Don’t blame students, blame the commodification of knowledge in South Africa | IOL News

Recently, as is always the case at the beginning of the year, students are involved in protests primarily against financial exclusion and the appalling state of residences they reside in while expected to excel academically. From all corners of society there is condemnation of the violence that erupts from these protests.

As it is obvious that it is students who are protesting, the blame directly is apportioned to them without any rational thought of what underpins the eruption of violence. One of the major achievements of apartheid was the marginalisation of black people from accessing knowledge that will allow them to be independent thinkers, to be able to have their own way of life, sense of self and humanity.

I read this headline, and I realise we are so fucked as a country. If we can’t understand the basics of running a business or institution, that you need profit to improve and employ, we are finished.

Ask SAA what happens when it doesn’t make a profit! In the real world , money doesn’t grow on trees and if you can’t make money to pay lecturers, lights and a library then what kind of education you will end up getting. The real question is why tertiary can’t be cheaper online

Corporitisation of universities as problematic as it could be cannot justify unwanton destruction of assets.

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