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The anxiety was palpable. The air was thick with impatience. The winds of change blew furiously. I do not usually gamble, but if you had asked me seven years ago to predict the outcome of the waves of student protest hammering South Africa, I would have bet with confidence that this was the tipping point for a dramatic revolution in student politics in this country.
October 14, 2022 marked seven years since the beginning of the 2015 Fees Must Fall protests and movement by extension. While the protests formally started at the University of Witwatersrand, the issues raised around student funding, decolonisation and outsourcing were issues that had been happening at universities around the country. Here is how it happened from The Daily Vox's archives of October 2015.
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South Africa is facing a deepening student financial crisis and experts weigh in on solutions to the problem.