Time for revolt: Students back to square one

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With the new academic year about to commence and despite Zuma’s announcement of free education, it seems students are back to square one.

Staff at the Unisa Florida Campus block the entrance as they protest, 17 January 2022, for various grievances, including issues they have with Unisa’s vice-chancellor,Professor Puleng LenkaBula spending excessively on refurbishments to her official residence. The protest caused frustration and confusion among students looking to register for this year's courses. Picture: Michel Bega

My higher education year started in 2007, right after matric. A month into the start of my journalism studies at Tshwane University of Technology , we received an SMS saying classes would be suspended until further notice. The following year, we received a similar SMS from the university. The same issues were again raised. Having a better understanding then, I realised many were “excluded” because they did not have enough funds to pay their fees, including the then annual R1 500 registration fee. Many still battled to find decent accommodation, withIn my second year, the protests and violence heightened. Students caught a bus from the Ga-Rankuwa and Soshanguve campuses to protest at the main Pretoria campus.

Hope seemed restored when former president Jacob Zuma announced in 2017 that education would be free in future. However, in 2022, students find themselves in the same situation my peers were in 15 years ago. Again, they are protesting for accommodation and funding and against academic and financial exclusion.

 

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When students pay there own fees they can raise issues . Until then they must shut up . The rest of the world has to pay for varsity . Same should happen here

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