The Big Read: We're all zama-zamas now

Vanguard. A brave new world. Unprecedented violence. New lows of hooliganism. If the rhetoric from both camps is anything to go by, the protests curdling South African universities are something entirely new. Even the campuses, familiar landmarks until recently, have been reimagined as entirely new spaces: tiny enclaves on a new frontier, uncharted, open for capture by competing forces.