What are the real roots of the student protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actually about fees? Why did the protests turn violent? Where is the government while the buildings burn? Former Free State University vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves into the unprecedented disruption of universities that caught South Africa by surprise. In frank interviews with eleven of the VCs most affected, he examines the forces at work, why the protests escalate into chaos, and what is driving – and exasperating – our youth. This urgent and necessary book gives us an insider view of the crisis, tells us why the conflict will not go away and what it means for the future of our universities.
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Jonathan Jansen. As by Fire
Preface
Interviewed vice-chancellors
Abbreviations and acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Notes
Acknowledgements
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AS BY FIRE
The end of the South African university
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*‘Black’ includes African, coloured, and Indian students. The total enrolments include students in distance education, almost exclusively black, offered by institutions such as NWU (47% contact white in 2012) and UP (52% contact white in 2012) in which the contact numbers are more white. The racial distribution of students also does not reflect campus-specific racial numbers or dynamics. For example, the Potchefstroom campus of NWU is largely white, and the Bloemfontein campus of UFS is more integrated than its virtually all-black Qwaqwa campus; such differences relate to the 1990 mergers and incorporation of former black and white colleges and universities.
