EFF leader Julius Malema wants a university campus in every mineral-rich region of the country.
Addressing thousands of youths at the Durban University of Technology on Friday, he said: “Wits university was formed by the Oppenheimers ... because of the discovery of gold in Johannesburg. Now that gold has been depleted. Why is there no university in Rustenburg based on platinum discovery? Every university must be relevant to that economy. Today there is a platinum belt. Let’s open a university or another campus. Everywhere there is a mineral, there must be a campus.
Malema said his party was at the Youth Day event to “water the trees of the spirits of the youth of 1976”. “We want to make education fashionable. We don’t want you to [think carrying an iPhone is status]. Status should be how many qualifications you have,” he said, adding education should be accessible and free.
“When you are bored you must go and register. No youth must be found loitering on the streets. The EFF is not scared of educated people. It loves educated people. The ANC is scared of the educated.”
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