Wounds under the plaster begin to weep

Wednesday was a red-letter day for a South Africa yearning for change. The symbolic meaning of a student protest moving far beyond campus and onto the parliamentary precinct amid stun grenades and police armed to the teeth is one likely to be analysed for years to come.Yes, it is about fees, and access to education, but it's also a microcosm of the myriad things that keep us in a holding pattern where some still eat from the silver spoon on the emerald lawn, others scratch in the dirt waiting f...