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What's the Issue?

What's the Issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2015-10-23
I'm behind the students protesting against the hike in tuition fees for higher education, what looks like a fifty per cent hike is very difficult to comprehend given our current situation. I watched as Blade Mzimande said that those that can afford it must pay. LOL! What a crock of poop. If it is free for one person, then it should be free for every person. Is that the best he can come up with? Blade recons it is not a national crisis. I disagree, a lack of education in our nation is a national crisis. Make it FREE for everybody and then make some private universities for the people who can pay and they can go there and get cream cheese sandwiches at tea time as an extra bonus.

Okay, so we have something like that with the more prominent institutions that offer better facilities and better tutors and better better, still being out of reach of the poor and disenfranchised. However I still maintain that it is the government's responsibility to counter this balance with their budget.

Government subsidises most universities, however South Africa is lagging behind on the international standard of government subsidies for university education. Why is that still happening in South Africa? After all we have been through. After the tripartite agreement and the involvement of the SACP in the formation of our government, I would have expected the communists and the socialists to have corrected this problem. But they haven't.

For me a bigger problem is the violent protests that will no doubt go unpunished. This is a major problem in our government. Violent protests should be filmed and the perpetrators of destruction to property and assault and other criminal actions should be hunted down, brought to justice and made to pay for their crime. That is the police's job. Now that Riya has been relieved maybe the police will be able to get on and do just that.

If we could curb the mismanagement of funds and the rampant corruption I'm sure we could all get a bursary to study for seven years at no cost whatsoever. Then we could all be educated and we could stand together to prevent the Rhino Oil & Gas company from fracking in the Natal Midlands. I read somewhere that this company had applied for a license to prospect in the area with the view to using Hydraulic fracturing as a method of exctraction. If we all had degrees, we would know that this is how we sign our own demise certificates. Messing with our groundwater, a commodity that is already scarce as it is.

Dealing with real problems are the British Government meeting with the Chinese President while the bottom of their steel industry is falling out. Then there is Obama and the embarrassment he must feel with the Russian strikes against IS achieving more in twenty four hours than America did in twenty four months. Okay I am exaggerating for effect but it is close to that. The possibility that he sold them the ammunition that Russia blew up is probably just good business savvy.