Food, authority and politics: student riots in South Africa 1945-1976

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Title:	Food, authority and politics: student riots in South Africa 1945-1976
Author:	Hyslop, J.
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Africa Perspective
Volume:	1
Issue:	3-4
Pages:	3-41
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	rebellions pupils
Abstract:	The author compares the incidents (arson, stone throwing and boycott) at Lovedale and Healdtown (two outstanding missionary educational institutions in South Africa) of 1946 with the mass students resistance which emerged in 1976. He shows that the creation of the Bantu Education system explains why both mission-originated boarding schools remained the focus of rebellion in the 1960s and why they were replaced by urban day schools in this role during the 1970s. Ignoring the role of school boycotts initiated by adult political organizations, this article describes student riots in the last years of missionary education, 1945-1955; the focus and form of student action in this period; student action and the introduction of Bantu Education, 1955-1959; students and political crisis in the early 1960s; student protest in the heyday of apartheid, 1964-1974; the emergence of a mass student movement, 1974-1976; the new style of struggles in urban day schools since 1975; and the students role in the events before 16 June, 1976, in Soweto. Notes, ref.