Give me a story of the following: We follow a white journalist (possibly still a student himself/herself) as he tries to investigate the death of a famous Fallist activist, Ben Nomoyi. Nomoyi committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree. Many do not believe this suicide story, do not believe that he hung himself, citing that he didn’t have depression nor did he seem in the least bit suicidal. The investigative journalist wants to find out if indeed it was a suicide or whether there’s some sinister motive behind his death as the conspiracy theories say. This ends up becoming not only a character construction of an incredible life but also a tracking of South Africa’s modern post-apartheid activism. 
The journalist interviews other student, both black and white, and gathers polarized thoughts on the issues involved. He/she also interviews varsity administrators, politicians and lower civil servants, trying to gather as much information as possible. An interesting linear narrative emerges from his/her disjointed/fragmented excursion. It starts with Nomoyi as a vibrant yet flawed character, who, as SRC head, gets into an altercation with white students which culminates into a fist fight that involved a class full of students at a mess hall. This is recorded as a video that is soon put on social media networks and highlights racial tensions not only in the school but serves as a microcosmic problem of the country. Post this hullabaloo, Nomoyi posts a Facebook status that is controversial to say the least. It is about the violent altercation, but in it he attacks South African white people and mentions how because they didn’t go through the Nuremburg trials like in Germany, they have grown arrogant. He attacks them and mentions how he hates them and how criminals should instead of robbing their own, shoot them dead. This serves to not only make him infamous but it also vilifies him by the media and the public in general. The Dean of the university is forced to take action against him and Nomoyi is as a result subjected to a disciplinary hearing. He is found guilty and he is stripped off his Rhodes bursary and expelled from the SRC. This causes him to turn his bitterness upon the symbol which he perceives to be his symbol of oppression, the Rhodes statue in campus. 
He begins to protests to the University’s powers that be about the statue and when that brings no progress, he rallies his fellow students around the idea of bringing the statue down. When initially this doesn’t work, inspired by a news “poo protest” footage in Cape Town, he comes upon an idea so desperate it can almost be compared to the Mohamed Bouazizi act of self-immolation when he set himself on fire in the now famous act that started the Arab Spring. But our Nomoyi here doesn’t go as far as suicide, he merely throws human faeces onto the statue and toyi-toyis with a few of his friends – an act that draw marked media attention. This becomes the birth of the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Initially the movement/protest is about the removal of the colonial statue, a symbol which the protesters feel is oppressive, but it grows to encompass institutional racism, the perceived lack of racial transformation at the university, and access to tertiary education and student accommodation. The students occupation key University venues, conduct acts of civil disobedience which spread violence throughout the University and the country. Key amongst these acts is the much condemned act of burning University art, vehicles and historical buildings. Spurred on by the philosophy of Frantz Fanon, the students feel that the country must bleed before the wounds are closed. 
Of course all this emerges out of a mystery narrative carried by our journalist character investigating the death of our hero, Nomoyi. Throughout that framing device, we get to see a dramatic rivalry between the Dean of the school and Nomoyi. For example, when the students stage a Rhodes Must Fall sit in, the Dean, who had punished him for the Facebook status, is the one humbled and forced to meet with him and negotiate. This tense and intriguing rivalry continues all the way throughout our narrative till the end. This culminates into the Fees Must Fall protest event and the Dean’s militarization of the school when he hires a private security company to protect the school against the vandals and the violent protestors. 
Key amongst the events that happen is when Nomoyi becomes too big in the media and in the public. And with Nomoyi drawing this cause to the public and pointing out that it’s the Black government’s fault that education is not free, we find politicians now trying to co-opt him. Although they do not succeed, they manage to spin this into a campaign that discredits him. It becomes a difficult time for him as he is discredited in public with people thinking he has been co-opted by government. But in this lowest time of despair, he manages to pull himself together and turn everything around. He matures into a true activist and begins to fight the powers that be – both within University and in government. His resurrection catches sway and he becomes an icon of change. This is when it is decided – by the powers that be – that he must be killed. Indeed he is killed and his killing made to look like a suicide.   
Our journalist exposes this and the Fallist Movement looks on Nomoyi as a matryr. As the protests continue, towards free education, the protesters use Nomoyi as an icon that spurs their fight on. 
