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of student protest swept South African campuses under the

banner of FeesMustFall, This book brings an historical perspective to the recent risings by analysing regional influences on the ideologies that have underpinned South African student politics from thes to the present.
The author considers the history of student organization in the Northern Transvaal today Limpopo Province and the ways in which students and youth in this relatively isolated area in the north of South Africa have influenced political change on a national scale, over generations.
Organized around the stories of several key political actors, the book introduces the reader to critical spaces of political mobilization in the region.
Among the most prominent is the University of the North at Turfloop, which played an integral role in building the South African Students' Organisation SASO in the lates and propagating Black Consciousness in thes.
It became an ideological battleground where Black Consciousness advocates and ANCaffiliates competed for influence in thes, Turfloop has remained politically significant in the postapartheid era: it was here inthat Julius Malema stumped for Jacob Zuma's ascension to the presidency during the ANC's pivotal party conference that resulted in the ousting of Thabo Mbeki.
The final two chapters address Malema's political ascension in regional branches of the Congress of South African Students COSAS and the ANC Youth League.
Anne K. Heffernan is Assistant Professor in the History of Southern Africa at Durham University and a Research Associate of the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand.
She is Coeditor of Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto 'Wits University Press,, Southern Africa South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland: Wits University Press,