What is it about?
During 2015 South African students became engaged in a struggle for the decolonisation of South African Universities, for increased access for all students and for the reduction and waiving of exclusionary fees. The higher education landscape in South Africa has remained insufficiently transformed and is still characterised by inequality, exclusion, racism and evidence of white privilege.
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Why is it important?
The processes of conscientisation, mobilisation, organisation and resistance, offer important learnings for all those working in the field of social action and social change
Perspectives
This article is a brief glimpse into some of the events, dynamics and perspectives of these courageous students, fighting for equality, transformation and access to higher education specifically and a transformed South Africa generally.
Dr Linda Harms Smith
Robert Gordon University
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This page is a summary of: Barricades, struggles and hope: South African students' revolutionary will, Critical and Radical Social Work, March 2016, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/204986016x14525999625322.
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