FEES MUST FALL, student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa

350pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2016

A collection of essays by student leaders and scholars on the student uprising on university campuses in 2015 and 2016.

Contributions include:
"Documenting the Revolution" by Gillian Godsell, Refiloe Lepere, Swankie Mafoko and Ayabonga Nase
"The Roots of the Revolution" by Gillian Godsell and Rekgotsofetse Chikane
"To Win Free Education, Fossilised Neoliberalism Must Fall" by Patrick Bond
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: university management and the #FeesMustFall Campaign" by Patrick Fitzgerald and Oliver Searle
"Excavating the Vernacular: 'ugly feminists', generational blues and matriarchal leadership" by Darlene Miller.

"The solid scholarship, nuanced and diverse, is everything that the bitter online polemics of a few conservatives is not. The miltidisciplinary scope of political scientists, sociologists, an economist, and a philosopher ensures breadth in coverage and a spectrum of views." Keith Gottschalk, senior lecturer in Political Stidues, University of the Western Cape

Susan Booysen is Professor at the Wits school of Governance and the author of "Dominance and Decline: the ANC in the time of Zuma" and "The African National Congress and the Regenration of Political Power".