The Fight Continues: The #FeesMustFall Campaign Resumes Today
While most university students have gone back to class, after a wave of protests around the country, some are forging ahead. The Wits Student Representative Council (SRC) said. “The #FeesMustFall movement will be making a return in 2016 when it occupies the Wits University Solomon House on Monday, the first day of registration.”
About 100 students and workers from UCT marched to Parliament on Monday and said officials must respond to their demands. The university reopened on Monday. There were also protests at the University of the Western Cape.
Last week, they handed over a memorandum to the Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mduduzi Manana. Kealeboga Ramaru from the Rhodes Must Fall movement said: “We’re marching for free education, we’re marching for the ending of outsourcing nationally.
The SRC said it had spent the last weeks of 2015 and the first of this year fully engaged in assisting students.
“One academic and financial exclusion is one too many and we know that academic exclusions are often linked to financial issues because there is a campus for the rich and a campus for the poor. Thus this system is designed to systematically exclude the black child. We have seen many students who have had horrific experiences and will ensure that these students are given the adequate support that they deserve to succeed.”
