Rekgotsofetse Chikane: 2 books
Breaking A Rainbow, Building A Nation
The Politics Behind #MustFall Movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely better known as the #FeesMustFall. Chikane outlines the nature of student politics in the country before, during and after the emergence of #MustFall politics,...
Fees Must Fall
Student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
#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,...