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While #MustFall movements heightened the call to decolonize the university space, the debates on students’ experiences years later continue and the context of COVID19 has exposed a need for more research to understand how the pandemic also highlighted inequalities in the higher education space.

An intersectional lens is then best suited to draw from Amava (experiences) of students in the Eastern Cape Universities as students remain constrained by the masculine and patriarchal norms still present in higher education today even with the existence of gender quotas and equality policies . The pattern of hierarchical segregation across gender, racial and ethnic lines encountered in higher education institutions in South Africa is particularly experienced by female students who still find themselves discriminated against due to beliefs regarding maternal responsibilities and male supremacy despite the existence of gender policies.