#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa

Reform or Revolution?

Musawenkosi Ndlovu

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English

Routledge
12 December 2019

Regional studies; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Political activism

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Africa

This book examines the historical FeesMustFall (FMF) university student protests that took place in South Africa and shows how the enduring historical construction, representation and conceptualisation of South African youth (as typically radical and political) contributed to the (mis)interpretation of FMF protests, and led to a discourse on an African National Congress-toppling revolution.

Arguing that the student protests were not the revolutionary movement they have been represented as, Ndlovu demonstrates that ideological divisions amongst the protestors, the declining economy, and reduced youth participation in the political public sphere cannot lead to a new revolution in South African politics.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in South African politics, higher education, democracy and protest movements.

By: Musawenkosi Ndlovu
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9780367887452
ISBN 10: 0367887452
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Africa
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Construction of South African youth before #FeesMustFall 2. Were the 2015 student protests a revolution? 3. What the 2015 protests actually were and how they were possible? 4. Ikhohlisan’ihlomile:# FMF students’ engagement with power and their ideological differences 5. Can South Africa’s declining economy inspire a student-led new revolution? 6. Youth’s declining news consumption levels and ideologically-divided media: the (im) possibility of the new revolution 7. Youth’s polysemic interpretation of the ANC regime text and (im) possibility a new revolution 8. Youth’s declining participation levels in the public sphere and (im) possibility a new revolution 9. Conclusion: #FMF protests will not lead to a revolution per se (at least yet), but to wide ranging reforms

Musawenkosi W. Ndlovu is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.