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Jaysa, David, Breanna, Franky, Horace
OUTLINE #feesmustfall Research Question:
How have student protests in South Africa hindered universities from raising tuition on marginalized students?
Plan:
1. Handout flyers on UW Bothell raising tuition 10.5% a. Ask them how they would feel about it? b. Did they feel better knowing the reason tuition would be raised? c. Do they find these reasons justifiable? d. What would they do if tuition was really raised like this? Would they do anything
about it? 2. Discussing about 3 day lock down at universities
a. Talk about the protests themselves, ask class what they would do b. Discuss the reaction to the protests, does this match class?
3. What is the cost of this protest a. Discuss cost and relativity b. Inflation c. Ask if this would affect the class and show how its different between them
4. The Violence the Protest caused a. Speak about the violence portrayed in the protests b. Discuss if this was a good idea with the class, does it match some values we
learned from other lessons in class 5. Conclusion of the protests
c. How this affected the marginalized students and how this is relevant to us today d. Wrap up by showing that for some the tuition my affect others and be small
change to some but discuss about other learnings in class how all stood together
Scholar Article: https://www.africaportal.org/publications/hashtag-an-analysis-of-the-feesmustfall-movement-at-s outh-african-universities/
Langa, Malose, et al. “#Hashtag: An Analysis of the #FeesMustFall Movement at South African Universities.” Africa Portal, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), 1 Jan. 2017, www.africaportal.org/publications/hashtag-an-analysis-of-the-feesmustfall-movement-at-south-a frican-universities/.
Jaysa, David, Breanna, Franky, Horace
Research Question:
How have student protests in South Africa hindered universities from raising tuition on marginalized students?
#feesmustfall
Goals: The goal of the movement was to stop increases in student fees, and also to increase government funding of universities
What is #feesmustfall? It was a student led protest that started in October 2015 to stop student fees from rising.
Where did it happen? It happened in South Africa in multiple Universities starting at University of Witwatersrand and then spread to multiple universities across the country.
How did it get started? This started with a sit in and lock down for three days led by the SRC leader of the university including staff in the lock down.
Why did it happen? The students were protesting because tuition was being raised to 10.5%. It happened because the students did not agree on paying the new proposed fees.Not only did this cause hardships on the majority of students, this most affected the marginalized students putting them out of school due to the rise of cost. They were raising fees due to numerous reasons not released until the protests started.
Violence: Student Violence: Students were allegedly violent against security guards. The security personnel were allegedly beaten and an incident occurred and the student allegedly threw a stone at the security personnel’s head, resulting in hospitalization. Police Violence: Police brutality hit a high point because they were deployed onto campus and did not restrain from using blunt and brutal force. Students retaliated by throwing stones at police officers in defense of stun guns, rubber bullets, and water cannons.
Outcome: The South African government increased the amount given to higher education to R17-Billion (1.1 million US dollars) over 3 years. For the first year, there was no fee raise, but the second year there was 8% raise. But universities were given the option to decide how much tuition would increase
Legacy: Protests lead to the guarantee from the national government of free higher education in 2018. This then led to the creation of a national bursary scheme that aids to help poor and working class students in South Africa.
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