Event location: North Campus, Conference Centre
Event date and time: 14/05/2018 17:00:00
CriSHET, CANRAD & Department of Student Governance and Development Present:
A conversion with essayist & Black Power Front Activist, Veli Mbele, on the experiences of black students in higher education.
The recent Mandela University student protest around the NSFAS fiasco and tragedy suggests that we need to critically interrogate why and how the Black student experience is continuously hidden under the metaphorical invisibility cloak; across the system. This reproduces an already existing Eurocentric, anti-Black and patriarchal system with its ingrained brutality. How should the Black student activists, as a younger component of the Black revolutionary intelligentsia, play a role in universities to fight against such invisibilisation as central to the fight against colonial domination and its epistemic violences that dehumanise the black body?