Reflections on fire as postcolonial metaphor of rupture

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1. “Fallist” is a reference to the clarion call of students’ demands for the removal of the statue of Rhodes, “Rhodes must Fall” and, later, the provision of free education for poor students: “Fees Must Fall”

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Litheko Modisane

Litheko Modisane is the author of South Africa’s Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centred Films (2013, Palgrave Macmillan). Modisane’s scope of interests includes film and archive, heritage, representations of Nelson Mandela in film and repertoires of sartorial representations in the contemporary political public sphere in South Africa.