ABSTRACT
The challenge contained in the prompt put forward by Professor Jacqueline Rose, “can politically motivated rage be generative, can it erupt and move us forward in the same breath” enables us to think of the possibilities created by the fractures of the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) movement. The process of de-racialisation in South Africa is not a project that exists in isolation, it is intricately linked to other struggles such as gender and sexuality. This chapter talks about queer possibilities created by the RMF movement and what those possibilities mean for African queerness in this decolonial moment in post-apartheid South Africa. The hallmarks of hypermasculinity, patriarchy and heteronormativity, ensured that RMF missed an opportunity for expansive politics. A politics that in true intersectional fashion would take into account gender and sexuality, and various other axes of difference that intersect with blackness.
