There was nothing in President Zuma’s speech to suggest that he’d really listened to people’s concerns about higher education - nor to suggest that any solutions will be forthcoming.
It’s time South Africa stopped stereotyping its young people as being disinterested and morally bankrupt and started engaging them.
With South African local government elections coming up later in 2016, Jacob Zuma and his governing ANC must ensure that citizens still look to them as a party of hope.
Jacob Zuma tried to cover everything under the sun in his State of the Nation address. The speech was not pivoted on an anchor. It was a collection of inputs from various government departments.
South Africa’s 2016 medium term budget has to rank as one of the most difficult that its finance had to deliver amid many political controversies.
A lot was expected from the South African finance minister’s 2016 medium term budget which came amid an unfolding economic crisis including the higher education funding gap.
Funding for South African higher education is inadequate considering past inequalities. Even more alarming is the fact that plans for research development and innovation in science remain elusive.
An education revolution is happening online that could help meet the demand made by South African students during recent protests: free education for all.
Fifty years after the founding of South African Students’ Organisation this anti-apartheid movement remains a model for student activists.
It doesn’t happen often that a multinational will blink when taken on by an individual. But a passionate campaigner’s successful crusade has shown how it can be done.
