Portrait: Siya Nyulu - The Radical
Channel: RUTV Journalism Rhodes University
Date: 2016-05-16

We document a 3rd year Journalism student who is an activist and an individual whose primary aim is to challenge the tertiary education system in post- apartheid South Africa. She sees the university  as being exclusionary to those who do not fall within the “affording class” bracket.
She discusses how she felt about the issue of gender and sexual orientation during the #FeesMustFall protest and also states whether the fight for education is over or not.
Raised in a violence stricken township, her environment provided her the means to gather enough courage to begin her journey as an educated, young individual who would spark change in South Africa, a country she denotes as having twisted priorities. 
An informative and highly inspirational piece that ties together the life of a black student in the #FeesMustFall protest at the Rhodes University, and a pioneer in changing people;s lives and that of her own, by empowering herself through Journalism.

Production by Ethan Van Diemen, Kholeka Majola, Mihlali Ntsabo & Tsholofelo Tselaemang
School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University