Dr Anne Heffernan's Outputs (3)

Blurred lines and ideological divisions in South African youth politics (2016)
Journal Article
Heffernan, A. (2016). Blurred lines and ideological divisions in South African youth politics. African Affairs, 115(461), 664-687. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adw052

Ideological affiliations like Africanism, charterism, and Black Consciousness shaped the political boundaries of student and youth political groups in South Africa during the tumultuous 1980s, and continue to inform contemporary youth politics. These... Read More about Blurred lines and ideological divisions in South African youth politics.

Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto '76 (2016)
Book
Heffernan, A., & Nieftagodien, N. (Eds.). (2016). Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto '76. Wits University Press. https://doi.org/10.18772/22016069193

The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion of political activism to a new generation of young activists, but beyond that it inscribed the role that young people of subsequent g... Read More about Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle in South Africa Before and Beyond Soweto '76.

The University of the North, a regional and national centre of activism (2016)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, A. (2016). The University of the North, a regional and national centre of activism. In A. Heffernan, & N. Nieftagodien (Eds.), Students must rise : youth struggle in South Africa before and beyond Soweto '76 (45-54). Wits University Press. https://doi.org/10.18772/22016069193.13

The Extension of University Education Act of 1959 created a system of universities and colleges across South Africa that were segregated not just by race, but by ethnic group. One of these, the University College of the North, was responsible for edu... Read More about The University of the North, a regional and national centre of activism.