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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:29 PM Oct 2015

South African students score tuition fee protest victory

Source: The Guardian

South Africa’s student movement has scored a big victory after plans to raise university fees were scrapped following weeks of nationwide protests that culminated in a mass gathering outside the main government offices.

The largest demonstration took place at the Union Buildings, South Africa’s seat of government in Pretoria. More than 10,000 people gathered on Friday to demand that proposed fee rises be scrapped, and called for the president, Jacob Zuma, to personally address their concerns.

It was the largest single student protest since the 1976 Soweto uprising – an iconic moment in the fight against South Africa’s apartheid regime – and participants represented a broad cross-section of the country’s racial groups and political parties.

Although the presidential podium was erected twice, Zuma never appeared, choosing instead to make the announcement in the press room inside the main building.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/23/south-african-students-protest-pretoria-tuition-fees-rise



Simon Allison in Pretoria
Friday 23 October 2015 18.11 BST
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South African students score tuition fee protest victory (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2015 OP
We turn out students who march dutifully to college. racking up a lot of debt, and becoming wage jtuck004 Oct 2015 #1
 

jtuck004

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1. We turn out students who march dutifully to college. racking up a lot of debt, and becoming wage
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:45 PM
Oct 2015

slaves to bank$ter/donors. Some will be paying with their meager social security, instead of buying food. Working for free, like a plantation.

There they say no and push back.

Maybe the further you get from freedom the less precious it is to you.




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