The Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto honours school children who were murdered by apartheid police in June 1976.
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Despite its vagueness, the RET has become central to the contemporary ANC. It is destined to remain a powerful bloc within the party, and a constant constraint on Ramaphosa leadership.
A woman at a protest in support of victims of the Marikana massacre outside the South African parliament.
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South Africa’s economic challenges and the high number of students from poor and working class families call for a funding model that doesn’t create an affordability crisis for students and the state.
Protesters clash with police in February in Cape Town over student funding.
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There are individual activists and political groupings who believe violent action is legitimate and use the circumstances to actively drive such behaviour.
Student protests dubbed #FeesMustFall in 2016 in Pretoria.
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During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
A protest outside South Africa’s Parliament demanding amnesty for students arrested during “fees must fall” protests.
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Chief Director: Tshwane University of Technology – Institute for Economic Research on Innovation; Node Head: DST/NRF SciSTIP CoE; and Professor Extraordinary: Stellenbosch University – Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology., Tshwane University of Technology