The first time I heard the expression, “Lefu la hao la mphidisa”, at least the corrupted meaning of it, I could not help but laugh at the crass honesty.

South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini characterises the university as “a space that does not listen to its surrounding” , if that is indeed the case, then UCT and other universities cannot be trusted to keep archives in ways that are fully attentive to the histories of Black communities without reproducing colonial narratives and practices