It also traces the key organizational changes that characterize the development of national political black student structures and discusses student identity concerns. Principally, this suggests that student representative councils and national political organisations have changed from protest oriented structures to structures focusing on economic, rather than political issues.
First, besides the absence of any current overview, the structure of higher education changed dramatically after racially stereotyped black universities were established in Indeed, racially segregated institutions have deracialised while black and foreign students have gone on to become Student Representative Council SRC leaders at historically white universities.
Third, the largest student political organization has lost considerable support in SRC elections over the last few years and argues that students are now more interested in social, than political, issues. Fourth, whereas the trajectory of organizational development has shifted from single race organizations to open membership non-racial organizations, the current membership of non-racial national political student organizations is almost exclusively African.
To describe and explain these changes, this paper is structured as follows. Second, we trace the key organizational changes that characterize the development of national political black student structures and discuss student identity concerns. Overall, South Africa has 36 public higher education institutions: 21 universities and 15 technikons. These institutions are largely subdivided in terms of their racial origins and are either described as historically white universities HWU and historically white technikons HWT or as historically black universities HBUs and historically black technikons HBTs.
Among the universities, 11 are historically white institutions and 10 historically black institutions. Among the technikons, 8 are historically white institutions and 7 are historically black institutions. The College opened with a cohort of students and a staff that included a professor of English and Classical Literature, a professor of Dutch-Classic Literature and of Modern Languages, a professor of Physical Sciences, and a professor of Mathematics.
