Abstract
In 2015, using social media, a new generation of South African university students launched the social justice movement #FeesMustFall. The call for social justice, equity and equality has been a bu...
Highlights
The wealth gap has widened and the extant conditions are pushing another generation of South African youth into rebellion against colonial institutional structures that still operate within our universities and society at large
In 2015, South African university students launched a movement for social justice, equity and equality in South African universities
In 2014 the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) postgraduate students released the WITS Transformation Memo which called for decolonisation of the curricula, increase in numbers of black academic staff and an all-inclusive political, philosophical and historical intellectual tradition to help build a post-colonial university (Dlakavu, 2014)
Summary
Cultural alienation within the university system, racism, economic insecurity, poverty and bleak employment prospects after graduation are the everyday lived experiences of non-white South African university students. The wealth gap has widened and the extant conditions are pushing another generation of South African youth into rebellion against colonial institutional structures that still operate within our universities and society at large. South Africa’s elite are silent in the face of deepening poverty and suffering of ordinary South Africans; they resist and undermine any changes that would empower non-white citizens. The current social and economic structures have deepened the divide between the wealthy and poor, and this is fermenting a revolution that should have died with the birth of the new constitutional democracy
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