PROTEST POLITICS

Question 1

OOMEN

Answer 1

• Mapago a Mathamaga in South Africa
• alternative citizenship, rural factions, mistrust of government and courts
• vehicle to put protest minded youth back in their place
• doing governments job, political movement as acting in public sphere to prompt change

Question 2

BURR & JENSEN

Answer 2

• vigilante organisations expose limits of state capacity to serve justice and uphold rights
• addresses issue of security pernient to those at the fringe of state apparatus

Question 3

TUFEKCI & WILSON

Answer 3

• Tahrir Sqaure protests in Egypt 2011, social media used to communicate and organise
• 52% used facebook, youthful demographic under 29
• protests crucial to bringing change to authoritarian state and key to resignation of President Mubarak

Question 4

RHODESMUSTFALL // FEESMUSTFALL

Answer 4

• 2015 Maxwele slings poo at statue of rhodes at the University of Cape Town, calling attention to structural oppression caused by colonialism
• calls for decolonisation of education & receives global attention
• a collective movement of students and staff mobilising for direct action against the reality of institutional racism at the University of Cape Town

Question 5

ZACHIE ACHMAT

Answer 5

• Treatment Action Campaign (SOUTH AFRICA)
• drugs to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child
• went up against gment (won), up against pharmaceutical on behalf of gment (won)
• gment refused to uphold decision, campaign of civil disobedience until supply of generic drugs made avaliable to the people