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Diaries of the Wits Fallists DIARIES OF THE WITS FALLISTS Riot ing and writ ing: Diaries of Wit s Fallist s Editorial Collective: Crisp e n Ching uno Morwa Kgoroba Se llo Mashibini Bafana Nicolas Masilela Boikhut so Maubane Nhlanhla Moyo An d ile Mt h o m b e n i Hle ngiwe Ndlovu 01 Riot ing and writ ing: Diaries of Wit s Fallist s Editorial Collective: Crispen Chinguno, Morwa Kgoroba , Sello Mashibini, Bafana Nicolas Masilela, Boikhutso Maubane, Nhlanhla Moyo, Andile Mthombeni and Hlengiwe Ndlovu. Aut ho rs: Hugo Canham, Simamkele Dlakavu, C. Anzio Jacobs, Bandile Bertrand Leopeng, Nonkululeko Mabaso, Tebogo Molobye, Ntokozo Moloi, Ashley Nyiko Mabasa, Tebogo Radebe, Neo Sambo and Busisiwe Cathrine Seabe. Proofreader: Ab ig a il Gill. Publication Date: June 2017. Notes on the Contributors: All the contributors have experienced or were associated with the #Feesmustfall movement at the university of the Witwatersrand in 2015-2016. Their contribution to this volume is informe d by t his e xpe rie nce . Copyright© vests in the authors. This is an open access publication and we encourage readers to download and make use of it in support of social justice, with the condition that the source is acknowledged. Commercial use of this material is not permitted without the written consent of the authors. Published in collaboration with the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 02 Edit o rial Co lle ct ive Crispe n Chinguno (PhD) Crispen Chinguno (PhD) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests broadly interrogates power and resistance with a special focus on work, trade unions, political economy, social movements, decolonialisation and violence. His academic and research interest emerged from his engagement with trade unions in Zimbabwe where he worked at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ). He teaches sociology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Morwa Kgoroba Morwa Kgoroba has an Honours degree in Development Studies and a Bachelor degree in International Relations and Applied Economics from the University of the Witwatersrand. She’s currently working as a Senior English Teacher at the Japanese School of Johannesburg. Her interests include education, development, environmental justice and human rights. She’s worked at NGOs such as Planact and Amnesty International South Africa. While living in Japan, she was a volunteer Charity Co-ordinator for an organisation that raised funds to build schools in Papua New Guinea. Sello Mashibini Sello Mashibini is a Master of Arts candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a former Faculty of Humanities representative at the Wits Postgraduate Association and is a social activist and a Wits FMF activist. His research interests cover decolonisation, identity politics, and labour studies. Bafana Nicolas Masilela (BSc, BA honours, MA) Bafana Nicolas Masilela is a Soweto born MA Community-based Counselling graduate from Wits. He worked as an Intern psychologist at the Family Life centre, offering individual therapy, family therapy, marriage preparation and couples counselling, group therapy, career counselling, parental guidance, psychometric assessments, and crisis intervention/trauma debriefing. This also involves designing, preparing and implementing community work projects and interventions. His Masters Research project focused on evaluating the effectiveness of a government programme called the Community Work Programme. The research project focused on the effectiveness of the programme in facilitating the reintegration of ex-offenders back into their communities. His research interests are in education and its role in empowerment and community development and, this also includes ex-offender reintegration, violence and youth empowerment. He is also interested in designing and implementing interventions aimed at alleviating psychosocial ills and empowering individuals and society. 03 Boikhut so Maubane Boikhutso Maubane is a Counselling Psychologist. She completed her Master’s degree in Community-Based Counselling Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her research interests include marital dynamics: divorce, marital conflict, gender-based violence and race. Boikhutso places value in community oriented interventions that assist people to exercise agency in their wellbeing. Nhlanhla Moyo Nhlanhla Moyo is currently a Social Anthropology postgraduate student at the University of the Witwatersrand. His background is in Psychology which he studied at both undergraduate to postgraduate level. Nhlanhla comes from a Mining Engineering background and this has been a major shift in his career path. He has a keen interest in ethnography which he deployed in making contribution for this volume. Andile Mt hombe ni Andile J Mthombeni (BA, Honors in Sociology) is a Masters student in Research Psychology at Wits. She is part of an advocacy action-research organisation African Gender Institute (AGI). Her research interests and focus lie in South African black fatherhood and absent fathers, Young Women, LGBTIQA, HIV/AIDS as well as knowledge Production. She is also serving as a research committee member of the SRJC network. She has presented at national and international Conferences, and co-authored research article including Special Issue journal on Father Connections in South Africa, and is currently part of the editorial team for the upcoming special issues for the SAJHE and PINS. She currently works as a Research Assistant/Co-coordinator at the Department of Psychology at Wits. She is serving as a Post Graduate Associate Representative, responsible for Research, and is active in the FMF decolonisation projects. She has been nominated to serve at the PHASA Gauteng Committee branch, as the secretary. She also has been appointed as a student representative in the Ministerial Technical Task Team for SGBV in Institutions of Higher Learning. Hlengiwe Ndlovu Hlengiwe Ndlovu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, and a Fellow in the Transforming Humanities Through Multidisciplinary Knowledge (THINK) programme at Wits University, and at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI). She is also an associate at SWOP Institute, Wits University. Hlengiwe is a researcher and an activist. Her PhD research is exploring the shifting dynamics of state-society relations from the apartheid through the post- apartheid period drawing from the experience of Duncan Village, East London. Hlengiwe’s research interest interrogate questions on local governance and citizenship, public administration, service delivery, popular protests, identity, forms of claim-making and resistance, labour studies, gender equity and gender justice. 04 Glo ssary Azania: The name that was used by nationalist context is mainly for women and denotes movements during the anti-apartheid struggle marriage and in some cases is interpreted as to refer to South Africa. symbolising subordination to patriarchy. The Wits FMF movement Mbokodos subverted and Bakkie: Pickup truck. appropriated the doek as a symbol of protest, Black/Blackness: A socially constructed racial Black womxn power and a rejection of being categorisation used to describe persons silenced within the movement. perceived as dark skinned from Africa or of African origin. In Black Consciousness theory Dompas: A pass that controlled movement of it refers to more than skin colour but the state Blacks outside their homeland or designated or quality of being Black. areas during apartheid. This was designed to control the movement of Black labour. Black Consciousness theory: A philosophy that seeks to conscientise Black Financial Exclusion: The lack of financial people about the self and liberate them from services accessible/affordable to the dis- cultural, political, economic, linguistic and advantaged and the low income. In a university religious domination. context it usually results in lack of access to education. Black Tax: The financial burden tied to the obligation of taking care of extended family Freedom Charter: A political document members which is common in Black African drafted in 1955 by the congress of the people societies. movement outlining the vision for a non-racial South Africa. Braamfontein: Part of Johannesburg CBD where the University of the Witwatersrand Fallist: Is an activist engaged in the struggle main campus is located. to overcome all circumstances of oppression and prejudice and rejects a heteropatriarchal Bazwalane: Christian believers. order and advocates for free and decolonised Decommoditisation: The process of turning education without exclusion of others. or treating certain (perceived) goods and services not just as mere commodities subject #FeesMustFall/FeesMustFall: Student to the dictates of the market. movement that began at the University of the Witwatersrand in October 2015 and advocated Decolonisation: Is the rejection of white for free and decolonised education. supremacy (racism), heteropatriarchal order and other forms of prejudices that characterise Heita: A greeting in township slang in South the ongoing colonial project and the quest to Africa. redress the socio-economic, political and Hippo(s): Special Police riot vehicle(s). spiritual depredations of colonial history. It includes the transformation of institutional and Historically Black University: Universities academic cultures,
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