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Notes
1 The PYA is a student political alliance made up of the South African Students’ Congress, Young Communist League, and the ANC Youth League.
2 I am grateful for comments on an earlier version of this paper by Lise Kriel and Taabo Mugume. Several ideas contained in this paper have been discussed earlier with Saleem Badat, Claudia Frittelli, Manja Klemenčič, Teboho Moja, and Birgit Schreiber, and in my interactions with student leaders of the University of the Free State. My thanks go out to them. SDG.