TY  - JOUR
T1  - Factors that Contribute to Student Protests at a South African University
AU - Morwe, Keamogetse G. AU - Garcia-Espana, Elisa AU - Luescher, Thierry M. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
SP  - 916
EP  - 926
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2018.916.926
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2018.916.926
KW  - Born-free
KW  -protests
KW  -student activism
KW  -social justice
KW  -university
KW  -president
AB  - No one could have foretold that the soiling of the Cecil John Rhodes statue with human excrement
at the University of Cape Town (UCT) on March 9th, 2015 would spiral South African Universities and the
general public into a state of confusion and frustration. Such an act was peculiar in the post-apartheid era. The
cause of this calamity was that African student’s expressed discontent relating to their exclusion and
marginalisation within the higher education system. While this debate has been ongoing and often premised
on fees, the authorities have shown little enthusiasm to its resolution. Hence, the UCT event inspired the
formation of myriad student movements across all higher education institutions which ultimately
morphed into the Fees Must Fall Movement (#FMF). Consequently, all concerned parties from the university
Vice-Chancellors, the Minister of Higher Education and training and to the President had no other choice but
to take decisive action to the fee plea that students had presented. The purpose of this study is to give an
expose of the issues that triggered the country wide student uprising as gathered from interviews from one of
the institutions in South Africa. The study relies on a phenomenological approach of conducting research and
also archival research methodology relating to the phenomenon understudy.
ER  -