Street Sociology and Pavement Politics: Aspects of Youth and Student Resistance in Cape Town, 1985

Abstract

served as a way station on the road to revolutionary politics, the school's rigid discipline apparently provoking widespread defiance of authority. In the lower grades, student dissidence took innocuous forms. . . But by the time B entered the upper grades. . . student dissent had become more sophisticated. He became a member of a radical student group that organised discussion circles and circulated illegal literature. . . [At this time] social unrest and open protest. . . deepened and spread. . . at 16 B was already a leading member of the student movement. . . The feverish disorders of that year drew B and a generation of like-minded schoolboys into the arena of serious revolutionary politics. . . At seventeen, B thus became. . . a full-time activist.