Yeoville as a transgressional space: Voëlvry and the Afrikaner counterculture of the 1980s

The Fees Must Fall campaign that swept across South Africa between 2015 and 2017 was the most significant youth political movement in the country’s democratic era. Students of this movement were inspired by the anti-apartheid struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, in which black youth were the most prominent actors. The radical and contentious politics of the 1980s also found expression among Afrikaner youth, one expression of which was the rise and popularisation of a short-lived but significant artistic and social movement known as Voelvry. During the 1970s Yeoville, particularly Rockey-Raleigh Street, saw the emergence of several nightclubs and became