← → 2015 in South Africa saw a number of social and political protests and movements form.

South Africa also saw new xenophobic uprisings taking place, mainly targeted towards Africans from other countries.

The social protest Rhodes Must Fall started in 2015 at the University of Cape Town to protest for the removal of statues erected in South Africa during the colonial era depicting some of the well known colonists who settled in South Africa.

In education, South Africa recorded a drop in its matric pass rate from 2013 to 2014.

The protest #FeesMustFall was started towards the end of the year and achieved its primary goal of stopping an increase in university fees for 2016.