As by Fire. Jonathan Jansen

resources the people, resources, and facilities to meet students’ emotional, nutritional, intellectual, and financial needs.

      In the end, it did not matter, for what protesting students were looking for was something much more fundamental: the resolution of a systemic failure in the funding of higher education. All other remedies were dismissed as well-meaning but misguided, even if a massive safety net was now in place for vulnerable students. But that systemic failure went beyond universities – it was, fundamentally, a critique of post-1994 society itself and the failure of the state to live up to societal expectations of what the ‘new South Africa’ was supposed to be.