Feminism

By 1987, when Rhoda returned to the University of the Western Cape, the campus had reached a turning point. In the fall of 1985, four members of the administration had joined a group of 2,000 students in a march to the nearest police station to protest against the state of emergency and the detention of political dissidents.^[1] Many students had boycotted their classes for half the year to express solidarity with boycotts by black high school students, a reflection of the fact that younger students had been in the vanguard of the struggle since 1976.^[2] The political tension in the country as a whole had begun to affect UWC, as it had all campuses, especially the “bush” colleges.

^[1] Scully et al., ibid., p. 13.

^[2] Ibid., p. 14.