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So students are calling for free education for ALL! hayi guys, i don't agree with the "all" part. How do you treat a black child form the rural areas, who has nothing to their name, the same way as a white student from Summerstand. Free Education is meant to redress and try equalise access to these institutions of higher learning for the poor majority and previously disadvantaged. Now rich and poor, in education must be equal? Free Education must be for those who can not afford it, why privilege those who are already privileged? 
There are to many ideas and lack of cohesiveness amongst student leaders. There needs to be one voice, echoing in all their voices...


I worry about this call for free education, by a divided student body, who seem to have divided ideas on how to achieve this free education. Each corner seems to be fighting to be the dominant leader in the movement (FMF). So as I watch these student leaders in the forefront and speaking to media, making sure they are in all the pictures. I worry about the voices and consciousness of those they are leading and fighting for. Students are not clear on what is happening and what it is they are shutting the universities for, but because they are told (not consulted) that it's a shutdown, they have to OBEY.

  Now in this fees must fall movement, why don't we have these student unions and leaders (who are academics) forming their own commission of inquiries, or are they leaving it up to the team of Derrick Swartz to give them a report of findings, which are favorable to the state? further how many of these passionate leaders and activist have said "for my Masters or PH.D. Research I want to find a solution or counter the motion of free education." Another question student leaders have failed to ask in last years announcement of 0% fee increment, was " what's the catch?" "Who will suffer from this decision?" Looking at 2017 and beyond, many of these future students who they are fighting for at nmmu, will not be able to access these universities. So the universities could potentially save millions from these fees must fall resolutions. The rise of the APS score, will secure space for the rich and the middle class, and only those few black learners who were able to make it, even through the difficulties, will benefit from fees must fall. Understand protest and mass action does not scare our government. But leaders need to start thinking like intellectuals and back up with research and academic responses when dealing with academy. You can not beat the mind and knowledge, with song and burnt rubber. Free education will be granted to the students, but those who need it will not be able to access it, so I think before mass action and protests happen, there needs to be proper analysis of all consequences. We must not be reactionary as student leaders, rather be as calculated as the institutions. 
  



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