In the past week, South African university students have risen to the occasion! In the wake of proposed fee hikes of 10%+ of already exorbitantly high fees, students from the Universities of Cape Town, Johannesburg, Witwatersrand, Stellenbosch, Rhodes, Western Cape etc collectively protested against said increases on their campuses, asserting that increased fees stop the poor from attaining a decent education. They are exclusionary and racist. Contextually speaking, race and class are indivisible - the poor and black are one in the same. Furthermore, universities are not private entities whose purpose is to accrue profit - they are public institutions that are to serve the public
The protests began in Johannesburg at Wits University and culminated nationwide on the 19th of October. Students disrupted university proceedings mainly by blockading main entrances into the campus, occupying administrative buildings and forcing management to have meaningful engagement
What is particularly alarming is the universities and their inclination to call upon police officials to gas, shoot and arrest peaceful protesters who are quite literally begging for a chance at a decent future. Management and the government have completely disregarded the voice of the youth in the name of maintaining white supremacy. We will have none of it. Protests are set to continue until the proposed fee increments are scrapped nationwide.
Unity and comradeship among the black youth have been the order of the day and it is beautiful to witness.
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