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Post date: Sep 27, 2016 5:32:5 AM

Speaking from the Margins

Presenter

Rorisang Moseli is currently a final year in his degree of Bachelor of Commerce in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He served as the President of the UCT Student Representative Council (SRC) from October 2015 to May 2017.  Growing up in Johannesburg, he experienced that navigating the spaces within the city have served as an inspiration to become involved in student politics and development agencies. 

In 2012, he represented South Africa at the New Look: Global Youth Summit where he had the opportunity to perform with RnB star, Usher. Rorisang is also a public speaker and debater. He opened for New York Times Bestseller Tony Gaskins in 2013 at the Leadership 2020 Seminar. He is also co-author of the book, Leadership 2020: The Beginning which was compiled by Dj Sbuisiso Leope and available in all reputable book stores throughout South Africa. 

He also ranked third at the National University Public Speaking Championships and broke into the final list of adjudicators in the National University Debating Tournament in 2015. 

Rorisang is passionate about South Africa and the African continent as a whole which led to him representing the country at the Mandela Institutes Annual Youth Dialogue of democracy in African states in Kigali, Rwanda in 2014. At the end of his university career, he hopes to venture into the world of economic and social development with a specific look at policy planning and implementation in developing states. 

Abstract

At the University of Cape Town the #RhodesMustFall movement and its subsequent iterations radically shifted the discourse at UCT and South African Higher Education. In this presentation, I will take a look at how the changing student demographic and global shift to the left precipitated Black students demanding substantive inclusion. In particular, I will focus on how the daily experiences of epistemological exclusion served as a powerful mobilising tool for Black students of the poor and working class.