South Africa: UWC Activists Agree On Demands but Not Methods

On Monday, a team made up of UWC students acting under the name of the #FeesMustFall (FMF) movement disrupted exams in both the morning and afternoon sessions. Students with fire extinguishers entered exam venues, forcing evacuations that left many nonparticipating students angry and frustrated.

Since FMF's inception it has acted as the umbrella organisation under which several other student organisations identify. These include UWC's branches of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC, aligned to the EFF), Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania (PASMA, the student branch of the PAC), and South African Students' Congress (SASCO, which is ANC-aligned).

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