Mondli Makhanya | Whither SA’s universities? : We are now headed in a direction where families with means are beginning to look beyond our excellent universities to secure their children’s futures
Students start protesting. Universities go to great lengths to accommodate the demands. Unsatisfied with the compromises, students call protest meetings. At these gatherings, leaders try to outdo each other while they make militant speeches and ratchet up emotions. Photo: Thabiso Goba/ The WitnessThe story was also depressingly familiar.
At this point, the student representative council and the organisations represented on campus table a list of demands, both legitimate and outlandish, to management.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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