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Limpopo's legacy : student politics & democracy in South Africa
- Title
- Limpopo's legacy : student politics & democracy in South Africa / Anne Heffernan.
- Author
- Heffernan, Anne, 1984-
- Publication
- Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xv, 254 pages : map; 24 cm
- Summary
- In 2015 and 2016 waves of student protest swept South African campuses under the banner of FeesMustFall. This book brings an historical perspective to the recent risings by analysing regional influences on the ideologies that have underpinned South African student politics from the 1960s to the present. The author considers the history of student organization in the Northern Transvaal (today Limpopo Province) and the ways in which students and youth in this relatively isolated area in the north of South Africa have influenced political change on a national scale, over generations. Organized around the stories of several key political actors, the book introduces the reader to critical spaces of political mobilization in the region. Among the most prominent is the University of the North at Turfloop, which played an integral role in building the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) in the late 1960s and propagating Black Consciousness in the 1970s. It became an ideological battleground where Black Consciousness advocates and ANC-affiliates competed for influence in the 1980s. Turfloop has remained politically significant in the post-apartheid era: it was here in 2007 that Julius Malema stumped for Jacob Zuma's ascension to the presidency during the ANC's pivotal party conference that resulted in the ousting of Thabo Mbeki. The final two chapters address Malema's political ascension in regional branches of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and the ANC Youth League.
- Subjects
- Students > Political activity
- Youth > Political activity
- Protest movements
- Student movements > South Africa
- Politics and government
- History
- Protest movements > South Africa > History
- South Africa > Limpopo
- Students > Political activity > South Africa > Limpopo > History
- Limpopo (South Africa) > Politics and government
- Youth > Political activity > South Africa > Limpopo > History
- Youth protest movements > Education (Higher) > South Africa
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1105
- ISBN
- 9781847012173
- 1847012175
- OCLC
- 1082897404
- Author
- Heffernan, Anne, 1984- author.
- Title
- Limpopo's legacy : student politics & democracy in South Africa / Anne Heffernan.
- Publisher
- Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1105