Institutions’ Fees Overlook the Dispossessed

By AYABONGA NKALITSHANA

The fees must fall protest has opened up abrasions and memories of the 1976 protest, and the slow reaction of the government to answer the appeal by students of reducing higher education fees, and abiding to the constitution by actually making education free and accessible to all. This indicates that the freedom we claim to enjoy today is not for all but the freedom of the economically liberated class, the struggle still continues for the economically deprived.

It has helped to identify the socio-economic inequalities that exist in society. The privileges being enjoyed by the top brass of our government, has blinded them of the real issues being faced by the people on the ground.

The ignorance of human rights clauses that the government keeps doing is evidence that, instead of moving forward our country, is reverting back to the eras of apartheid and separation of classes. The government has no consideration about the power the civil citizens has on decision making and election of government.