Posted: 2015-10-22 17:53:24
If I may throw my hat into the ring on this...
A primary education is a right, but a tertiary education is a privilege and it's one that's being squandered in SA right now. Look at the reality on the ground, Eskom has raised prices about 300% in the last 5 years, fuel has gone up more then it has gone down, inflation is up, water is up, the exchange rate has reached an all time low (even under sanctions we had a better exchange rate) and all of this has led to one thing and that is that prices for University must go up.
To say that a 10% increase is astronomical given the surrounding increases in everything is completely unrealistic, if anything it is a very low increase.
The schools have bent over backwards to accommodate the students with all sorts of plans, but this is ignored in the quest for political gamesmanship by the SRC's and Unions.
You know what I see when I see the images that is coming out of these protests, blatant liars. The students are shouting about being poor while taking pictures of the cops with their iPhones and trying to keep their Levi's clean. The girls are screaming about not having money for school with about a R1000 worth of extensions in their hair and a fancy purse on their shoulder.
In the long term what's gong to happen is they might get concessions now, but you will see another Marikana eventually or a student shooting others while he is attacked in a protest.. and they won't have anyone else to blame but themselves.
For the first time in my life I am embarrassed to be South African... And that hurts the most of all.