Fees must fall : student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa /

#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, th...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Booysen, Susan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Power redefined
  • What happened to governance? 1. Two weeks in October
  • changing governance in South Africa / Susan Booysen. Part two: Primary voices
  • the roots of the revolution. 2. The roots of the revolution / Gillian Godsell and Rekgotsofetse Chikane
  • 3. The game's the same: MustFall moves to Euro-America / Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
  • 4. #OutsourcingMustFall through the eyes of the workers / Omhle Ntshingila in conversation with Richard Ndebele and Virginia Monageng
  • 5. Documenting the revolution / Gillian Godsell, Refiloe Lepere, Swankie Mafoko and Ayabonga Nase. Part three: The revolt
  • Rising against the liberators, South Africa in Africa. 6. Standing on the shoulders of giants? Successive generation of youth sacrifice in South Africa / David Everatt
  • 7. Learning from the student protests in sub-Saharan Africa / Lynn Hewlett, Nomagugu Mukadah, Koffi Kouakou and Horácio Zandamela
  • 8. Unfinished revolutions: the North African uprisings and notes on South Africa / William Gumede. Part four: Power and class redefined
  • Sit down and listen to us. 9. To win free education, fossilised neoliberalism must fall / Patrick Bond
  • 10. Bringing class back in: Against outsourcing during #FeesMustFall at Wits / Vishwas Satgar
  • 11. Between a rock and a hard place: University management and the #FeesMustFall campaign / Patrick FitzGerald and Oliver Seale
  • 12. Financing of universities: promoting equity or reinforcing inequality / Punday Pillay. Part five. Justice identity, force and rights
  • We came for the refund. 13. Excavating the vernacular: 'Ugly feminists', generational blues and matriarchal leadership / Darlene Miller
  • 14. The South African student/worker protests in light of just war theory / Thaddeus Metz. Conclusion: Aluta continua! / Susan Booysen.