Volume 6 Issue 1 October 2018​

S​ocial Justice and Education:
The Crisis in the Social Transition
from Apartheid to Democracy

JUSTICE DIKGANG MOSENEKE
with an introduction by
DR STEWART MOTHA
I am privileged to be delivering the 2017 Patrick McAuslan Annual Law Lecture. It is a tribute to one who deserves this honour richly. I am also grateful for this kind invitation of the Birkbeck School of Law. Our country, South Africa, is again in the throes of a nationwide students’ revolt. They demand access to free, quality, and might I add in their very words, ‘de-colonised’ and ‘de-commodified’ higher education. Their memorable slogan is ‘Fees Must Fall’. The iconic weapon of resistance of ‘Fallists’, as they have come to be known, has been the total disruption or shutdown of academic life on university campuses until fees have fallen. Sadly, some of the protests have been accompanied by destruction of property and a heavy-handed response by the police and other state security apparatus. This genre of protest has been on the go with varying intensity for nearly two years now...