Decolonisation of Higher Education in South Africa
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2018-01-16

Professor Robert van Niekerk, Professor of Social Policy at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, compares and contrasts the response of students, academic staff, support workers and senior administrators ('stakeholder') at Rhodes University, an historically white academic institution in South Africa, to the Feesmustfall protests in 2015 and 2016 and the campaign to decolonise the university from its apartheid (and post-apartheid) legacies.