Anne Heffernan

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Anne Heffernan

Tv producer @MindTheGapFilms. Comedy junkie. Would-be travel addict, photographer, music buff and well-read, if only I had the time.

Academic agenda: University of Cape Town students express their views about fees

Students: Fighting for rights since 1968

Long before #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall, Turfloop gave birth to a history-altering movement

Anne Heffernan

Onkgopotse Tiro was a forerunner of the Black Consciousness Movement. After he was expelled from Turfloop, he taught at Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto. He was killed by a parcel bomb in Botswana in 1974. Photo: Sunday Times/Gallo Images

A speech with a galvanizing effect

A new history of student politics at Turfloop in the 1970s shines light on student activist Tiro

Anne Heffernan