University of Cape Town student Chumani Maxwele – who faces a disciplinary hearing for allegedly racially abusing a lecturer – has launched a counter salvo against the same lecturer‚ accusing her of racism. This suggests there is no end in sight anytime soon in the story of the man who kick-started a debate about racial transformation at the university by throwing human faeces on colonial figure Cecil John Rhodes's statue early this year.Following moves to discipline him‚ after allegations that he racially abused the lecturer‚ Maxwele has since launched two actions: one at the Equality Court and another at the Cape Town High Court.In his latest court papers‚ filed at the Cape Town High Court this week‚ Maxwele says he experienced racism during the “Rhodes Must fall” campaign.“The racism that I experienced during my involvement in the campaign is yet to come out and hopefully it does during the hearing of my complaint in the Equality Court‚” said Maxwele.UCT suspended Maxwele‚ 30‚ last month for allegedly swearing at the lecturer in May and telling her that she was “a white woman who takes all the rights of the black students”. Maxwele allegedly added: “We must not listen to whites‚ we do not need their apologies‚ they have to be removed from UCT and have to be killed”.UCT wants Maxwele to appear before a disciplinary panel to explain his alleged misdemeanours. But Maxwele has launched the two court challenges against the institution to stop the disciplinary process.He complained about UCT to the Equality Court on June 3‚ claiming that he was racially abused during the “Rhodes Must Fall” campaign. Maxwele also brought an urgent application in the Cape Town High Court on June 23 to interdict UCT from disciplining him. He wants the court to compel UCT to stop the hearing until the Equality Court matter is concluded. He has also asked the court to declare a section of UCT’s policies‚ that the institution relied on when suspending him‚ unconstitutional.There is no set date for the Equality Court complaint but the High Court matter is set down for oral hearing on July 20.Maxwele sets out his version of the incident that led to his suspension in a 23-page affidavit. He alleged that he had gone to study at the institution’s mathematics building when on May 1 when he encountered the lecturer. He said she demanded that he produce his identity card because she had “previously been attacked by a savage black man who had entered the building pretending to be a student and that a lecturer had been killed also by a barbaric black man”.But UCT’s registrar‚ Hugh Amoore‚ dismissed Maxwele’s court actions as a trick to avoid disciplinary action.Amoore said Maxwele failed to appeal his suspension from the university internally. “There is no merit in the relief sought‚” Amoore said. “I submit that the application is nothing more than a transparent attempt by [Maxwele] to indefinitely avoid having to attend the disciplinary hearing and to avoid having to answer to the serious allegations made against him.”- UCT’s student transformation leader Thato Pule‚ meanwhile‚ announced her resignation on Facebook this week in the wake of the Student Representative Council’s vice president condemning homosexuality.Shortly after announcements that the Supreme Court in the USA had legalised gay marriage in all states‚ SRC deputy president Zizipho Pae wrote on Facebook‚ “We are institutionalizing and normalizing sin. May God have mercy on us”.Pule’s rejoinder was to post a photo stating: “Dear History‚ this revolution has women‚ gays‚ queers and trans. Remember that. #RhodesMustFall”.She had campaigned on campus to broaden transformation initiatives to expand beyond race to include “any form of oppression that needs to be eradicated to build a true African society that places humanity above all else”.--Rdm News Wire..