Will there be international condemnation for the current riots happening around South Africa? University students are protesting over fees and increases, they want free education. Government must do something, but what will the African National Congress (ANC) do about this unruly behavior.
Thousands of students gathered outside parliament today, chanting, singing and dancing, demanding that the minister of higher education address their concerns. Police were called in to control the mob and tear gas and stun grenades were fired, sending students into a frenzy. Sounds familiar does it not, remember the 1976 Soweto riots, when students marched and demanded better education, including freedom, teargas was fired and stones were thrown at the police who in turn opened up fire killing several hundred. The world condemned the apartheid government for the killing of students. it was a national outcry...... Now it is happening again, and this time it is the ANC who instigated the 1976 riots that will have to take appropriate action. I wonder ...........................................
On the morning of June 16 1976, an estimated 20,000 students from
several Sowetan schools began a strike in the streets of Soweto. The
protest was against the introduction of the Afrikaans language in local
schools.
The black students protested against the forceful use of the Afrikaans
and English language teaching. It was during 1975 that the Regional
Director of Bantu Education announced the call of Afrikaans language
usage for certain subjects including mathematics in schools. This new
language launch was for students in 7th grade upwards, and informed that
the natural indigenous languages used by the students would only be for
religion, music and social lessons............ READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE - HERE IS THE LINK
http://dillydee.blogspot.co.za/2013/06/remembering-soweto-uprising.html
SOURCE
http://www.msn.com/en-za/news/featured/chaos-as-protesting-students-force-their-way-into-parliamentary-precinct/ar-BBmhKqj?ocid=spartandhp
As Clifford T Smith said:
Higher
education institutions currently receive only 12 percent of the
government’s overall education budget, with the Department of Higher
Education’s task team on university funding recently confirming that if
they were to be funded at the world average, they would be receiving about R37bn instead of the R22bn they received in the last financial year.
That
is right. Blade and his ANC comrades are short changing students to the
tune of R15Billion per annum! That translates to full tuition fees for
375,000 students every year - almost 38% of all university students in
South Africa..
Students
must use their intelligence and realise that they and their parents
have given control of the budget to ANC at the polling booth year after
year since 1994. Now it is time to try a different tack and give control
of the budget to other parties.
As
the saying goes: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results. Students who boo DA and don't call the
ANC to account are like battered wives who keep returning to their
violent husband for another beating. Even though ANC disrespects them to
the tune of R15 Billion per annum they still cannot wake up and smell
the coffee. None so blind as those who refuse to see.
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