Seeing the older workers in their red Nehawu T-shirts toyi-toying outside the gates on the one side, and the fresh young faces yearning to learn on the other, brought home the invidious position we find ourselves in as a country.
University of Pretoria workers’ strike gives students a bitter taste of the reality of SA’s paradoxes
Sadly, on Day 2 of the academic year, his enthusiasm for university was tempered by a touch of South African reality. When I drove him to the main entrance of the Hatfield campus, there were police cars, a loudspeaker playing music, and National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union members who worked at the university were protesting. No students were allowed to enter.
It was chaos and confusion. I offered to drive my son home, but he was determined not to miss classes and he found an access point at a turnstile that connected to a bridge to the main campus. It’s a catch-22 that requires cool heads and compromise, not trampling on students’ desire to learn. Years of misspending and fleecing of state coffers, collapsed state-owned enterprises such as Eskom and Transnet, an economy that is spluttering on a wing and a prayer, tax avoidance, and poor leadership has led us to the highly indebted, broke state we are in. The 7.
Let’s keep our heads down, work hard, tighten those budget belts and all play a small part in making South Africa a better place for everyone.
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