Among the activities that had to be postponed because of protests at the University of Cape Town (UCT) was a ceremony on Tuesday to rename its Arts Block to honour the first African scholar to obtain a PhD at the institution. Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan - the father of African National Congress (ANC) politician Pallo Jordan - was an African novelist‚ linguist and academic who was on the UCT academic staff from 1946 to 1962.In 1956‚ he received his doctorate after authoring a thesis on a phonological and grammatical study of literary Xhosa‚ the university said.While at UCT‚ where he was a lecturer in African Languages‚ he developed a new method of teaching Xhosa to speakers of other languages and became an inspirational teacher of Xhosa culture and language‚ according to SAHistory.org.za. Jordan settled in the USA in 1962‚ where he was made a professor in African Languages and Literature at the University of California’s Los Angeles campus‚ and later at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.He died in America in October 1968.Dr Jordan’s widow‚ Priscilla Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan‚ died at the age of 96 in July this year. She was a teacher‚ researcher and lecturer. Their son‚ Pallo‚ resigned his seat as a MP in 2014 after it was revealed his claim to have obtained a doctorate was false.The former minister of arts and culture was always believed to have obtained a doctorate from the London School of Economics‚ but enquiries by the Sunday Times proved he had never studied there.Tuesday’s renaming ceremony was postponed on Monday “due to current issues on the university campus” and would be “rescheduled for a later date”.This came after protesters blocked roads on campuses while the university stressed that the decision by its executive to reopen classes “still stands”. ..