Night of the long scarves

The fault line is growing deeper by the minute: are you with the protesters or are you against them? The soapboxes on either side are buckling under the weight.Photographs of police brutality and student violence billow out in the space of public opinion.Sentiment on either side, it seems, calcifies easily in a post-fact world, but in one building at the University of Cape Town there is a woman sitting obstinately on a couch knitting a purple scarf.