The 1970s have come to represent a decade of student protest within South Africa, but in writing history of this period, scholarly attention has focused primarily on pivotal events in the latter part of the decade, such as the Soweto student uprising of 1976, and the institutional history of organisations such as the South African Students' Organisation. This focus...

Ideological affiliations like Africanism, charterism, and Black Consciousness shaped the political boundaries of student and youth political groups in South Africa during the tumultuous 1980s, and continue to inform contemporary youth politics. These delineations have also been used in the secondary literature to understand organizational competition and when consi...

This article explores the role of The University of the North (Turfloop) and its impact on the Bantustans it was intended to serve during the early years of their formation. Turfloop was founded in 1959 and, like other 'bush colleges' that served ethnically-segregated Bantustans, it was meant to educate the Pedi, Venda, and Shangaan elites who would go on to popula...