If education was in form of a tender, South Africa would be Africa's number one

"There is a strike that has been going for two months, it had not been published anywhere. The poor kids are suffering" says a student from Walter Sisulu University

   

Walter Sisulu Universit

Let me tell why we blame the ANC for the chronic ongoing crisis at WSU.

1. Walter Sisulu University has been on a labour strike for five full weeks now and the ANC led government has not intervened in any possible way simply because majority, if not all students at WSU are poor black children whom they do not care about. Two weeks ago Rhodes university had a water crisis for a few 10 days and the office of the President intervened and that was solved. Rhodes is a pure white institution and WSU is the opposite.
2. Mr Blade Ndzimande, minister of higher education, is fully aware of the crisis at WSU and is still silent for no apparent reason. If it was Wits or Stellenbosch he would have provided means to resolve the issue from day one. Secondary to that, this guy is a pure 'communist' so how do we expect him to understand the importance and significance of education to develop a nation.
3. Mr Jacob Zuma, the not so intelligent president of ours, has sermoned or more correctly commanded the media not to publisize anything with regards to the on-going crisis at WSU. [SowetanLIVE says this is not true. We don't take instructions from the President on what we report]. Secondary to that, he has allocated a huge some of money into building a new FET college at the Nkandla region and it has been 'tendered' to one of the daughters instead of resolving the labour strike at WSU.
4. In East London, the office of the mayor (an ANC member) has commanded police officials to manage all riots done by students by any means possible.
5. Nehawu is in a strong alliance with the ANC but today they are being strongly suppressed by the ANC which is their mother-structure.
6. If SASCO had the interest of students at heart and were capable of defending students, by now we would have been back to classes. I don't seem to understand why it is so hard for them to negotiate with the mother-body in resolving this crisis.
7. The ANC continues to show its Capitalist tendencies and its incompetency to South African citizens. All they care about is enriching those who are already rich and careless about the poor.
"The poor will remain poor, the undeveloped will remain undeveloped while the rich get richer"
The ANC has failed dismally, all they are good at is tenders.
Do you still continue to believe that they will provide "A better life for all"? Rather not.
If education was in form of a tender, South Africa would be Africa's number one.
"EDUCATION TO AN AFRICAN CHILD MEANS SERVICE TO AFRICA"
IZWELETHU
Written by Asenati Tukela for YouthTube, a SowetanLIVE initiative dedicated to the youth of South Africa
 
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