#fees must fall

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Zamansele Nsele - How her Black Visual Studies research influences her teaching

Zamansele Nsele is an Art Historian, and Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Johannesburg. Between 2017 and 2020, at the same insititution, Zamansele taught Design Studies at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and prior to that she taught Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University. 

In 2018, Zamansele was included in the Mail & Guardian’s prestigious list of the Top 200 Young South Africans. In the same year, she was selected by the jury of the CAA (College Arts Association in New York City)  as part of a cohort of the top 15 art historians and curators in the Global South to receive a Getty grant and take part in the CAA-Getty Program. Zamansele’s writing has been published by The Journal of the Asian and African Studies, English in Africa, Elle Decoration (The Africa Edition), The Journalist, The Mail & Guardian, The Journal of Student Affairs in Africa and by Routledge Press.

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Fate of the Nation: on “getting over” the South African status quo

“Resistance is synonymous with death” if you will.

Many people seem to perceive the average middle aged adult’s functionality in the world as having “gotten over” the status quo. The status quo being social ills induced by the living condition of post-apartheid South Africa. They may refer to their disinterest that has now come to replace their will to resist as a progression and have moved on to pursue other aspects concerned with building a sustainable future. Sustainable enough to exist with the least amount of  the inevitable discomfort that comes with complying within the confines of being subjected to the kyriarchy 

In a lesson on the effectiveness of university student-led mass protests, my high school history teacher looked into my eyes and described the death of her will to continue countering the status quo as having  “grown up” and have basically become desensitized both towards the violences of the kyriarchy. “Growing up into the post-university real world where no one cares anymore”.

None of that. Having dedicated years of my life to student protests in the Fees Must Fall movement I am the first to admit that mentally and emotionally I stand greatly eroded due to the backlashes of resisting. What still remains in tact, safely set, is  my will to continue fighting - in many different ways. It no longer need be on ground. But my will to fight lives on.

A series of drunken mornings, mourning, moaning, screaming, screeching for freedom. Freedom now! I  *was* in the real world. The real world looked us all in our tired eyes and told us softly “fuck off”.

For many of us in mourning it was the realization that in resisting, the erosive nature of the Powers That Be fighting back, we were watching the death of our assumed reality of the world. Defeated, we mourned a death.

Freedom has had to re-conceptualise itself for me so as to re-occupy its space in  my prayers again. To protect myself from a violence I had never anticipated. The insidious nature of psychological warfare.

Here I now stand. The will to fight gathered at the tips of my ready fingers. Where compliance with the status quo has presented itself to me as “freedom”. That is the erosive nature of resistance. 

[mbembhele]

Masixole Mlandu 2017

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Fees Must Fall: F*ck campaign amandla! Student activist arrange themselves on the Great Hall steps, with their power fist raised to the air, shouting “Amandla! Awethu!” Earlier this week, fellow student comrade, Zama Mthunzi, was accused of hate speech and reported to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for wearing a t-shirt read “Being Black is shit” on the front and “Fuck white people” on the back, on campus. In solidarity with Mthunzi, members of the Wits Fees Must Fall movement occupied the Great Hall piazza, creating posters and t-shirts under the #Fuck campaign. The items read “fuck neo-colonialism,” “fuck patriarchy,” “fuck homophobia, white privilege, ableism, classism” as a means to highlight the oppressive systems that marginalised and disadvantaged certain social identities. Johannesburg, South Africa. 8/ 02/ 2016

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Lectures suspended at UKZN Edgewood campus after fiery night of violence | Daily News

There were no reported incidents of violence on Tuesday morning and the academic programme was continuining, UKZN spokesman, Ashton Bodrick

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#FeesMustFall protesters facing charges to be diverted to community service in schools

#FeesMustFall protesters facing charges to be diverted to community service in schools

[ad_1] Seven students who were charged over the #FeesMustFall protests in Cape Town will be diverted from the court system to complete community service at schools, a move they have welcomed as an opportunity to “conscientise young minds”.

The Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday that diversion had been decided on after their lawyer made representations to the director of public prosecutions…

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