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Amanda du Preez

Yuzriq Meyer, 2015, digital photography, South Africa. © With kind permission of the photographer Yuzriq Meyer

Look at me, and the world behind my shoulder

 

Two selfies are selected that were taken during the #FeesMustFall student campaign in South Africa that raged between October 2015 and flared up again in 2016. The #FeesMustFall campaign was sparked by the #RhodesMustFall campaign which kicked off earlier in 2015 at the University of Cape Town as a decolonizing movement by attacking a statue of Cecil John Rhodes on the campus. Rhodes being a symbol of colonialism came under scrutiny. In the case of the #FeesMustfall movement the main point of contestation was however about the raising of university fees for students by 6%.