TY - BOOK ID - 78493636 TI - Fees must fall : student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa PY - 2016 SN - 1868149870 9781868149865 1868149862 1868149854 9781868149858 9781868149872 9781868149889 9781868149872 PB - Johannesburg : Wits University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Universities and colleges KW - Educational equalization KW - Educational change KW - Educational leadership KW - Education, Higher KW - Student movements KW - Activism, Student KW - Campus disorders KW - Student activism KW - Student protest KW - Student unrest KW - Youth movements KW - Student protesters KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Postsecondary education KW - Colleges KW - Degree-granting institutions KW - Higher education institutions KW - Higher education providers KW - Institutions of higher education KW - Postsecondary institutions KW - Public institutions KW - Schools KW - College leadership KW - Education leadership KW - School leadership KW - Leadership KW - Admission. KW - Employees. KW - Finance. KW - Education KW - Higher education and state KW - Administration. KW - State and higher education KW - Education and state KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78493636 AB - #FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black consciousness politics and social movements of the international left. Yet, its objectives are more complex than those of earlier struggles. The student movement has challenged the hierarchical, top-down leadership system of university management and it's 'double speak' of professing to act in workers' and students' interests yet entrenching a regressive system for control and governance. University managements, while on one level amenable to change, have also co-opted students into their ranks to create co-responsibility for the highly bureaucratised university financial aid that stands in the way of their social revolution. This book maps the contours of student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. Student voices dissect colonialism, improper compromises by the founders of democratic South Africa, feminism, worker rights and meaningful education. In-depth assessments by prominent scholars reflect on the complexities of student activism, its impact on national and university governance, and offer provocative analyses of the power of the revolt. ER -