This comes a day after Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said that student debt poses a high risk to the sustainability of higher education institutions.
JOHANNESBURG - The Economic Freedom Fighters student command has again called for the government to implement free education for tertiary students.
The EFF student command was on Wednesday embarking on a 16-hour March from the party’s headquarters in Johannesburg to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The young red berets gathered in Marshalltown as they prepared to walk to The Presidency offices in Pretoria.The deputy president of the EFF student command Mzukisi Mnothoza said the march sought to address the many challenges experienced by tertiary students.
"Part and parcel of why we are marching to the Union Buildings, we want the question of historical debt to be resolved."
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