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Title: | Students and Politics in South Africa |
Author: | Rathbone, Richard |
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. |