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Mondli Makhanya | Whither SA’s universities?

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 Students start protesting. Universities go to great lengths to accommodate the demands. Unsatisfied with the compromises, students call protest meetings. At these gatherings, leaders try to outdo each other while they make militant speeches and ratchet up emotions. Photo: Thabiso Goba/ The Witness
Students start protesting. Universities go to great lengths to accommodate the demands. Unsatisfied with the compromises, students call protest meetings. At these gatherings, leaders try to outdo each other while they make militant speeches and ratchet up emotions. Photo: Thabiso Goba/ The Witness

VOICES

The story was also depressingly familiar. Students arrive on campus to register for the new year, only to be told that they owe tons of money from previous years of study, there is not enough accommodation for many of those who seek it, residences are unaffordable to a significant chunk of them, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme has messed up something and some students who have been dismally failing over the years insist that they deserve another chance.

At this point, the student representative council and the organisations represented on campus table a list of demands, both legitimate and outlandish, to management.

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