link is external) which its student representative council (SRC) vice-president, Zizipho Pae, made on her Facebook account wherein she responded to the US Supreme Court's decision(link is external) to legalise homosexual marriage across the USA, saying "We are institutionalising and normalising sin". Read more …