Student movement, activism and collective identity – A textual analysis of #RhodesMustFall (RMF) student movement in South Africa
In 2015, Chumani Maxwele radical and controversial act of throwing human waste at the post-colonial statue of Cecil John Rhodes at University of Cape Town (UCT) came to give birth to a social media inspired student movement of #RhodesMustFall (RMF). The hashtag #RMF came to fuel protest towards the removal of the Rhodes statue at UCT due to its symbolic representation of white supremacy. The prote