1960

Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report had been intercepted by the Durban postal authorities. (Merrett:42)

Apr 5- Patrick Duncan, editor of Contact was detained for three weeks for refusing to disclose his sources

Apr 5- Torch and New Age banned. (Merrett:44-45)

Apr- Editor of Africa South, Ronald Segal, flees the country

During September 2019 protests against Gender Based Violence (GBV) peaked after Uyinene Mrwetyana, a student at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was brutally raped and murdered  on 24 August  2019 by Luyanda Botha, a post office worker. [1] Her body, which had been stored in a Clarenreich post office safe overnight and then set alight, was found shortly afterwards in Lingelethu West, Khayelitsha in the Western Cape. [2] As a result of her death and the rise in femicide in South Africa, hundre

In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the decolonization of education and tertiary institutions in South Africa. [1] This “Fallist” movement did not only give rise to the #FeesMustFall protests, that focused on decreasing tertiary education fees, but was also the start of the Open Stellenbosch movement. [2] The Open Stellenbosch protests were led by black students who argued that Afrikaans as an un

In Kadzamira Modjadji’s MatieMedia newspaper article about Fees Must Fall he quoted students who described the movement as revolutionary since protests against the rise in tertiary education fees and for the decolonization of the curriculum peaked.[1] During 2015 this student-led protest started at Rhodes University in Grahamstown that soon became a nation-wide movement which spread to various campuses.[2] In 2016 this student-led protest spread to Stellenbosch University (SU), located in the Western Cap

Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan located in southwestern Nigeria, where he graduated with a BA Honours degree. [2] He continued with a master’s degree and finished his PhD in 1988 at the same university. [3] During his studies, in 1981 he was appointed to lecture at the University of Ibadan where he taught for seventeen years.