Student Politics in SA : A Response to Critics
▻http://www.theconmag.co.za/2015/10/07/student-politics-in-sa-a-response-to-critics
Professor Achille Mbembe’s analysis of the state of South African political life responds to the political movements of students at South African universities who are actively and loudly challenging the status quo at their institutions. Mbembe is correct to view the ongoing student movements of 2015 within the national political discourse. But his analysis and critique is limited on two counts. Firstly, his insight is generated from the outside looking in, and secondly, there is a conflation or confusion of different student movements and student politics into a single “politics”.