ABSTRACT
The expansion of student enrollment at the University of Zululand has resulted in the studentification of the host village of KwaDlangezwa, as well as the expansion of off-campus housing. A number of students occupy off-campus housing provided by landlords. The objective of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of students who reside in the village. Using in-depth interviews with off-campus students and Fanon’s concept of the wretched, I argue that the students at the University of Zululand are the wretched of our times, and that the core-periphery geographies conceived during the apartheid era persist in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Nothile Prudence Ndimande
Nothile Ndimande is a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Zululand. b. She is a doctoral candidate in the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at Stellenbosch University.