FeesMustFall activist Sharon Letlape believes that the struggles faced by the 1976 youth are similar to those being fought by today's generation. YoliswaSobuwa YouthMonth2020
#FeesMustFall activist Sharon Letlape believes that the struggles faced by the 1976 youth are similar to those being fought by today's generation.
Letlape, an EFF MP and a former student at the University of Pretoria, said the youth struggles are intertwined and multi-layered. "This has been the case since as far back as the 1976 student uprisings. All we ever wanted as students and still want is equality, integrity and dignity. We wanted to break generational chains of poverty, inhumanity and inequalities that students find themselves chained to," she said.
Another former student leader from the University of Pretoria, Amos Amla Monageng, believes the struggle for quality education is still the same. He is one of the students who were placed under house arrest for his involvement in the FeesMustFall protests. He finished serving his sentence last year."The financial and academic exclusion are still the order of the day. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the inequalities we fought against in the past years.
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