2016
DOI: 10.15173/glj.v7i1.2839
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#OutsourcingMustFall: The Role of Workers in the 2015 Protest Wave at South African Universities

Abstract: students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa, launched a protest against the annual increase in student fees at the university. In the subsequent days and weeks, the protest spread to universities across the country, and came to be known as the #FeesMustFall (FMF) movement, which built on student movements earlier in the year, most notably the #RhodesMustFall movement. This was the biggest university protest wave in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994 and, so… Show more

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“…These workers pointed out that they were tired of greedy contractors who have enriched themselves by exploiting the state through corrupt practices. In support of this, Luckett and Mzobe (2016) conclude that outsourcing has an exploitative tendency. Overall, this shows that even though outsourcing was introduced as a mechanism to improve service delivery, it has had unintended consequences.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 82%
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“…These workers pointed out that they were tired of greedy contractors who have enriched themselves by exploiting the state through corrupt practices. In support of this, Luckett and Mzobe (2016) conclude that outsourcing has an exploitative tendency. Overall, this shows that even though outsourcing was introduced as a mechanism to improve service delivery, it has had unintended consequences.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…Therefore, the author concludes that the contracting out of public services has had harmful effects on workers. This includes the lowering of wages, which exacerbates inequalities between workers (Heires 2014;Luckett and Mzobe 2016). Ndaliso (2016) reports violent protests by disgruntled outsourced employees in government hospitals demanding full-time government jobs.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Glasius and Ishkanian, de Kloet, and El Houri emphasize in their contributions, although the global protest wave of the 2010s is widely considered to have fizzled out, many of the protests that formed part of it continue to have residual effects and perceptual afterlives. To their examples we may add the recent spate of university protests in, among others, the UK, the Netherlands, the US, and South Africa (Ratcliffe 2015;van Reekum 2015;Johnston 2015;Luckett and Mzobe 2016), which could be seen as a continuation-or, rather, versioning-of the same wave, as could the mass assemblies (the post-inauguration Women's March) and semi-occupations (the airport protests against the "Muslim travel ban") contesting the Trump presidency in the US, or the 2016 Women's Strike in Poland, discussed by Majewska, which successfully challenged a planned abortion ban. As Butler (2015, 20) posits, the transience of particular assemblies, which can never last forever, is rendered productive when such assemblies are serialized, producing an enduring sense of "anticipation of what may be coming: 'they could happen at any time!'"…”
Section: Mobilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The decoloniality project has given birth, in the space of three years (2015)(2016)(2017), to fallist movements such as #RhodesMustFall (Mashau & Mangoedi 2015:1), #FeesMustFall (Naicker 2016;Nel 2017:201), #OutsourcingMustFall (Luckett & Mzobe 2016), #SaveSouthAfrica, #RacismMustFall, #EnoughIsEnough and #BlackMonday, among others. Although the social movements cited above are broadly concerned with the decoloniality project, the #RhodesMustFall, #RacismMustFall and #BlackMonday movements are more related to issues of racial hangovers and undertones that exist in our private and public spaces today.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%