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Limpopo's Legacy: Student politics and democracy in South Africa

Limpopo's Legacy: Student politics and democracy in South Africa

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Heffernan considers the history of student organisations in the Limpopo Province from the 1960s and the ways in which students and youth at the University of Limpopo influenced political change on a national scale, over generations. She also looks at how it has remained politically significant in the post-apartheid era.

In 2015 and 2016 waves of student protest swept across South African campuses under the banner of FeesMustFall. This book offers a historical perspective, analysing regional influences on the ideologies that have underpinned South African student politics from the 1960s to the present. The author considers the history of student organisations in the Northern Transvaal (today Limpopo Province) and the ways in which students and youth influenced political change on a national scale, over generations. The University of the North at Turfloop played an integral role in building the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) in the late 1960s and propagating Black Consciousness in the 1970s; in the 1980s it became an ideological battleground where Black Consciousness advocates and ANC-affiliates competed for influence. Limpopo has remained a hotbed of political activism in the country. Generations of nationally prominent student and youth activists became politically conscientised here – among them Julius Malema, Onkgopotse Tiro, Cyril Ramaphosa, Frank Chikane and Peter Mokaba. Turfloop (University of Limpopo) has remained politically significant in the post-apartheid era: it was here in 2007 that Julius Malema supported Jacob Zuma's ascension to the South African presidency during the ANC's pivotal party conference that resulted in the ousting of Thabo Mbeki.

Author(s): Anne K. Heffernan
Publication year: 2019
Pages: 270
Language: English
Publisher: Wits University Press
ISBN: 9781776143252
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