It has been long and now I am back blogging. What to fry is frying the #feesmustfall movement in this post. The campaign has been going on now for a while now and it has perturbed the institutions whose students have been striking.
One of my friends has really been pissed a lot about this crusade of students about the fees movement and I guess she is right to be frustrated that her attended institution went in an intolerable state of violence where students confronted policemen and threw stones on them. Universities unrest as news called and identified it.
we already experienced the first wave of university Sturm und Drang during the dying 2015 months of October and November; that prompted the non-increased fee last year as students made quite some noise and started going in protesting mode just before exams. And similarly, it seems that the agitated gas for free education often boils close to the turn of the year. Exams time 2015 and now it is nearly exams time for the academic year 2016.
A recent argumentation to the #feesmustfall dissipation is to privatise the public institutions. Whichever ways, privatisation is never really the solution. It is a coup that will shut students down and make access to tertiary education even more costly and expensive; as for private owner, it is all about the money. People who will invest their money would like to have a return on investment.
It is also to be understood, beyond #plasticANCpromises then, that freed education from public institutions comes with undesirable consequences mainly poor servicing. Anything that any government does for free comes perceptually and actually in a lower degree of accomplishment. That probably foreseeable situation would prompt the development of private tertiary institutions where parents would have value for their money when sending their kids to study there.
Can free education be attained? If millions can be spent on a swimming pool and on condoms, calculations can be done in a way to ease the burden of financially underprivileged students and parents.
This is a double edge sword that needs a lot of attention and understanding. It will be strange to have spent the whole year up to this point and not finish the year some weeks away.
Historians, and especially those who have looping eyes in politics will tell that the #feesmustfall protest could be foreseen and avoided, had the ANC not done empty promises for free everything and anything in the country in 1994 when the party entered in power as ruling party. Promises, if that not all politicians centred campaign strategy. Unfortunately, we took their word for the truth and here we are years later, The ANC has still not delivered free education and they are still the one in power.
I pretty much distance myself from politics but however I analyse things, there is always a politician somewhere "chessing around" with the people as if we were pawns. There is a big manipulation in the #feesmustfall movement someone told me. And it is true that it is very easy to toy around with students that are frustrated because they can access education only at high cost.A recent argumentation to the #feesmustfall dissipation is to privatise the public institutions. Whichever ways, privatisation is never really the solution. It is a coup that will shut students down and make access to tertiary education even more costly and expensive; as for private owner, it is all about the money. People who will invest their money would like to have a return on investment.
It is also to be understood, beyond #plasticANCpromises then, that freed education from public institutions comes with undesirable consequences mainly poor servicing. Anything that any government does for free comes perceptually and actually in a lower degree of accomplishment. That probably foreseeable situation would prompt the development of private tertiary institutions where parents would have value for their money when sending their kids to study there.
Can free education be attained? If millions can be spent on a swimming pool and on condoms, calculations can be done in a way to ease the burden of financially underprivileged students and parents.
This is a double edge sword that needs a lot of attention and understanding. It will be strange to have spent the whole year up to this point and not finish the year some weeks away.
