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Title:Students and Politics in South Africa
Author:Rathbone, RichardISNI
Year:1977
Periodical:Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Volume:15
Issue:2
Period:July
Pages:103-111
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:resistance
students
Education and Oral Traditions
Politics and Government
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/14662047708447281
Abstract:Student protest in South Africa has a long history. Space constraints limit this account to the recent past. The underlying inequities of the system of repression in South Africa are its cause. The unusually central role of students in the uprisings which began in South Africa in June 1976 makes any accurate assessment difficult. But in 1976 the immediate catalyst has in part come from the operation of the educational system itself. The system of higher education is accordingly briefly considered starting with the 1959 University Education Act. This article was written several months before the wave of bannings in October 1977 which made many of the organisations mentioned in the article illegal, and before the death of Steve Biko in police custody. Notes.
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