Students Must Rise

Ann Heffernan is an LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and received her PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. Her book, Disability: A Democratic Dilemma, is forthcoming from Chicago UP.Noor Nieftagodien is the Deputy Chair of the History Workshop and is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Professor of History at the University of South Africa and executive director at the South African Democracy Education Trust. Bhekizizwe (Bheki) Peterson, was a South African intellectual, script writer and film producer and Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He published extensively on African literature, performance and cultural studies as well as Black intellectual traditions in South Africa.

• Introduction by Anne Heffernan and Noor Nieftagodien; Chapter 1: A brief history of the African Student Association by Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu; Chapter 2: Youth and student culture: Riding resistance and Imagining the future by Bhekizizwe Peterson; Chapter 3: The role of religion and theology in the organisation of student activists by Ian Macqueen; Chapter 4: Student organisation in Lehurutshe and the impact of Ongkopotse Tiro by Arianna Lissoni; Chapter 5: The University of the North, a regional and national centre of activism by Anne Heffernan; Chapter 6: Action and fire in Soweto, June 1976 by Sibongile Mkhabela; Chapter 7: What they shot in Alex by Steve Kwena Mokwena; Chapter 8: SASO and Black Consciousness, and the shift to Congress politics by Saleem Badat; Chapter 9: Youth politics and rural rebellion in Zebediela and other parts of the 'homeland' of Lebowa, 1976-1977 by Sekibakiba Lekgoathi; Chapter 10: My journey, our journey: Activism at Ongoye University by Makhosazana Xaba; Chapter 11: "Let's begin to participate fully in politics": Student politics in Mhluzi Township, Mpumalanga by Tshepo Moloi; Chapter 12: 'They would remind you of 1960': The emergence of radical student politics in the Vaal triangle 1972-1985 by Franziska Rueedi; Chapter 13: The ends of boycott by Premesh Lalu; Chapter 14: Fighting for "our little freedoms": The evolution of student and youth politics in Phomolong Township, Free State by Phindile Kunene; Chapter 15: "Every generation has its struggle": A brief history of Equal Education (2008-15) by Brad Brockman.